Intuit Inc. $INTU Shares Purchased by Panagora Asset Management Inc.

Panagora Asset Management Inc. boosted its stake in Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTUFree Report) by 54.8% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 199,556 shares of the software maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 70,685 shares during the period. Panagora Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Intuit were worth $132,190,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bank of New York Mellon Corp grew its stake in shares of Intuit by 20.3% in the fourth quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 2,791,212 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,848,954,000 after purchasing an additional 471,451 shares in the last quarter. Vestcor Inc grew its stake in shares of Intuit by 79.1% in the fourth quarter. Vestcor Inc now owns 20,717 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $13,723,000 after purchasing an additional 9,148 shares in the last quarter. NEOS Investment Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Intuit by 63.8% in the third quarter. NEOS Investment Management LLC now owns 121,516 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $82,984,000 after purchasing an additional 47,330 shares in the last quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. grew its stake in shares of Intuit by 15.8% in the third quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. now owns 47,629 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $32,526,000 after purchasing an additional 6,503 shares in the last quarter. Finally, O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Intuit by 13.2% in the fourth quarter. O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC now owns 59,974 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $39,728,000 after purchasing an additional 6,999 shares in the last quarter. 83.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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Analyst Ratings Changes

INTU has been the subject of several research reports. Evercore decreased their target price on Intuit from $540.00 to $400.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Guggenheim set a $633.00 target price on Intuit in a research note on Monday, March 16th. Wall Street Zen cut Intuit from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, May 2nd. Wolfe Research reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $400.00 target price on shares of Intuit in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Finally, BNP Paribas Exane decreased their target price on Intuit from $463.00 to $315.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, May 21st. Twenty-four research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $514.58.

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Intuit Stock Performance

NASDAQ:INTU opened at $276.73 on Monday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.45, a current ratio of 1.45 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. Intuit Inc. has a 1-year low of $268.01 and a 1-year high of $813.70. The firm has a market capitalization of $75.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.01 and a beta of 0.98. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $363.60 and a 200 day simple moving average of $472.74.

Intuit (NASDAQ:INTUGet Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 20th. The software maker reported $12.80 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $12.57 by $0.23. Intuit had a return on equity of 25.18% and a net margin of 21.91%.The business had revenue of $8.56 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.54 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $11.65 EPS. Intuit’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.4% on a year-over-year basis. Intuit has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 3.560-3.620 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 23.800-23.850 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Intuit Inc. will post 18.18 earnings per share for the current year.

Intuit Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 17th. Investors of record on Thursday, July 9th will be given a $1.20 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 9th. This represents a $4.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.7%. Intuit’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 29.07%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Vasant M. Prabhu purchased 1,250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 22nd. The stock was acquired at an average price of $309.45 per share, for a total transaction of $386,812.50. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 1,250 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $386,812.50. This trade represents a ∞ increase in their position. The acquisition was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Richard L. Dalzell sold 338 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $279.86, for a total value of $94,592.68. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 12,326 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,449,554.36. This trade represents a 2.67% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Company insiders own 2.49% of the company’s stock.

About Intuit

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Intuit Inc (NASDAQ: INTU) is a financial software company headquartered in Mountain View, California, that develops and sells cloud-based financial management and compliance products for individuals, small businesses, self-employed workers and accounting professionals. Founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx, the company has grown from desktop tax and accounting software into a diversified provider of online financial tools. As of my latest update, Sasan Goodarzi serves as Chief Executive Officer.

Intuit’s product portfolio includes QuickBooks, its flagship accounting and business-management platform that offers bookkeeping, payroll, payments and invoicing capabilities; TurboTax, a tax-preparation and filing service aimed at individual taxpayers; and Mint, a consumer personal-finance and budgeting app.

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