Veritone’s (VERI) “Buy” Rating Reiterated at D. Boral Capital

D. Boral Capital reissued their buy rating on shares of Veritone (NASDAQ:VERI) in a research report released on Friday morning,Benzinga reports. The firm currently has a $14.00 price objective on the stock.

VERI has been the topic of a number of other reports. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $10.00 price objective on shares of Veritone in a research note on Tuesday, December 2nd. Weiss Ratings reissued a “sell (e+)” rating on shares of Veritone in a research note on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Wall Street Zen lowered shares of Veritone from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Saturday, March 21st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, one has assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Veritone has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $8.75.

Veritone Stock Performance

Shares of VERI stock opened at $1.84 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $168.92 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -2.75 and a beta of 2.16. The company has a current ratio of 1.31, a quick ratio of 1.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 6.77. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $3.17 and a 200 day moving average price of $4.47. Veritone has a twelve month low of $1.22 and a twelve month high of $9.42.

Institutional Trading of Veritone

Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Inspire Investing LLC bought a new stake in shares of Veritone during the 4th quarter valued at about $472,000. Balyasny Asset Management L.P. bought a new position in Veritone in the fourth quarter worth about $630,000. 683 Capital Management LLC bought a new position in Veritone in the fourth quarter worth about $891,000. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Veritone in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $717,000. Finally, Jain Global LLC acquired a new position in Veritone in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $122,000. Institutional investors own 39.18% of the company’s stock.

Key Veritone News

Here are the key news stories impacting Veritone this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Strategic cloud deal with Oracle should improve scalability and enterprise credibility, and management flagged an expanded go-to-market for Veritone’s aiWARE and data products — a clear catalyst for future revenue growth. Veritone Announces Strategic Agreement with Oracle
• Positive Sentiment: Company issued a 2026 revenue target (up to $145M) that sparked a sharp intraday rally after the release — this guidance is the primary bullish driver underpinning optimism about recovery and scale. Veritone stock surges 22% on fiscal 2026 revenue outlook
• Positive Sentiment: D. Boral Capital reaffirmed a “buy” and set a $14 price target, signaling at least one analyst view that the company has significant upside if execution and growth materialize. Benzinga Rating Note
• Neutral Sentiment: Unusually large options activity: buyers purchased ~2,771 call options (≈83% above average), which can indicate speculative bullish interest or hedging ahead of volatility but is not definitive on directional conviction. (No article link available.)
• Neutral Sentiment: Company released earnings call/transcript and prepared remarks for Q4; these provide detail on outlook and execution plans that investors will parse for credibility of guidance. Earnings Call Transcript
• Negative Sentiment: Q4 results materially missed expectations: EPS of ($0.41) vs. ($0.06) expected and revenue of $18.1M vs. ~$34.3M consensus — a large shortfall that explains immediate selling pressure and questions around near-term demand. MarketBeat Earnings Summary
• Negative Sentiment: Commentary and media coverage framed the earnings miss as the reason shares were “tanking” despite the Oracle deal and guidance, amplifying negative sentiment and heavy intraday volume. Why is Veritone stock tanking Friday?

Veritone Company Profile

Veritone, Inc (NASDAQ: VERI) is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for media, legal, government and enterprise applications. Its flagship offering, aiWARE™, is a cloud-based operating system that orchestrates and automates an ecosystem of machine learning models to transform unstructured data—such as audio, video and text—into actionable intelligence. By providing a modular AI environment, Veritone enables organizations to deploy, manage and scale cognitive engines that address diverse use cases from transcription and translation to sentiment analysis and facial recognition.

Through aiWARE and its suite of purpose-built applications, the company delivers turnkey solutions for content licensing, media monitoring, eDiscovery, compliance and public safety.