NICE Ltd is a cloud-based software company trading at a forward P/E of 6.9x with 52% analyst upside and a 32% margin of safety, but confirmed downward price momentum with the 200-day moving average declining at 6.7%/month and a death cross create a challenging near-term technical environment despite the compelling valuation.
Thesis pillars
- Deep Value Software Discount↓Deteriorating
- High Quality Business Metrics→Stable
- Earnings Beat Consistency↓Deteriorating
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
NICE Ltd (NICE) Stock Analysis
Breakout setup
Technology · Software - Application
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $116.42 — A.R:R is negative (-0.1) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Sector modifier (Technology): -0.8.
NICE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides AI-powered cloud platforms for customer engagement, and financial crime and compliance in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Customer Engagement; and Financial... Read more
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $116.42 — A.R:R is negative (-0.1) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Sector modifier (Technology): -0.8. Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 64, MACD bullish. Score 5.7/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 34d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: moderate.
Recent developments
updated 2026-10-08Recent Developments — NICE Ltd
Latest news
- NEWS NICE Ltd (NICE) Shares Surge 4.1% -- What GF Score of 89 Tells I - GuruFocus — GuruFocus positive
- NEWS NICE upped to Outperform on improving financials as AI disruption fears ease: Oppenheimer - Seeking Alpha — Seeking Alpha positive
- NEWS Oppenheimer upgrades NICE stock rating on AI platform strength - Investing.com — Investing.com positive
- NEWS NiCE (NASDAQ:NICE) Stock Moved Up to "Outperform" by Oppenheimer - MarketBeat — MarketBeat positive
- NEWS TETRA Technologies: Nice Assets, Wrong Strategy - Seeking Alpha — Seeking Alpha negative
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Rating Breakdown
2 floor-breakers
Growth below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
Technicals below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $116.42 — A.R:R is negative (-0.1) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Sector modifier (Technology): -0.8. Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 64, MACD bullish. Prior stop was $108.27. Score 5.7/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $125.94 (-0.8% upside). Prior stop was $108.27. Stop-loss: $108.27.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Sector modifier (Technology): -0.8; Weak growth.
NICE Ltd trades at a P/E of 16.9 (forward 9.2). TrendMatrix value score: 7.6/10. Verdict: Sell.
15 analysts cover NICE with a consensus score of 3.9/5. Average price target: $133.
What does NICE Ltd do?NICE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides AI-powered cloud platforms for customer engagement, and financial...
NICE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides AI-powered cloud platforms for customer engagement, and financial crime and compliance in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Customer Engagement; and Financial Crime and Compliance. The Customer Engagement segment provides CXone Mpower platform for organizations to automate service, augment the workforce with AI-powered solutions, and unify enterprise knowledge, data and AI models resolutions, and customer experiences. The Financial Crime and Compliance segment offers embedded-AI solutions that identify risks and help prevent money laundering and fraud, as well as help ensure financial markets compliance in real-time. It also provides NICE Evidencentral, a digital evidence management and investigation platform for criminal justice system. In addition, the company offers NiCE Actimize provides cloud platforms embedded with AI capabilities for real-time and cross-channel fraud prevention, know-your-customer, anti-money laundering, and capital markets compliance; X-Sight, an open AI-cloud platform for Financial Crime and Compliance, enabling financial services organizations; Xceed which provides AI, data intelligence, machine learning, and insights for AML and fraud prevention for small and mid-sized organizations; cloud platforms provide financial services organizations with the agility required to adapt changing regulatory and threat landscapes; data intelligence solutions enable organizations to turn raw data into actionable intelligence to prevent and detect financial crimes; AI and analytics; intelligent investigations solutions; and self-service solutions. The company also develops NiCE Labs, a AI innovation initiatives for customer experience and related solutions. The company was formerly known as NICE-Systems Ltd. and changed its name to NICE Ltd. in June 2016. NICE Ltd. was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel.