Quantum (NASDAQ:QMCO) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.08 EPS

Quantum (NASDAQ:QMCO) announced its earnings results on Wednesday. The company reported ($0.96) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.88) by ($0.08), Zacks reports. Quantum updated its Q4 2025 guidance to -1.210–1.110 EPS.

Quantum Stock Down 15.7 %

Shares of NASDAQ:QMCO traded down $3.65 during trading on Thursday, hitting $19.58. 776,937 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,575,901. Quantum has a fifty-two week low of $2.22 and a fifty-two week high of $90.64. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $33.03 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $15.06.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts have recently commented on the stock. Northland Securities boosted their price objective on shares of Quantum from $5.00 to $18.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 30th. Lake Street Capital boosted their price target on shares of Quantum from $5.00 to $20.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 29th.

Insider Buying and Selling at Quantum

In other news, SVP Brian E. Cabrera sold 1,996 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $35.68, for a total value of $71,217.28. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president now owns 27,940 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $996,899.20. The trade was a 6.67 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CRO Henk Jan Spanjaard sold 935 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, January 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $35.68, for a total transaction of $33,360.80. Following the transaction, the executive now directly owns 14,903 shares in the company, valued at $531,739.04. This represents a 5.90 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 8,208 shares of company stock valued at $274,764 in the last quarter. 3.90% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Quantum Company Profile

Quantum Corporation provides products for storing and managing digital video and unstructured data in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers Myriad All-Flash File and Object Storage Software for high performance enterprise unstructured data applications such as AI, machine learning, and data analytics; Unified Surveillance Platform Software that unified compute and storage for video surveillance recording, storage, and analytics; StorNext Hybrid Flash/Disk File Storage Software for video editing, post-production, and streaming applications, as well as digital file archives; and CatDV Asset Management Software for indexing, cataloging, enriching video, audio, and image files, and workflow orchestration.