Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM) Posts Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.06 EPS

Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday. The software maker reported $0.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.53 by ($0.06), Zacks reports. Alarm.com had a net margin of 13.54% and a return on equity of 13.78%. Alarm.com updated its FY 2025 guidance to 2.280-2.290 EPS.

Alarm.com Stock Performance

Shares of ALRM opened at $60.53 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $62.06 and a two-hundred day moving average of $59.68. Alarm.com has a one year low of $51.87 and a one year high of $77.29. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.42, a quick ratio of 8.20 and a current ratio of 8.66. The stock has a market cap of $2.99 billion, a P/E ratio of 26.20, a P/E/G ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 0.98.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Alarm.com news, insider Daniel Kerzner sold 32,851 shares of Alarm.com stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $66.40, for a total transaction of $2,181,306.40. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 59,668 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,961,955.20. The trade was a 35.51 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CEO Stephen Trundle sold 47,500 shares of Alarm.com stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $68.18, for a total value of $3,238,550.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 252,682 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,227,858.76. This represents a 15.82 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 5.60% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

ALRM has been the topic of several research analyst reports. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their target price on Alarm.com from $64.00 to $67.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Jefferies Financial Group initiated coverage on Alarm.com in a research note on Tuesday, November 5th. They set a “buy” rating and a $65.00 target price on the stock. Barclays boosted their target price on Alarm.com from $60.00 to $67.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday, November 8th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated an “underweight” rating and set a $50.00 target price (down from $65.00) on shares of Alarm.com in a research note on Monday, November 11th. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded Alarm.com from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Alarm.com has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $64.40.

About Alarm.com

Alarm.com Holdings, Inc provides various Internet of Things (IoT) and solutions for residential, multi-family, small business, and enterprise commercial markets in North America and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Alarm.com and Other. It offers solutions to control and monitor security systems, as well as to IoT devices, including door locks, garage doors, thermostats, and video cameras; and video monitoring and analytics solutions, such as video analytics, escalated events, video doorbells, intelligent integration, live streaming, secure cloud storage, and video alerts.