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PDFS
Pdf Solutions Inc
NASDAQ· Technology· Software - Application· CUSIP 693282105
$39.47-10.32%Price as of Oct 23, 00:54 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Pdf Solutions Inc (PDFS) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Application, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, United States and has 600 employees. The company is worth $1.67B and trades at 179.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $219.02M in fiscal 2025, up 22.0% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $640K. The share price is 44.9% below its 52-week high of $71.69. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Steve Cohen (Point72 Asset Management), at $42.4M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position. 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.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $1.67B
- P/E
- 179.4x
- Forward P/E
- 23.9x
- P/B
- 4.4x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $0.22
- ROE
- 3.27%
- Profit margin
- 4.27%
- Revenue growth
- +18.90%
- Beta
- 1.66
- 52-week high
- $71.69
- 52-week low
- $23.55
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Steve CohenNew positionPoint72 Asset Management · Q2 2026$42.4M598.9K shares · 0.1% of portfolio
- Baillie GiffordNew positionBaillie Gifford & Co · Q2 2026$24.46M345.47K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ken GriffinAddedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$5.98M84.42K shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Israel EnglanderNew positionMillennium Management · Q2 2026$3.25M45.94K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Cliff AsnessHeldAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$3.23M45.58K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Two SigmaHeldTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$396.42K5.6K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ray DalioHeldBridgewater Associates · Q2 2026$340.29K4.81K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +31.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,666.81▲ +66.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $28.53 | $27.08 | $32.14 | $28.52 | $31.79 | $21.60 | $16.89 | $8.43 | $15.70 | $22.55 | $10.84 | $14.86 | $25.62 | $13.78 | $6.97 | $4.82 | $3.85 | |
| P/E | 33.0x | — | 270.8x | 401.7x | — | — | — | — | — | — | 80.5x | 27.8x | 25.6x | 38.2x | 11.0x | 99.6x | — | — |
| P/S | 5.2x | 5.2x | 5.9x | 7.5x | 7.3x | 10.8x | 9.1x | 6.5x | 3.2x | 5.0x | 6.7x | 3.5x | 4.7x | 7.7x | 4.5x | 3.0x | 2.2x | 2.1x |
| P/B | 3.5x | 4.2x | 4.3x | 5.4x | 5.1x | 5.5x | 3.4x | 2.8x | 1.4x | 2.6x | 3.6x | 1.9x | 2.9x | 5.8x | 4.0x | 3.5x | 2.6x | 2.2x |
| EPS | -$0.02 | $0.10 | $0.08 | -$0.09 | -$0.58 | -$1.17 | -$0.17 | -$0.24 | -$0.04 | $0.28 | $0.39 | $0.58 | $0.67 | $1.25 | $0.07 | $0.00 | -$0.69 | |
| Profit margin | 0.04% | -0.29% | 2.26% | 1.87% | -2.31% | -19.35% | -45.84% | -6.33% | -8.99% | -1.31% | 8.47% | 12.66% | 18.43% | 20.63% | 41.56% | 2.82% | 0.04% | -37.31% |
| ROE | 0.04% | -0.24% | 1.65% | 1.36% | -1.63% | -9.79% | -17.21% | -2.76% | -3.86% | -0.67% | 4.58% | 7.12% | 11.41% | 15.54% | 36.82% | 3.31% | 0.04% | -39.55% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$6.63
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$5.50
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$6.16
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$7.26
Median P/E of 33.0 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $6.39 (avg. of 4)÷ 1 =$6.39
$6.39
4 methods answered, across 1 families.
$4.79
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$39.47
-83.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVCMEverCommerce Inc. | $9.41 | 62.7x | 2.3x | 0.00% | 3.89% | $1.66B |
| EFOREverforth Inc | $41.00 | 20.3x | 0.9x | 0.00% | 4.57% | $1.68B |
| PLABPhotronics Inc | $27.90 | 10.3x | 1.3x | 0.00% | 13.77% | $1.65B |
| ALKTAlkami Technology Inc | $15.95 | — | 4.7x | 0.00% | -12.77% | $1.71B |
| PICSPicS N.V. | $13.17 | 6.8x | 1.4x | 0.00% | — | $1.71B |
| NYAXNayax Ltd. | $45.89 | 218.5x | 7.0x | 0.00% | 3.52% | $1.72B |
About the company
- 600
- Santa Clara, United States