OTEX · Technology(services-computer integrated systems design) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2026-06-30
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Open Text Corp reported revenue of $5.2 billion in fiscal 2026, after growing 9.6% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin widened from 15.5% in 2017 to 20.6%, and it earned 8.3% on its invested capital in the latest year. Of the $8.4 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 82.8% went to acquisitions and 25.4% to dividends; the share count fell 2.5%. On the accounting screens, it passes 9 of 9 Piotroski tests, its Altman Z'' of 1.27 is in the grey zone and its Beneish M-score is below the -1.78 line; none of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 20265.2B+9.6% a year over 9 years
Operating margin20.6%gross margin 73.7%
Return on invested capital8.3%6.0% on average over 5 years
Free cash flow after stock pay726.9M13.9% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA—net debt 4.8B
Piotroski F-score9/9tests of improvement passed
Is it growing?
Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.
RevenueOperating income
02B4B6B
2017Revenue 2.3BOperating income 354.7M
2018Revenue 2.8BOperating income 506.7M
2019Revenue 2.9BOperating income 567.0M
2020Revenue 3.1BOperating income 503.5M
2021Revenue 3.4BOperating income 740.9M
2022Revenue 3.5BOperating income 644.8M
2023Revenue 4.5BOperating income 516.3M
2024Revenue 5.8BOperating income 887.1M
2025Revenue 5.2BOperating income 892.7M
2026Revenue 5.2BOperating income 1.1B
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
+5.4%
+9.2%
+9.6%
Operating income
+28.0%
+7.9%
+13.2%
Net income
+62.3%
+15.7%
-5.1%
Earnings per share
+66.8%
+17.8%
-4.8%
Free cash flow per share
+10.1%
+1.7%
+9.7%
Dividend per share
+3.9%
+6.9%
+9.6%
Shares
-2.7%
-1.8%
-0.3%
Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.
Does it earn more than its capital costs?
Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
16.0%
Return on assets
4.9%
Asset turnover
0.40×
Research & development
12.3% of revenue
Overheads (SG&A)
8.3% of revenue
Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?
Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.
Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay
00.5B1.0B1.5B
2017Net income 1.0BFree cash flow 360.8MAfter stock-based pay 330.3M
2018Net income 242.2MFree cash flow 602.8MAfter stock-based pay 575.2M
2019Net income 285.5MFree cash flow 812.4MAfter stock-based pay 785.7M
2020Net income 234.2MFree cash flow 881.8MAfter stock-based pay 852.3M
2021Net income 310.7MFree cash flow 812.4MAfter stock-based pay 760.5M
2022Net income 397.1MFree cash flow 888.7MAfter stock-based pay 819.1M
2023Net income 150.4MFree cash flow 655.4MAfter stock-based pay 525.1M
2024Net income 465.1MFree cash flow 808.4MAfter stock-based pay 668.3M
2025Net income 435.9MFree cash flow 687.4MAfter stock-based pay 582.6M
2026Net income 643.0MFree cash flow 807.5MAfter stock-based pay 726.9M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2017–2026
8.4B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 13%1.1B
Acquisitions 83%7.0B
Dividends 25%2.1B
Share buybacks 16%1.3B
More than it generated: funded with cash or new debt -37%-3.1B
Over the same years it paid 691.8M in stock. The share count fell 2.5%. 618.7M of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$0$2$4$6
2017Earnings per share $4.01Free cash flow per share $1.41Dividend per share $0.47
2018Earnings per share $0.91Free cash flow per share $2.25Dividend per share $0.54
2019Earnings per share $1.06Free cash flow per share $3.01Dividend per share $0.63
2020Earnings per share $0.86Free cash flow per share $3.24Dividend per share $0.69
2021Earnings per share $1.14Free cash flow per share $2.97Dividend per share $0.77
2022Earnings per share $1.46Free cash flow per share $3.27Dividend per share $0.87
2023Earnings per share $0.56Free cash flow per share $2.42Dividend per share $0.96
2024Earnings per share $1.71Free cash flow per share $2.97Dividend per share $0.98
2025Earnings per share $1.65Free cash flow per share $2.61Dividend per share $1.03
2026Earnings per share $2.58Free cash flow per share $3.24Dividend per share $1.08
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
240M250M260M270M280M
2017Diluted shares 255.8M
2018Diluted shares 267.5M
2019Diluted shares 269.9M
2020Diluted shares 271.8M
2021Diluted shares 273.5M
2022Diluted shares 271.9M
2023Diluted shares 270.5M
2024Diluted shares 272.6M
2025Diluted shares 263.6M
2026Diluted shares 249.4M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Debt and liquidity
Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.
Net debt
02B4B6B8B
2017Net debt 2.3B
2018Net debt 1.9B
2019Net debt 1.7B
2020Net debt 2.5B
2021Net debt 2.0B
2022Net debt 2.5B
2023Net debt 7.7B
2024Net debt 5.1B
2025Net debt 5.2B
2026Net debt 4.8B
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
—
Interest coverage
— operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
0.81 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
— collects in 52d
Three classic screens of the accounts
Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.
Piotroski F-score
Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.
9of 9 tests passed
✓ProfitableReturn on assets above zeropassed
✓Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zeropassed
✓Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforepassed
✓Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)passed
✓Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellpassed
✓More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year beforepassed
✓No new sharesShare count did not growpassed
✓Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year beforepassed
✓Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforepassed
Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.
Altman Z''-score
Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?
1.27grey zone
1.12.6
Working capital ÷ assets -0.04 × 6.56-0.25
Retained earnings ÷ assets 0.15 × 3.26+0.50
Operating income ÷ assets 0.08 × 6.72+0.56
Equity ÷ liabilities 0.44 × 1.05+0.46
Where it misleads: buybacks. A company that returns so much cash that its equity turns small or negative sinks the last two ratios without being anywhere near bankruptcy. Banks and insurers do not fit the model at all.
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
-2.49below the -1.78 line
-1.78
Receivables vs sales 1.12+1.03
Gross margin slipping 0.98+0.52
Soft assets 0.98+0.40
Sales growth 1.02+0.91
Slower depreciation 1.00 (not reported, set to 1)+0.12
Overheads vs sales 1.01-0.17
Profit not in cash -0.03-0.13
Leverage rising 0.97-0.32
Where it misleads: fast growth and acquisitions. Sales growth carries a heavy weight, so a company growing 50% a year scores like a suspect without having done anything. It is a screen from a 1999 study, not an accusation.
Where the statements disagree
Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.
None of the six cross-checks fires for the latest year: receivables and inventory move with revenue, profit turns into cash, investment keeps up with depreciation, the tax rate is ordinary and debt is moderate.
What is it worth, under which assumptions?
A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.
The SEC accounts lack the lines needed for revenue, free cash flow or the share count, so there is no DCF for this company.
What it has filed lately
The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.
From the Form 13F of the 28 institutions followed on this site, as of the end of their last reported quarter. A 13F is filed up to 45 days later and shows only long positions in US-listed shares.
Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.