ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) Posts Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.27 EPS

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) announced its earnings results on Thursday. The technology company reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.73 by $0.27, Zacks reports. ACI Worldwide had a net margin of 14.04% and a return on equity of 21.67%. ACI Worldwide updated its Q1 2025 guidance to EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to EPS.

ACI Worldwide Stock Performance

Shares of ACIW stock traded up $3.89 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $54.47. The stock had a trading volume of 1,510,264 shares, compared to its average volume of 635,620. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.71 billion, a PE ratio of 25.82 and a beta of 1.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 1.56 and a quick ratio of 1.56. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $52.62 and a 200-day simple moving average of $51.93. ACI Worldwide has a twelve month low of $30.63 and a twelve month high of $59.71.

Insider Buying and Selling at ACI Worldwide

In other ACI Worldwide news, CTO Abraham Kuruvilla sold 5,400 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $55.71, for a total value of $300,834.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer now directly owns 81,107 shares in the company, valued at $4,518,470.97. This trade represents a 6.24 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. 1.00% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, DA Davidson downgraded shares of ACI Worldwide from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and increased their price objective for the company from $57.00 to $60.00 in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, ACI Worldwide has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $49.50.

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, Inc, a software company, develops, markets, installs, and supports a range of software products and solutions for facilitating digital payments in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Banks, Merchants, and Billers. The company offers ACI Acquiring, a solution to process credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions, deliver digital innovation, and fraud prevention; ACI Issuing, a digital payment issuing solution for new payment offering; and ACI Enterprise Payments Platform that provides payment processing and orchestration capabilities for digital payments.