How to buy Elastic N-V stock

Elastic N.V is a software-application business based in the US. Elastic N-V shares (ESTC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Elastic N-V employs 2,029 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$510.6 million.

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3. Search for Elastic N-V. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ESTC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Elastic N-V reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Elastic N-V, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Elastic N-V. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

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1. ESTC shares summary
2. Compare share dealing platforms
3. Is ESTC stock a buy or sell?
4. Stock performance over time
5. Can I short ESTC shares?
6. Elastic N-V's financials
7. How volatile are ESTC shares?
8. Does Elastic N-V pay a dividend?
9. Other common questions

Elastic N-V share price

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Elastic N-V shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-23.

52-week range	USD$39.01 - USD$176.49
50-day moving average	USD$158.4053
200-day moving average	USD$125.8865
Wall St. target price	USD$164.75
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.922

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Shorting Elastic N-V shares

There are currently 8.1 million Elastic N-V shares held short by investors – that's known as Elastic N-V's "short interest". This figure is 7.8% up from 7.5 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Elastic N-V shares can be evaluated.

Elastic N-V's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Elastic N-V's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Elastic N-V shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Elastic N-V shares traded daily (recently around 741759.46935041). Elastic N-V's SIR currently stands at 10.93. In other words for every 100,000 Elastic N-V shares traded daily on the market, roughly 10930 shares are currently held short.

However Elastic N-V's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Elastic N-V shares, or, against the total number of tradable Elastic N-V shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Elastic N-V's short interest could be expressed as 0.09% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Elastic N-V shares in existence, roughly 90 shares are currently held short) or 0.1216% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Elastic N-V shares, roughly 122 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against Elastic N-V.

Find out more about how you can short Elastic N-V stock.

Elastic N-V share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Elastic N-V's shares have ranged in value from as little as $39.01 up to $176.49. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Elastic N-V's is 1.1042. This would suggest that Elastic N-V's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Elastic N-V overview

Elastic N.V., a search company, delivers technology that enables users to search through structured and unstructured data for a range of consumer and enterprise applications. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as perform search, analysis, and visualization. The company's Elastic Stack product comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including app search, site search, workplace search, logging, metrics, application performance management, business analytics, and security analytics. Its products are used by individual developers and organizations of a range of industries. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Elastic N-V is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 23.921% of Elastic N-V shares are held by insiders and 77.234% by institutions.

• How many people work for Elastic N-V?

  Latest data suggests 2,029 work at Elastic N-V.

• When does the fiscal year end for Elastic N-V?

  Elastic N-V's fiscal year ends in April.

• Where is Elastic N-V based?

  Elastic N-V's address is: 800 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA, United States, 94040

• What is Elastic N-V's ISIN number?

  Elastic N-V's international securities identification number is: NL0013056914

• What is Elastic N-V's CUSIP number?

  Elastic N-V's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: N14506104