QualityDipStocks / Telecommunications · Telecommunications Equipment
IHS IHS
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 3% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: the model’s result is too extreme to stand behind.
Worth knowing
- Net cash = 19% of its market cap
- Operating margin 52%, top 3% of the 1288 we measure
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −3%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.45
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
Estimate unreliable for IHS: the model gives 300% above the price, more than we can stand behind (usually peak-cycle cash flow, heavy debt, or cash flows that include customer or loan balances). We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, IHS’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 21% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much IHS moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 2.0× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.45
- Volatility
- 25% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.23
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.21
How it ranks
Where IHS stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 2 of 4 measures
- Free cash flow yield25% · free cash flow vs market capTop 1%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield0% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capLowest 1%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+3.6% · vs the 12 months beforeLowest 23%of 1,814
- Operating margin52% · of sales kept as operating profitTop 2%of 1,288
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 25.3% (price / FCF 4.0×): $719M of free cash in the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityOperating margin widened to 51.9% in FY2025 from 27.2% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Balance sheetNet cash of $530M: cash and short-term investments exceed debt (Dec 31, 2025).
ProfitabilityGross margin widened to 55.4% in FY2025 from 46.2% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 45% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 2.3× over the last 12 months.
GrowthSales shrank 7% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ValuationP/E of 19.8×, above the 14.4× median for the 26 Telecommunications companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: net debt 3.4× EBITDA (limit 3×).
RiskReports earnings Nov 11: results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
All fundamentals
P/E 19.8 · FCF yield 25.3% · Sales +4%
Valuation
- P/E
- 19.8×Telecommunications median 14.4×
- Price / FCF
- 4.0×
- FCF yield
- 25.3%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 1.80×
- Price / book
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Market cap
- $2.8Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $2.3B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.6B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +3.6%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −6.9%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $0.42
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- $144M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 55.4%
- Operating margin
- 51.9%
- Net margin
- 9.1%
- FCF margin
- 45.4%
- Return on equity
- n/anegative shareholder equity
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $826M
- Total debt
- $296M
- Net cash
- $530M
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 2.3×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $719M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +45%
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Dec 31, 2025; balance sheet at Dec 31, 2025. From IHS’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $-0.3B · Sales +10%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$0.3B
- Free-cash-flow yield25.3%
- Free-cash-flow margin−20%
- Gross margin54%
- Operating margin20%
- Return on invested capital12%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+10%
- Net debt / EBITDA3.5×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $8.48
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$6.24−26.4%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$8.48you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$8.73+2.9%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 59 · 5 days +0.4%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Next report
Nov 11
- DateWed Nov 11
- Year-ago EPS$0.44
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
IHS is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on IHS in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Telecommunications Equipment
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.