Constellation Software Inc. (TSE:CSU) Given Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Brokerages

Shares of Constellation Software Inc. (TSE:CSU) have earned a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the seven analysts that are covering the stock, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and five have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price objective among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is C$4,128.75.

A number of analysts have issued reports on the company. BMO Capital Markets decreased their price target on Constellation Software from C$4,600.00 to C$4,200.00 in a report on Tuesday, March 10th. UBS Group dropped their price target on Constellation Software from C$4,500.00 to C$4,250.00 in a research report on Tuesday, March 31st. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce dropped their target price on Constellation Software from C$4,610.00 to C$4,080.00 in a research report on Friday, April 17th. Raymond James Financial decreased their price target on Constellation Software from C$4,300.00 to C$3,700.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, March 10th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada decreased their price target on Constellation Software from C$5,600.00 to C$4,800.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 26th.

Constellation Software Trading Up 0.2%

TSE:CSU opened at C$2,571.61 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of C$54.50 billion, a PE ratio of 106.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.95 and a beta of 0.39. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of C$2,536.74 and a 200 day moving average price of C$2,908.11. Constellation Software has a 12-month low of C$2,196.00 and a 12-month high of C$5,300.00. The company has a current ratio of 0.96, a quick ratio of 0.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 161.87.

Constellation Software (TSE:CSU) last released its earnings results on Monday, March 9th. The company reported C$7.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The firm had revenue of C$4.19 billion during the quarter. Constellation Software had a return on equity of 15.35% and a net margin of 4.40%. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Constellation Software will post 55.4616354 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Constellation Software Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 15th. Investors of record on Wednesday, April 15th were paid a $1.00 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, March 27th. This represents a $4.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.2%. Constellation Software’s dividend payout ratio is presently 16.56%.

About Constellation Software

Constellation Software is an international provider of market-leading software and services to a number of industries. Our mission is to acquire, manage and build market-leading software businesses that develop specialized, mission-critical software solutions to address the specific needs of our particular industries. Our company was founded in 1995 to assemble a portfolio of vertical market software companies that have the potential to be leaders in their particular market. Since then, we have grown rapidly through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth, and established a strong constellation of companies with a large, diverse customer base.