** U.S.-listed shares of I.T. services firm Elastic N.V.
ESTC.N up 5.8% at $65.50 premarket
** Co reports 35% increase in Q4 revenue to $239.4 mln,
driven by demand for its cloud services; Analysts were expecting
a figure of ~$230.2 mln urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nBw7c0Ll9a
** Co's adjusted loss per share of $0.16 was smaller than
estimates of a $0.22 per share loss, per Refinitiv data
** Co forecasts Q1 net loss per share between $0.16 and
$0.20 vs. analysts' estimates of a loss of $0.20 per share
** Jefferies raises price target on stock to $65 from $60
after upbeat results; Stock has a median PT of $101
** Shares of peer Pure Storage Inc PSTG.N up 11% after its
Q1 results also beat estimates urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2XP24G
** Up to Wednesday's close, stock had nearly halved its
market value this year
(Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru)
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