Cognyte Software

CGNT

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

Price

$8.76

-0.13 (-1.46%)

Market Cap

$645.7M

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+9.5% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 66.6M (2022) → 72.9M (2026)

Cognyte Software Ltd. provides an investigative analytics software to governments and enterprises worldwide. Its Actionable Intelligence for a Safer World, an open software designed to help governments and enterprises accelerate and enhance the effectiveness of investigations. The company also offers network intelligence analytics, open source and threat intelligence analytics, and operational intelligence analytics solutions. Its solutions are designed to support various use cases and support a

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+12.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+401.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$122M/ year

↑ Rising (+13% vs prior year)

30.6% of revenue

2.0x the sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

18.7%ownership

↑ Rising

Insiders increasing their stake — aligned with shareholders

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$117M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Heavy R&D investment

Cognyte Software is putting 31% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 2.0x the sector average. And they're generating enough cash to self-fund it.

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Quality

Gross Margin

74.1%

Premium pricing power — 74.1% gross margin

Operating Margin

6.2%

Modest — 6.2% 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

+13.1%

Fast-growing sales (13.1% YoY)

EPS YoY

N/A

Data not available

EPS Consistency

4/8 quarters

Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

N/A

Data not available

FCF Margin

12.0%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (12.0%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.03

Conservative — low debt load (0.03)

Interest Cover

72.41x

Comfortably covers interest (72.4x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/M

Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful

P/E vs Forward

N/A

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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