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Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.

CCSI · NMS · Technology · Software - Infrastructure

Current price

$36.66

52-week range

$20.20 - $41.40

Market cap

$671.79M

One-glance verdict

Undervalued

$66.80 our estimate vs market $36.66

Wall Street consensus: $42.25 (-36.8% lower than our fair-value estimate)

Balance sheet

Distressed

4.23x Stretched

Net debt $467.04M. Interest coverage shows how many times profit covers the interest bill.

What this company does

Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.

Consensus Cloud Solutions helps businesses send and receive information securely using cloud-based software, with their main offerings like digital fax services and electronic signatures generating the bulk of their money. This matters because reliable and secure information exchange is crucial for many industries, especially healthcare, allowing them to operate smoothly and keep sensitive data safe.

Price history

How the share price has moved

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Earnings history

Last 8 quarters — what happened

Click any quarter to read the call summary and what the numbers say.

Free cash flow by quarter (oldest to newest)
FY2024 Q3 $33.59M FY2024 Q4 $3.15M FY2025 Q1 $33.75M FY2025 Q2 $20.34M FY2025 Q3 $44.44M FY2025 Q4 $7.32M FY2026 Q1 $38.45M FY2026 Q2 $25.46M
Revenue $91.36M
Net income $27.37M
Diluted EPS 1.43
Operating cash flow $33.27M
Free cash flow $25.46M
Revenue $88.47M
Net income $24.68M
Diluted EPS 1.30
Operating cash flow $45.83M
Free cash flow $38.45M
Revenue $87.07M
Net income $20.50M
Diluted EPS 1.06
Operating cash flow $15.22M
Free cash flow $7.32M
Revenue $87.77M
Net income $22.09M
Diluted EPS 1.15
Operating cash flow $51.63M
Free cash flow $44.44M
Revenue $87.72M
Net income $20.78M
Diluted EPS 1.07
Operating cash flow $28.30M
Free cash flow $20.34M
Revenue $87.14M
Net income $21.15M
Diluted EPS 1.07
Operating cash flow $40.94M
Free cash flow $33.75M
Revenue $86.98M
Net income $18.07M
Diluted EPS 0.92
Operating cash flow $11.13M
Free cash flow $3.15M
Revenue $87.75M
Net income $21.12M
Diluted EPS 1.09
Operating cash flow $41.57M
Free cash flow $33.59M

Is it cheap or expensive?

Fair value $66.80 vs current price $36.66

Wall Street consensus is the average analyst price target: $42.25 (-36.8% lower than our fair-value estimate).

Our most-likely fair value is $66.80 a share — about 82.2% above today's price of $36.66, so the stock currently looks cheap (undervalued).

undervalued

We estimate the cash this business should generate over the next 10 years and beyond, then convert it to today's money for a fair value per share, in its trading currency. Cautious, middle and optimistic growth cases give a range. Not for banks/insurers.

Base

Growth 10.0% · Discount 12.3% · Terminal 3.0%

$66.80

Bear

Growth 5.0% · Discount 12.3% · Terminal 3.0%

$45.53

Bull

Growth 18.0% · Discount 12.3% · Terminal 3.0%

$114.01

Is it drowning in debt?

Distressed

Net debt $467.0M. Interest coverage 4.2x.

Net debt $467.04M
Interest coverage 4.23x

Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.'s profit covers its interest bill about 4.2 times over. which is weaker than most peers shown here.

Distressed
Worse cushion Baseline Better cushion
CCSI BASELINE Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.

Total debt $565.94M Interest coverage 4.23x This is the baseline the peer rows are being compared against.

4.23x
MSFT Microsoft Corporation

Total debt $128.81B Interest coverage 50.88x +1,103% vs CCSI Carries about 12.0x more debt cushion than CCSI.

50.88x +1,103% vs CCSI
IBM International Business Machines Corporation

Total debt $65.27B Interest coverage 6.46x +53% vs CCSI Carries about 1.5x more debt cushion than CCSI.

6.46x +53% vs CCSI
GOOGL Alphabet Inc.

Total debt $120.79B Interest coverage 175.32x +4,046% vs CCSI Carries about 41.5x more debt cushion than CCSI.

175.32x +4,046% vs CCSI
ADBE Adobe Inc.

Total debt $6.79B Interest coverage 33.10x +683% vs CCSI Carries about 7.8x more debt cushion than CCSI.

33.10x +683% vs CCSI

What you should know

The case for and against CCSI

3 Rewards 1 Risk

Rewards

  • Revenue grew 1.4% last year.
  • Returns 1254.8% on equity, ahead of 83% of its peers.
  • Free cash flow was positive in 7/10 years.

Risks

  • Operating margin compressed from 41.9% to 40.3% over 3 years.

The numbers

All the key metrics, grouped by purpose

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Valuation

How expensive the stock looks

P/E (TTM)
7.44x
Forward P/E
5.99x
P/B
16.18x
P/S
1.89x
EV/EBITDA
6.69x
PEG ratio
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Profitability

How much profit each dollar creates

Gross margin
80.2%
Operating margin
40.3%
Net margin
26.7%
ROE
1,254.8%
ROA
13.8%

Health

Liquidity and balance-sheet strength

Debt / equity
13.62x
Current ratio
1.90x
Quick ratio
1.76x
Total debt
$565.94M
Total cash
$98.90M

Growth

How the business has been compounding

Revenue TTM
$354.67M
Revenue 5Y CAGR
-0.2%
EPS TTM
4.93
EPS 5Y CAGR
6.3%

Cash flow

How much cash the business throws off

Operating CF TTM
$145.94M
Free CF TTM
$105.85M
FCF margin
29.8%

Dividend

Shareholder payout

Yield
0.0%
Payout ratio
0.0%
Last ex-div date
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