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Latest Valuation: Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FICO)

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Fair Isaac Corporation is part of the technology sector and is part of the application software industry. The company CEO is William J. Lansing. Fair Isaac Corp is a provider of analytic, software and data management products and services that enables businesses to automate, improve and connect decisions. It operates in three segments: applications, scores, and tools.

Previous Intraday Trading Performance:

The FICO stock showed a previous change of 3.42% with an open at 291.35 and a close of 297.39. It reached an intraday high of 297.42 and a low of 288.53.

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Liquidity:

The stock has a market cap of $8.6b with 29.0m shares outstanding, of which the float is 27.3m shares. Trading volume reached 338,994 shares compared to its average volume of 230,621 shares. Based on the current average volume and close price, the trading liquidity is good.

Historical Trading Performance:

Over the last five trading days, Fair Isaac Corporation shares returned 0.51% and in the past 30 trading days it returned 4.81%. Over three months, it changed 19.89%. In one year it has changed 56.69% and within that year its 52-week high was 302.88 and its 52-week low was 170.26. FICO stock is 74.67% above its 52 Week Low.

Our calculations show a 200 day moving average of 232.73 and a 50 day moving average of 281.68. Currently FICO stock is trading 27.78% above its 200 day moving average.

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Earnings:

The last annual fiscal EPS for the company was reported at 4.72 that ended on 30th of September 2018, which according to the previous close, that is a PE of 63.01. Based on 1 analyst estimate, the estimated EPS for the next quarter is 0.94. The TTM EPS is 4.40, which comes to a TTM PE of 67.59. Historically, the PE high was 63.01 and the PE low was 19.60. If the stock reached its PE low, that would represent a price of 86.24, which is a decrease of -71.00%.

Below was the last reported quarterly diluted earnings per share:

1stQtr of 2019 (Reported on 04/30/2019): 1.10
4thQtr of 2018 (Reported on 01/30/2019): 1.32
3rdQtr of 2018 (Reported on 11/01/2018): 1.64
2ndQtr of 2018 (Reported on 07/26/2018): 1.04
1stQtr of 2018 (Reported on 04/26/2018): 1.00

Base on our calculations, the intrinsic value per share is 137.44, which means it may be overvalued by -116.38%.

Indicators to Watch:

Short-interest was 546,218, which was 1.88% of shares outstanding. The short-interest ratio or days-to-cover ratio was 2.72. This stock has some short interest, but it may be normal and no cause for concern if long the position.

The current calculated beta is 1.26.

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Fundamental Indicators:

Based on last reported financials, the company’s return on equity is 49.10%, return on assets is 11.59%, profit margin is 14.47%, price-to-sales is 7.72 and price-to-book is 33.69.

Company Scores:

All scores are out of six:
 0  :Valuation Score
 4  :Past Performance Score
 2  :Financial Strength Score
 3  :Future Growth Score
 0  :Dividend Score
 2  :Overall Score

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