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ACI Worldwide (ACIW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

$51.94
-0.93 (-1.76%)
(As of 10/17/2024 ET)

About ACI Worldwide Stock (NASDAQ:ACIW)

Key Stats

Today's Range
$51.84
$52.91
50-Day Range
$45.63
$52.87
52-Week Range
$19.56
$53.29
Volume
536,604 shs
Average Volume
653,746 shs
Market Capitalization
$5.48 billion
P/E Ratio
30.73
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$48.75
Consensus Rating
Moderate Buy

Company Overview

ACI Worldwide, Inc., a software company, develops, markets, installs, and supports a range of software products and solutions for facilitating digital payments in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Banks, Merchants, and Billers. The company offers ACI Acquiring, a solution to process credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions, deliver digital innovation, and fraud prevention; ACI Issuing, a digital payment issuing solution for new payment offering; and ACI Enterprise Payments Platform that provides payment processing and orchestration capabilities for digital payments. It also provides ACI Low Value Real-Time Payments, a platform for processing real-time payments; and ACI High Value Real-Time Payments, a payments engine that offers multi-bank, multi-currency, 24x7 payment processing, and SWIFT messaging. In addition, the company offers ACI Payments Orchestration Platform for optimizing payments; omni-channel payment platform; ACI Fraud Management, a real-time approach to fraud management; and ACI Speedpay, an integrated suite of digital billing, payment, disbursement, and communication services. The company offers electronic bill presentment and payment services to consumer finance, insurance, healthcare, higher education, utility, government, telecommunications, and mortgage sectors; implementation services, include product installations and configurations, and custom software modifications; and business and technical consultancy, on-site support, product education, and testing services, as well as distributes or acts as a sales agent for software developed by third parties. It markets its products under the ACI Worldwide brand. The company was formerly known as Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and changed its name to ACI Worldwide, Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 1975 and is based in Elkhorn, Nebraska.

ACI Worldwide Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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52nd Percentile Overall Score

ACIW MarketRank™: 

ACI Worldwide scored higher than 52% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 420th out of 659 stocks in the computer and technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    ACI Worldwide has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.83, and is based on 5 buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and no sell ratings.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    ACI Worldwide has only been the subject of 3 research reports in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about ACI Worldwide's stock forecast and price target.
  • Earnings Growth

    Earnings for ACI Worldwide are expected to grow by 10.71% in the coming year, from $1.96 to $2.17 per share.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of ACI Worldwide is 30.73, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 133.34.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of ACI Worldwide is 30.73, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 263.11.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    ACI Worldwide has a P/B Ratio of 4.26. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Read more about ACI Worldwide's valuation and earnings.
  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    2.24% of the float of ACI Worldwide has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    ACI Worldwide has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in ACI Worldwide has recently decreased by 1.70%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving.
  • Dividend Yield

    ACI Worldwide does not currently pay a dividend.

  • Dividend Growth

    ACI Worldwide does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    2.24% of the float of ACI Worldwide has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    ACI Worldwide has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in ACI Worldwide has recently decreased by 1.70%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving.
  • News Sentiment

    ACI Worldwide has a news sentiment score of 0.81. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.58 average news sentiment score of Computer and Technology companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 13 news articles for ACI Worldwide this week, compared to 4 articles on an average week.
  • MarketBeat Follows

    5 people have added ACI Worldwide to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 25% compared to the previous 30 days.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, ACI Worldwide insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    Only 1.00% of the stock of ACI Worldwide is held by insiders.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    94.74% of the stock of ACI Worldwide is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

  • Read more about ACI Worldwide's insider trading history.
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ACIW Stock News Headlines

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ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) Price Target Raised to $57.00 at DA Davidson
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ACIW Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

ACI Worldwide's stock was trading at $30.60 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, ACIW stock has increased by 69.7% and is now trading at $51.94.
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ACI Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACIW) announced its earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The technology company reported $0.39 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.15 by $0.24. The technology company earned $373.48 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $349.95 million. ACI Worldwide had a net margin of 12.01% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.18%.

ACI Worldwide's stock split on Friday, July 11th 2014. The 3-1 split was announced on Thursday, April 10th 2014. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Thursday, July 10th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 300 shares after the split.

ACI Worldwide's board approved a stock buyback program on Thursday, June 13th 2024, which permits the company to repurchase $400,000,000 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This means that the company could purchase up to 8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

ACI Worldwide subsidiaries include Speedpay, Walletron, RevChip, TransSend, Visual WEB Solutions, PAY.ON AG, Retail Decisions, and others.

ACI Worldwide's top institutional investors include Reinhart Partners LLC. (1.34%), Swedbank AB (0.33%), Kopion Asset Management LLC (0.12%) and Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Scott W Behrens, Thomas W Warsop III, Alessandro Silva, Deborah L Guerra and Ram Kumar Puppala.
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Shares of ACIW stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that ACI Worldwide investors own include American Water Works (AWK), Waste Connections (WCN), Humana (HUM), The RMR Group (RMR), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), AUO (AUOTY) and Voyager Therapeutics (VYGR).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
8/01/2024
Today
10/17/2024
Next Earnings (Estimated)
11/07/2024
Fiscal Year End
12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Industry
Prepackaged software
Sub-Industry
Application Software
Current Symbol
NASDAQ:ACIW
CUSIP
00449810
Employees
3,212
Year Founded
1975

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Target
$48.75
High Stock Price Target
$60.00
Low Stock Price Target
$38.00
Potential Upside/Downside
-6.1%
Consensus Rating
Moderate Buy
Rating Score (0-4)
2.83
Research Coverage
6 Analysts

Profitability

Net Income
$121.51 million
Pretax Margin
15.28%

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
$1.53 billion
Cash Flow
$3.09 per share
Book Value
$12.18 per share

Miscellaneous

Free Float
103,610,000
Market Cap
$5.48 billion
Optionable
Optionable
Beta
1.19

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This page (NASDAQ:ACIW) was last updated on 10/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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