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Elastic NV(ESTC)
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Upturn Advisory & Investor View for ESTC
09/28/2026: ESTC (2-star) has a low Upturn Star Rating. Not recommended to BUY.
Elastic NV is an infrastructure software company that provides a powerful, search-driven platform used for observability, cybersecurity, and enterprise search. Its main strength lies in its widely-adopted open-source foundation, which has allowed it to build a sticky enterprise customer base. The primary growth opportunity involves scaling its Elastic Cloud managed services and integrating Generative AI capabilities into its platform. However, the company faces significant competition from large cloud hyperscalers and specialized software providers, and has yet to consistently produce GAAP profitability. Elastic is best suited for growth-oriented investors who can tolerate price volatility while monitoring the company's execution against major infrastructure competitors.
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Investor Fit
| Investor style | Fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Growth investor | Strong fit | Elastic is a high-growth software company expanding its footprint in critical observability and security markets. |
| Momentum investor | Mixed fit | Momentum suitability depends on positive price trends and sustained revenue beat signals. |
| Value investor | Weak fit | Elastic is currently valued on growth and future platform potential rather than earnings multiples. |
| Dividend investor | Weak fit | The company does not pay dividends and prioritizes reinvestment for growth. |
| Low-risk investor | Weak fit | The stock exhibits high price volatility common with high-growth technology companies. |
Risk Profile
| Risk factor | Level | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Price volatility | High | High-growth software stocks often experience sharp price movements based on quarterly earnings results. |
| Valuation risk | Medium / high | Investors pay a premium for growth, making the stock sensitive to changes in growth expectations or interest rates. |
| Competition risk (AI and Cloud Infrastructure) | High | Intense competition from cloud providers and integrated AI platforms could pressure market share. |
| Business quality | Medium | Elastic has a strong recurring revenue base but continues to balance growth with achieving consistent profitability. |
| Dividend income | Low / none | The company does not provide income through dividends. |
| Execution risk | Medium | Success depends on effectively scaling the cloud business while competing against hyperscalers. |
Price Behavior
Strong Uptrend
The stock has maintained a strong upward price trend across the last three quarters.
Choppy
The stock has experienced frequent reversals and pronounced short-term price swings.
Analysis of Past Performance
Type Stock | Historic Profit -33.82% | Avg. Invested days 24 | Today’s Advisory Consider higher Upturn Star rating |
Upturn Advisory Rating  | Upturn Advisory Performance  1.0 | Stock Returns Performance  1.0 |
| Profits based on simulation | Last Close 09/28/2026 |
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Key Highlights
Company Size Mid-Cap Stock | Market Capitalization 9.25B USD | Price to earnings Ratio 25.18 | 1Y Target Price 110.69 |
Price to earnings Ratio 25.18 | 1Y Target Price 110.69 | ||
Volume (30-day avg) 2.7M shares | Beta 1.04 | 52 Weeks Range 42.05 - 108.00 | Updated Date 09/27/2026 |
52 Weeks Range 42.05 - 108.00 | Updated Date 09/27/2026 | ||
Dividends yield (FY) - | Basic EPS (TTM) 3.5 |
How Company Makes Money
| Business area | What it includes | Retail investor read |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic Cloud | Subscription revenue from managed service deployments on public clouds. | This is the primary growth engine representing recurring revenue from cloud usage. |
| Self-Managed Subscriptions | Licensing fees for customers running Elastic software on their own infrastructure. | This segment provides stable revenue from existing long-term enterprise customers. |
| Geography | Global sales across Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions. | Elastic has a broad international footprint, reducing reliance on any single regional economy. |
Analyzing Revenue: Products, Geography and Growth
Revenue by Products
Product revenue - Year on Year
Revenue by Geography
Geography revenue - Year on Year
Valuation
Trailing PE 25.18 | Forward PE 27.4 | Enterprise Value 8.72B | Price to Sales(TTM) 5.13 |
Enterprise Value 8.72B | Price to Sales(TTM) 5.13 | ||
Enterprise Value to Revenue 4.84 | Enterprise Value to EBITDA 473.87 | Shares Outstanding 104.99M | Shares Floating 86.67M |
Shares Outstanding 104.99M | Shares Floating 86.67M | ||
Percent Insiders 11.86 | Percent Institutions 89.22 |
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Financial Metrics
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Total Revenue (Scale)
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Net Income (Profit)
Final profit after all expenses, interest, and taxes are deducted. It is needed to determine the overall profitability available to shareholders.
Free Cash Flow (Cash Strength)
Cash remaining after operating activities and capital expenditures, showing cash available for growth. It is needed to evaluate the company’s ability to invest, pay dividends, or reduce debt.
📈 Growth & Strength
Operating Income (Core Profit)
Profit from core operations after deducting all operating expenses. It is needed to measure how efficiently the company runs its primary business activities.
EBITDA (Cash Earnings)
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, indicating operating cash potential. It is needed to compare operating performance across companies without accounting or financing differences.
Gross Profit (Unit Profitability)
Revenue minus cost of revenue, showing profit after direct production costs. It is needed to evaluate core business profitability before overhead expenses.
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Cash (Liquidity Buffer)
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Total Debt (Leverage Risk)
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Net Working Capital (Short-Term Health)
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Stockholder Equity (Net Worth)
Total equity value held by shareholders. It is needed to understand the net worth of the company from the owners’ perspective.
Total Assets (Asset Base)
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Income Before Tax (Pre-Tax Earnings)
Income before provision for income taxes. It is needed to analyze profitability independent of tax structures.
⚙️ Cost & Drag Factors
Cost of Revenue (Production Cost)
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Total Operating Expenses (Operating Cost)
Indirect costs of running the business such as salaries, marketing, and administration. It is needed to understand how much it costs to sustain ongoing business operations.
Income Tax Expense (Tax Drag)
Amount of taxes paid or payable to the government. It is needed to evaluate the impact of taxation on overall profitability.
About Elastic NV
Exchange NYSE | Headquarters - | ||
IPO Launch date 2018-10-05 | CEO & Executive Director Mr. Ashutosh Kulkarni | ||
Sector Technology | Industry Software - Application | Full time employees 3834 | Website https://www.elastic.co |
Full time employees 3834 | Website https://www.elastic.co | ||
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 Elasticsearch 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; Search & AI, 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 brings unified datastore, including Logs analytics to search, analyze, and visualize petabytes of structured and unstructured logs; infrastructure monitoring to gain visibility across cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, serverless, and hosts; Application Performance Monitoring to support native production-grade; digital experience monitoring; large language models; and Elastic Cloud, a cloud-based subscription offering such as Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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