Canaccord Genuity reiterated their buy rating on shares of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) in a report issued on Monday, Market Beat Ratings reports. The brokerage currently has a $25.00 price target on the social networking company’s stock, down from their prior price target of $38.00.

Several other equities analysts have also recently issued reports on the company. Nomura decreased their price objective on Twitter from $30.00 to $19.00 and set a neutral rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 26th. Zacks Investment Research raised Twitter from a hold rating to a buy rating and set a $33.00 price objective for the company in a report on Wednesday, November 4th. Morgan Stanley reissued an underweight rating and issued a $22.00 price objective on shares of Twitter in a report on Thursday, January 7th. SunTrust reissued a buy rating on shares of Twitter in a report on Sunday, December 13th. Finally, Axiom Securities reissued a buy rating on shares of Twitter in a report on Monday, October 12th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-six have given a hold rating, seventeen have given a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock presently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus target price of $32.96.

In other news, VP Alexander Roetter sold 30,208 shares of Twitter stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, November 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $29.17, for a total transaction of $881,167.36. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now directly owns 845,567 shares in the company, valued at approximately $24,665,189.39. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, VP Kevin Weil sold 3,619 shares of Twitter stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $16.76, for a total transaction of $60,654.44. The disclosure for this sale can be found here.

Several large investors recently bought and sold shares of TWTR. World Asset Management Inc increased its stake in Twitter by 11.8% in the fourth quarter. World Asset Management Inc now owns 12,270 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $284,000 after buying an additional 1,293 shares during the last quarter. K.J. Harrison & Partners Inc bought a new stake in Twitter during the fourth quarter worth about $602,000. Simmons First Trust Co. NA bought a new stake in Twitter during the fourth quarter worth about $353,000. Great West Life Assurance Co. Can increased its stake in Twitter by 2.9% in the fourth quarter. Great West Life Assurance Co. Can now owns 201,911 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $4,672,000 after buying an additional 5,699 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. increased its stake in Twitter by 2.0% in the fourth quarter. Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. now owns 112,150 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $2,595,000 after buying an additional 2,150 shares during the last quarter.

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) opened at 17.91 on Monday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $20.39 and its 200-day moving average price is $26.35. Twitter has a 52 week low of $15.48 and a 52 week high of $53.49. The company’s market capitalization is $12.11 billion.

Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. The Company offers products and services for users, advertisers, developers and platform and data partners. Products and services for users enables a way for people to create, distribute and discover content, which enables a user on Twitter to create a tweet and a user to follow other users. Products and services for advertisers consist of promoted products, which enable its advertisers to promote their brands, products and services, and extend the conversation around their advertising message. Products for platform partners and developers provide a set of tools, public application program interface (APIs) and embeddable widgets that developers use to contribute their content to its platform, syndicate and distribute its content across their properties. Products for data partners offer subscription access to its public data feed.

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