CGNTCognyte Software Ltd.
Is the business good?
Earnings fully cash-backed (3.9×). That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is CGNT?
Cognyte Software Ltd. earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.7 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 3.3%
Operating margin · Software - Infrastructure median 5.8% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 3.85×
Cash conversion · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +1.6%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.1% |
| FY2021 | 2.3% |
| FY2022 | −33% |
| FY2023 | −5.8% |
| FY2024 | −1.5% |
| FY2025 | 3.3% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 72%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 3.3%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- −0.16%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.5%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 31%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $400M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $30M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$638K
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #39 of 80 by RyuScore