Amdocs Limited $DOX Shares Bought by Hsbc Holdings PLC

Hsbc Holdings PLC increased its stake in Amdocs Limited (NASDAQ:DOX) by 195.6% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 13,528 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 8,951 shares during the quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC’s holdings in Amdocs were worth $1,228,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of DOX. Pzena Investment Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Amdocs by 2.1% during the second quarter. Pzena Investment Management LLC now owns 6,551,065 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $597,719,000 after purchasing an additional 132,463 shares during the period. LSV Asset Management grew its holdings in Amdocs by 6.6% during the 2nd quarter. LSV Asset Management now owns 3,391,510 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $309,441,000 after purchasing an additional 211,009 shares in the last quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. increased its stake in Amdocs by 38.6% during the 1st quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 2,329,767 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $213,174,000 after buying an additional 648,693 shares during the period. American Century Companies Inc. increased its stake in Amdocs by 23.5% during the 1st quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 2,242,829 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $205,219,000 after buying an additional 426,911 shares during the period. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its holdings in Amdocs by 9.4% in the 1st quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 2,120,075 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $193,978,000 after buying an additional 182,489 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 92.02% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on DOX. Wolfe Research restated a “peer perform” rating on shares of Amdocs in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. Stifel Nicolaus reduced their price target on Amdocs from $100.00 to $97.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, November 12th. Bank of America dropped their price target on shares of Amdocs from $100.00 to $97.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, November 12th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Amdocs in a report on Thursday, October 30th. Finally, Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of Amdocs from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, November 8th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $97.00.

Amdocs Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ DOX opened at $77.00 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.17, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The company has a market capitalization of $8.69 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.29 and a beta of 0.43. Amdocs Limited has a twelve month low of $74.32 and a twelve month high of $95.41. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $80.50 and a 200-day simple moving average of $85.59.

Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 11th. The technology company reported $1.83 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.82 by $0.01. Amdocs had a return on equity of 19.78% and a net margin of 12.46%.The firm had revenue of $1.15 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.70 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 9.0% on a year-over-year basis. Amdocs has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.270-7.550 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 1.730-1.790 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Amdocs Limited will post 6.21 earnings per share for the current year.

Amdocs Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, January 30th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $0.527 per share. This represents a $2.11 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 31st. Amdocs’s dividend payout ratio is currently 41.78%.

About Amdocs

Amdocs Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides software and services worldwide. It designs, develops, operates, implements, supports, and markets open and modular cloud portfolio. The company provides CES23, a 5G and cloud-native microservices-based market-leading customer experience suite, that enables service providers to build, deliver, and monetize advanced services; Amdocs Subscription Marketplace, a software-as-a-service-based platform that includes an expansive network of pre-integrated digital services, such as media, gaming, eLearning, sports, and retail to security and business services; the monetization suite for charging, billing, policy, and revenue management; Intelligent networking suite with a set of modular, flexible, and open service lifecycle management capabilities for network automation journeys; amAIz, a telco GenAI framework; Amdocs Digital Brands Suite, a pre-integrated digital business suite; and Amdocs eSIM Cloud for service providers.