Autodesk
ADSK Nasdaq· Application Software
Last close · Oct 26, 2026
$249.45
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Autodesk had $7.2B of revenue in fiscal 2026, up 17.5% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +13.7% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 21.9%, down 0.2 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 22 is left after running the business.
- Autodesk made $1.1B of net profit in fiscal 2026.
- Free cash flow was $2.4B in fiscal 2026, 33.4% of revenue.
- Autodesk returned $1.4B to shareholders in fiscal 2026, 58% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 0.9%.
- Autodesk has $97.0M more cash than debt.
Market cap
$52.6B
P/E
32.3x
Revenue
$7.2B
Net income
$1.1B
Free cash flow
$2.4B
Operating margin
21.9%
Autodesk in 30 seconds · fiscal 2026
Are sales growing?
+17.5%
Yes. Sales grew 17.5% last year.
Does it make a profit?
15.6%
Yes. It keeps 15.6% of every sale as profit.
Does profit turn into cash?
33.4%
Yes. 33.4% of sales ends up as free cash.
Is debt under control?
Net cash
Yes. It has more cash than debt.
How healthy are the accounts?
8 / 9
Solid. It passes 8 of 9 health tests.
How is the share priced?
32.3x
One share costs 32.3 times its yearly profit per share. Typical for its sector: 33.5x.
What Autodesk does
Autodesk sells design and engineering software. Architects, engineers, builders, product makers and film and game studios use it to draw, model, simulate and manage projects before they are built. Its best-known products are AutoCAD and Revit for buildings and infrastructure, Fusion and Inventor for product design and manufacturing, and Maya and 3ds Max for animation and visual effects. Autodesk earns revenue mainly from subscriptions, where customers pay for term-based access to desktop software and cloud services, including enterprise agreements that cover many users. It describes its offerings in three groups: architecture, engineering, construction and operations; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. It sells through its own online store and sales staff, and through a network of about 1,170 resellers and distributors. For fiscal 2026, approximately 37% of revenue came from indirect sales through distributors and resellers.
Biggest risks, in its own words
- Reliance on a small number of products, mainly AutoCAD-based software, for a large share of revenue.
- Difficulty predicting whether customers will renew their subscriptions.
- Competition and fast technology change that could cut its revenue and profit.
- Dependence on resellers and distributors, and changes in how it sells through them.
- Fiscal year ends
- January 31, 2026
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Mar 3, 2026
- Legal name
- Autodesk, Inc.
- CIK
- 0000769397
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.
| Fiscal year | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $4.4B | $5.0B | $5.5B | $6.1B | $7.2B |
| Revenue growth | 15.7% | 14.1% | 9.8% | 11.5% | 17.5% |
| Gross margin | 90.5% | 90.4% | 90.7% | 90.6% | 91.0% |
| Operating margin | 14.1% | 19.8% | 20.5% | 22.1% | 21.9% |
| Net income | $497M | $823M | $906M | $1.1B | $1.1B |
| Net margin | 11.3% | 16.4% | 16.5% | 18.1% | 15.6% |
| Diluted EPS | $2.24 | $3.78 | $4.19 | $5.12 | $5.23 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $1.5B | $2.1B | $1.3B | $1.6B | $2.5B |
| Capital expenditure | $56.0M | $40.0M | $31.0M | $40.0M | $43.0M |
| Free cash flow | $1.5B | $2.0B | $1.3B | $1.6B | $2.4B |
| FCF margin | 33.6% | 40.6% | 23.3% | 25.6% | 33.4% |
| Dividends paid | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M |
| Share buybacks | $1.1B | $1.1B | $795M | $852M | $1.4B |
| Share count change | 0.0% | −1.8% | −0.9% | 0.5% | −0.9% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $1.8B | $2.1B | $2.2B | $1.9B | $2.6B |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $2.7B | $2.3B | $2.3B | $2.3B | $2.5B |
| Shareholders' equity | $849M | $1.1B | $1.9B | $2.6B | $3.0B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.2x | 0.2x | 0.0x | 0.3x | −0.1x |
| Current ratio | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.9x |
| Interest coverage | 10.7x | 11.9x | 15.9x | 19.1x | 19.7x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 42.2% | 55.4% | 54.8% | 44.0% | 37.0% |
| Return on equity | 54.8% | 82.6% | 60.4% | 49.7% | 39.7% |
| Piotroski F-score | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| Altman Z'' | −1.1 | −0.3 | −0.1 | −0.2 | 0.4 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$2.2M
4 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Of sales under plans
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$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
Similar companies
Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.
| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autodesk ADSK | $52.6B | 17.5% | 21.9% | 33.4% | 37.0% | 32.3x | 8 |
| Synopsys SNPS | $87.4B | 15.1% | 13.0% | 19.1% | 4.0% | 79.4x | 3 |
| Atlassian TEAM | $58.1B | 26.0% | 0.2% | 20.1% | — | — | 7 |
| Workday WDAY | $51.4B | 13.1% | 7.6% | 29.1% | 10.6% | 42.2x | 7 |
| Cadence Design Systems CDNS | $88.2B | 14.1% | 28.2% | 30.0% | 23.7% | 75.1x | 5 |
Price compared with profit (P/E)
How many times its yearly profit per share one share costs. Higher means investors pay more for each unit of profit.
KIRA
At $249.45 a share, the company is worth $52.6B: 32.3 times its earnings of the last four quarters.
Autodesk grew sales faster than 3 of its 4 similar companies. Its P/E is higher than 0 of 3.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0000769397). Data updated October 9, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.