How to buy Ribbon Communications stock | $5.92

Ribbon Communications Inc is a telecom services business based in the US. Ribbon Communications shares (RBBN) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Ribbon Communications employs 3,784 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Ribbon Communications stock price (NASDAQ: RBBN)

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Ribbon Communications shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-10-17.

Latest market close	$5.92
52-week range	$3.62 - $11.25
50-day moving average	$6.18
200-day moving average	$7.12
Wall St. target price	$11.50
PE ratio	8.7571
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$0.71

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Is it a good time to buy Ribbon Communications stock?

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Ribbon Communications price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $5.92 from 2021-10-22

1 week (2021-10-15)	-4.52%
1 month (2021-09-24)	-2.15%
3 months (2021-07-23)	-18.68%
6 months (2021-04-23)	-26.37%

1 year (2020-10-23)	47.26%
2 years (2019-10-24)	9.43%
3 years (2018-10-24)	5.53%
5 years (2016-10-24)	7.52

Is Ribbon Communications under- or over-valued?

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

Ribbon Communications's P/E ratio

Ribbon Communications's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 9x. In other words, Ribbon Communications shares trade at around 9x recent earnings.

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

Ribbon Communications's EBITDA

Ribbon Communications's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $136.7 million.

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

Ribbon Communications financials

Revenue TTM	$879.3 million
Operating margin TTM	6.18%
Gross profit TTM	$495.1 million
Return on assets TTM	2.35%
Return on equity TTM	17.89%
Profit margin	12.35%
Book value	$4.52
Market capitalisation	$918.3 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Ribbon Communications shares

There are currently 1.2 million Ribbon Communications shares held short by investors – that's known as Ribbon Communications's "short interest". This figure is 13.2% down from 1.4 million last month.

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

Ribbon Communications's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Ribbon Communications's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Ribbon Communications shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Ribbon Communications shares traded daily (recently around 362568.19571865). Ribbon Communications's SIR currently stands at 3.27. In other words for every 100,000 Ribbon Communications shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3270 shares are currently held short.

However Ribbon Communications's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Ribbon Communications shares, or, against the total number of tradable Ribbon Communications shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Ribbon Communications's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Ribbon Communications shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0171% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Ribbon Communications shares, roughly 17 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Ribbon Communications.

Find out more about how you can short Ribbon Communications stock.

Ribbon Communications share dividends

We're not expecting Ribbon Communications to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Ribbon Communications's shares ever split?

Ribbon Communications's shares were split on a 1:5 basis on 29 January 2015. So if you had owned 5 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ribbon Communications shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 400% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ribbon Communications shares which in turn could have impacted Ribbon Communications's share price.

Ribbon Communications share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Ribbon Communications's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.62 up to $11.25. 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 Ribbon Communications's is 1.081. This would suggest that Ribbon Communications's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Ribbon Communications overview

Ribbon Communications Inc. provides communications technology in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Cloud and Edge, and IP Optical Networks. The Cloud and Edge segment provides software and hardware products; and solutions and services for enabling voice over internet protocol communications, voice over long-term evolution, and voice over 5G communications and unified communications and collaboration. This segment also offers session border controller and network transformation products. This segment serves private, public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures, as well as data centers, enterprise premises, and service provider networks. The IP Optical Networks segment provides hardware and software solutions for IP networking, switching, routing, and optical transport to support and enable technologies, such as 5G, distributed cloud computing, and corresponding applications by delivering ultra-low cost-per-bit transport and multi-service flexibility.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Ribbon Communications is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 19.609% of Ribbon Communications shares are held by insiders and 67.494% by institutions. How many people work for Ribbon Communications?
Latest data suggests 3,784 work at Ribbon Communications. When does the fiscal year end for Ribbon Communications?
Ribbon Communications's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Ribbon Communications based?
Ribbon Communications's address is: 6500 Chase Oaks Boulevard, Plano, TX, United States, 75023 What is Ribbon Communications's ISIN number?
Ribbon Communications's international securities identification number is: US7625441040 What is Ribbon Communications's CUSIP number?
Ribbon Communications's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 762544104