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Fair Isaac Corporation

United States · Large Cap · listed since 1987 · Revenue 12 mo. $2.4B

Price as of 11/06/2026

StockScorer score
8.2
of 10 9 of 11 points High Match To the score
Price
$704.55
1 Y −67.5%
Market cap
$14.9B
Phase
Growth
revenue growing, core business profitable
Revenue +13.1% a year (3 years)EBIT margin 46.5%Payout 181.6% of operating cash flow

Fair Isaac Corporation provides analytics software in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific.

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Fair Isaac Corporation provides analytics software in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Scores and Software. The Scores segment offers business-to-business scoring solutions and services that give clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as business-to-consumer scoring solutions comprising myFICO.com subscription offerings. Its Software segment provides pre-configured analytic and decision management solution designed for various business needs or processes, such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, and marketing, as well as associated professional services. This segment also offers FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by customers to address a wide range of business use cases. In addition, the company offers analytic and decisioning software comprising FICO Decision Modeler, FICO Blaze Advisor, FICO Xpress Optimization, FICO Analytics Workbench, FICO Data Orchestrator, FICO DMP Streaming, FICO Business Outcome Simulator, and FICO Decision Optimizer; pre-configured solutions consisting of FICO Fraud Solutions, FICO Originations, FICO Customer Communication Service, FICO Strategy Director, and FICO TRIAD Customer Manager; and professional services software, including FICO Implementation Services and FICO Analytic Services. It markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization and indirect channels, as well as online. The company was formerly known as Fair Isaac & Company, Inc. and changed its name to Fair Isaac Corporation in July 1992. Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.

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Summary

Fair Isaac Corporation is around the middle of the Technology sector overall

42.9 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

The price requires 7.8% FCF growth a year, less than achieved over the last 5 and 10 years.

If free cash flow stays at €690.9M (2025), it supports €7.7B. The remaining €5.7B of the market value assume it grows 7.8% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.

Required FCF growth per year

7.8%

no growth afterwards

Market value breakdown€13.4B market value, price as of 11/06/2026

€7.7B without growth
€5.7B priced-in growth
  • 5 yrs achieved 13.4%
  • 10 yrs achieved 17.2%
  • priced in 7.8%

Valuation against its own history

Price to operating cash flow 16.0×, below its usual range.

Middle half of 20 quarters: 27.7× to 60.2×, median 46.0×.

Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.

4 signs support the expectation, none speaks against it.

What supports it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • Expectation below the company's own record priced in 7.8%, achieved at least 13.4%
  • High, rising gross margin from 74.8% to 82.2% (5 years)
  • High return on capital every year ROCE at least 17.4% (10 years)
1 more
  • Low capital needs capex median 1.6% of revenue (10 years)

What speaks against it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

No anomaly in the stored figures.

Since the last quarter

Q1 → Q2 2026

Mostly better than the previous quarter: 5 of 6 changes for the better.

  • Revenue, 12 mo.$2.3B → $2.4B+6.1%better
  • FCF, 12 mo.$892.7M → $996.0M+11.6%better
  • EBIT margin50.4% → 51.7%+1.3 ppbetter
  • FCF margin39.6% → 41.6%+2.0 ppbetter
  • Net debt$3.4B → $5.3B+55.6%worse
  • Shares outstanding23.7M → 22.7M−4.4%better

1 more unchanged: Gross margin

Derivation

How the sector comparison is derived

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.

Profitability76.2above the middleEarns more than the sector: Return on capital (Greenblatt) 984.66%, sector 29.77%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Return on equity−43.08%14.60%Rank 3
Return on capital (Greenblatt)984.66%29.77%Rank 99
EBIT margin46.45%17.40%Rank 96
FCF margin38.67%18.54%Rank 92
Gross margin82.23%48.47%Rank 92
Growth56.1around the middleGrows about as fast as the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Revenue growth, 1 year15.91%12.70%Rank 61
Earnings growth, 3 years per year23.25%9.54%Rank 79
Earnings growth, 5 years per year27.43%14.07%Rank 78
Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings)0.45%2.87%Rank 7
Valuation58.4around the middleValued about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Earnings yield3.77%2.64%Rank 67
FCF yield5.15%3.06%Rank 71
EV/saleslower is better8.985.18Rank 32
EV/EBITlower is better19.3426.24Rank 64
Momentum8.4below the middleShare price doing worse than the sector: Share price, 1 year −67.54%, sector −0.59%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Share price, 1 year−67.54%−0.59%Rank 0
Share price, 6 months−36.95%−4.46%Rank 13
Share price, 3 months−27.21%−5.84%Rank 16
Distance from 52-week high−61.81%−33.23%Rank 5
Quality45.4around the middleQuality about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Accruals (Sloan)lower is better−4.64%1.65%Rank 84
Change in share countlower is better−2.07%−0.17%Rank 77
Dividend streak in years–8Rank 18
Price reaction to results, market-adjusted−18.92%−1.57%Rank 3
Balance sheet & risk13.0below the middleMore risk than the sector: Equity ratio −93.45%, sector 53.98%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Equity ratio−93.45%53.98%Rank 1
Net debt/EBITDAlower is better3.09−0.20Rank 7
Debt to equitylower is betterdoes not count towards the rank−1.740.33
Volatility, 1 yearlower is better63.39%50.37%Rank 32

