Stifel Maintains Buy Rating for Autodesk: Here's What You Need To Know

Stifel has decided to maintain its Buy rating of Autodesk ADSK and lower its price target from $245.00 to $240.00.

Shares of Autodesk are trading down 2.17% over the last 24 hours, at $200.39 per share.

A move to $240.00 would account for a 19.77% increase from the current share price.

About Autodesk

Founded in 1982, Autodesk is an application software company that serves industries in architecture, engineering, and construction; product design and manufacturing; and media and entertainment. Autodesk software enables design, modeling, and rendering needs of these industries. The company has over 4 million paid subscribers across 180 countries.

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