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A10 Networks

ATEN
51
Software - Infrastructure · Technology
Price
$35.96
-0.13 (-0.36%)
Market Cap
$2.59B
Winston Score
51
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

8.1% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 80.0M (2021) → 73.6M (2025)

A10 Networks makes software and hardware that helps large organizations manage and protect their internet traffic. Its main products include application delivery controllers, which help websites and apps run faster and handle lots of users at once, and cybersecurity tools that block large-scale attacks called DDoS attacks. Its customers are mostly big companies, governments, and telecom carriers around the world.

A10 makes money by selling its networking appliances and software licenses, plus recurring revenue from maintenance contracts and subscriptions. The company operates globally, with a strong presence in Asia-Pacific alongside North America and Europe, and its roughly $2.3 billion market cap reflects a focused niche player rather than a large enterprise giant. Its technical depth in high-performance networking gives it a foothold with demanding customers like carriers, but the main risk is competition from much larger vendors like Cisco and F5, which have bigger sales forces and broader product portfolios.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+13.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+30.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$69M/ year

Rising (+20% vs prior year)

23.8% of revenue

1.6x the sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

1.9%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$58M cash & investments at current burn rate

Heavy R&D investment

A10 Networks is putting 24% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 1.6x the sector average. With 10+ years of cash runway, they have time to let it pay off.

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Quality

Gross Margin
80.3%
Premium pricing power — 80.3% gross margin
Operating Margin
18.0%
Healthy — 18.0% operating margin
ROCE
3.1%
Weak — 3.1% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+12.1%
Fast-growing sales (12.1% YoY)
EPS YoY
-7.4%
Earnings shrinking (-7.4% YoY)

Slight earnings drop. Typical near a cyclical low.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
157%
Turns 157% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
17.2%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (17.2%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.99
Moderate — manageable debt (0.99)
Interest Cover
37.69x
Comfortably covers interest (37.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
57.1x
Expensive — P/E 57.1

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+26.2
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (57.1 → 30.9)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.66%
Small dividend — 0.66% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+0.0%
Dividend flat

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