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BL Stock Forecast: BlackLine, Inc. Price Predictions for 2026-2027

Last close, 7 Oct 2026
$28
+0.57% on the day

The 12 Wall Street analysts covering BlackLine, Inc. hold a median 12-month price target of $36 — +25.3% from the last close. Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model, run across ~4,600 US stocks, ranks it 85 of 100 as at 6 Oct 2026 — inside the top quartile. Here, the model and the Street point the same way.

Market cap
$1.6B
Ticker Nerd rank
85 / 100
Median analyst target
$36
Analysts covering
12
Revenue$187.8M+9.2% y/y
Operating income$12.1M
Net income$9.3M
Free cash flow$36.5M
Quarterly, 8 quarters to 30 June 2026 · latest quarter's figure shown
Total return, dividends reinvested
1W
+6.8%
1M
−13.4%
YTD
−48.8%
1Y
−44.0%
From 52W high
−51.8%
From 52W low
+12.3%
$25
$59
52-week range, adjusted closes · the dot is the last close
Ticker Nerd rank

BL stock analysis: one number for the whole business

Consensus tells you what everyone already believes. The model scores BlackLine, Inc. on its factor families — the same systematic rank behind the Ticker Nerd portfolio.

Where the model ranks itAs at 6 Oct 2026
85 / 100

Percentile across ~4,600 US stocks on Ticker Nerd’s systematic factor model. Higher is better. How the model is built and tested

Issuance
99
Value
92
Accruals
92
Volatility
90
Revisions
77
Quality
52
Growth
46
Size
38
Momentum
12

Issuance (99): The share count has been shrinking and the company is not leaning on new borrowing.

Momentum (12): The shares have been drifting down relative to others.

Built and run by Aslam Ghouse, an ex-Goldman Sachs quant trader with fourteen years in markets.

Wall Street

BL stock forecast 2026-2027: analyst price targets & predictions

The bullish and bearish analyst opinions on BL, reported as data — targets and ratings, the market's view beside the model's.

Share price and the analyst range, 12 monthsAdjusted close, US dollars
$20$30$40$50$60$70Jan 26Apr 26Jul 26Oct 26BLHigh $70Median $36Low $23

Price targets and ratings are third-party analyst estimates, reported here as data. They are not Ticker Nerd forecasts, and they are frequently wrong.

Data provided by Twelve Data

What Wall Street says12 analysts
3 Buy7 Hold2 Sell
Low $23Median $36High $70

The green dot is the last close — the median target sits +25.3% from it.

Recent analyst actionsNewest first

Of the 20 most recent actions, 1 moved their price target up and 7 moved it down.

DateFirmActionRatingTarget
28 Sept 2026DA DavidsonDowngradeUnderperform$30 → $23
5 Aug 2026Cantor FitzgeraldReiteratesNeutral$36
5 Aug 2026Cantor FitzgeraldReiteratesNeutral—
5 Aug 2026Piper SandlerMaintainsNeutral$37 → $35
5 Aug 2026Piper SandlerMaintainsNeutral—
21 July 2026Morgan StanleyDowngradeEqual-Weight$50 → $33
21 July 2026Morgan StanleyDowngradeEqual-Weight—
12 May 2026B of A SecuritiesReinstatesUnderperform$26
7 May 2026CitigroupMaintainsBuy—
7 May 2026CitigroupMaintainsBuy$60 → $53
7 May 2026Truist SecuritiesMaintainsHold$50 → $32
7 May 2026Truist SecuritiesMaintainsHold—
6 May 2026DA DavidsonMaintainsNeutral$45 → $35
6 May 2026DA DavidsonMaintainsNeutral—
6 May 2026Piper SandlerMaintainsNeutral$35 → $37
6 May 2026Piper SandlerMaintainsNeutral—
6 May 2026RosenblattMaintainsBuy—
6 May 2026RosenblattMaintainsBuy$46 → $45
30 Apr 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainsOverweight—
28 Apr 2026CitizensReiteratesMarket Outperform—

Price targets and ratings are third-party analyst estimates, reported here as data. They are not Ticker Nerd forecasts, and they are frequently wrong.

Market Radar

This page is one stock. Monday covers all of them.

Computed off the Friday close and sent before the US open.

Market Radar reports the week’s largest rank changes across roughly 4,600 US stocks, the factor behind each one, and where the market went. BL appears on the weeks it earns a place.

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Performance

BL vs the S&P 500

Both lines are total return — dividends reinvested — so the comparison is honest on both sides.

