Zacks Research Has Bearish Forecast for Amdocs Q1 Earnings

Amdocs Limited (NASDAQ:DOX) – Equities researchers at Zacks Research cut their Q1 2025 EPS estimates for shares of 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 of $1.52 per share 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.

Several other analysts have also issued reports on the stock. Stifel Nicolaus started coverage on shares of Amdocs in a research note on Wednesday, October 2nd. They issued a “buy” rating and a $100.00 target price for the company. StockNews.com raised shares of Amdocs from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $102.00.

Amdocs Trading Up 0.1 %

DOX opened at $90.99 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of $10.69 billion, a PE ratio of 20.45, a P/E/G ratio of 1.42 and a beta of 0.74. 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 has a fifty-two week low of $74.41 and a fifty-two week high of $94.04. The company’s 50-day moving average is $86.42 and its 200 day moving average is $83.58.

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

Amdocs Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 25th. Investors of record on Monday, September 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.479 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, September 30th. This represents a $1.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.11%. Amdocs’s payout ratio is 42.92%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Amdocs

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of DOX. Norwood Financial Corp bought a new stake in Amdocs during the first quarter valued at $33,000. Central Pacific Bank Trust Division bought a new stake in shares of Amdocs during the 1st quarter valued at about $53,000. Riverview Trust Co bought a new stake in shares of Amdocs during the 1st quarter valued at about $55,000. GAMMA Investing LLC grew its holdings in shares of Amdocs by 115.1% during the third quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 800 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $70,000 after purchasing an additional 428 shares in the last quarter. Finally, American National Bank bought a new position in shares of Amdocs in the second quarter worth approximately $76,000. 92.02% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Amdocs Company Profile

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.