First-quarter earnings season officially kicked off this morning with major banks reporting. Wall Street was optimistic before the opening bell as JPMorgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Wells Fargo (WFC) all reported better than expected earnings. Goldman Sachs blew past analyst expectations, reporting record first-quarter net profits and revenues due to strong performance from the firm’s equities trading and investment banking units. The major U.S. benchmarks all edged higher in early trading.
Our trade alert for today features a mid-cap tech company with huge upside potential over the next 12 months.
Q2 Holdings (QTWO) provides cloud-based virtual banking services to regional and community financial institutions. The idea is to make it so that smaller firms can give account holders the same kind of top-flight online tools, services and experiences as the industry’s top players.
To that end, Q2 recently announced the acquisition of ClickSWITCH, which focuses on customer acquisition and retention by making the process of switching digital accounts easier. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Q2‘s business model and execution has Wall Street drooling over the mid cap’s growth prospects. Indeed, analysts expect the software company to generate compound annual earnings per share growth of 150% over the next three to five years, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
“In the last year, the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation efforts and investments of the financial services industry, and we believe Q2 Holdings is well positioned to support and grow its customer base,” writes Stifel equity research analyst Tom Roderick, who rates the stock at Buy. Of the 19 analysts covering Q2 tracked by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 10 call it a Strong Buy, five say Buy and four rate it at Hold. Their average target price of $152.25 gives QTWO implied upside of almost 50% over the next 12 months or so. The company is slated to report first quarter earnings on the 5th of May.
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