Bares Capital Management Increased By $35.50 Million Its Gartner (IT) Stake; Last Week ePlus inc. (PLUS) Coverage

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Among 2 analysts covering ePlus (NASDAQ:PLUS), 1 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 1 Hold. Therefore 50% are positive. ePlus had 2 analyst reports since February 9, 2018 according to SRatingsIntel. Stifel Nicolaus maintained ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) on Friday, May 25 with “Hold” rating. The firm has “Buy” rating by Sidoti given on Friday, February 9. See ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) latest ratings:

25/05/2018 Broker: Stifel Nicolaus Old Rating: Hold New Rating: Hold Old Target: $80 New Target: $85 Maintain
09/02/2018 Broker: Sidoti Old Rating: Neutral New Rating: Buy Upgrade

Bares Capital Management Inc increased Gartner Inc. (IT) stake by 23.63% reported in 2018Q1 SEC filing. Bares Capital Management Inc acquired 303,449 shares as Gartner Inc. (IT)’s stock rose 10.75%. The Bares Capital Management Inc holds 1.59M shares with $186.73 million value, up from 1.28 million last quarter. Gartner Inc. now has $12.19 billion valuation. The stock increased 2.09% or $2.74 during the last trading session, reaching $133.55. About 667,715 shares traded. Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) has risen 10.82% since June 28, 2017 and is uptrending. It has underperformed by 1.75% the S&P500. Some Historical IT News: 08/05/2018 – GARTNER INC SEES 2018 ADJUSTED EPS $3.51-3.91; 05/04/2018 – Isobar Named a Leader in Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies; 27/03/2018 – Scandit Listed as a Retail Example in Gartner Report “Elevate Customer Experience with Minor Investments That Deliver Major Benefits for Retail Digital Business”; 08/03/2018 – Netcracker Named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Operations Support Systems for Eighth Consecutive Year; 15/05/2018 – Scalyr Named a 2018 Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis, AIOps Focus, by Gartner; 26/04/2018 – Excelero Named a 2018 Cool Vendor in Storage Technologies by Gartner; 22/05/2018 – Altizon Recognized in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial Internet of Things; 15/05/2018 – Alpha Software Receives an Honorable Mention in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service; 06/03/2018 – New Report from DirectPath and Gartner Reveals Only 30 Percent of All Employer-Sponsored Health Plans are HDHPs; 17/04/2018 – Deloitte named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Oracle Application Services, Worldwide

More recent Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) news were published by: Nasdaq.com which released: “Consolidated Research: 2018 Summary Expectations for Shake Shack, Gartner, Halyard Health, Liberty TripAdvisor …” on June 28, 2018. Also Seekingalpha.com published the news titled: “Pivotal: A Long Time Coming” on June 19, 2018. Fool.com‘s news article titled: “6 Reasons Salesforce Is Surging to All-Time Highs” with publication date: June 10, 2018 was also an interesting one.

Investors sentiment decreased to 1.11 in Q1 2018. Its down 0.11, from 1.22 in 2017Q4. It worsened, as 32 investors sold IT shares while 120 reduced holdings. 57 funds opened positions while 111 raised stakes. 91.07 million shares or 6.64% more from 85.40 million shares in 2017Q4 were reported. Canandaigua Savings Bank Communication reported 16,783 shares. Thompson Siegel & Walmsley Llc holds 0% or 772 shares in its portfolio. Gradient Ltd Company holds 11 shares or 0% of its portfolio. Farmers Merchants Invs reported 33 shares. Timessquare Cap Mgmt Ltd Liability holds 2.10 million shares or 1.68% of its portfolio. Norinchukin National Bank The reported 8,322 shares or 0.02% of all its holdings. Howland Lc invested in 10,000 shares or 0.09% of the stock. Moneta Grp Inv Advsrs Ltd Com holds 0% or 4 shares in its portfolio. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania Public School Empls Retrmt invested in 8,128 shares or 0.01% of the stock. Oppenheimer Asset Management stated it has 11,744 shares or 0.03% of all its holdings. 19,394 were accumulated by Bessemer Inc. Arizona State Retirement System has 54,366 shares. Eagle Asset Mngmt owns 0.01% invested in Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) for 22,307 shares. Envestnet Asset Mngmt holds 56,643 shares or 0.02% of its portfolio. Goldman Sachs Gp holds 0.04% of its portfolio in Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) for 1.42 million shares.

