Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) Releases Q2 2026 Earnings Guidance

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) issued an update on its second quarter 2026 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.330-0.360 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.300. The company issued revenue guidance of $207.0 million-$209.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $208.3 million. Rapid7 also updated its FY 2026 guidance to 1.520-1.600 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have commented on RPD. Robert W. Baird set a $8.00 price objective on shares of Rapid7 in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Truist Financial decreased their price target on Rapid7 from $8.00 to $6.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Piper Sandler lowered their price target on Rapid7 from $10.00 to $8.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Mizuho decreased their target price on Rapid7 from $12.00 to $8.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, April 14th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “sell (d)” rating on shares of Rapid7 in a research note on Friday, March 27th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Reduce” and an average price target of $8.71.

Rapid7 Price Performance

Shares of RPD opened at $7.08 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $473.16 million, a PE ratio of 20.23 and a beta of 1.03. Rapid7 has a 52-week low of $4.97 and a 52-week high of $25.85. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $6.76 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $9.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.69, a quick ratio of 0.78 and a current ratio of 0.78.

Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The technology company reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.30 by $0.06. Rapid7 had a net margin of 2.61% and a return on equity of 34.35%. The firm had revenue of $209.69 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $207.94 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.49 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was down .3% compared to the same quarter last year. Rapid7 has set its FY 2026 guidance at 1.520-1.600 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.330-0.360 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Rapid7 will post 0.63 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Headlands Technologies LLC bought a new position in shares of Rapid7 in the second quarter valued at approximately $44,000. Parallel Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Rapid7 by 81.6% during the 4th quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 3,036 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $46,000 after acquiring an additional 1,364 shares during the period. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in Rapid7 in the 4th quarter worth approximately $71,000. Advisors Asset Management Inc. purchased a new stake in Rapid7 in the 4th quarter worth approximately $79,000. Finally, Prudential Financial Inc. boosted its holdings in Rapid7 by 8.8% in the 2nd quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 8,513 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $197,000 after purchasing an additional 690 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 95.66% of the company’s stock.

Rapid7 Company Profile

Rapid7, Inc is a publicly traded cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Since its founding in 2000, the company has specialized in delivering cloud-based security data and analytics solutions designed to help organizations detect, investigate, and remediate cyber threats. Rapid7 operates under the NASDAQ symbol “RPD” and serves a broad range of industries, including technology, financial services, healthcare, retail, and the public sector.

The core of Rapid7’s offering is its Insight platform, a unified, cloud-native security operations and analytics suite.