Open Text (OTEX.TO)
Technology · TSX · Canada
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Open Text trades at C$32.89, which is 118% below the C$71.59 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 53 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 11.1 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Open Text
Open Text Corporation designs, develops, markets, and sells information management software and solutions in North, Central, and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, Japan, Singapore, India, and China. The company offers cloud services and subscriptions, including software as a service offerings, application programming interfaces and data services, and private, public, and off-cloud products, such as hosted services and managed service arrangements; foundational platform of technology services; and packaged business applications, as well as managed services and outsourced B2B integration solutions, including program implementation, operational management, and customer support. It also provides fees earned from the licensing of software products to customers; and consulting and learning services, such as implementation, training, and integration of licensed product offerings into the customer's systems. In addition, the company offers various business clouds, including content, cybersecurity, DevOps, business network, observability and service management, and analytics; and artificial intelligence, software developers API, and other related services. It has strategic partnerships with SAP SE, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, and Salesforce.com Corporation, as well as global systems integrators, including Accenture plc, Capgemini Technology Services SAS, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, and Tata Consultancy Services. The company serves G10K organizations, enterprise companies, public sector agencies, mid-market companies, small and medium-sized businesses, and direct consumers. Open Text Corporation was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.
OTEX.TO passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Common questions
Is Open Text (OTEX.TO) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of C$71.59, OTEX.TO at C$32.89 is 118% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is OTEX.TO's P/E ratio?
OTEX.TO trades at 11.1 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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