Stock under Radar: Incontact Inc (NASDAQ:SAAS)

The shares of Incontact Inc (NASDAQ:SAAS) currently has mean rating of 2.00 while 3 analysts have recommended the shares as “BUY”, Zero recommended as “OUTPERFORM” and 3 recommended as “HOLD”. The rating score is on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 stands for strong buy and 5 stands for sell.

The company’s mean estimate for sales for the current quarter ending Jun-16 is 62.43 million by 6 analysts. The means estimate of sales for the year ending Dec-16 is 262.34 million by 6 analysts.

The mean price target for the shares of Incontact Inc (NASDAQ:SAAS) is at 14.20 while the highest price target suggested by the analysts is 16.00 and low price target is 13.00. The mean price target is calculated keeping in view the consensus of 5 brokerage firms.

The average estimate of EPS for the current fiscal quarter for Incontact Inc (NASDAQ:SAAS) stands at -0.20 while the EPS for the current year is fixed at -0.25 by 6 analysts.

The next one year’s EPS estimate is set at -0.22 by 6 analysts while a year ago the analysts suggested the company’s EPS at -0.25. The analysts also projected the company’s long-term growth at 15.00% for the upcoming five years.

In its latest quarter ended on 31^st March 2016, Incontact Inc (NASDAQ:SAAS) reported earnings of -$0.04. The posted earnings missed the analyst’s consensus by $0.05 with the surprise factor of 55.60%. In the matter of earnings surprises, the term “Cockroach Effect” is often implied. Cockroach Effect is a market theory that suggests that when a company reveals bad news to the public, there may be many more related negative events that have yet to be revealed. In the case of earnings surprises, if a company is suggesting a negative earnings surprise it means there are more to come.

inContact, Inc. provides cloud contact center software solutions, and network connectivity services in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Software and Network Connectivity. It offers inContact ACD, an automatic call distributor; inContact IVR, an interactive voice response solution; inContact Personal Connection Outbound, a patented technology that eliminates legacy dialers’ delays in greeting the caller; and inContact ECHO that gathers the opinion of the user and presents the analysis of the feedback directly to supervisors and agents. The company also provides inContact Workforce Management that forecasts demand, schedules workforce, analyzes and optimizes staffing, and reports real-time adherence in contact centers; inContact Quality Monitoring that provides insights into agent performance and customer satisfaction; and InContact Screen Recording that provides compliance level screen recording functionality for voice channel interactions. In addition, it offers inContact CTI, a computer telephony integration solution; and inContact Integrations for the integration of hardware and software solutions at customer sites. Further, the company provides inContact Analytics-Drive Quality to capture, evaluate, and learn from customer interactions using audio files; and inContact inView, an optimization solution that aggregates performance data from disparate systems, as well as connectivity network, which provides time division multiplexing and voice over Internet protocol connectivity, and toll-free and local-number services. inContact, Inc. offers professional support services; and operates as a domestic and international network connectivity reseller and aggregator. The company was formerly known as UCN, Inc. and changed its name to inContact, Inc. in January 2009. inContact, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.