Adobe Inc., (NASDAQ: ADBE) together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified software company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. The Digital Media segment offers products, services, and solutions that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to create, publish, and promote content; and Document Cloud, a unified cloud-based document services platform. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, a subscription service that allows members to access its creative products. This segment serves content creators, students, workers, marketers, educators, enthusiasts, communicators, and consumers. The Digital Experience segment provides an integrated platform and set of applications and services that enable brands and businesses to create, manage, execute, measure, monetize, and optimize customer experiences from analytics to commerce. This segment serves marketers, advertisers, agencies, publishers, merchandisers, merchants, web analysts, data scientists, developers, and executives across the C-suite. The Publishing and Advertising segment offers products and services, such as e-learning solutions, technical document publishing, web conferencing, document and forms platform, web application development, and high-end printing, as well as Advertising Cloud offerings. The company offers its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force and local field offices, as well as to end users through app stores and through its website at adobe.com. It also distributes products and services through a network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, software vendors and developers, retailers, and original equipment manufacturers. The company was formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated and changed its name to Adobe Inc. in October 2018. Adobe Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Company Overview
- Market Cap: 173.237 Billion
- PE Ratio: 37.21
- EPS: 10.15
Adobe is one of the biggest and best-known software stocks. Over the last 10 years, this software juggernaut has given shareholders a return of over 1,100%. This return would be even more impressive if not for a 35% decline this year, which creates an opportunity to buy shares of this market leader at a discount.
Adobe has gross margins of 87.9%, among the best in the entire software industry (which is saying something because the space is already known for strong margins) and Adobe’s net dollar retention rate is an incredible 125%. This means that it does not lose many customers (thus retaining the recurring revenue it brings in each year) and on top of that, it is gaining 25% more revenue from these customers.
Therefore, this is a 0good a time to add Adobe, a market leader, to your portfolio for the long term.