Zacks Research Issues Negative Forecast for Amdocs Earnings

Amdocs Limited (NASDAQ:DOX) – Zacks Research cut their Q3 2025 earnings per share estimates for Amdocs in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, October 16th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now anticipates that the technology company will post earnings per share of $1.59 for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $1.61. The consensus estimate for Amdocs’ current full-year earnings is $5.67 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Amdocs’ Q4 2025 earnings at $1.58 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $6.24 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.68 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $1.73 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $1.79 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $6.86 EPS.

Other equities research analysts also recently issued research reports about the company. Stifel Nicolaus started coverage on Amdocs in a report on Wednesday, October 2nd. They set a “buy” rating and a $100.00 target price for the company. StockNews.com upgraded Amdocs from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $102.00.

Amdocs Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ DOX opened at $90.99 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 1.24 and a current 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 has a market cap 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 business has a 50-day simple moving average of $86.42 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $83.58.

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

Amdocs Dividend Announcement

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

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Amdocs

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of DOX. Pzena Investment Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Amdocs by 33.2% in the 2nd quarter. Pzena Investment Management LLC now owns 5,667,603 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $447,287,000 after purchasing an additional 1,412,826 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Amdocs by 39.5% in the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 2,033,536 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $183,771,000 after buying an additional 576,168 shares during the period. Brandes Investment Partners LP raised its holdings in shares of Amdocs by 31.1% in the 2nd quarter. Brandes Investment Partners LP now owns 2,260,811 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $178,335,000 after buying an additional 536,359 shares during the period. Pacer Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Amdocs by 36.2% in the 2nd quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 1,675,784 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $132,253,000 after buying an additional 444,966 shares during the period. Finally, Acadian Asset Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Amdocs by 22.7% in the 1st quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 1,395,894 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $126,119,000 after buying an additional 258,343 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 92.02% of the company’s stock.

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.