Adobe Systems Incorporated operates as a diversified software company worldwide. Its Digital Media segment provides tools and solutions that enable individuals, small and medium businesses, and enterprises to create, publish, promote, and monetize their digital content. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, a subscription service that allows customers to download and install the latest versions of its creative products. This segment serves traditional content creators, Web application developers, and digital media professionals, as well as their management in marketing departments and agencies, companies, and publishers. The company's Digital Marketing segment offers solutions for how digital advertising and marketing are created, managed, executed, measured, and optimized. This segment provides analytics, social marketing, targeting, media optimization, digital experience management, cross-channel campaign management, audience management, and video delivery and monetization solutions to digital marketers, advertisers, publishers, merchandisers, Web analysts, chief marketing officers, chief information officers, and chief revenue officers. Its Print and Publishing segment offers products and services, such as e-learning solutions, technical document publishing, Web application development, and high-end printing, as well as publishing needs of technical and business, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) printing businesses. The company markets and licenses its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force, as well as to end-users through app stores and through its Website at adobe.com. It also distributes products and services through a network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, independent software vendors, retailers, and OEMs. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Industry Prepackaged software
Sub-IndustryApplication Software
SectorComputer and Technology
SymbolNASDAQ:ADBE
CUSIP00724F10
Phone408-536-6000
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.22
Current Ratio2.12
Quick Ratio2.12
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio67.86
Forward P/E Ratio43.43
P/E Growth2.68
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$7.30 billion
Price / Sales16.43
Cash Flow$4.3128 per share
Price / Cash56.49
Book Value$17.16 per share
Price / Book14.20
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$3.59
Net Income$1.69 billion
Net Margins26.68%
Return on Equity27.31%
Return on Assets15.89%
Miscellaneous
Employees17,973
Outstanding Shares492,470,000
Who are Adobe Systems' major shareholders?
Adobe Systems' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.88%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.42%), Polen Capital Management LLC (1.31%), Northern Trust Corp (1.23%), Aristotle Capital Management LLC (0.67%) and OppenheimerFunds Inc. (0.56%). Company insiders that own Adobe Systems stock include Abhay Parasnis, Amy Banse, Ann Lewnes, Bradley Rencher, Bryan Lamkin, Charles M Geschke, Daniel Rosensweig, Donna Morris, Edward W Barnholt, James E Daley, John E Warnock, Mark Garrett, Matthew Thompson, Michael A Dillon, Richard Rowley, Robert K Burgess and Shantanu Narayen. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Adobe Systems.
