NetApp, Inc.
NetApp, Inc. (NTAP) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in San Jose, United States and has 11,700 employees. The company is worth $41.74B and trades at 30.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $6.93B in fiscal 2026, up 5.4% from the year before. Net income was $1.28B. The share price is 11.8% below its 52-week high of $240.87. It pays a dividend yielding 0.98%. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $194.78M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $22.54M of its stock on the open market and bought none. $20.23M of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +129.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,543.04▲ +154.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $203.80 | $107.09 | $116.08 | $88.16 | $60.06 | $91.99 | $66.24 | $62.25 | $59.67 | $55.32 | $35.27 | $26.53 | $41.45 | $41.14 | $33.55 | $36.27 | $54.96 | $34.36 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 14.5% a year plus a 1.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 23.9 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 14.5% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAYXPaychex Inc | $118.81 | 22.3x | 11.4x | 4.01% | 47.05% | $42.29B |
| COHRCoherent Corp | $207.82 | 57.7x | 3.7x | 0.00% | 7.98% | $40.93B |
| MCHPMicrochip Technology Inc | $74.52 | 109.6x | 6.3x | 2.44% | 7.19% | $40.47B |
| PEverpure, Inc. | $121.20 |
| P/E | 23.9x | 32.1x | 18.9x | 25.1x | 15.2x | 14.7x | 28.5x | 18.8x | 13.8x | 142.1x | 32.4x | 45.8x | 15.2x | 22.7x | 30.0x | 21.2x | 21.2x | 48.6x | 180.8x |
| P/S | 2.7x | 5.8x | 3.3x | 3.8x | 2.9x | 2.1x | 3.6x | 2.7x | 2.4x | 2.7x | 2.7x | 1.8x | 1.3x | 2.1x | 2.3x | 2.0x | 2.6x | 4.9x | 3.4x |
| P/B | 7.3x | 29.6x | 20.6x | 20.8x | 16.2x | 15.9x | 30.0x | 60.7x | 13.7x | 6.9x | 5.1x | 3.4x | 2.4x | 3.5x | 3.1x | 2.9x | 3.6x | 7.7x | 6.4x |
| EPS | $6.35 | $5.67 | $4.63 | $5.79 | $4.09 | $3.23 | $3.52 | $4.51 | $0.42 | $1.71 | $0.77 | $1.75 | $1.83 | $1.37 | $1.58 | $1.71 | $1.13 | $0.19 |
| Dividend yield | 2.05% | 1.02% | 1.94% | 1.76% | 2.27% | 3.33% | 2.13% | 2.90% | 2.83% | 2.01% | 1.41% | 2.10% | 2.60% | 1.52% | 0.73% | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 41.74% | 32.76% | 36.68% | 44.06% | 34.54% | 48.90% | 60.68% | 54.55% | 39.02% | 285.71% | 45.61% | 96.10% | 39.43% | 34.43% | 21.90% | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 11.45% | 18.43% | 18.05% | 15.73% | 20.03% | 14.83% | 12.71% | 15.13% | 19.02% | 1.96% | 8.72% | 4.13% | 9.15% | 10.09% | 7.98% | 9.71% | 13.14% | 10.18% | 1.90% |
| ROE | 17.45% | 94.45% | 114.04% | 86.04% | 109.92% | 111.81% | 106.57% | 338.43% | 107.25% | 5.10% | 16.31% | 7.95% | 16.40% | 16.85% | 10.71% | 14.10% | 18.04% | 15.82% | 3.62% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-10.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 17.71% |
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