Hodges Capital Management Inc. Invests $4 Million in Twilio Inc. $TWLO

Hodges Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund bought 31,800 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,001,000.

Other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Raleigh Capital Management Inc. acquired a new stake in Twilio in the fourth quarter valued at $26,000. SHP Wealth Management acquired a new position in shares of Twilio during the 4th quarter worth about $26,000. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT acquired a new position in shares of Twilio during the 4th quarter worth about $29,000. Aster Capital Management DIFC Ltd acquired a new position in shares of Twilio during the 4th quarter worth about $29,000. Finally, Strategic Advocates LLC purchased a new position in shares of Twilio in the 3rd quarter valued at about $30,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.27% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at Twilio

In other Twilio news, Director Andrew Stafman sold 1,000,000 shares of Twilio stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $184.14, for a total transaction of $184,140,000.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 620,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $114,166,800. The trade was a 61.73% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Erika Rottenberg sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $199.01, for a total value of $398,020.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 30,995 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,168,314.95. This represents a 6.06% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,782,794 shares of company stock worth $337,372,399. 0.21% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on TWLO. Stifel Nicolaus set a $175.00 target price on Twilio in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Bank of America raised Twilio from an “underperform” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their price target for the company from $110.00 to $190.00 in a report on Wednesday, April 22nd. KGI Securities initiated coverage on shares of Twilio in a research note on Thursday. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $250.00 price target on the stock. Tigress Financial raised their price objective on shares of Twilio from $170.00 to $255.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Finally, Citigroup restated an “outperform” rating on shares of Twilio in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Buy rating, three have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Twilio presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $207.41.

Twilio Stock Performance

Shares of TWLO stock opened at $208.66 on Tuesday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $192.49 and its two-hundred day moving average is $150.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a quick ratio of 4.66 and a current ratio of 4.66. Twilio Inc. has a 1 year low of $91.84 and a 1 year high of $238.48. The firm has a market cap of $31.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 326.04, a PEG ratio of 4.16 and a beta of 1.36.

Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $1.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.27 by $0.23. The business had revenue of $1.41 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.34 billion. Twilio had a return on equity of 4.64% and a net margin of 1.96%.The business’s quarterly revenue was up 20.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.14 EPS. Twilio has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 2.500-2.600 EPS. Analysts predict that Twilio Inc. will post 2.79 earnings per share for the current year.

Twilio Company Profile

Twilio Inc (NYSE: TWLO) is a cloud communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) company that enables developers and enterprises to embed communications into web and mobile applications. Its core offering is a suite of programmable APIs that handle messaging (SMS, MMS, and chat), voice calling, video, and user authentication. Twilio’s platform is designed to help businesses build customer engagement and communication workflows without managing telecommunications infrastructure directly.

The company’s product portfolio includes programmable voice and messaging APIs, Twilio Video for real‑time video applications, and Twilio Authy for multi‑factor authentication.