Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS) Posts Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.03 EPS

Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday. The company reported $0.09 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.12 by ($0.03), Zacks reports. Integral Ad Science had a return on equity of 3.47% and a net margin of 6.39%. The company had revenue of $153.00 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $148.83 million. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.06 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 13.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Integral Ad Science updated its FY 2025 guidance to EPS and its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS.

Integral Ad Science Stock Performance

IAS stock opened at $10.52 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 3.71 and a current ratio of 3.71. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.71 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 52.60, a PEG ratio of 1.06 and a beta of 1.46. Integral Ad Science has a 1 year low of $7.98 and a 1 year high of $13.62. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $10.33 and its two-hundred day moving average is $10.82.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have recently weighed in on IAS. Scotiabank began coverage on shares of Integral Ad Science in a research report on Friday. They set a “sector perform” rating for the company. Truist Financial decreased their price target on shares of Integral Ad Science from $18.00 to $16.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, November 13th. Oppenheimer restated an “outperform” rating on shares of Integral Ad Science in a research note on Friday. Craig Hallum reduced their price objective on Integral Ad Science from $18.00 to $16.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, November 13th. Finally, Benchmark restated a “hold” rating on shares of Integral Ad Science in a research note on Friday. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Integral Ad Science has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $14.67.

Insider Buying and Selling at Integral Ad Science

In other Integral Ad Science news, CEO Lisa Utzschneider sold 12,448 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $10.61, for a total value of $132,073.28. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 278,650 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,956,476.50. This trade represents a 4.28 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 19,109 shares of company stock worth $197,696. 2.00% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Integral Ad Science

Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. operates as a digital advertising verification company in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Australia, Japan, India, and the Nordics. The company provides IAS Signal, a cloud-based technology platform that offers return on ad spend needs; and deliver independent measurement and verification of digital advertising across devices, channels, and formats, including desktop, mobile, connected TV, social, display, and video.