Open Text (OTEX) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Open Text Corporation is a Canadian enterprise information management (EIM) software company that develops solutions for organizations seeking to manage, protect and extract insight from their unstructured and structured data. The company’s platform encompasses document management, records management, digital asset management and archiving, enabling companies to govern information across its lifecycle.

Open Text’s product suite includes content services, business process management, customer experience management, analytics and security products. Its cloud-native offerings provide flexible deployment options, allowing customers to run workloads on public, private or hybrid cloud environments. The company also integrates artificial intelligence and machine learning into its solutions to automate classification, extraction and advanced analytics.

Serving more than 100,000 customers worldwide, Open Text has a presence in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Its software supports a broad range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, government and telecommunications. The global footprint is supported by regional offices, consulting services and partner networks that assist clients with implementation, customization and ongoing maintenance.

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Open Text has expanded through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions to broaden its technology portfolio. Since 2012, Mark J. Barrenechea has served as chief executive officer and chief technology officer, guiding the company’s focus on innovation and cloud transformation. Under his leadership, Open Text has continued to invest in R&D and extend its capabilities in information security, AI and digital experience management.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $23.02 to $23.74
• 50-Day Range: $20.01 to $25.38
• 52-Week Range: $19.77 to $39.90
• Volume: 1.42 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.72 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $5.72 billion
• P/E Ratio: 11.50
• Dividend Yield: 4.67%
• Price Target: $33.67
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Open Text Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Open Text scored higher than 87% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 135th out of 629 stocks in the computer and technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.1 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Open Text has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.29, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 4 buy ratings, 10 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Open Text has a consensus price target of $33.67, representing about 42.8% upside from its current price of $23.57.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Open Text has been the subject of 8 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 6.67%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Open Text are expected to grow by 6.67% in the coming year, from $4.05 to $4.32 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Open Text is 11.50, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 45.92.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Open Text is 11.50, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 170.18.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Open Text has a P/B Ratio of 1.53. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 1.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

5.47% of the float of Open Text has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Open Text has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 5.6.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Open Text has recently increased by 11.62%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Strong

Dividend Leadership

Open Text is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 4.79%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend Growth

Open Text does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Open Text is 53.66%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Open Text will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.46% next year. This indicates that Open Text will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.8 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.56

News Sentiment

Open Text has a news sentiment score of 0.56. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.76 average news sentiment score of Computer and Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 5 news articles for Open Text this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

11 people have searched for OTEX on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 57% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

Only 1 people have added Open Text to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of 0% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.1 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Open Text insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

10.58% of the stock of Open Text is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

70.37% of the stock of Open Text is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 5/07/2026
• Record date for 6/19 Dividend: 6/05/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 6/19 Dividend: 6/05/2026
• Dividend Payable: 6/19/2026
• Today: 7/13/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 8/06/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 6/30/2027

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Computer and Technology
• Industry: COMP - SOFTWARE
• Sub-Industry: Computer Software
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:OTEX
• CIK: 1002638
• Web: www.opentext.com
• Phone: (519) 888-7111
• Fax: 519-888-0677
• Employees: 21,400
• Year Founded: 1991

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Open Text: $33.67
• High Price Target: $40.00
• Low Price Target: $25.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +42.8%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.29
• Research Coverage: 14 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $2.05
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 11.50
• Forward P/E Ratio: 5.82
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $435.87 million
• Net Margins: 9.91%
• Pretax Margin: 11.90%
• Return on Equity: 24.77%
• Return on Assets: 7.27%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 1.56
• Current Ratio: 0.94
• Quick Ratio: 0.94

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $5.17 billion
• Price / Sales: 1.11
• Cash Flow: $6.39 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 3.69
• Book Value: $15.43 per share
• Price / Book: 1.53

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 242,610,000
• Free Float: 216,943,000
• Market Cap: $5.72 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.04