Audiocodes Stock Story

AUDC

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USD 22.97 0.49 2.18%

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Audiocodes Earnings Before Interest Taxes and Depreciation Amortization EBITDA are projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Earnings Before Interest Taxes and Depreciation Amortization EBITDA were at 41.96 Million. The current year Earnings before Tax is expected to grow to about 42.8 M, whereas Average Assets are forecasted to decline to about 308.9 M. Today we will go over Audiocodes. I will take a closer look at this stock and the current sentiment generated by investors. Here I will also go over some fundamental indicators that the firm investors should consider in September.

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Is Audiocodes (NASDAQ:AUDC) finally getting endorsement from investors?

The company is undervalued at 30.67 per share with modest projections ahead.

The firm shows a Beta (market volatility) of 1.2202, which signifies a somewhat significant risk relative to the market. Let's try to break down what Audiocodes's beta means in this case. As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Audiocodes will likely underperform. Even though it is essential to pay attention to Audiocodes historical returns, it is always good to be careful when utilizing equity current trending patterns. Our philosophy in foreseeing any stock's future performance is to check both, its past performance charts as well as the business as a whole, including all available technical indicators. Audiocodes exposes twenty-eight different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate its performance. Audiocodes has an expected return of -0.0326%. Please be advised to confirm Audiocodes treynor ratio, expected short fall, and the relationship between the jensen alpha and potential upside to decide if Audiocodes performance from the past will be repeated at some point in the near future.

Is Audiocodes (NASDAQ:AUDC) finally getting endorsement from investors?

And What about dividends?

A dividend is the distribution of a portion of Audiocodes earnings, decided and managed by the company's board of directors and paid to a class of its shareholders. Note, announcements of dividend payouts are generally accompanied by a proportional increase or decrease in a company's stock price. Audiocodes dividend payments follow a chronological order of events, and the associated dates are important to determine the shareholders who qualify for receiving the dividend payment. Audiocodes one year expected dividend income is about $0.36 per share.

The current year Dividend Yield is expected to grow to 0.009789, whereas Payment of Dividends and Other Cash Distributions is forecasted to decline to (11.7 M).

	Last Reported	Projected for 2022
Payment of Dividends and Other Cash Distributions	-10.9 M	-11.7 M
Dividend Yield	0.009	0.009789
Dividends per Basic Common Share	0.33	0.33

Investing in dividend-paying stocks, such as Audiocodes is one of the few strategies that are good for long-term investment. Ex-dividend dates are significant because investors in Audiocodes must own a stock before its ex-dividend date to receive its next dividend.

This type of analysis is very useful when you want to generate a past dividend schedule and payout information for Audiocodes. Then that information in the form of graph and calendar can be used to fully explain how Du Pont dividends can provide a real clue to its valuation.

How important is Audiocodes's Liquidity

Audiocodes financial leverage refers to using borrowed capital as a funding source to finance Audiocodes ongoing operations. It is usually used to expand the firm's asset base and generate returns on borrowed capital. Audiocodes financial leverage is typically calculated by taking the company's all interest-bearing debt and dividing it by total capital. So the higher the debt-to-capital ratio (i.e., financial leverage), the riskier the company. Please check the breakdown between Audiocodes's total debt and its cash.

How does Audiocodes utilize its cash?

To perform a cash flow analysis of Audiocodes, investors first need to understand how to read the cash flow statement. A cash flow statement shows the amount of cash Audiocodes is receiving and how much cash it distributes out in a given period. The Audiocodes cash flow statement breaks down these inflows and outflows into different buckets, including operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities.

Audiocodes Net Cash Flow from Operations is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Net Cash Flow from Operations was at 47.34 Million

What did Audiocodes file with SEC?

The SEC filings are financial statements or other formal documents of Audiocodes that are regularly submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Public companies, certain insiders, and broker-dealers are required to make SEC filings and fintech professionals rely on these filings for information about companies they are evaluating for investment purposes. Please note, most SEC filings are available online through the SEC's EDGAR database.

Please check here for more information.

Please note, although all public domestic companies are required to submit their filings via EDGAR, not all public companies are available through our service. Also, keep in mind that the actual annual reports to Audiocodes shareholders may or may not be submitted as SEC does not always require it.

	2nd of August 2022 Other Events	View
	14th of February 2022 Unclassified Corporate Event	View

Is Audiocodes valued fairly by the market?

Audiocodes retains a total of 32.3 Million outstanding shares. Audiocodes retains significant amount of outstanding shares owned by insiders. An insider is usually defined as a CEO, other corporate executive, director, or institutional investor who own at least 10% of the company outstanding shares. Since such a large part of the company is owned by insiders, it is advisable to analyze if each of these insiders have been buying or selling the stock in recent months. Note that regardless of who owns the company, if the true value of the entity is less than the market is willing to pay for it, you may not be able to generate positive returns over time.

	2019	2020	2021	2022 (projected)
Revenues USD	200.29 M	220.77 M	248.92 M	228.93 M
Revenues	200.29 M	220.77 M	248.92 M	228.93 M

Revenues USD Revenues

Ownership Breakdown

Retail Investors

33.8%

Insiders

25.0%

Institutions

41.2%

	Retail Investors	33.8
	Insiders	25.0
	Institutions	41.2

Are you still ambivalent about Audiocodes?

Audiocodes current total risk alpha builds up over 0.14. Audiocodes currently demonstrates below-average downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of 0.05 and Jensen Alpha of 0.13. However, we advise investors to further question Audiocodes expected returns to ensure all indicators are consistent with the current outlook about its relatively low value at risk. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Audiocodes' stock risk against market volatility during both bullying and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Audiocodes' stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different stocks as prices fall.

Audiocodes Implied Volatility

Audiocodes' implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Audiocodes stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Audiocodes' implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Audiocodes stock will not fluctuate a lot when Audiocodes' options are near their expiration.

Our Final Take On Audiocodes

When is the right time to buy or sell Audiocodes? Buying stocks such as Audiocodes isn't very hard. However, what challenging for most investors is doing it at the right time. Proper market timing is something most people cannot do without sophisticated tools, which help to isolate the right opportunities, deliver winning trades and diversify portfolios on a daily basis.

On the whole, as of the 2nd of August 2022, our current 90 days buy-sell recommendation on the company is Strong Hold. We believe Audiocodes is undervalued with very low chance of bankruptcy for the next two years.

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Vlad Skutelnik is a Macroaxis Contributor. Vlad covers stocks, funds, cryptocurrencies, and ETFs that are traded in North America, focusing primarily on fundamentals, valuation and market volatility. He has many years of experience in fintech, predictive investment analytics, and risk management. View Profile

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