Over the twelve months to 7 Oct 2026, BlackLine, Inc. returned −44.0% against +17.7% for the S&P 500, dividends included.

BL vs S&P 500, last 12 monthsTotal return, rebased to 100
406080100120Jan 26Apr 26Jul 26Oct 26BLS&P 500

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Data provided by Twelve Data

Estimates

BL analyst estimate revisions

Not the forecast itself — the direction analysts are revising it. Revision direction is one of the model's factor families.

Which way the estimates are movingNext fiscal year
EPS revision, 90 days
+0.6%
Analysts raising
6
Analysts cutting
3
Fundamentals

BlackLine, Inc. (BL) financial data

A margin means little on its own. Each bar marks where the figure sits across the whole US universe we score.

Valuation
Trailing P/E
49.9×

Cheaper than 15% of US stocks

Price / sales
2.3×

Cheaper than 50% of US stocks

Price / book
5.3×

Cheaper than 20% of US stocks

EV / EBITDA
28.3×

Cheaper than 10% of US stocks

Growth & margins
Revenue growth (YoY)
9.2%

Higher than 50% of US stocks

Earnings growth (YoY)
98.8%

Higher than 83% of US stocks

Gross margin
76.0%

Higher than 88% of US stocks

Operating margin
6.4%

Higher than 58% of US stocks

Net margin
4.7%

Higher than 59% of US stocks

Returns & dividend
Return on equity
7.0%

Higher than 57% of US stocks

Return on assets
1.6%

Higher than 56% of US stocks

Dividend yield
0.0%

Higher than 1% of US dividend payers

Bars mark the percentile across the ~4,600 US stocks Ticker Nerd covers, among those reporting the figure.

Key statistics

BlackLine, Inc. (BL) statistics: revenue, profit & scale

The headline figures, each with its date. Every row carries its own link — cite it straight from here.

  • BlackLine, Inc. has a market value of $1.6B and an enterprise value of $1.8B.

  • Revenue in the twelve months to 30 June 2026: $732.4M. The latest quarter grew 9.2% year on year.

  • Net income over the same four quarters: $27.8M, a 3.8% net margin.

  • Diluted earnings per share, trailing twelve months: $0.57.

  • Free cash flow in the twelve months to 30 June 2026: $149.1M, after $27.5M of capital spending.

  • BlackLine, Inc. spent $248.2M on share buybacks in the twelve months to 30 June 2026.

  • Shares outstanding: 58.4M.

  • Trailing P/E: 49.9×; forward P/E: 10.3× — the forward figure prices analyst consensus estimates, not reported earnings.

  • Forward dividend yield: 0.00%, paying out 0% of earnings.

  • BlackLine, Inc. employs 1,850 people — $396K of revenue per employee.

Statement figures: company filings via Twelve Data, four quarters to 30 June 2026 · market figures as at 7 Oct 2026

Data provided by Twelve Data

Peers

BL vs competitors

The nearest names by industry and size, scored by the same model — like for like.

Its peer group, ranked by the same modelSoftware - Application
CompanyMarket capTKN rank
BLBlackLine, Inc.$1.6B
85
WLTHWealthfront Corp.$1.6B
15
EVCMEverCommerce, Inc.$1.6B
72
ALKTAlkami Technology, Inc.$1.5B
55
AMPLAmplitude, Inc.$1.8B
80
KAROKarooooo Ltd.$1.9B
74
VERXVertex, Inc.$2.0B
72

Look up any of the roughly 4,600 stocks we score.

The rank is the raw material. Whether the rules would actually own BlackLine, Inc. — and when they’d sell — is the membership. See the Ticker Nerd 20 →

News

Latest BL news & analysis

BlackLine Deepens Industry Investment to Accelerate Financial Operations Transformation

GlobeNewsWire · 6 Oct 2026positive

BlackLine announced an expanded program pairing dedicated Industry Principals from Citi, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, and the US Armed Forces with preconfigured workflows and purpose-built technology. The program is intended to provide industry-specific insights and rapid time-to-value.

Why it matters — The expanded industry-focused program highlights BlackLine’s approach to tailoring financial operations transformation offerings to different sectors.

BlackLine Acquires NetNow, Expanding Invoice-to-Cash with Intelligent Customer Onboarding and Credit Risk Management

GlobeNewsWire · 21 Sept 2026positive

BlackLine announced the acquisition of NetNow, which adds intelligent customer onboarding and credit risk management capabilities to its Agentic Financial Operations Platform. The deal brings upstream credit functions that more closely connect customer risk decisions with receivables, working capital, and cash flow.

