IDT Corporation offers an attractively valued setup — forward P/E of 13.4x, PEG under 1.0, and three consecutive earnings beats — but the favorable fundamental case is clouded by failed price momentum, distributing volume, and an options market carrying nearly three times as much put as call exposure; the setup favors patience until momentum confirms the thesis.
Thesis pillars
- Attractive Valuation Low Peg→Stable
- Three Consecutive Earnings Beats↓Deteriorating
- Momentum Gate Failure Distribution→Stable
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
IDT Corporation (IDT) Stock Analysis
Communication Services · Telecom Services
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $82.24 — A.R:R is negative (-0.8) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (0.8% away).
IDT Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides fintech and communications solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in four segments: National Retail Solutions, Fintech, Net2phone, and Traditional Communications. The company... Read more
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $82.24 — A.R:R is negative (-0.8) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (0.8% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.8/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, news events none recent, earnings proximity 48d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
About IDT Corporation
About IDT Corporation
IDT Corporation operates four businesses serving largely immigrant and international customers: Traditional Communications (BOSS Revolution international calling and IDT Global wholesale carrier services), NRS point-of-sale terminals and advertising, BOSS Money retail remittance, and net2phone cloud communications. The company runs telecommunications points of presence in Brazil, Canada, and Spain, cloud infrastructure on AWS and Google Cloud, and technology-development teams based in Poland, Belarus, Georgia, and Israel.
IDT's Traditional Communications segment is highly price-sensitive, competing on termination rates for international calls and carrier-to-carrier wholesale minutes, with BOSS Revolution distributed through a network of several hundred U.S. sub-distributors that sell prepaid products into retail outlets. NRS cross-sells POS hardware and services to that same retailer base and layers on advertising revenue from its platform. BOSS Money depends on a licensed network of agents to complete retail money remittance transactions and is exposed to foreign-exchange swings between the U.S. dollar and remittance-corridor currencies, while net2phone competes for cloud voice customers against larger, well-financed alternative communications providers. Cost control leans heavily on offshore labor: technology and development functions are concentrated in Poland, Belarus, Georgia, and Israel, and call-center, administrative, and customer-acquisition functions run out of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic, with additional scale in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina tied to net2phone's growth.
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IDT's clearest geopolitical concentration sits in its technology organization rather than its revenue base: the company states it has a significant number of technology-and-development personnel in Belarus, a country bordering both Russia and Ukraine that has already drawn U.S. and EU sanctions for facilitating the 2022 invasion. IDT warns that any expansion of the conflict into Belarus, additional sanctions, or retaliatory cyberattacks tied to Belarusian involvement could directly impair its product roadmap and platform development, since it has not disclosed a comparable-scale backup location for that engineering capacity. That single-country technology-labor exposure sits alongside a broader admission that revenues generated outside the United States make up a significant share of total revenue, layering currency and emerging-market risk on top of the Belarus-specific geopolitical risk.
See also: Communication Services · Telecom Services
From IDT Corporation's most recent 10-K filing, extracted October 11, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-10-16Recent Developments — IDT Corporation
Latest news
- NEWS IDT Q3 Earnings Call Highlights - MarketBeat — MarketBeat neutral
- NEWS IDT earnings beat by $0.02, revenue topped estimates - Investing.com — Investing.com positive
- NEWS IDT ($IDT) Releases Q3 2026 Earnings - Quiver Quantitative — Quiver Quantitative neutral
- NEWS IDT Corporation Reports Record Quarterly Gross Profit and Raises FY 2026 Adjusted EBITDA Guidance to $150-$152 Million - — Quiver Quantitative positive
- NEWS Earnings Flash (IDT) IDT Corporation Posts Q3 Adjusted EPS $0.94 per Share, vs. FactSet Est of $0.89 - marketscreener.co — marketscreener.com positive
Generated 2026-10-16T11:37:14Z.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- MEDIUMGeographicBelarus technology and development personnel10-K Item 1A: 'We have a significant number of T&D personnel in Belarus.'
- MEDIUMCustomerimmigrant communities10-K Item 1A: 'rely in large part on immigrant communities in the United States and elsewhere'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-06-11Item 5.02LOWDirector Irwin Katsof resigned from the board and its committees on June 9, 2026, not due to any disagreement. Board appointed independent director William Conkling, to chair the Audit Committee.SEC filing →
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Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $82.24 — A.R:R is negative (-0.8) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (0.8% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $76.48. Score 5.8/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $94.58 (-12.1% upside). Prior stop was $76.48. Stop-loss: $76.48.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Near 52-week high (0.8% away); Sector modifier (Communication Services): -0.8.
IDT Corporation trades at a P/E of 23.8 (forward 18.4). TrendMatrix value score: 7.3/10. Verdict: Sell.
5 analysts cover IDT with a consensus score of 4.0/5. Average price target: $85.
What does IDT Corporation do?IDT Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides fintech and communications solutions in the United States,...
IDT Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides fintech and communications solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in four segments: National Retail Solutions, Fintech, Net2phone, and Traditional Communications. The company operates point of sale, a terminal-based platform which provides independent retailers with store management software, electronic payment processing, and other ancillary merchant services; and marketers with retail media advertising and transaction data. It also offers BOSS Money for international money remittance, and related value and payment transfer services, as well as net2phone solutions comprising unified communications as a service; contact center as a service under the uContact brand; net2phone AI, which delivers customer experiences across sales, support, and administrative tasks; and net2phone Coach, a workforce intelligence and coaching platform. In addition, the company provides IDT Digital Payments, which enables businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers to offer prepaid digital offerings, including mobile airtime top-up, mobile data bundles, digital gift cards, and eSIMs through its Zendit platform; and BOSS Revolution, which offers international long-distance voice calling to immigrant communities. Further, it provides IDT Global, a wholesale provider of international voice, SMS termination, and outsourced traffic management solutions to telecoms; and IDT Express, a mobile self-service portal paired with dedicated account managers backed by customer support. IDT Corporation was incorporated in 1978 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.