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Box, Inc. Class ABOXCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Information Technology Services

Provides a cloud content management and collaboration platform for enterprises to store, secure and share files.

Momentum leader 96
Mkt cap
$5.76B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
96%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$120M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
26.0×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+5.8 pp
WACC 7.9%
Hurdle
+11 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
25 days
1 Dec 2026
Close · USD$41.95
1D-3.7%
1W-3.5%
1M+15.5%
3M+24.9%
6M+63.1%
YTD+40.2%
1Y+33.7%
ATR %2.9%
Beta0.28
52w lowhigh6.5% off high

What Box does

Provides a cloud content management and collaboration platform for enterprises to store, secure and share files.

Sells subscriptions charged per user, mostly on annual or multi-year terms, in tiers that unlock more security, compliance and add-on features, so growth comes from selling higher tiers and extras such as AI to existing customers. Revenue comes mainly from large business accounts reached through its direct sales team and partners.

Products and services

  • Cloud content storage/collaboration
  • AI-powered content intelligence
  • Security/governance tools

Customers

  • Enterprise IT departments
  • Regulated industries (finance, healthcare)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Enterprise software
  • Cloud content management/collaboration
  • Enterprise SaaS subscriptions

What could go right

  • Enterprise cloud content migration
  • AI content workflow adoption

What could go wrong

  • Competition from bundled Microsoft/Google suites
  • Enterprise IT spending cyclicality

Moat: narrow (switching costs, customer qualification). Deep integration into enterprise workflows and compliance certifications create switching costs versus consumer file tools.

Headquarters: Redwood City, California, United States · Founded: 2005 · Employees: 2,912

Named competitors

Box at a glance

Size Box (BOX) is a United States Information Technology company (Information Technology Services) with a market value of $5.76B, the 1090th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $41.95 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 63.1%, against +11.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 9.6% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.9%); the operating margin is 9.4% (peer median 8.4%).

Valuation It trades at 26.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 15.1× (4th most expensive of 20).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 20% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +9%, so the hurdle is +11 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.8 points above its cost of capital (7.9% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $1.70B at 31 Jul 2026, up 13% on a year earlier — 1.4 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Credit Box has 1 bond outstanding ($460M).

Short interest Short interest is 12.6% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 1 Dec 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012515017511 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026BOX 171Peer median 113
Six months, rebased to 100: Box against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Box financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2026-01-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.23B$1.18B$1.09B$1.04B$991M
Revenue growth—+8%+5%+5%—
Gross profit$982M$933M$862M$777M$738M
EBITDA$154M$123M$105M$102M$103M
Net income$131M$115M$245M$129M$26.8M
Free cash flow$389M$350M$330M$317M$294M
Capital expenditure$44.6M$41.2M$30.2M$18.4M$16.5M
Total debt$525M$528M$721M$492M$564M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Box competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-20%0%+20%INGMNICE3626307950SAICPEGA064400RIOTPSNCCCTEMN688702XMTRVIAVBC8NSITQTWODOXBOX6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Box is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%+40%0×2,000×4,000×6,000×INGMNICE3626307950SAICPSNCCCTEMN688702XMTRVIAVBOXRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Box is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%0%20%INGMNICE3626307950SAICPEGA064400TEMNVIAVKBRNSITQTWOSCTDOXBOXGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Box is the large dot.

Box competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (BOX vs DBX vs MSFT vs GOOGL)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Box BOX$5.76B+63%+10%9%26.0×20.3%
Dropbox DBX$7.54B+20%0%26%11.1×-5.0%
Microsoft MSFT$3.94T+28%+18%47%25.5×17.2%
Alphabet Inc. (Class A) GOOGL$3.47T-29%+22%33%20.5×18.5%

How Box compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Box against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureBOXPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+15.5%-2.3%3rd highest of 21
6-month return+63.1%+11.3%2nd highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-6.5%-26.3%4th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+9.6%+7.9%10th highest of 21
Operating margin9.4%8.4%9th highest of 21
Forward P/E26.0×15.1×4th most expensive of 20
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)20.3%5.6%4th most demanding of 18
Growth delivered (Del g)+8.8%+6.2%8th highest of 18
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+11.4 pp-1.8 pp3rd most demanding of 18
ROIC minus cost of capital+5.8 pp+4.0 pp8th highest of 21
EV / EBITDA41.1×11.8×most expensive of 14
Net debt / EBITDA0.5×0.5×9th least indebted of 17

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Box BOXUnited States$5.76B+63%+10%9%26.0×20.3%+8.8%
Ingram Micro INGMUnited States$5.85B-6%+15%2%6.8×2.9%+1.4%
NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR NICEUnited States$5.87B+4%+8%17%7.8×-0.7%+12.3%
TISI 3626.TJapan$5.50B+20%+5%13%15.1×-7.7%+5.9%
HyundaiAutoever 307950.KSSouth Korea$5.49B-40%+16%5%35.7×27.6%+22.2%
Science Applications International SAICUnited States$6.13B+56%-1%8%14.3×-4.6%+0.6%
Pegasystems PEGAUnited States$5.30B-10%+1%12%13.8×8.8%+11.4%
LG Cns 064400.KSSouth Korea$5.29B+14%+4%9%15.5×5.6%+7.2%
RIOT RIOTUnited States$6.27B-31%+6%-84%n/an/an/a
Parsons PSNUnited States$5.16B-1%-3%5%14.8×8.4%+10.2%
Computacenter CCC.LUnited Kingdom$6.48B+15%+54%3%16.4×7.9%+11.1%
Temenos TEMN.SWSwitzerland$6.51B+10%+30%27%21.8×8.3%+1.7%
Suzhou Centec Communications 688702.SSChina$6.58B-45%+32%-18%5,922.0×n/an/a
Xometry XMTRUnited States$6.63B+44%+37%-2%91.0×n/an/a
Viavi Solutions VIAVUnited States$7.00B-44%+40%11%14.0×32.7%+4.8%
Bechtle BC8.DEGermany$4.72B+13%+8%5%16.8×6.9%+4.9%
KBR KBRUnited States$4.69B+14%-3%9%9.5×-8.7%+6.2%
Insight Enterprises NSITUnited States$4.64B+89%+3%6%11.7×2.9%-0.2%
Q2 Holdings, Inc. QTWOUnited States$4.57B+47%+13%13%22.5×26.6%+14.6%
Softcat SCT.LUnited Kingdom$4.53B+14%+35%11%17.9×-4.1%+20.3%
Amdocs DOXUnited States$4.53B-34%+4%17%7.7×-15.8%+1.8%

Box bonds and credit

Box has 1 bond outstanding with $460M face value.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Box backlog

Box reported $1.70B of remaining performance obligations at 31 Jul 2026, up 13% from a year earlier and up 6% from the previous quarter. That is 1.4 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 1.31.

Questions

Who are Box's main competitors?
Named competitors: Dropbox (DBX), Microsoft (SharePoint/OneDrive) (MSFT), Google Workspace (GOOGL), Egnyte (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Ingram Micro (INGM), NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR (NICE), TISI (3626.T), HyundaiAutoever (307950.KS), Science Applications International (SAIC), Pegasystems (PEGA).
Is Box expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 26.0× against a peer median of 15.1×, 4th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 20% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +9%, so the hurdle is +11 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Box stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +63.1% against +11.3% for the median peer; over one year +33.7%.
What is Box's backlog?
Box's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $1.70B at 31 Jul 2026, +13% on a year earlier.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.