Ten years in figures

Revenue from $881.4M (2016) to $2.0B (2025), 9.5% a year.

Fiscal years, amounts in USD
YearRevenueEBIT marginFCF, $MSharesNet debt
2016$881.4M19.2%188.332.3M$494.7M
2017$932.2M19.5%205.832.2M$499.2M
2018$1.0B17.0%191.831.2M$673.9M
2019$1.2B21.9%236.430.3M$718.4M
2020$1.3B22.9%342.929.9M$750.2M
2021$1.3B38.4%416.229.3M$1.1B
2022$1.4B39.4%503.426.3M$1.8B
2023$1.5B42.5%464.725.4M$1.8B
2024$1.7B42.7%607.425.1M$2.1B
2025$2.0B46.5%769.924.6M$2.9B
8.2 / 10High MatchStockScorer score9 of 11 points

5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built

Fair Isaac Corporation mainly meets criteria in the Growth category. Result from 18 strategies checked.

This stock · Profitability: 67%This stock · Growth: 100%This stock · Valuation: 100%This stock · Momentum: 0%Median of all stocks · Profitability: 33%Median of all stocks · Growth: 0%Median of all stocks · Valuation: 0%Median of all stocks · Momentum: 0%50%100%ProfitabilityGrowthValuationMomentumThis stockMedian of all stocks

How Fair Isaac Corporation's score is built

Fair Isaac Corporation 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

9 of 11 points

  1. Free cash flow yield above the sector medianmet2 of 2 points
  2. Return on capital (Greenblatt ROC) above the sector medianmet2 of 2 points
  3. Return on equity above the sector mediannot met0 of 1 point
  4. Free cash flow margin above the sector medianmet2 of 2 points
  5. Revenue growth above 15%met2 of 2 points
  6. 3-year earnings growth above 12% p.a.met1 of 1 point
  7. 12-month share price more than 20 percentage points ahead of the marketnot met0 of 1 point
  8. Exclusion: financial and real estate stocksdoes not apply

Detail data

How does Fair Isaac Corporation stock perform across 18 strategies?

Excerpt from 18 strategies checked. The full evaluation is visible after a free sign-up.

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  • PEG Strategy (inspired by Peter Lynch)
  • Altman Z-Score: Stress Test
  • Earnings Quality: Accrual Check (Sloan)
  • Magic Formula: Value + Quality
  • Undervalued Stocks: Multi-Factor Check
  • Acquirer's Multiple: EV/EBIT Deep Value
  • Defensive: Low Volatility
  • Dividend Aristocrats & Continuity
  • Dividend Quality: 4 Factors
  • Levermann Strategy (13 Criteria)
  • Trending Value: Value + Momentum
  • Growth Momentum (CAN SLIM principle)

Fair Isaac Corporation key metrics: P/E, P/B and equity ratio

Selected fundamental metrics for Fair Isaac Corporation.

MetricStockSector
P/E ratio26.535.1
P/B ratio−6.05.5
Return on equity (ROE)−43.1%14.6%
Equity ratio−93.5%54.0%
Debt-to-equity (D/E)−1.740.33
Dividend yield0.0%0.9%

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Frequently asked questions about Fair Isaac Corporation stock

How does Fair Isaac Corporation stock (FICO) score in the StockScorer model?
Fair Isaac Corporation stock reaches a StockScorer score of 8.2 out of 10, which is a high match with the rule-based strategies. 5 out of 7 flagship profile rules are met.
What is Fair Isaac Corporation's P/E ratio?
Fair Isaac Corporation's P/E ratio is 26.5. The Technology sector median is 35.1.
What sector is Fair Isaac Corporation in?
Fair Isaac Corporation is assigned to the Technology sector. Its rank within the sector is 42.9 out of 100: 100 means the stock leads its peer group of large and mid-cap sector stocks in every measured area.

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