Company Analysis

NICE Ltd (NICE)

Nasdaq: NICE · Services-Prepackaged Software · Ra'Anana, IL · filing with the SEC since 1999
Grade6.0
◀ Past 7.2● Present 6.9▶ Future 4.5
1 est.

The grade of NICE Ltd

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.0/10
◀ Past7.225% of the headline
● Present6.935% of the headline
▶ Future4.540% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.2/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 230 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

NICE Ltd's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
6.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+12.6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 68th percentile among 213 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

NICE Ltd's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 12.6% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span12.6%bottom 33% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 27% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 7% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.8% a year. 54% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, NICE Ltd's diluted share count shrank about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 54% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.9/1035% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
7.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 16%: 16¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 24%: owes 24¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 76th percentile among 217 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, NICE Ltd earned about 16 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 24 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 20% of its family
  • return on equitytop 20% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 41% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 26% of 218 in its family; net margin 20.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 74th percentile among 218 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

NICE Ltd's standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 13% by size; a net margin of 20.8% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of 10.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 47% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.95Btop 13% of its family
  • net margin20.8%top 13% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth10.5%bottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
4.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.8/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 157 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 157 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: NICE Ltd's leadership is put at 4.8 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 157 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.5/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.4/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 44% of 216 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 44th percentile among 216 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

NICE Ltd's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $379 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 7.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.7% of revenue (top 26%); a gross margin of 66.4% (bottom 43%); research spending of 12.2% of revenue (bottom 22%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets7.4%bottom 38% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue23.7%top 26% of its family
  • gross margin66.4%bottom 43% of its family
  • research spending against revenue12.2%bottom 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.2/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 42% of 213 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 213 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

NICE Ltd's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 10.5% a year over the last three filed years against 12.6% over all 10, slowing (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 7.7% (bottom 35%); research spending grew 5.6% a year (bottom 43%); capital spending grew -16% a year (bottom 31%) (its annual reports). NICE Ltd reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Cloud at $2.2 billion (76%), Service at $560 million (19%), Product at $147 million (5%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-2.0 points a yeartop 39% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.7%bottom 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending5.6%bottom 43% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-16.0%bottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 50% of 194 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 194 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

NICE Ltd's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.8% below the $3.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 34% of its family); net income of $612 million against a prior three-year average of $347 million (top 33%); a net margin of 20.8% against 14.1% before (bottom 48%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-3.8%bottom 34% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+76%top 33% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+6.7 pointsbottom 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton NICE · research, not advice