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Appian Corp A APPN

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Appian Continues to Innovate on Process Automation Capabilities

Emma Williams,

Appian is a leading provider of low-code enterprise software for business process management, or BPM, specializing in process automation. We expect digitization tailwinds to fuel demand for low-code BPM software over the coming decade, as businesses seek to drive operating efficiencies and automate manual processes. However, while we’re encouraged by the firm’s ongoing investments to support top-line growth, we expect this will be at the expense of profitability for the foreseeable future.

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Price vs Fair Value

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APPN is trading at a 866% premium.
Price
$31.13
Fair Value
$48.00
Uncertainty
Very High
1-Star Price
$14.10
5-Star Price
$25.00
Economic Moat
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Capital Allocation
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Bulls Say, Bears Say

Bulls

Appian’s cloud retention metrics are strong, indicating that once customers are on the platform, they rarely leave.

Bears

Appian has yet to turn a GAAP profit, and faces continued competition from Pegasystems, as well as larger companies such as Salesforce and ServiceNow.

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Trading Information

Previous Close Price
$30.76
Day Range
$30.65–31.47
52-Week Range
$26.28–52.99
Bid/Ask
$30.64 / $31.61
Market Cap
$2.25 Bil
Volume/Avg
381,267 / 512,114

Key Statistics

Price/Earnings (Normalized)
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Price/Sales
4.07
Dividend Yield (Trailing)
—
Dividend Yield (Forward)
—
Total Yield
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Company Profile

Appian is a low-code enterprise platform-as-a-service company focusing on business process management. The Appian platform is an integrated automation platform providing tools for organizations to design, automate, and optimize end-to-end processes and complex business operations. Capabilities include case management, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, data fabric, and process mining. Most of Appian’s revenue is subscription based with the remainder from services, with much of its subscription revenue being derived from its cloud-based platform, Appian Cloud.
Sector
Technology
Industry
Software - Infrastructure
Stock Style Box
Small Core
Total Number of Employees
2,243
Website
https://www.appian.com

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Valuation

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Metric
APPN
CRM
NOW
Price/Earnings (Normalized)
 —28.5067.24
Price/Book Value
 —4.1720.12
Price/Sales
 4.077.0517.30
Price/Cash Flow
 —18.0443.51
Price/Earnings
APPN
CRM
NOW

Financial Strength

Metric
APPN
CRM
NOW
Quick Ratio
 1.020.950.91
Current Ratio
 1.331.111.05
Interest Coverage
 −4.1947.3638.58
Quick Ratio
APPN
CRM
NOW

Profitability

Metric
APPN
CRM
NOW
Return on Assets (Normalized)
 −9.09%9.32%15.52%
Return on Equity (Normalized)
 −90.87%15.06%34.41%
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized)
 −11.44%12.53%23.41%
Return on Assets
APPN
CRM
NOW
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