GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB) CAO Simon Mundy Sells 8,725 Shares of Stock

GitLab Inc. (NASDAQ:GTLB) CAO Simon Mundy sold 8,725 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $38.00, for a total value of $331,550.00. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer owned 105,332 shares in the company, valued at $4,002,616. The trade was a 7.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

GitLab Price Performance

Shares of GTLB stock traded up $1.38 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $42.11. The stock had a trading volume of 4,492,461 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,893,967. GitLab Inc. has a 12-month low of $18.73 and a 12-month high of $52.38. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.11 billion, a P/E ratio of -263.19 and a beta of 0.94. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $31.58 and its two-hundred day moving average is $27.87.

GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June 2nd. The company reported $0.23 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.03. GitLab had a positive return on equity of 0.31% and a negative net margin of 2.49%.The firm had revenue of $264.16 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $254.23 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.17 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 23.2% on a year-over-year basis. GitLab has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.170-0.180 EPS. Analysts expect that GitLab Inc. will post -0.18 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Allworth Financial LP grew its stake in shares of GitLab by 124.1% during the third quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 558 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after acquiring an additional 309 shares during the last quarter. Main Management ETF Advisors LLC grew its position in GitLab by 1.0% during the 4th quarter. Main Management ETF Advisors LLC now owns 33,669 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,264,000 after purchasing an additional 344 shares during the last quarter. Utah Retirement Systems increased its stake in GitLab by 6.6% during the 4th quarter. Utah Retirement Systems now owns 7,407 shares of the company’s stock valued at $278,000 after purchasing an additional 460 shares in the last quarter. Larson Financial Group LLC raised its holdings in shares of GitLab by 92.7% in the third quarter. Larson Financial Group LLC now owns 1,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $45,000 after buying an additional 481 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Quarry LP lifted its stake in shares of GitLab by 72.5% during the fourth quarter. Quarry LP now owns 1,202 shares of the company’s stock worth $45,000 after buying an additional 505 shares during the period. 95.04% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Ratings Changes

GTLB has been the subject of several recent research reports. DA Davidson boosted their price target on shares of GitLab from $24.00 to $35.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, June 3rd. Mizuho boosted their price objective on shares of GitLab from $26.00 to $28.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, June 3rd. Sanford C. Bernstein restated an “outperform” rating on shares of GitLab in a report on Monday, June 29th. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on GitLab from $29.00 to $30.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, June 3rd. Finally, Wolfe Research reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $36.00 target price on shares of GitLab in a research note on Wednesday, June 3rd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, six have assigned a Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $36.58.

About GitLab

GitLab Inc (NASDAQ: GTLB) is a leading provider of a unified DevOps platform designed to streamline the software development lifecycle. Founded in 2011 by Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Sid Sijbrandij, the company initially gained recognition for its open-source Git repository manager. Over time, GitLab expanded its offerings to encompass planning, source code management, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), security testing, and monitoring in a single application. This integrated approach enables development teams to collaborate efficiently, reduce toolchain complexity, and accelerate release cycles.

The GitLab platform is offered through both cloud-hosted and self-managed deployment models, catering to organizations of all sizes.