Zacks Research Brokers Lower Earnings Estimates for Amdocs Limited (NASDAQ:DOX)

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Amdocs Limited (NASDAQ:DOX – Free Report) – Zacks Research cut their Q1 2025 EPS estimates for Amdocs in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, October 16th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now forecasts that the technology company will post earnings per share of $1.52 for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $1.53. The consensus estimate for Amdocs’ current full-year earnings is $5.67 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Amdocs’ Q2 2025 earnings at $1.55 EPS and Q1 2026 earnings at $1.65 EPS.

Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 7th. The technology company reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.60 by $0.02. Amdocs had a net margin of 10.21% and a return on equity of 17.89%. The business had revenue of $1.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.25 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.41 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 1.1% on a year-over-year basis.

A number of other equities research analysts have also recently weighed in on DOX. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Amdocs from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. Stifel Nicolaus began coverage on shares of Amdocs in a research note on Wednesday, October 2nd. They issued a “buy” rating and a $100.00 price objective for the company. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $102.00.

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Amdocs Price Performance

Shares of DOX opened at $89.66 on Thursday. Amdocs has a 1-year low of $74.41 and a 1-year high of $94.04. The stock has a market cap of $10.54 billion, a PE ratio of 20.15, a P/E/G ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 0.74. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $86.12 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $83.52. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a current ratio of 1.24 and a quick ratio of 1.24.

Amdocs Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 25th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 30th will be paid a $0.479 dividend. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.14%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, September 30th. Amdocs’s payout ratio is 42.92%.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Twelve Points Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in Amdocs in the third quarter worth approximately $231,000. Creative Planning lifted its stake in Amdocs by 37.3% in the third quarter. Creative Planning now owns 15,111 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,322,000 after acquiring an additional 4,104 shares during the last quarter. Gateway Investment Advisers LLC lifted its stake in Amdocs by 64.1% in the third quarter. Gateway Investment Advisers LLC now owns 4,779 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $418,000 after acquiring an additional 1,866 shares during the last quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC lifted its stake in Amdocs by 115.1% in the third quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 800 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,000 after acquiring an additional 428 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Handelsbanken Fonder AB lifted its stake in Amdocs by 14.6% in the third quarter. Handelsbanken Fonder AB now owns 47,205 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $4,129,000 after acquiring an additional 6,011 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 92.02% of the company’s stock.

About Amdocs

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Amdocs Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides software and services worldwide. It designs, develops, operates, implements, supports, and markets open and modular cloud portfolio. The company provides CES23, a 5G and cloud-native microservices-based market-leading customer experience suite, that enables service providers to build, deliver, and monetize advanced services; Amdocs Subscription Marketplace, a software-as-a-service-based platform that includes an expansive network of pre-integrated digital services, such as media, gaming, eLearning, sports, and retail to security and business services; the monetization suite for charging, billing, policy, and revenue management; Intelligent networking suite with a set of modular, flexible, and open service lifecycle management capabilities for network automation journeys; amAIz, a telco GenAI framework; Amdocs Digital Brands Suite, a pre-integrated digital business suite; and Amdocs eSIM Cloud for service providers.

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