PERSISTENT SYSTEMS LTD
PERSISTENT.NS NSE Earnings in 53 daysPersistent Systems Ltd looks about 53% overvalued against its cash-flow value. Its growth outlook scores strong; the balance sheet is solid.
At a glance
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the tiles above, in a line each- Value Looks ~53% overvalued against Otto's cash-flow estimate.
- Health 18 of 22 health checks pass.
- Growth Revenue trend ≈ +15%/yr (extended trend, not a forecast).
- Street Analysts lean hold · avg target -3% from here.
- Dividend Pays a dividend — yields 0.64%.
Not investment advice — Otto just crunches numbers.
Price trend
+6723.1% over all saved history · NIFTY 50 +352.0%
What think
The market's move: +6723.1% over the past year
Trading 60% up its 52-week range. Price is the market's live vote — not advice.
Analyst consensus: Hold · 34 analysts
Average 12-month target ₹5,497.68 — -3.0% vs today.
Yahoo Finance's analyst aggregate. Sentiment, not advice.
Insider filings come from SEC EDGAR — US companies only, so there's none for PERSISTENT.NS.
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The snowflake
checks passed on each axis- Value 0/2 checks
- Future 4/4 checks
- Past 4/4 checks
- Health 6/6 checks
- Dividend 4/6 checks
What does this show?
Five quick health scores — Value, Future, Past, Health and Dividend — each 0–100%. A bigger, more even shape means a stock that scores well across the board; a spiky one is strong on some axes and weak on others.
Learn more on Investopedia →Fair value
our estimate · not analyst forecast53% above our estimate — the price sits over what our numbers support.
How we got there
A 2-stage discounted-cash-flow on free cash flow: grow it at the capped historical trend for five years, fade to a 2.5% long-run rate, discount everything at 9.0%. It's a transparent estimate from past numbers, not a licensed forecast — treat it as one lens, not truth.
What does this show?
Our estimate of what one share is worth based on the cash the business is expected to generate (a discounted-cash-flow model), next to today's price. Below fair value hints undervalued, above hints expensive — it's an estimate, not a guarantee.
Learn more on Investopedia →Health checks
22 checks run on free data- ⚠ Trading below our fair-value estimate -53% vs our DCF estimate
- ⚠ More than 20% below fair value -53% margin of safety
- ⚠ Yield beats the market yield 0.64% vs market ~1.5%
- ⚠ Yield in the top quartile of payers yield 0.64% vs 2.36% cut among the 93 payers Otto tracks
- ✓ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 3.8% vs 5.2%
- ✓ Debt is under 40% of equity debt/equity 7%
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Value 0/2 passed
- ⚠ Trading below our fair-value estimate -53% vs our DCF estimate
- – P/B below industry industry P/B not on the free feed
- – P/E below industry industry P/E not on the free feed
- – P/E below peer average peer P/Es land after the next refresh
- – P/S sane vs its own history needs multi-year P/S (Tier B)
- ⚠ More than 20% below fair value -53% margin of safety
Future 4/4 passed
- ✓ Earnings trending up 26.5%/yr over 3yr
- – Growth beats the industry industry growth not on the free feed
- ✓ Earnings growth beats the market 26.5%/yr vs market ~9.0%
- ✓ Revenue trending up 20.9%/yr over 3yr
- ✓ Return on equity improving ROE 23.8% vs 23.2% 3yr ago
Past 4/4 passed
- ✓ Earnings grew over the period 9.2B → 18.7B
- – High-quality earnings (few one-offs) one-off detection deferred — needs statement detail
- ✓ Growth accelerating vs its average latest 33.2%/yr vs 26.5% average
- ✓ Revenue higher than five years ago 83.5B → 147.5B
- ✓ Return on equity above 20% ROE 25.2%
Health 6/6 passed
- ✓ Debt/equity falling over time long-term debt/equity 3.8% vs 5.2%
- ✓ Debt is under 40% of equity debt/equity 7%
- ✓ Debt well covered by cash flow operating cash flow covers 370.0% of debt
- ✓ Interest comfortably covered by profit EBIT covers interest 34.2×
- ✓ Short-term assets cover long-term debt 71.0B vs 6.1B
- ✓ Short-term assets cover short-term bills 71.0B vs 29.2B
Dividend 4/6 passed
- ✓ Dividend covered by earnings and cash flow covered by both earnings and free cash flow
- ✓ Dividend growing over time over 4yr on record
- ✓ No dividend cut in recent years steady over 4yr on record
- ✓ Payout ratio under 75% payout 30.3% of earnings
- ⚠ Yield beats the market yield 0.64% vs market ~1.5%
- ⚠ Yield in the top quartile of payers yield 0.64% vs 2.36% cut among the 93 payers Otto tracks
What does this show?
Pass/fail rules on the company's finances — debt levels, profitability, cash cover and so on. More greens means a sturdier balance sheet; an n/a just means we didn't have that data point.
Learn more on Investopedia →Past performance
recent history from Yahoo FinanceRevenue
Earnings
Free cash flow
dashed line = what it'd look like growing at our ~9% market-average benchmark, for comparison
Deeper 10-yr statements are US-only for now — Otto's showing PERSISTENT.NS's Yahoo figures instead.
What does this show?
How revenue, earnings and free cash flow have grown over the years. Bars rising left-to-right show a growing business; the dashed line is a market-average pace for comparison.
Learn more on Investopedia →Revenue & expenses
FY 2026What does this show?
How a company turns sales into profit. Revenue splits into the direct cost of sales and the gross profit left over; from that gross profit come operating costs (R&D, SG&A), tax and interest — what survives is net income. Every figure is also shown as a share of revenue, so you can compare periods and companies of different sizes.
Learn more on Investopedia →Future
trend, not analyst forecastRevenue · extended at 15.0%/yr
Earnings · extended at 15.0%/yr
Dashed bars just extend the historical trend (capped at ±15%/yr) — the same growth our DCF uses. It's arithmetic on the past, not an analyst forecast; real futures bend.
What does this show?
Solid bars are history; dashed bars simply extend the past growth trend a few years forward — capped so it stays sane. It's a trend line, not an analyst forecast.
Learn more on Investopedia →Dividend
from cash actually paid, not promisesTotal dividends paid · split-proof, unlike per-share history
What does this show?
The share of profit paid back to shareholders as cash. Yield is that cash as a % of the price; the payout gauge shows how much of earnings is paid out (over ~75% can be hard to sustain).
Learn more on Investopedia →Ownership & insiders
Insider-trade filings come from SEC EDGAR, which covers US companies only — there's no free equivalent for Indian filings yet, so Otto skips this one for PERSISTENT.NS.
What does this show?
Buys and sells by the company's own directors and officers, from their SEC filings. Insiders sell for many reasons, but clusters of open-market buying can signal confidence.
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What does this show?
A few peers in the same business, each with its own mini snowflake, so you can see how this company stacks up rather than judging it in isolation. Anyone signed in can add a missing competitor — it shows for everyone, marked as user-added.
Learn more on Investopedia →Leadership
Yahoo Finance · photos & bios via Wikidata-
Dr. Anand Suresh Deshpande Ph.D.
Founder, Chairman & MD
- Age
- 63
- Total yearly comp
- ₹42.93M
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Mr. Kuljesh Puri
Executive VP & Global Head of Communications, Media & Technology
- Age
- 52
- Total yearly comp
- ₹13.53M
Ranked by title — reporting lines aren't public data. Compensation is the total Yahoo reports; blank means it isn't disclosed there.
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