Veeva Announces Fiscal 2025 First Quarter Results Shares drop 8%Veeva Systems Inc., ( NYSE:VEEV ) a leading provider of cloud solutions for the global life sciences industry, announced its fiscal 2025 first quarter results, which showed a 24% increase in revenues and a 29% increase in subscription services revenues. Operating income increased by 152% YoY to $155.2 million, while non-GAAP operating income rose by 66% YoY to $260.9 million. Net income also increased by 23% YoY to $161.7 million, while non-GAAP net income rose by 67% YoY to $247.0 million.
The company's interim CFO and Board Director, Tim Cabral, expressed confidence in the company's performance, stating that they are investing for durable growth and are committed to customer success and product excellence. The company also reported significant wins in clinical, quality, regulatory, and safety, including three top 20 biopharma wins for multiple Development Cloud applications.
Veeva Vault ( NYSE:VEEV ) Basics applications are now available, preconfigured with industry standard processes and managed by Veeva with no implementation cost, allowing emerging biotechs to start with Development Cloud earlier in their lifecycle and graduate easily to full Development Cloud as they grow. The Vault CRM Suite progress continues, with the full availability of Vault CRM for all new customers in April, and 13 CRM wins in the quarter.
Veeva ( NYSE:VEEV ) added 21 new brands for Compass Patient in the first quarter, including its first seven-figure enterprise-wide win with a top 50 biopharma. The company also signed the first Compass Prescriber and Compass National customers, providing more complete and accurate data than legacy alternatives. Veeva Link also continued to progress well, crossing the 100-customer mark, as the industry enhances engagement through real-time intelligence.
Financial outlook for Veeva ( NYSE:VEEV ) is provided for the fiscal second quarter ending July 31, 2024, with total revenues between $666 and $669 million, non-GAAP operating income between $265 and $267 million, and non-GAAP fully diluted net income per share between $1.53 and $1.54.
Technically, Veeva Vault ( NYSE:VEEV ) stock is currently oversold with a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 17.97. The daily price chart shows a "Bearish Harami" candle stick pattern accentuating the bearish campaign.
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VEEV Veeva Systems Options Ahead of EarningsAnalyzing the options chain and the chart patterns of VEEV Veeva Systems prior to the earnings report this week,
I would consider purchasing the 180usd strike price Puts with
an expiration date of 2023-9-15,
for a premium of approximately $4.50.
If these options prove to be profitable prior to the earnings release, I would sell at least half of them.
Looking forward to read your opinion about it.
Veeva SystemsThis is a daily chart of Veeva Systems (VEEV), a healthcare technology company that provides cloud solutions for the global life sciences industry.
When the company reported its earnings on August 31st the stock price subsequently gapped down, as shown in the chart above. From a probability standpoint, this gap is likely to be filled for the reasons below.
1. The gap is a monthly candle gap and these usually close.
Unfilled gaps on the monthly charts are generally quite rare, especially for assets that have never left a monthly gap before. As shown in the chart below, VEEV has never left a gap on its monthly chart before.
2. The gap is below the lower regression channel line. A regression channel is used to measure how far above or below an asset is trading from its mean. Since price generally tends to mean revert, it's highly unlikely that a gap below the lower channel line, (which in this case represents two standard deviations below the mean), will never be filled. It's more likely that the gap will not only be filled, but will be filled quite rapidly. The assumption I make in using this regression channel is that it is statistically valid and data are normally distributed. If true, then there's only a small probability that VEEV's monthly candle will close the month so far below the lower line of the regression channel. Therefore, it's likely that price will be drawn back up to the mean, and thus the gap will be filled.
Here's a close up view:
3. Price gapped below an important Fibonacci level that has been holding, and likely will continue to hold, as support. See the chart below.
Here are some close up views:
At a minimum, price will very likely push back into the 180s.
The quarterly chart shows long lower wicks at this Fibonacci level, indicating that it is holding as support. With further momentum to the downside waning as shown by the Stochastic RSI, there's little reason to believe this Fibonacci level will fail this time.
The lower wicks on the quarterly candles are also bouncing off of the exponential moving average (EMA) ribbon, which usually acts as support when price descends to it from above.
Strategy
With this said, I noticed that someone is already sweeping the call options. They swept hundreds of out-of-the-money (OTM) call options expiring on 9/16 with a $180 strike. Clearly, this buyer believes that VEEV's price is poised to quickly return at least to the Fibonacci support level of $180.97.
If you don't know what an options sweep is, it simply refers to an instance in which options are purchased right at the ask price. In most cases, buyers place a limit buy at the mid point of the bid-ask spread or at a lower target price. Market participants usually only buy at the ask price if they're in a rush to buy and/or if they have a high confidence about a certain market move and want to guarantee their entry while also not tipping the market off about their anticipated market move. Sweeps can also refer to when a large buyer wants to obfuscate their entry by splitting their large order into a lot of smaller parts to sweep the entire order book without tipping off the market as they would have if they placed a single large limit order. Understanding sweeps can help you understand what smart money is doing. It's very rare that retail traders sweep the order book because it's very expensive, and for a smaller portfolio (less than a million) it can be extremely risky. Therefore, smart money is usually the market participant who sweeps the order book.
Personally, I find this call sweep to be risky (assuming that it's not part of some kind of a hedge) since although we have a high confidence that the gap may close, we don't know within what time frame it will do so. Rather than sweeping a call option with a strike price of $180 that expires on 9/16 a safer though less lucrative trade would be to sell a cash-secured put with a strike price of $180 and which expires on 9/16. Doing this gives you much higher odds of winning but is profit limited.
If the price goes to $180 or higher at expiration, you win the full premium since the put you sold will not be exercised.
If the price is below $180 but above the breakeven price at expiration, or if the price is below even your breakeven price, then you may be forced to buy shares of VEEV at $180, but you can simply hold those shares until the gap closes (or longer if you think price is going higher). Therefore in this case you still do not lose money, and still make the premium as profit.
The only plausible scenario whereby you would lose money would be if VEEV's price continued to plummet and never recovers. Although this would be incredibly unlikely, it is still possible. You can nonetheless still hedge against even this risk by using a put spread to limit loss potential to a ratio that meets your risk management strategy. Therefore you can safely take a very high probability trade while managing risks well. Successful trading is mostly determined by how well you manage risks.
Finally, since options are leveraged, one should always try to time their entry as perfectly as possible by using shorter timeframe (hourly or 4-hour) charts, especially if the option's expiration is close. For example, you can see that the 4 hour chart for VEEV is showing momentum building back to the upside. This is what you want to see if you're going to sell a put option strategy that expires on 9/16.
These are just my thoughts and they are definitely not meant to be trading advice. As always, anything can happen. September can often be a volatile month and is prone to declines. Options trading is risky and can result in complete loss. Trade at your own risk.
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Veev longHere is an easy ta for Veev long:
Costumer ordered this ta for option play.
Veev stock is in up-trend. Last ER confirmed this bullush up-trend as you can see by bullish engulfing + hammer.
Indicators:
BB: Trend is at upper-band, pullack, up-trend
RSI: Overbought crossing, little pullback
MACD: Overbought, up-trend confirmed (crossing), pullback
200 day SMA: Wide above, bullish (near by 61 % Fib)
50 day SMA: trend is above, bullish signal
20 day SMA: trend is above, bullish signal
volume: no Signal
So, you can use these SMA´s for supports on pullbacks.
Fib. retracement you can use as well for bigger corrections.
Good luck for your trading :)