Comparing Amdocs (DOX) and Its Competitors

Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) is one of 56 publicly-traded companies in the “IT Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Amdocs to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Amdocs and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Amdocs	$4.53 billion	$564.70 million	12.77
Amdocs Competitors	$5.74 billion	$429.69 million	91.17

Amdocs’ peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Amdocs. Amdocs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Dividends

Amdocs pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Amdocs pays out 44.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “IT Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.6% and pay out 31.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Amdocs has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.

Profitability

This table compares Amdocs and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Amdocs	12.47%	20.19%	11.23%
Amdocs Competitors	-128.33%	-7.64%	3.82%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

92.0% of Amdocs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 15.4% of Amdocs shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Amdocs and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Amdocs	0	2	3	0	2.60
Amdocs Competitors	550	2933	5714	231	2.60

Amdocs currently has a consensus price target of $92.33, suggesting a potential upside of 39.90%. As a group, “IT Services” companies have a potential upside of 49.96%. Given Amdocs’ peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amdocs has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

Amdocs has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amdocs’ peers have a beta of -7.73, suggesting that their average stock price is 873% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Amdocs beats its peers on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

About Amdocs

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. It also offers AI-powered, cloud-native, and home operating systems; data intelligence solutions and applications; end-to-end application development and maintenance services; and ongoing maintenance services. In addition, the company provides a line of services designed for various stages of a service provider’s lifecycle includes consulting, delivery, quality engineering, operations, systems integration, network services, experience-driven services, data, cloud, and content services; managed services comprising application development, modernization and maintenance, IT and infrastructure services, testing and professional services that are designed to assist customers in the selection, implementation, operation, management, and maintenance of IT systems. It serves to the communications, entertainment, and media industry service providers, as well as mobile virtual network operators. Amdocs Limited was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.