How is Adobe (ADBE) doing?
Adobe is a company in the software, application industry, based in San Jose, CA, worth $96.3B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Weak
Adobe shares are down 31% over the past year, 40 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Falling Knife. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 8th percentile on market beat, the 20th on staying power and the 39th on business growth. It appears on 13 of our dashboards.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Falling Knife
Lagging erratically on a soft business, with buyers trying to catch it.
Falling Knife this month; Bottom Fished before that.
Also Falling Knife (55 in all): CDNS · ITW · MDT · IR · VLTO · WFC
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Software / cloud, 53 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Enterprise software and cloud — the long-duration growth engine.
Adobe is −31% over the past year, against +15% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 47th of 53 in Software / cloud.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Adobe typically moves 3.5% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 66% of large US stocks.
ADBE on our dashboards
Every question where Adobe appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with ADBE highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality | 89Building | 56 of 60 | Years of growth 4 years · Growth, 5Y +9% a yr · Latest EPS 16.70 |
| Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality | 99Excellent | 6 of 60 | Return on capital 41% · Gross margin 89% · Cash margin 42% |
| Which companies are built to last? Business quality | 75Durable | 17 of 60 | Steady margins 98 · Reliable cash 58 · Balance sheet 70 |
| Which companies invest the most in research? Business quality | 80Moderate | 40 of 60 | R&D / revenue 18.1% · R&D a year $4.7B · R&D, 1Y +12% |
| Which stocks are cheap for their growth? Value | 81Cheap | 42 of 60 | PEG 0.72 · Forward P/E 9.6× · Expected EPS growth +13% |
| Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow? Value | 93Cheap | 35 of 60 | Cash yield 10.7% · Price / FCF 9.4× · Cash margin 42% |
| Which stocks are cheap against their own history? Value | 98Cheap | 30 of 60 | P/E now 13.5x · 10-yr median 50.0x · Earnings, 1Y +12% |
| Which stocks fell even though the business grew? Value | – | 11 of 38 | Price, 1Y −31% · Sales, 1Y +12% · EPS, 1Y +12% |
| Which stocks are cheaper than their rivals? Value | 87Cheaper | 58 of 60 | P/E 13.5x · Rivals’ P/E 22.2x · Growth gap −4 pts |
| Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks | 98Shrinking | 12 of 60 | Shares, 1Y −8.1% · Bought back $12.1B · % of value 12.5% |
| Which companies pay the most in stock? Dividends and buybacks | 93Heavy | 26 of 60 | % of revenue 8.0% · A year $2.1B · % of cash flow 19% |
| Which companies return the most cash to shareholders? Dividends and buybacks | 97Generous | 17 of 60 | Total 12.5% · Dividends 0.0% · Buybacks 12.5% |
| What is Congress trading? Who’s buying and selling | 4Sold | 13 of 60 | Buying 1 · Selling 3 · Bought $8K |
Go deeper on Stox
ADBE’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see ADBE’s full profile on Stox.
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