Stock · ADBE · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1986 · Revenue 12 mo. $26B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Adobe Inc. operates as a technology company worldwide.
Adobe Inc. operates as a technology company worldwide. The Digital Media segment offers products and services that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to create, publish, and promote content. This segment serves photographers, video editors, graphic and experience designers, game developers, content creators, students, marketers, business owners, knowledge workers, and consumers. The Digital Experience segment provides an integrated platform; and products, services, and solutions that enable brands and businesses to create, manage, execute, measure, monetize, and optimize customer experiences from analytics to commerce. This segment serves marketers, advertisers, agencies, publishers, merchandisers, merchants, web analysts, data scientists, developers, and executives across the C-suite. The Publishing and Advertising segment offers e-learning, technical document publishing, web conferencing, document and forms platform, web application development, printing, and Adobe Advertising solutions. It also provides consulting, training, customer management, technical support, and learning services. The company offers its solutions to enterprise customers, and businesses and consumers; and licenses its products to end-user customers through app stores and website at adobe.com. It markets and distributes its products through distributors, retailers, software developers, mobile app stores, systems integrators, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and original equipment and hardware manufacturers. The company also provides an online visibility management and content marketing software-as-a-service platform. The company has a strategic alliance with HUMAIN for the development of generative AI models and AI-powered applications. The company was formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated and changed its name to Adobe Inc. in October 2018. Adobe Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Summary
61.3 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
Required FCF growth per year
no growth
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 8.7×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 16.6× to 30.9×, median 23.3×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
6 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 61.34% | 14.60% | Rank 93 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 398.44% | 29.77% | Rank 96 |
| EBIT margin | 36.63% | 17.40% | Rank 89 |
| FCF margin | 41.45% | 18.54% | Rank 93 |
| Gross margin | 89.27% | 48.47% | Rank 99 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 10.53% | 12.70% | Rank 42 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 18.25% | 9.54% | Rank 69 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 9.01% | 14.07% | Rank 30 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 0.75% | 2.87% | Rank 17 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 6.98% | 2.64% | Rank 89 |
| FCF yield | 10.49% | 3.06% | Rank 95 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 3.95 | 5.18 | Rank 63 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 10.79 | 26.24 | Rank 89 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −36.50% | −0.59% | Rank 11 |
| Share price, 6 months | −4.95% | −4.46% | Rank 49 |
| Share price, 3 months | −4.64% | −5.84% | Rank 52 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −33.07% | −33.23% | Rank 50 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −5.74% | 1.65% | Rank 86 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −5.11% | −0.17% | Rank 93 |
| Dividend streak in years | 0 | 8 | Rank 18 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 0.48% | −1.57% | Rank 64 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 39.41% | 53.98% | Rank 30 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 0.01 | −0.20 | Rank 45 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.57 | 0.33 | Rank 29 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 41.43% | 50.37% | Rank 74 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5.9 | 25.5% | 2.0 | 504M | $890.8M |
| 2017 | 7.3 | 29.7% | 2.7 | 501M | −$424.7M |
| 2018 | 9.0 | 31.5% | 3.8 | 498M | $2.5B |
| 2019 | 11.2 | 29.3% | 4.1 | 492M | $1.5B |
| 2020 | 12.9 | 32.9% | 5.3 | 485M | $230.0M |
| 2021 | 15.8 | 36.8% | 6.9 | 481M | $829.0M |
| 2022 | 17.6 | 34.6% | 7.4 | 471M | $397.0M |
| 2023 | 19.4 | 34.3% | 6.9 | 459M | −$3.1B |
| 2024 | 21.5 | 31.4% | 7.9 | 450M | −$1.6B |
| 2025 | 23.8 | 36.6% | 9.9 | 427M | $1.2B |
5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Adobe Inc. mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Adobe Inc. is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
5 of 7 rules met
8 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Adobe Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 14.3 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | 8.8 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 61.3% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | 39.4% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.57 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | – | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| ADBE | Adobe Inc.this page | |
| SNOW | Snowflake Inc. | locked |
| INTU | Intuit Inc | High7.3 |
| CDNS | Cadence Design Systems Inc | Low4.5 |
| NOW | ServiceNow Inc | locked |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing Inc | locked |
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