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NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADRNICECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Information Technology Services

Israeli software for contact-center customer experience (CX) and financial-crime/compliance analytics.

Momentum neutral 40
Mkt cap
$5.87B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
100%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$74.3M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
7.8×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+3.2 pp
WACC 8.7%
Hurdle
-13 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
111 days
25 Feb 2027
Close · USD$96.15
1D+0.2%
1W-15.5%
1M-18.0%
3M-6.2%
6M+3.7%
YTD-14.9%
1Y-25.7%
ATR %5.4%
Beta0.29
52w lowhigh29.6% off high

What NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR does

Israeli software for contact-center customer experience (CX) and financial-crime/compliance analytics.

Moved from selling on-site software licences to cloud subscriptions priced per user seat, so revenue is now largely recurring, with CXone the cloud contact-centre line and Actimize selling fraud and money-laundering monitoring to banks. Most customers are in North America, and contracts typically run for several years.

Products and services

  • CXone (cloud contact center)
  • Actimize (financial crime/compliance)
  • Workforce engagement management
  • CXone Mpower (AI)

Customers

  • Banks
  • Telecoms
  • Retailers
  • Insurers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Enterprise software
  • Customer experience (CCaaS)
  • Compliance/fraud analytics

What could go right

  • Cloud migration of on-prem contact centers
  • AI/automation upsell

What could go wrong

  • Competition from Five9/Genesys
  • Slower enterprise IT budgets

Moat: narrow (switching costs, installed base, data). Contact-center and compliance systems are deeply integrated; replacing them risks operational disruption.

Headquarters: Ra'anana, Israel · Founded: 1986 · Employees: 9,626

Named competitors

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR at a glance

Size NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR (NICE) is a United States Information Technology company (Information Technology Services) with a market value of $5.87B, the 1077th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $96.15 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 3.7%, against +13.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 9th lowest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 8.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.7%); the operating margin is 17.1% (peer median 8.4%).

Valuation It trades at 7.8× forward earnings against a peer median of 15.5× (3rd cheapest of 20).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -1% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +12%, so the hurdle is -13 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.2 points above its cost of capital (8.7% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $3.68B at 31 Dec 2025, up 20% on a year earlier — 1.2 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Short interest Short interest is 2.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 25 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 113NICE 105
Six months, rebased to 100: NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$3.14B$2.97B$2.75B$2.37B$2.17B
Revenue growth—+8%+16%+9%—
Gross profit$2.01B$1.87B$1.72B$1.61B$1.49B
EBITDA$785M$861M$755M$597M$510M
Net income$377M$617M$445M$337M$265M
Free cash flow$554M$703M$801M$531M$446M
Capital expenditure$113M$94.5M$100M$84.0M$81.6M
Total debt$83.7M$88.8M$564M$783M$777M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR 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%INGMBOXSAIC3626307950RIOTCCCPEGATEMN064400688702XMTRPSNVIAVBC8NSITQTWOSCTDOXNICE6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%+40%0×2,000×4,000×6,000×INGMBOXSAIC3626307950CCCPEGATEMN688702XMTRVIAVNICERevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%0%20%INGMBOXSAIC3626307950CCCPEGATEMN064400VIAVKBRNSITQTWOSCTDOXNICEGrowth 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. NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR is the large dot.

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (NICE vs FIVN vs CRM vs MSFT)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR NICE$5.87B+4%+8%17%7.8×-0.7%
Five9 FIVN$2.10B+27%+9%6%8.1×17.9%
Salesforce CRM$176B+18%+11%22%14.6×13.7%
Microsoft MSFT$3.94T+28%+18%47%25.5×17.2%

How NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR 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.

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureNICEPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-18.0%-1.4%5th lowest of 21
6-month return+3.7%+13.3%9th lowest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-29.6%-24.9%9th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+8.1%+8.7%11th highest of 21
Operating margin17.1%8.4%2nd highest of 21
Forward P/E7.8×15.5×3rd cheapest of 20
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-0.7%6.9%6th least demanding of 18
Growth delivered (Del g)+12.3%+6.2%4th highest of 18
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-13.0 pp-1.6 pp5th least demanding of 18
ROIC minus cost of capital+3.2 pp+4.7 pp9th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA7.1×13.7×2nd cheapest of 14
Net debt / EBITDA-0.3×0.6×5th 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
NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR NICEUnited States$5.87B+4%+8%17%7.8×-0.7%+12.3%
Ingram Micro INGMUnited States$5.85B-6%+15%2%6.8×2.9%+1.4%
Box BOXUnited States$5.76B+63%+10%9%26.0×20.3%+8.8%
Science Applications International SAICUnited States$6.13B+56%-1%8%14.3×-4.6%+0.6%
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%
RIOT RIOTUnited States$6.27B-31%+6%-84%n/an/an/a
Computacenter CCC.LUnited Kingdom$6.48B+15%+54%3%16.4×7.9%+11.1%
Pegasystems PEGAUnited States$5.30B-10%+1%12%13.8×8.8%+11.4%
Temenos TEMN.SWSwitzerland$6.51B+10%+30%27%21.8×8.3%+1.7%
LG Cns 064400.KSSouth Korea$5.29B+14%+4%9%15.5×5.6%+7.2%
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
Parsons PSNUnited States$5.16B-1%-3%5%14.8×8.4%+10.2%
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%

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR backlog

NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR reported $3.68B of remaining performance obligations at 31 Dec 2025, up 20% from a year earlier. That is 1.2 years of trailing revenue already under contract.

Questions

Who are NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR's main competitors?
Named competitors: Genesys (private or unlisted), Five9 (FIVN), Verint Systems (private or unlisted), Salesforce Service Cloud (CRM), Microsoft/Nuance (MSFT). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Ingram Micro (INGM), Box (BOX), Science Applications International (SAIC), TISI (3626.T), HyundaiAutoever (307950.KS), RIOT (RIOT).
Is NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 7.8× against a peer median of 15.5×, 3rd cheapest of 20 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -1% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +12%, so the hurdle is -13 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +3.7% against +13.3% for the median peer; over one year -25.7%.
What is NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR's backlog?
NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $3.68B at 31 Dec 2025, +20% 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.