Shares of MongoDB Inc MDB rose in early trading on Tuesday, ahead of its fourth-quarter results to be reported on Wednesday, March 5.
Elastic has a strong position in high-performance search, with potential growth in gen AI applications, but faces stiff competition from Datadog and MongoDB. Datadog outperforms Elastic in financial metrics, including gross margins, free cash flow efficiency, and growth prospects, while being cheaper in the Price/FCF multiple, making it a more attractive investment. Elastic's search capabilities could enhance gen AI applications, but its lack of in-house LLM development may weaken its competitive edge in observability.
MongoDB (MDB) closed the most recent trading day at $267.43, moving +1.91% from the previous trading session.
Looking beyond Wall Street's top -and-bottom-line estimate forecasts for MongoDB (MDB), delve into some of its key metrics to gain a deeper insight into the company's potential performance for the quarter ended January 2025.
Goldman Sachs analyst Kash Rangan maintained a Buy rating and price forecast for MongoDB, Inc. MDB following the company's acquisition of Voyage AI on Monday.
Database company MongoDB acquired artificial intelligence firm Voyage AI. The deal — worth $220 million, according to a Monday (Feb. 24) Bloomberg report — is designed to help MongoDB's customers build better AI-powered applications through “highly accurate and relevant information retrieval deeply integrated with operational data,” according to a Monday press release.
Database company MongoDB (MDB -2.76%) tumbled 3% through 12:30 p.m. ET Monday after Bernstein analyst Firoz Valliji cut his price target on the stock nearly 12%, to $357 a share.
MongoDB's revenue growth has decelerated, but a strategic pivot to focus on enterprise customers and AI opportunities could reignite momentum. Despite strong Atlas growth, MongoDB must increase enterprise customer share to return to previous growth rates. Major risks include competition from cloud providers, entrenched enterprise vendors, and high sales and R&D expenses impacting profitability.
MongoDB's NoSQL database offers faster query processing and flexibility, making it a strong competitor against SQL databases like Snowflake, especially for AI applications. MongoDB's strategy includes providing a NoSQL DBaaS with no vendor lock-in and educating enterprises on migrating from SQL to NoSQL. MongoDB's gross margins are superior to Snowflake, and its valuation is attractive given the potential growth in AI applications.
The latest trading day saw MongoDB (MDB) settling at $278.10, representing a -1.39% change from its previous close.
The mean of analysts' price targets for MongoDB (MDB) points to a 33.4% upside in the stock. While this highly sought-after metric has not proven reasonably effective, strong agreement among analysts in raising earnings estimates does indicate an upside in the stock.
In the most recent trading session, MongoDB (MDB) closed at $278.33, indicating a -2% shift from the previous trading day.