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AvePoint, the AI Trust Company, announces the AvePoint Trust Platform to govern, secure, and Optimize AI. * The AvePoint Trust Platform makes data AI-ready, governs every agent across its lifecycle, and keeps businesses resilient - independent of any single cloud or AI provider * New AI Governance and Security capabilities give one place to discover AI agents, models, tools, and MCP servers, apply policies, and produce audit-ready evidence * New AI Cost Optimization democratizes AI budgeting and shows where AI spend pays off * New visibility and control over Anthropic Claude, Windows, and server-hosted agents AvePoint (Nasdaq: AVPT; SGX: AVP), the AI Trust Company, today announced the AvePoint Trust Platform, which empowers organizations to govern, secure, and optimize AI. The platform makes data AI-ready, governs every agent across its lifecycle, and keeps the business resilient when AI gets it wrong - independent of any single cloud, model, or AI provider. The launch includes new AI Governance, Security, and Cost Optimization capabilities, broadening observability to Anthropic Claude, Windows, and server-hosted agents, as well as the tools, MCP servers, and the models agents are accessing. AI Will Find Everything Organizations Forgot They Had For decades, most enterprise data has been protected by the fact that nobody was searching for it. AI has ended that. A copilot or agent reads everything it is permitted to read and can act on it thousands of times an hour, without breaking a single rule. According to AvePoint's State of AI 2026 Report, 88.4% of organizations experienced at least one AI agent-related security incident in the past 12 months, including those confident they could prevent unauthorized AI access to data. What AI Trust Means The solution to this challenge is what AvePoint calls AI Trust: the ability to prove that AI runs on governed data, with least-privilege access, under policies enforced at the moment of action, with audit evidence and full recoverability. If any one of these cannot be proven, the AI is not trusted - it is merely running. AI Trust works alongside the security and identity tools enterprises already run to stop intruders. AI Trust governs what trusted people and agents can reach and do and enables rapid recovery when something goes wrong. "Every organization now has access to the same AI capabilities. What truly sets them apart is how far that AI can safely reach, what permissions it actually has, and whether there's a way to reverse course when it makes a wrong call. That's the real test of AI Trust, and it's the foundation for this new agent-driven era," said Dr. Tianyi Jiang (TJ), CEO and Co-Founder, AvePoint. "For 25 years, we've been understanding how enterprise data behaves in the real world, not just in theory. The AvePoint Trust Platform brings that understanding to every agent, model, and partner that touches that data. It operates independently across vendors and technologies, because in today's world, risk doesn't stop at the vendor's edge." Introducing the AvePoint Trust Platform The AvePoint Trust Platform takes enterprises from unmanaged AI to measurable trust across every agent, application, model and AI vendor, and is built on four disciplines: Observe, Protect, Govern, and Optimize. * Observe: See what AI can reach. The platform discovers sanctioned and shadow agents, including those built by citizen developers, and shows which content is overshared, stale or unlabeled before an agent finds it. * Protect: Keep the business recoverable. Backup and recovery for Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SaaS applications such as ServiceNow, and cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud extends to agents themselves. A Copilot Studio agent, including its configuration, logic, prompts, topics, and flows, can be restored to a known-good state. * Govern: Govern every agent across its lifecycle. Each agent is assigned an owner, policy, and data sensitivity context, with business-owner attestation and recertification delivered in Slack, Teams and email, from discovery to retirement. * Optimize: Turn data and AI consumption into value. The platform eliminates unnecessary content, improves prompt effectiveness and brings visibility to token consumption and budgeting so organizations can focus AI resources on the information and initiatives that matter most. Oct 27, 2026 Prev Next 1 of 43,802 "As organizations scale AI, they need the right foundation to innovate with trust and without introducing new risks," said Randy Simmons, Sr. Managing Director, EY AI Workplace Practice. "AvePoint addresses a critical need we are seeing in the large enterprise market, giving organizations more visibility, control and protection as their AI environments grow. We believe that together, EY and AvePoint can help our clients rapidly scale AI with greater trust and confidence." The AvePoint Trust Platform can detect and prevent risk before it happens, roll back what an agent changed, and issue signed charters that define what each agent may do. The four disciplines are built on AvePoint's Governance Graph, which joins global regulatory intelligence, such as the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, with each organization's business context: its owners, policies, information barriers and the purpose of every workspace and agent. The Graph is designed to learn how an organization makes decisions, from owner attestations to the conversations where decisions happen, so each ruling applies to every operation that follows. New AI Governance and Security Capabilities Give One View of Every AI Asset New AI Governance and Security capabilities give security, IT, and compliance teams a single system of record for every AI asset in the enterprise, from discovery through policy enforcement, to audit-ready evidence. These include: * AI estate visibility and governance: AI Inventory, AI Dependency Graph and Shadow AI Detection capabilities discover agents, models, tools, MCP servers and other AI assets, map the relationships among them and to global regulatory frameworks, and identify unsanctioned activity. * Agent monitoring: Enhanced policies identify ownerless agents, monitor agent access and sensitive content, and apply governance directly to the agents acting on behalf of employees. * Continuous data security and classification: Expanded DSPM and Kinetic Classification capabilities give organizations more precision in defining risk, identifying and tagging AI-generated content, and connecting classification and risk insights to automated remediation. New AI Cost Optimization Shows Where AI Spend Pays Off AI Cost Optimization brings AI spend, usage, and adoption data together so IT and Finance teams can more precisely evaluate the return on their AI investments, particularly as Gartner projects AI spend will grow 49.5% in 2026. New capabilities include: * AI budget requests: Replaces budget requests managed through email and spreadsheets with a structured process that gives employees a way to request additional AI budget, and gives managers usage and ROI context to approve, adjust or deny those requests. * AI adoption coaching and nudges: Identifies where utilization is low and delivers targeted guidance that helps employees use licensed AI tools more effectively. AvePoint Adds Anthropic Claude and MCP Server Discovery The AvePoint Trust Platform also now supports Anthropic models and MCP servers, and discovers and inventories agents built with Anthropic's Claude and connected MCP servers, alongside agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Foundry, Google Vertex AI and Salesforce Agentforce.

AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) stock lifted to "strong-buy" by BMO Capital Markets. October 7, 2026 Key points. * BMO Capital Markets upgraded AvePoint to "strong buy." The broader analyst consensus is "Moderate Buy," with an average price target of $16.41. * AvePoint reported quarterly EPS of $0.12, beating estimates of $0.08, while revenue of $124.5 million also exceeded expectations of $121.38 million. * AVPT opened at $14.59, near its 52-week high of $15.48. Institutional investors own 44.49% of the company, while insiders have sold 100,000 shares worth approximately $1.39 million over the past 90 days. * MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by November 1st. AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT - Get Free Report) was upgraded by research analysts at BMO Capital Markets to a "strong-buy" rating in a research report issued on Tuesday, Zacks reports. Several other analysts have also recently issued reports on AVPT. Zacks Research cut shares of AvePoint from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Monday, August 10th. Scotiabank increased their price target on AvePoint from $12.00 to $15.00 and gave the company a "sector outperform" rating in a report on Friday, August 7th. Weiss Ratings upgraded AvePoint from a "hold (c-)" rating to a "hold (c)" rating in a research report on Tuesday, August 11th. TD Cowen raised their price target on AvePoint from $14.00 to $15.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, August 7th. Finally, DA Davidson reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a $18.00 price objective on shares of AvePoint in a research note on Monday, July 6th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have assigned a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $16.41. AvePoint stock performance. AVPT stock opened at $14.59 on Tuesday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $13.40 and a 200 day moving average price of $11.66. AvePoint has a fifty-two week low of $8.84 and a fifty-two week high of $15.48. The firm has a market cap of $3.09 billion, a PE ratio of 45.60 and a beta of 1.17. AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August 6th. The company reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.08 by $0.04. AvePoint had a net margin of 15.33% and a return on equity of 15.97%. The company had revenue of $124.50 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $121.38 million. On average, equities analysts predict that AvePoint will post 0.25 EPS for the current year. Insider activity. In other news, insider Brian Brown sold 60,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $14.20, for a total transaction of $852,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 384,604 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $5,461,376.80. This represents a 13.50% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 100,000 shares of company stock worth $1,387,496 in the last ninety days. 22.66% of the stock is owned by insiders. Hedge funds weigh in on AvePoint. A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of AVPT. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund boosted its position in AvePoint by 620.9% in the 4th quarter. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund now owns 2,140,572 shares of the company's stock valued at $29,733,000 after buying an additional 1,843,641 shares during the period. SG Americas Securities LLC increased its position in shares of AvePoint by 335.2% during the first quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 2,391,696 shares of the company's stock worth $22,745,000 after acquiring an additional 1,842,124 shares during the period. Wellington Management Group LLP increased its position in shares of AvePoint by 106.7% during the second quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 2,776,579 shares of the company's stock worth $31,125,000 after acquiring an additional 1,433,299 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in shares of AvePoint by 185.8% during the first quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 1,253,662 shares of the company's stock valued at $11,922,000 after acquiring an additional 815,074 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp bought a new stake in shares of AvePoint during the second quarter valued at approximately $8,848,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 44.49% of the company's stock. AvePoint company profile. AvePoint, Inc NASDAQ: AVPT provides data-management, governance and protection solutions for organizations using cloud collaboration platforms. Its products are designed to help businesses migrate, manage, protect and optimize data across services such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365 and Salesforce. Discover more Stock research tools The company's offerings include cloud backup and recovery, data migration, records and information management, compliance, security and workspace governance. AvePoint delivers these capabilities through its cloud-based platform and related software, helping organizations manage data throughout its lifecycle while supporting collaboration and regulatory requirements. Founded in 2001, AvePoint serves customers globally across a range of industries, including public-sector organizations, education, healthcare and commercial enterprises. This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to [email protected]. Before you consider AvePoint, you'll want to hear this. MarketBeat keeps track of Wall Street's top-rated and best performing research analysts and the stocks they recommend to their clients on a daily basis. MarketBeat has identified the five stocks that top analysts are quietly whispering to their clients to buy now before the broader market catches on... and AvePoint wasn't on the list. While AvePoint currently has a Moderate Buy rating among analysts, top-rated analysts believe these five stocks are better buys. 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