Elastic N.V. ESTC
Elastic N.V. (ESTC) earns a Piotroski F-score of 5/9 (mixed financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the grey zone. It does not currently pay a dividend. FY2026 revenue was $1.7B at a 21.1% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.01 — grey zone (between the usual thresholds). A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | Rosenblatt | Buy (main) |
| 2026-06-25 | Cantor Fitzgerald | Neutral (reit) |
| 2026-05-29 | Barclays | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-05-29 | Jefferies | Buy (main) |
| 2026-05-29 | DA Davidson | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-05-29 | Canaccord Genuity | Buy (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 5/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · grey zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.26 |
| Retained earnings / assets | -0.232 |
| EBIT / assets | -0.011 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.68 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESTC | Elastic N.V. | 5/9 | 1.59 | 15.9 | +17.3% |
| ACIW | ACI WORLDWIDE, INC. | 7/9 | 4.45 | 22.1 | +10.4% |
| PCTY | Paylocity Holding Corp | 8/9 | 2.15 | 21.1 | +11% |
| YMM | Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. | 4/9 | 17.05 | — | +16% |
| TDC | TERADATA CORP /DE/ | 7/9 | -2.88 | 23.8 | -5% |
| U | Unity Software Inc. | 5/9 | -0.19 | — | +2% |
| BSY | BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC | 9/9 | 0.4 | 32.8 | +11% |
About Elastic N.V.
Elastic N.V., a search artificial intelligence (AI) company, provides software platforms to run in hybrid, public or private clouds, and multi-cloud environments in the United States and internationally. It primarily offers Elastic's Search AI Platform, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company also provides Elastic search product a distributed, real-time vector database and analytics engine and data store for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the platforms; Elasticsearch search platform, a platform with retrieval algorithms and the ability to integrate with large language models; and elastic security, a security solution that provides unified protection to prevent, detect, and respond to threats. In addition, it offers Elastic Observability, a solution that enables unified analysis, including Logs analytics to search and analyze petabytes of structured and unstructured logs; infrastructure monitoring to gain visibility across cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, serverless, and hosts; Application Performance Monitoring to stream native production-grade; digital experience monitoring; and large language models. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
FAQ
Is ESTC financially healthy?
Elastic N.V.'s Piotroski F-score is 5/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the grey zone.
Does ESTC pay a dividend?
No, Elastic N.V. does not currently pay a dividend.
How profitable is ESTC?
In FY2026, Elastic N.V. had a net margin of 21.1% and a return on equity of 28.8%.
What is ESTC's P/E ratio?
Elastic N.V.'s trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is about 15.9×, based on its latest annual earnings.
What is the analyst price target for ESTC?
The average Wall-Street price target for Elastic N.V. is $74.26, about 3.8% below the recent price, from 27 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is ESTC a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Elastic N.V.: a Piotroski F-score of 5/9, an Altman Z″ in the grey zone, a P/E of about 15.9×. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2026-04-30. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.