📈 Stock Check: 🔐 
$21.27 (+1.58%) as of Aug-15-2025, 4:00 PM ET

🛎 Trigger: Insider Alert!

👉 On Aug 11, JANA Partners Management, LP bought 772,194 shares at $19.60, throwing down $15.1 million 💰.

For context:

• JANA is a hedge fund run by Barry Rosenstein, activist extraordinaire 💼.

• He once made $300 million flipping Whole Foods to Amazon. 🥦 ➡️ 📦

• He hangs with activist heavyweights like Carl Icahn, Dan Loeb, and Bill Ackman.

If he’s in, you better believe he sees something others don’t. 🔍

🏦 Institutional Stampede

• 101.83% of shares are held by institutions (yep, that’s more than 100%… thanks to shorting 🐻📉).

• 351 big funds are in.

• Top holders:

  • Vanguard 🦅 (12.4%)

  • BlackRock 🗿 (10.3%)

  • JANA (8.9%)

  • UBS, Penserra, Macquarie, Mirae, State Street — all buying tickets to this show 🎟.

Institutions seem convinced Rapid7 is worth the headache.

🔍 For Rapid7 (RPD)'s Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here. 

💻 What Rapid7 Does

They’re a cybersecurity platform, protecting companies from bad guys in hoodies 👨💻:

• Insight Agent: monitors assets across cloud + on-prem 🌩️.

• InsightIDR + MDR: threat detection & response 🚨.

• Exposure Command: attack surface visibility 🕵️.

• Vector Command: continuous red-teaming 🪖.

• InsightVM: vulnerability management 🐛🔧.

• Plus: cloud risk (InsightCloudSec), app testing (InsightAppSec), automation & pro services.

Think of it as the Swiss Army Knife of cybersecurity 🛡.

📊 Recent Results

Q2 2025:

• ARR = $841M (+3% YoY)

• Revenue = $214M (+3%)

• GAAP operating income = $3.5M

• Free cash flow = $42M 💵

FY 2024:

• Revenue = $844M (+9%)

• GAAP op income = $35M

• Free cash flow = $154M

CEO Corey Thomas says they’re focused on growth, innovation, and making Rapid7 the go-to “security operations platform of choice.” 🏆

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into Rapid7 (RPD)'s financials here.

🧩 Picture is Clear

✅ Positives

1. Growth: slow but steady (ARR +3%).

2. Profitable & free cash flow positive 💸.

3. Valuation is attractive (Forward P/E ~10, PEG 0.38).

4. JANA & institutions betting big 🎲.

5. Stock rebounded sharply after JANA buy — momentum brewing.

❌ Risks

1. Growth rate is underwhelming (3% isn’t exactly fireworks 🎆).

2. Debt mountain: nearly $1B debt with debt/equity over 1,000% 😬.

3. Cybersecurity competition is brutal: ZS, PANW, OKTA, CRWD & co. are already crushing it.

4. Stock underperformed even in a bull market 🐂. What happens in a downturn?

💡💡💡 Curious about another deep oil exploration play?
Check our takes on UnitedHealth Group or even Oscar Health.

🎭 The Punchline

Buying RPD is basically betting that Barry Rosenstein + JANA are right. Institutions seem to agree. But growth may have to kick into gear for the stock to truly rerate.

⚖️ Speculative value play: if you’re interested, start small, add if growth finally accelerates.

⚠️ Disclaimer

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We’re not financial advisors. We’re FUNancial advisors. We do not provide investment advice.
Invest at your own risk, always DYOR, hold the FOMO, and don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose.

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