Elastic N.V. (ESTC) - Stock Analysis

Last updated: Sep 5, 2026

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Elastic reported fiscal Q1 revenue growth of 15% and EPS of $0.70 versus $0.58 expected, then raised fiscal 2027 guidance. Shares gained about 30% over 21 trading days, with AI search, security, observability, the Deductive AI acquisition, and expanded OpenAI collaboration providing fresh catalysts.

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Idea window: 9/2/2026 – 9/9/2026Sector: Technology

AI Analyst Overview

Last Price
$91.81
Market Cap
$9.54B
1D Return
-4.49%
YTD Return
+21.70%

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Valuation Metrics

P/E
25.4
P/B
7.4
P/S
5.3
EV/EBITDA
158.2
Div Yield
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Fundamental Analysis

5.0

Key Financial Insights: • Strong Free Cash Flow • Persistent Operating Losses • Tax-Driven Earnings ESTC has strong cash flow and liquidity, but persistent operating losses, tax-distorted earnings, high stock compensation, and elevated valuation warrant caution.

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Price Behavior

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Key Price Behavior Insights: • Strong monthly rally • Momentum cooling • Key support test Support Level: $85.00–$87.00 (stronger: $79.00–$80.00) Resistance Level: $97.50–$100.00 ESTC remains in a strong last-month uptrend but faces elevated volatility after an 8% pullback, with $85–87 support and $97.50–100 resistance key for the next move.

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Sentiment & News

7.0

Key News Insights: • Guidance Raised • Revenue Growth • AI Acquisition Elastic's earnings beat, raised guidance, and AI expansion signal strengthening growth momentum and a positive near-term outlook.

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AI Summary

6.0
Neutral

Elastic's 18% sales-led subscription growth and raised FY27 outlook support a potential AI/observability-driven enterprise growth inflection, but the investment hinges on confirming durable billings acceleration and GAAP margin expansion rather than a one-quarter beat; investors should watch billings, stock-based compensation, and progress toward FY27 cash-flow targets before chasing the post-earnings rerating.

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Description

Elastic N.V. builds software for deploying search, logging, metrics and observability workloads across public and private cloud environments. Its Elastic Stack ingests and stores diverse data types and provides search, analysis and visualization through components including a distributed search and analytics engine, a management and visualization UI, data shippers, a centralized agent, and an ingestion pipeline. The company also offers packaged solutions for application and workplace search, logging, performance monitoring and synthetic checks to support operational and analytical use cases.

Idea History

DateCloseTickerCompanySummaryStatusP/L
Sep 2Sep 9ESTCElastic N.V.
Elastic reported fiscal Q1 revenue growth of 15% and EPS of $0.70 versus $0.58 expected, then raised fiscal 2027 guidance. Shares gained about 30% over 21 trading days, with AI search, security, observability, the Deductive AI acquisition, and expanded OpenAI collaboration providing fresh catalysts.
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