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Cognyte Software Ltd. (CGNT)

NASDAQ / Technology / Software - Infrastructure

Share price

8.82 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

651.3M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 25, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
7, FY2019 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

-0.3% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to book

3.15x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

4.6% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, by fiscal year

FY2014 Revenue: 26.5M USDFY2014 Net income: -7.7M USDFY2017 Revenue: 56.3M USDFY2017 Net income: -883.0K USDFY2018 Revenue: 433.5M USDFY2018 Net income: 8.7M USDFY2019 Revenue: 457.1M USDFY2019 Net income: 20.2M USDFY2020 Revenue: 443.5M USDFY2020 Net income: 14.2M USDFY2021 Revenue: 474.0M USDFY2021 Net income: -14.9M USDFY2022 Revenue: 312.1M USDFY2022 Net income: -114.1M USDFY2023 Revenue: 313.4M USDFY2023 Net income: -15.6M USDFY2024 Revenue: 350.6M USDFY2024 Net income: -12.1M USDFY2025 Revenue: 400.0M USDFY2025 Net income: -638.0K USD
Revenue Net income10 fiscal years; a year whose statement names no SEC filing is market data, and the table in Filings says which.
Named tests met
0 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it good

Return on equity was -0.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Software - Infrastructure industry (114 companies), -0.3% sits at the 42nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -25.7% to 16.2%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 68.36x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Cognyte Software Ltd.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Software - Infrastructure industry, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Cognyte Software Ltd. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Cognyte Software Ltd.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2018 to FY2025, 8 filed years of Cognyte Software Ltd.)
What could explain it
What in Cognyte Software Ltd.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines Cognyte Software Ltd. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Cognyte Software Ltd., and where in its filings. (2 questions for Cognyte Software Ltd.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Cognyte Software Ltd.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (9 of sixteen figures read for Cognyte Software Ltd.)

These are CGNT’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, accession 0001824814-26-000021.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Cognyte Software Ltd: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Return on equity-0.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Return on capital employed, pre-tax4.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Return on assets-0.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Gross margin72.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Operating margin3.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Net margin-0.2% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
CGNT -0.2%
BLZE -17.6%KPLT 0.5%RPD 2.7%PRTH 5.8%LSAK 0.4%
-17.6%5.8%
Net margin: CGNT against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Cognyte Software Ltd: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Current ratio1.33 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Quick ratio1.26 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Interest coverage68.36x ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Altman Z-score1.94 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Total assets 521.1MTotal liabilities 292.2MShareholders' equity 206.5MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Cognyte Software Ltd owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021).

Cognyte Software Ltd: balance sheet position
Total assets521.1M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026
Total liabilities292.2M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026
Shareholders' equity206.5M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026
Cash116.9M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio1.33
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Cognyte Software Ltd: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.15x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Price to sales1.63x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Graham number
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value CGNT on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Cognyte Software Ltd today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Cognyte Software Ltd: valuation
Share price8.82 USD
Market capitalisation651.3M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham numbern/m
Diluted earnings per share, FY2018n/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Cognyte Software Ltd

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  3. Rapid7, Inc. (RPD)Market cap 881.6M USD
  4. Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. (PRTH)Market cap 644.9M USD
  5. Lesaka Technologies, Inc. (LSAK)Market cap 381.8M USD

Same industry (Software - Infrastructure) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Cognyte Software Ltd: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield4.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Free cash flow29.9M USD ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Free cash flow margin7.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
FY2014 Free cash flow: -4.8M USDFY2014 Net income: -7.7M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 1.4M USDFY2017 Net income: -883.0K USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 41.1M USDFY2018 Net income: 8.7M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 53.5M USDFY2019 Net income: 20.2M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 57.1M USDFY2020 Net income: 14.2M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: -9.1M USDFY2021 Net income: -14.9M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -45.3M USDFY2022 Net income: -114.1M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 27.5M USDFY2023 Net income: -15.6M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 36.2M USDFY2024 Net income: -12.1M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 29.9M USDFY2025 Net income: -638.0K USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Cognyte Software Ltd.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
3.15xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
4.6%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Mar 25, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
n/aFY2025Mar 25, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
1.33FY2025Mar 25, 2026
1.63xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
1.94FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.43FY2025Mar 25, 2026
6/9FY2025Mar 25, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 7 filed fiscal years on record, FY2019 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 fiscal years, FY2014 to FY2025. 7 read from the annual reports Cognyte Software Ltd filed with the SEC, each naming its filing; the rest from statements that name none, which are market data. Amounts in USD, as reported.

Cognyte Software Ltd: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025400.0M13.3M-638.0Kn/a29.9M3.3%-0.3%20-F, Mar 25, 20260001824814-26-000021
FY2024350.6M-5.1M-12.1Mn/a36.2M-1.5%-6.1%20-F, Apr 2, 20250001824814-25-000018
FY2023313.4M-18.1M-15.6Mn/a27.5M-5.8%-7.9%20-F, Apr 9, 20240001824814-24-000020
FY2022312.1M-103.3M-114.1Mn/a-45.3M-33.1%-58.8%20-F, Apr 11, 20230001824814-23-000009
FY2021474.0M11.0M-14.9Mn/a-9.1M2.3%-5.2%20-F, Apr 5, 20220001824814-22-000013
FY2020443.5M18.3M14.2Mn/a57.1M4.1%5.5%20-F, Apr 29, 20210001824814-21-000007
FY2019457.1M27.3M20.2Mn/a53.5M6.0%4.5%20-F, Apr 29, 20210001824814-21-000007
FY2018433.5M18.7M8.7M0.1341.1M4.3%1.9%Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY201756.3M1.50B-883.0K-0.011.4Mn/a-1.4%Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY201426.5M-7.6M-7.7Mn/a-4.8M-28.8%-0.0%Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2014 to FY2025: 28.0%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2014 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2017 and 2018, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2014 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Cognyte Software Ltd: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.43 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 25, 2026, 0001824814-26-000021
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.77 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 19 not met, 11 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(16)
  • Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • P/E Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • PEG Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Ncav: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 16 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak, P/E Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 11 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
  • We hold 7 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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