Since February 22, 2018, it had 0 buys, and 12 insider sales for $6.34 million activity. Sondergaard Peter sold $360,968 worth of stock or 2,678 shares. 800 shares valued at $110,400 were sold by Dawkins Alwyn on Friday, June 15. Kranich Robin B also sold $657,454 worth of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) on Thursday, May 10. HALL EUGENE A had sold 15,891 shares worth $1.86M on Monday, February 26. DYKSTRA KAREN E had sold 1,800 shares worth $247,032 on Thursday, June 7. 3,528 shares valued at $474,904 were sold by Safian Craig on Friday, May 11. 1,850 shares were sold by Christopher MR Thomas, worth $250,916.

Among 6 analysts covering Gartner (NYSE:IT), 4 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 2 Hold. Therefore 67% are positive. Gartner had 16 analyst reports since January 8, 2018 according to SRatingsIntel. The firm has “Buy” rating by RBC Capital Markets given on Monday, April 9. BMO Capital Markets maintained it with “Buy” rating and $139.0 target in Monday, January 22 report. The stock of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) has “Hold” rating given on Tuesday, February 6 by Piper Jaffray. Piper Jaffray maintained Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) on Tuesday, January 30 with “Hold” rating. The stock of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) earned “Buy” rating by RBC Capital Markets on Wednesday, February 7. The company was maintained on Wednesday, February 7 by Credit Suisse. The stock of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) earned “Buy” rating by RBC Capital Markets on Friday, January 19. The firm has “Buy” rating by BMO Capital Markets given on Tuesday, February 6. The firm has “Buy” rating given on Tuesday, February 6 by Robert W. Baird. The rating was maintained by Morgan Stanley with “Equal-Weight” on Wednesday, January 31.

ePlus inc., an engineering-centric technology solutions provider, provides information technology services and products, flexible leasing and financing solutions, and enterprise supply management in the United States. The company has market cap of $1.30 billion. It operates through two divisions, Technology and Financing. It has a 23.48 P/E ratio. The Technology segment sells IT products, such as hardware, software, maintenance, software assurance, and services; and offers advanced professional and managed services, including data center infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, and collaboration, as well as ePlus managed, professional, security, staff augmentation, server and desktop support, and project management services.

More notable recent ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) news were published by: Globenewswire.com which released: “ePlus to Present at Wall Street Technology Association Cybersecurity Seminar” on June 28, 2018, also Globenewswire.com with their article: “ePlus Announces Suite of Cloud Hosted Services” published on June 21, 2018, Globenewswire.com published: “ePlus Named to CRN’s 2018 Solution Provider 500 List” on June 05, 2018. More interesting news about ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) were released by: Globenewswire.com and their article: “ePlus Adds New Member to Board of Directors” published on June 14, 2018 as well as Nasdaq.com‘s news article titled: “ePlus Achieves NVIDIA Elite Partner Status for AI and Deep Learning” with publication date: June 05, 2018.

Since January 18, 2018, it had 0 insider purchases, and 12 selling transactions for $9.81 million activity. Marion Elaine D also sold $240,000 worth of ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) on Thursday, April 12. BOWEN BRUCE M sold $697,228 worth of stock or 7,500 shares. 500 ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) shares with value of $37,236 were sold by Herman Lawrence S. 2,000 shares were sold by FAULDERS C THOMAS III, worth $189,002 on Wednesday, June 6. 27,995 shares valued at $2.64M were sold by HOVDE ERIC D on Monday, June 4. $1.35M worth of ePlus inc. (NASDAQ:PLUS) was sold by MARRON MARK P on Thursday, February 15. 20,338 shares were sold by NORTON PHILLIP G, worth $1.86 million.

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