How to buy AudioCodes stock | $32.29

AudioCodes Ltd is a communication equipment business based in the US. AudioCodes shares (AUDC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. AudioCodes employs 773 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

AudioCodes stock price (NASDAQ: AUDC)

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AudioCodes shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-07-31.

Latest market close	$32.29
52-week range	$25.90 - $37.55
50-day moving average	$33.29
200-day moving average	$31.18
Wall St. target price	$39.20
PE ratio	33.1915
Dividend yield	$0.33 (1%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$0.99

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AudioCodes price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $32.29 from 2021-05-28

1 week (2021-07-21)	N/A
1 month (2021-07-01)	-3.41%
3 months (2021-04-30)	4.80%
6 months (2021-01-28)	N/A

1 year (2020-07-28)	N/A
2 years (2019-07-28)	N/A
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Is AudioCodes under- or over-valued?

Valuing AudioCodes stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of AudioCodes's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

AudioCodes's P/E ratio

AudioCodes's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 33x. In other words, AudioCodes shares trade at around 33x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

AudioCodes's PEG ratio

AudioCodes's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.83. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into AudioCodes's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

AudioCodes's EBITDA

AudioCodes's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $45.9 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a AudioCodes's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

AudioCodes financials

Revenue TTM	$234.6 million
Operating margin TTM	18.58%
Gross profit TTM	$149.8 million
Return on assets TTM	7.83%
Return on equity TTM	16.67%
Profit margin	14.31%
Book value	$6.44
Market capitalisation	$1.1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting AudioCodes shares

There are currently 909,561 AudioCodes shares held short by investors – that's known as AudioCodes's "short interest". This figure is 7.4% up from 846,711 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting AudioCodes shares can be evaluated.

AudioCodes's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

AudioCodes's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of AudioCodes shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of AudioCodes shares traded daily (recently around 124768.3127572). AudioCodes's SIR currently stands at 7.29. In other words for every 100,000 AudioCodes shares traded daily on the market, roughly 7290 shares are currently held short.

However AudioCodes's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of AudioCodes shares, or, against the total number of tradable AudioCodes shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case AudioCodes's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 AudioCodes shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0358% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable AudioCodes shares, roughly 36 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against AudioCodes.

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AudioCodes share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 30.13% of net profits

Recently AudioCodes has paid out, on average, around 30.13% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.06% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), AudioCodes shareholders could enjoy a 1.06% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In AudioCodes's case, that would currently equate to about $0.33 per share.

While AudioCodes's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that AudioCodes may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

AudioCodes's most recent dividend payout was on 25 August 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 9 August 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have AudioCodes's shares ever split?

AudioCodes's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 9 October 2000. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your AudioCodes shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for AudioCodes shares which in turn could have impacted AudioCodes's share price.

AudioCodes share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, AudioCodes's shares have ranged in value from as little as $25.9 up to $37.5535. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while AudioCodes's is 0.5571. This would suggest that AudioCodes's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

AudioCodes overview

AudioCodes Ltd. , together with its subsidiaries, provides advanced communications software, products, and productivity solutions for the digital workplace. It offers solutions, products, and applications for enterprise unified communications environments, work-from-home agents and contact centers, voice and telephony AI-based applications, and service provider business services. The company's products include IP phones and meeting room solutions, session border controllers (SBC), media gateways, multi-service business routers and universal customer premises equipment, VoIP network routing solutions, media servers, value added applications, life cycle management solutions, and professional services, as well as survivable branch appliances and CCE; device manager; CloudBond 365, an adaptable solution; and User Management Pack 365, a user lifecycle and identity management application. It also provides management solutions, such as voice network management solution, the One Voice Operations Center, call routing and policy management tool, and AudioCodes Routing Manager. In addition, the company offers AudioCodes Live for Microsoft Teams, a portfolio of managed services that removes complexity from the integration of Teams collaboration, unified communications, and enterprise telephony; and VoiceAI Connect Cloud Edition, a cloud-based service enabling the bot development ecosystem to develop an array of voice-bot use cases via trials and proof of concept projects, as well as provides a range of value-added voice applications comprising SmartTAP, Voca, VoiceAI Connect, Meeting Insights, and management application services. It primarily markets and sells its products through a direct sales force and sales representatives to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and distributors, and network equipment providers in the telecommunication and networking industries.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of AudioCodes is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 25.367% of AudioCodes shares are held by insiders and 40.191% by institutions. How many people work for AudioCodes?
Latest data suggests 773 work at AudioCodes. When does the fiscal year end for AudioCodes?
AudioCodes's fiscal year ends in December. Where is AudioCodes based?
AudioCodes's address is: 1 Hayarden Street, Lod, Israel, 7019900 What is AudioCodes's ISIN number?
AudioCodes's international securities identification number is: IL0010829658 What is AudioCodes's CUSIP number?
AudioCodes's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: M15342104