Company Analysis

Progress Software Corporation (PRGS)

Nasdaq: PRGS · Services-Prepackaged Software · Burlington, MA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade6.3
◀ Past 6.0● Present 6.8▶ Future 6.0

The grade of Progress Software Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.3/10
◀ Past6.025% of the headline
● Present6.835% of the headline
▶ Future6.040% of the headline

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

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.0/1025% 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

Progress Software Corporation'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
4.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+10.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

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

From the record

Progress Software Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $405 million in fiscal 2016 to $978 million in fiscal 2025, up 10.3% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 7% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span10.3%bottom 27% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 31% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 15% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak6.5%bottom 38% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.2% a year. 47% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 18 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-11-30, Progress Software Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 47% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 18 sales (18 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-22 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 23% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 36% 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?

6.8/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 81%: owes 81¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 217 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-11-30, Progress Software Corporation earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 32 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 81 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 19% of its family
  • return on equitytop 21% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 47% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 16% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.7/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 33% of 218 in its family; net margin 7.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 67th percentile among 218 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Progress Software Corporation's standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $978 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 32% by size; a net margin of 7.5% ranks in the top 34%; revenue growth of 17.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 34% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$978Mtop 32% of its family
  • net margin7.5%top 34% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth17.5%top 34% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
9.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 9% of 139 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2016.

weight 22% of this tense · 91st percentile among 139 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Progress Software Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gupta, Yogesh K (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-10-11, 10.1 years (top 13% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.5 years (top 13%); no officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 2%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge0 in three years among 16 peopletop 2% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.5 yearstop 13% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record10.1 yearstop 13% of its family

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

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 47% of 216 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 216 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Progress Software Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $95 million against debt of $1.0 billion leaves -38.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 4% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.5% of revenue (top 27%); a gross margin of 80.8% (top 19%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-38.5%bottom 4% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue23.5%top 27% of its family
  • gross margin80.8%top 19% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
7.6/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 24% of 213 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 76th percentile among 213 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Progress Software Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 17.5% a year over the last three filed years against 10.3% over all 10, speeding up (top 5% of its family); the newest year grew 29.8% (top 16%); capital spending grew -2.2% a year (bottom 49%) (its annual reports). Progress Software Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Maintenance and Services at $740 million (76%), Software Licenses at $238 million (24%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+7.3 points a yeartop 5% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth29.8%top 16% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-2.2%bottom 49% 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
4.3/10

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

bottom 43% of 194 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 194 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Progress Software Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $978 million in fiscal 2025 came in 16% above the $843 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 16% of its family); net income of $73 million against a prior three-year average of $78 million (bottom 25%); a net margin of 7.5% against 11.7% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace16.0%top 16% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-6%bottom 25% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-4.2 pointsbottom 19% 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 PRGS · research, not advice