Nuance Communications (NUAN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Nuance Communications, Inc. provides conversational and cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that understand, analyze, and respond to people - amplifying human intelligence to increase productivity and security. Its Healthcare segment provides clinical speech and clinical language understanding solutions that improve the clinical documentation process, from capturing the complete patient record to improving clinical documentation and quality measures for reimbursement. Its solutions include Dragon Medical One, cloud-based speech solution; computer-assisted physician documentation; diagnostic imaging solutions; Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience, a voice-enabled solution; and clinical documentation improvement and coding. The company's Enterprise segment primarily engages in using speech, natural language understanding, and artificial intelligence to provide automated customer solutions and services for voice, mobile, web, and messaging channels. Its solutions include intelligent engagement solutions; Conversational AI; Engagement AI; and Security AI. Its Other segment provides voicemail transcription services. It serves organizations across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, government, and retail. The company markets and sells its solutions and technologies directly through sales force, as well as through a network of resellers, including system integrators, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, distributors, hardware vendors, telecommunications carriers, and e-commerce Websites worldwide. The company was formerly known as ScanSoft, Inc. and changed its name to Nuance Communications, Inc. in October 2005. Nuance Communications, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. As of March 4, 2022, Nuance Communications, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $55.99 to $55.99
• 50-Day Range: $54.90 to $55.99
• 52-Week Range: $39.90 to $56.00
• Volume: N/A
• Average Volume: 6.14 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $17.88 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: N/A
• Consensus Rating: N/A

Nuance Communications Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Nuance Communications scored higher than 12% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 627th out of 654 stocks in the computer and technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: N/A
• Analyst Rating: N/A

Consensus Rating

There is not enough analysis data for Nuance Communications.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.6 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: Growing

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Nuance Communications are expected to grow in the coming year, from ($0.04) to $0.07 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Nuance Communications is -174.97, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Nuance Communications is -174.97, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Nuance Communications has a P/B Ratio of 11.36. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for NUAN.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Nuance Communications does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Nuance Communications does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Environmental Score: -0.56

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for NUAN.

News and Social Media

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

Search Interest

Only 2 people have searched for NUAN on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -50% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

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

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 0.20% of the stock of Nuance Communications is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

82.99% of the stock of Nuance Communications is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

NUAN Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How were Nuance Communications' earnings last quarter?

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 18th. The software maker reported $0.09 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.09. Nuance Communications's quarterly revenue was up 8.2% compared to the same quarter last year.

Does Nuance Communications have any subsidiaries?

Nuance Communications subsidiaries include these companies: Saykara, VoiceBox Technologies Corporation, mCarbon, TouchCommerce UK Ltd., Notable Solutions Inc., Cognition Technologies Inc., Tweddle Group, and more.

What other stocks do shareholders of Nuance Communications own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Nuance Communications investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Tesla (TSLA), Netflix (NFLX), Intel (INTC) and Micron Technology (MU).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 11/18/2021
• Today: 4/27/2025
• Fiscal Year End: 9/30/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Computer and Technology
• Industry: Prepackaged Software
• Sub-Industry: Application Software
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:NUAN
• CIK: 1002517
• Web: www.nuance.com
• Phone: (781) 565-5000
• Fax: 781-565-5001
• Employees: 6,900
• Year Founded: 1995

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): ($0.32)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $-26,730,000.00
• Net Margins: -7.41%
• Pretax Margin: -4.13%
• Return on Equity: 2.65%
• Return on Assets: 1.16%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.31
• Current Ratio: 0.57
• Quick Ratio: 0.57

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $1.36 billion
• Price / Sales: 13.13
• Cash Flow: $0.59 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 95.56
• Book Value: $4.93 per share
• Price / Book: 11.36

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 319,386,000
• Free Float: 318,747,000
• Market Cap: $17.88 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.10