Services-Business Services, NEC
Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and data decisioning technologies and services that enable businesses to automate, enhance, and connect decisions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Scores and Software. The 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, financial crimes compliance, 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. The Scores segment provides business-to-business scoring solutions and services for consumers 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. Fair Isaac Corporation 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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Discounted Cash Flow Valuation of Fair Isaac Corp
Growth
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g\r | +10% | +11% | +12% | +13% | +14% |
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0% | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
+1% | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
+2% | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
+3% | 14 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
+4% | 17 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Years | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | TV |
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FCF | $472.6M | $561M | $657.5M | $760.6M | $868.2M | $977.8M | $1.086B | $1.19B | $1.286B | $1.37B | $1.439B | $14.39B |
DCF | $487.9M | $497.2M | $500.1M | $496.4M | $486.2M | $469.7M | $447.5M | $420.5M | $389.5M | $355.6M | $3.556B | |
Value | $8.107B |
In the chart Earnings are multiplied by this value.
High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 09-2015 | 09-2016 | 09-2017 | 09-2018 | 09-2019 | 09-2020 | 09-2021 | 09-2022 | 09-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | 10% | 12% | 14% | 14% | 17% | 18% | 30% | 27% | 28% | 30% |
ROA | 11% | 14% | 14% | 17% | 18% | 19% | 32% | 38% | 41% | 40% |
ROE | 20% | 24% | 30% | 54% | 66% | 71% | -350% | -47% | -62% | -65% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +22.31%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is +3.32%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +27.44%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is +5.42%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is -45.12%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is -38.44%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 09-2015 | 09-2016 | 09-2017 | 09-2018 | 09-2019 | 09-2020 | 09-2021 | 09-2022 | 09-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | 5.63 | 3.50 | 2.94 | 3.98 | 3.49 | 2.46 | 3.02 | 3.68 | 4.01 | 4.32 |
Debt Equity | 1.39 | 1.28 | 1.42 | 2.90 | 2.85 | 2.55 | -11.35 | -2.31 | -2.71 | -2.78 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is 4.32.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is 0.04.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at 1.00.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 09-2016 | 09-2018 | 09-2020 | 09-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 8% | 8% | 5.3% | 9.9% | 0.094% |
Net Income | 22% | 25% | 22% | 15% | 1.8% |
Stockholders Equity | - | - | - | - | 2.3% |
FCF | 16% | 19% | 11% | -7.7% | 0.92% |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is +7.95%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.09%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +24.7%.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is +1.84%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is +2.28%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is +19.37%.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.92%.