Hantz Financial Services Inc. Raises Stock Holdings in Twilio Inc. $TWLO

Hantz Financial Services Inc. increased its position in Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) by 266.8% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 5,396 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,925 shares during the period. Hantz Financial Services Inc.’s holdings in Twilio were worth $768,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in TWLO. Brighton Jones LLC raised its stake in Twilio by 6.6% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 10,051 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,086,000 after acquiring an additional 623 shares during the last quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC purchased a new position in Twilio in the 2nd quarter worth $251,000. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. raised its stake in Twilio by 70.6% in the 2nd quarter. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. now owns 24,653 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $3,066,000 after acquiring an additional 10,200 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of Twilio by 46.9% during the 2nd quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 5,770 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $718,000 after buying an additional 1,841 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sei Investments Co. raised its stake in shares of Twilio by 55.1% during the 2nd quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 90,128 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $11,208,000 after buying an additional 32,027 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 84.27% of the company’s stock.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CEO Khozema Shipchandler sold 32,158 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $185.70, for a total transaction of $5,971,740.60. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 235,542 shares in the company, valued at $43,740,149.40. This trade represents a 12.01% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Andrew Stafman sold 1,000,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $184.14, for a total value of $184,140,000.00. Following the sale, the director owned 620,000 shares in the company, valued at $114,166,800. This trade represents a 61.73% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 1,760,427 shares of company stock valued at $327,889,937 over the last quarter. Insiders own 0.21% of the company’s stock.

Twilio Stock Performance

NYSE TWLO opened at $184.82 on Friday. Twilio Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $91.84 and a fifty-two week high of $203.71. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13, a quick ratio of 4.66 and a current ratio of 4.66. The firm has a market capitalization of $28.05 billion, a P/E ratio of 288.78, a PEG ratio of 3.78 and a beta of 1.32. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $153.92 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $136.09.

Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $1.50 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.27 by $0.23. Twilio had a return on equity of 4.64% and a net margin of 1.96%.The firm had revenue of $1.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.34 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.14 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 20.0% on a year-over-year basis. Twilio has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 2.500-2.600 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Twilio Inc. will post 2.77 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

TWLO has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Mizuho lifted their price objective on Twilio from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 21st. Stifel Nicolaus set a $175.00 price objective on Twilio in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Weiss Ratings upgraded Twilio from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. KeyCorp lifted their price objective on Twilio from $156.00 to $200.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $195.00 price objective on shares of Twilio in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, seventeen have assigned a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $195.40.

About Twilio

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.