How to buy Yext stock | 17.75

Yext, Inc is a software—infrastructure business based in the US. Yext shares (YEXT) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Yext employs 1,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$331.2 million.

How to buy shares in Yext

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Yext. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: YEXT. 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 Yext 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. At last close price of USD$17.75, 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 Yext, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Yext. 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.

How has coronavirus impacted Yext's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Yext's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$17.75, which is 7.32% up on its pre-crash value of USD$16.45 and 85.48% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$9.57.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Yext shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$658.16 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,167.06.

Yext share price

Use our graph to track the performance of YEXT stocks over time.

Yext shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$17.75
52-week range	USD$8.56 - USD$20.9
50-day moving average	USD$16.4229
200-day moving average	USD$15.6502
Wall St. target price	USD$19.39
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.826

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Is it a good time to buy Yext stock?

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Technical Analysis of Yext, Inc by TradingView

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Yext price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $17.75 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-23)	1.72%
1 month (2020-10-01)	16.32%
3 months (2020-07-30)	7.51%
6 months (2020-04-30)	38.67%

1 year (2019-10-30)	9.37%
2 years (2018-10-30)	-3.85%
3 years (2017-10-30)	55.70%
5 years (2015-10-27)	N/A

Yext financials

Revenue TTM	USD$331.2 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$221.8 million
Return on assets TTM	-14.81%
Return on equity TTM	-60.97%
Profit margin	-38.54%
Book value	$1.619
Market capitalisation	USD$2.1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Yext shares

There are currently 7.8 million Yext shares held short by investors – that's known as Yext's "short interest". This figure is 8.9% up from 7.2 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Yext shares can be evaluated.

Yext's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Yext's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Yext shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Yext shares traded daily (recently around 1.2 million). Yext's SIR currently stands at 6.72. In other words for every 100,000 Yext shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6720 shares are currently held short.

However Yext's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Yext shares, or, against the total number of tradable Yext shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Yext's short interest could be expressed as 0.07% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Yext shares in existence, roughly 70 shares are currently held short) or 0.0729% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Yext shares, roughly 73 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Yext.

Find out more about how you can short Yext stock.

Yext share dividends

We're not expecting Yext to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Yext share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Yext's shares have ranged in value from as little as $8.56 up to $20.9. 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 Yext's is 1.6738. This would suggest that Yext's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Yext overview

Yext, Inc., a search experience cloud company, engages in delivering brand-verified answers that puts businesses in control of their facts online. Its Yext platform lets businesses structure the facts about their brands in a database called a Knowledge Graph. The Yext platform leverages the structured data stored in the Knowledge Graph to power direct answers on a business' own website, as well as across its Knowledge Network of approximately 175 third-party maps, apps, search engines, intelligent GPS systems, digital assistants, vertical directories, and social networks. The Yext platform powers the company's features, including listings, pages, answers, and other features. It serves the healthcare, retail, and financial services industries. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Yext is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 14.829% of Yext shares are held by insiders and 70.049% by institutions.

• How many people work for Yext?

  Latest data suggests 1,200 work at Yext.

• When does the fiscal year end for Yext?

  Yext's fiscal year ends in January.

• Where is Yext based?

  Yext's address is: 1 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, United States, 10010

• What is Yext's ISIN number?

  Yext's international securities identification number is: US98585N1063

• What is Yext's CUSIP number?

  Yext's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 98585N106