Why it matters — The acquisition expands BlackLine's invoice-to-cash capabilities into upstream credit risk management, strengthening its agentic financial platform's coverage of the broader order-to-cash cycle.

BlackLine, Inc. (BL) Presents at Citi's 2026 Global TMT Conference Transcript

Seeking Alpha · 9 Sept 2026neutral

BlackLine, Inc. presented at Citi's 2026 Global TMT Conference, with a transcript of the presentation now available. The item documents the company's participation in the investor conference.

Why it matters — BL watchers would care because the conference presentation offers insight into how the company is communicating its business to investors.

BlackLine Expands Support for Complex Financial Workflows with PCI DSS Compliance Validation

GlobeNewsWire · 1 Sept 2026positive

BlackLine announced it has achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance validation for its PCI Detokenization Service, enabling customers to apply its high-volume transaction matching and reconciliation capabilities to workflows involving sensitive payment card information.

Why it matters — The PCI DSS validation expands BlackLine's ability to serve complex financial workflows involving payment card data, broadening its addressable use cases for the Office of the CFO.

EGHT or BL: Which Is the Better Value Stock Right Now?

Zacks Investment Research · 28 Aug 2026neutral

Zacks Investment Research published an article comparing 8x8 (EGHT) and BlackLine (BL) as potential value stocks in the Internet-Software sector, asking which of the two is the better option for investors seeking undervalued companies.

Why it matters — BL watchers will care because the piece positions BlackLine against a peer in a value-stock comparison, offering perspective on how it is viewed by analysts.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about BL stock

What is the BL stock price forecast for 2026-2027?

The 12 Wall Street analysts covering BlackLine, Inc. have a median 12-month price target of $36, with estimates ranging from $23 to $70. These are third-party analyst estimates, not Ticker Nerd forecasts, and they are frequently wrong.

Is BL stock a buy right now?

Of the 12 analysts covering BlackLine, Inc., 3 rate it a Buy, 7 a Hold and 2 a Sell. Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model ranks BlackLine, Inc. 85 out of 100 across roughly 4,600 US stocks as at 6 Oct 2026. None of this is personal advice — it does not consider your circumstances.

How does Ticker Nerd's model rank BL?

As at 6 Oct 2026, BlackLine, Inc. ranks 85 out of 100 on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model — a percentile across roughly 4,600 US stocks, built from its factor families. Its strongest factor family is Issuance (99 of 100).

Will BL stock go up?

No one can know that. What the data says: the median 12-month target from 12 analysts implies +25.3% from the last close, and Ticker Nerd's factor model ranks BlackLine, Inc. 85 out of 100 as at 6 Oct 2026. Analyst targets are third-party estimates and frequently wrong; none of this is personal advice.

What is the BL stock forecast for 2030?

No analyst covering BlackLine, Inc. publishes a 2030 price target — Wall Street targets run 12 to 18 months out. Sites quoting a 2030 price for BL are extrapolating price history, which says nothing about the business. The furthest attributed numbers are the current analyst targets: $23 to $70 over the next 12 months.

How has BL stock performed over the past year?

BlackLine, Inc. returned -44.0% over the 12 months to 7 Oct 2026, with dividends reinvested. Past performance does not indicate future returns.

What does BlackLine, Inc. do?

BlackLine, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that provides finance and accounting automation solutions for organizations of all sizes.

What is the latest news on BL?

The most recent item we track (GlobeNewsWire, 6 Oct 2026): "BlackLine Deepens Industry Investment to Accelerate Financial Operations Transformation". BlackLine announced an expanded program pairing dedicated Industry Principals from Citi, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, and the US Armed Forces with preconfigured workflows and purpose-built technology. The program is intended to provide industry-specific insights and rapid time-to-value.

Company

About BlackLine, Inc.

BlackLine, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that provides finance and accounting automation solutions for organizations of all sizes. BlackLine’s platform is designed to streamline critical office-of-the-CFO workflows, including financial close, account reconciliations, transaction matching, journal entries, variance analysis, intercompany accounting, and invoice-to-cash processes. Its software helps finance teams replace manual spreadsheet-based tasks with standardized, auditable workflows that improve control, visibility, and operational efficiency. BlackLine serves customers across a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, technology, healthcare, and other enterprise sectors. The company focuses on helping businesses modernize accounting operations through software-as-a-service tools that support faster close cycles, better process coordination, and more consistent financial reporting. Headquartered in Woodland Hills, California, BlackLine is recognized as a provider of specialized cloud software for corporate finance operations.

CEO Mr. Owen M. Ryan CPA · 1,850 employees · United States · https://www.blackline.com