NTCTNetScout Systems, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in, cheap against its own history, and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for a decline (~−2% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 1% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 24.9 vs a 50.3 median over 26 quarters (−50% vs median).
Sector median 30.5× across 203 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What NTCT's price assumes
NetScout Systems, Inc. trades at 24.9× earnings against 34.2× for the median Software - Infrastructure name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Software - Infrastructure median 34.2 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 3.37
Price / sales · today's price, fiscal year to Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 9.0%
Free cash flow yield · Software - Infrastructure median 5.3%
- Growth the price implies
- −2.2%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −2.2% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +24% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, fiscal year to Mar 31, 2026
- 1.76
- EV / EBITtoday's price, fiscal year to Mar 31, 2026
- 21.1
- EV / salestoday's price, fiscal year to Mar 31, 2026
- 2.69
- Technology median P/E459 names
- 37.7
- Software - Infrastructure median P/E107 names
- 34.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $261M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.90B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.2%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +24%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 24.9× today against a 50.3× median |
| 52-week range | $25.47 – $43.67 |
| Today | $40.66 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #27 of 80 by RyuScore