Wells Fargo & Company Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation for LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) Stock

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) had its price objective upped by research analysts at Wells Fargo & Company from $31.00 to $34.00 in a report issued on Friday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has an “equal weight” rating on the stock. Wells Fargo & Company‘s price objective indicates a potential upside of 13.90% from the stock’s previous close.

RAMP has been the subject of several other research reports. Cross Research set a $53.00 target price on shares of LiveRamp in a research report on Tuesday. Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of LiveRamp in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Morgan Stanley cut their price objective on LiveRamp from $34.00 to $30.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, August 12th. Zacks Research upgraded LiveRamp from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, October 10th. Finally, Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating on shares of LiveRamp in a research report on Tuesday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $43.00.

LiveRamp Price Performance

RAMP traded up $0.60 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $29.85. 649,899 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 581,178. LiveRamp has a fifty-two week low of $22.82 and a fifty-two week high of $36.08. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $27.55 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $29.39. The company has a market cap of $1.96 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 135.69 and a beta of 1.01.

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, November 5th. The company reported $0.55 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $199.83 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $197.31 million. LiveRamp had a return on equity of 2.21% and a net margin of 1.89%.The business’s revenue was up 8.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.51 EPS. LiveRamp has set its FY 2026 guidance at EPS. Q3 2026 guidance at EPS. On average, research analysts predict that LiveRamp will post 0.48 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other LiveRamp news, CTO Mohsin Hussain sold 12,734 shares of LiveRamp stock in a transaction on Monday, September 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $27.94, for a total transaction of $355,787.96. Following the sale, the chief technology officer owned 63,409 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,771,647.46. The trade was a 16.72% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. 3.31% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Trading of LiveRamp

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in RAMP. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in LiveRamp by 3.2% during the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 9,131,290 shares of the company’s stock valued at $238,692,000 after purchasing an additional 283,747 shares in the last quarter. Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH lifted its holdings in shares of LiveRamp by 32.3% during the third quarter. Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH now owns 1,285,444 shares of the company’s stock valued at $34,887,000 after purchasing an additional 313,868 shares during the last quarter. Tributary Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in LiveRamp by 134.0% during the third quarter. Tributary Capital Management LLC now owns 1,059,040 shares of the company’s stock valued at $28,742,000 after buying an additional 606,389 shares in the last quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. boosted its stake in LiveRamp by 0.9% in the 1st quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 1,004,497 shares of the company’s stock worth $26,258,000 after purchasing an additional 8,537 shares during the period. Finally, Boston Partners boosted its position in shares of LiveRamp by 1.9% in the second quarter. Boston Partners now owns 810,529 shares of the company’s stock worth $26,620,000 after buying an additional 15,022 shares during the period. 93.83% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

LiveRamp Company Profile

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc, a technology company, operates a data collaboration platform in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates LiveRamp Data Collaboration platform enables an organization to unify customer and prospect data to build a single view of the customer in a way that protects consumer privacy.