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Netscout Systems Inc
Netscout Systems Inc (NTCT) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Westford, United States and has 2,052 employees. The company is worth $2.79B and trades at 23.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $859.48M in fiscal 2026, up 4.5% from the year before. Net income was $95.53M. The share price is 15.4% below its 52-week high of $45.28. 5 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 $45.85M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
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.
▲ +27.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,406.87▲ +40.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 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 |
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| Year-end price | $38.07 | $27.06 | $21.66 | $21.95 | $32.51 | $33.08 | $27.42 | $24.07 | $23.63 | $30.45 | $31.50 | $30.70 | $36.54 | $29.59 | $25.99 | $17.60 | $23.01 | |
| P/E |
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 25.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 31.0 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMBAAmbarella Inc | $63.12 | — | 4.5x | 0.00% | -9.41% | $2.79B |
| DGIIDigi International Inc | $72.80 | 59.7x | 4.0x | 0.00% | 7.46% | $2.76B |
| KNKnowles Corp | $33.38 | 39.7x | 3.6x | 0.00% | 9.50% | $2.85B |
| VIAVia Transportation, Inc. | $31.93 |
| 31.0x |
| 29.3x |
| — |
| — |
| 26.8x |
| 67.7x |
| 127.2x |
| — |
| — |
| 26.3x |
| 84.6x |
| — |
| 20.9x |
| 31.2x |
| 30.8x |
| 34.2x |
| 20.2x |
| 34.3x |
| P/S | 2.8x | 3.2x | 2.3x | 1.9x | 1.7x | 2.8x | 2.9x | 2.2x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 2.4x | 3.1x | 2.8x | 3.8x | 3.5x | 3.5x | 2.6x | 3.7x |
| P/B | 1.2x | 1.7x | 1.2x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 2.9x | 3.7x | 3.3x | 3.2x | 2.3x | 3.6x |
| EPS | $1.30 | -$5.12 | -$2.07 | $0.82 | $0.48 | $0.26 | -$0.04 | -$0.93 | $0.90 | $0.36 | -$0.35 | $1.47 | $1.17 | $0.96 | $0.76 | $0.87 | $0.67 |
| Profit margin | 6.52% | 11.11% | -44.60% | -17.81% | 6.52% | 4.19% | 2.33% | -0.31% | -8.06% | 8.09% | 2.86% | -2.97% | 13.49% | 12.38% | 11.58% | 10.51% | 12.83% | 10.72% |
| ROE | 2.94% | 5.79% | -23.51% | -7.81% | 2.94% | 1.74% | 0.96% | -0.14% | -3.55% | 3.86% | 1.37% | -1.16% | 14.04% | 12.00% | 10.92% | 9.47% | 11.66% | 10.46% |
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.
+97.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 4.2x |
| 0.00% |
| -23.61% |
| $2.72B |
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