Quick Update for ANSYS (ANSS) Investors

By Blake Campbell • Wednesday, September 20 11:12 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of ANSYS, a Software company whose shares moved 1.2% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

ANSYS has moved 33.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 19.0%
ANSS has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.02% away from its mean target price of $340.31 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $5.94
ANSYS has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 52.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $9.68 and its forward P/E ratio is 32.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.53 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
ANSYS is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 27.16 and an average P/B of 6.23
ANSS has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -29.2% and gross profit margins of 0.9%
The company has a free cash flow of $541.02 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services worldwide. It offers ANSYS Workbench, a framework upon which its multiphysics engineering simulation technologies are built and enables engineers to simulate the interactions between structures, heat transfer, fluids, electronics, and optical elements in a unified engineering simulation environment; high-performance computing product suite and the cloud; power analysis and optimization software suite that manages the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design; and structural analysis product suite that provides simulation tools for product design and optimization. The company also provides electronics product suite that offers electromagnetic field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; SCADE product suite, a solution for embedded software simulation, code production, and automated certification; fluids product suite that enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; Ansys Granta products to give access to material intelligence; photonic design and simulation tools; and optical sensor and closed-loop, and real-time simulation, as well as safety-certified embedded software solutions. In addition, the company provides Discovery product family for use in the simulation of product design; and academic product suite used in research and teaching settings, which allows students to become familiar with its simulation software. It serves engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the aerospace and defense, automotive, construction, consumer products, energy, healthcare, high-tech, industrial equipment, and materials and chemical processing industries. ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

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