PEGAPegasystems Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: 7 of 9 health tests passed, earnings fully cash-backed (3.4×), and margins widening.
High fundamental quality. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
High-quality, exceptional returns on the assets themselves, not leverage. ROE 52% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is PEGA?
Pegasystems Inc. earns 57% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 48 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 9.9%
Operating margin · Software - Application median 6.9% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 3.39×
Cash conversion · 1.74× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −8.4%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −14% |
| FY2021 | −7.8% |
| FY2022 | −8.3% |
| FY2023 | 5.7% |
| FY2024 | 8.3% |
| FY2025 | 15% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 76%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 9.9%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 17%
- Free cash flow margin
- 25%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 18%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.75B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $442M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $295M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 57%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Software, Application
Ranks #30 of 92 by RyuScore