ACI Worldwide
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts strongly back ACI Worldwide, with six out of seven rating it a buy and the remainder rating it a hold. Analysts like ACI Worldwide better than competitor Fair Isaac overall. Analysts haven't adjusted their rating of ACI Worldwide for the past three months.
- Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $129.5 million in revenue this quarter. That would represent a decline of 8.3% from the year-ago quarter.
- Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is earnings of $0.69 per share. Estimates range from $0.57 to $0.78.
What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are strongly supporting the stock, with 80.8% awarding it an outperform rating. Most of the community agrees with the All-Stars, with 82% assigning it a rating of outperform. Fools feel positively about ACI Worldwide, though the message boards have been quiet lately, with only 31 posts in the past 30 days. Despite the majority sentiment in favor of ACI Worldwide, the stock has a middling CAPS rating of three out of five stars.
Management:
The company increased its gross margin by 2.9 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue rose 15.6% while cost of sales rose 5.4% to $33.8 million from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 | Q4 |
Gross Margin | 69.9% | 68.3% | 68.4% | 75.7% |
Operating Margin | 10% | 9.2% | 7.2% | 30.3% |
Net Margin | 9.4% | 8.6% | 1.6% | 19.2% |
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