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Same house, smaller room
ServiceNow just got the classic Wall Street treatment: fewer fireworks, same invite. Deutsche Bank cut its price target on the software giant to $135 from $180, but left the Buy rating intact, which is analyst-speak for “we still like the movie, we just think the ending got a little less ambitious.”
Why this matters
ServiceNow has been getting whacked by a bunch of target cuts lately, and that kind of drip-drip-drip matters because it can change the vibe around a stock even when nobody is outright bailing. If you’re a shareholder, the message is messy but pretty clear: the company still has believers, but the bar for upside is higher than it was a few weeks ago.
The numbers behind the mood swing
At around $98 a share, the new target still implies upside, just not the kind that makes traders spit out their coffee. The bigger picture is that ServiceNow is still dealing with the usual tech-stock cocktail: lofty valuation, headline-driven volatility, and investors rethinking what growth deserves in a rate-sensitive market.
Big picture
This isn’t a broken-story headline. It’s more like the market taking a perfectly good race car into the shop for a tune-up and then arguing about the paint job. The business still has fans; the stock just doesn’t have the same margin for optimism.