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ADBE · Nasdaq

Adobe Inc.

Information Technology · Software

$248.12

-0.66%

Close on Oct 29, 2026

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Research data through Oct 28, 2026. Research is updated periodically, not in real time.

Quality

81

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Quality research reads 81 of 100, in the strongest band of the covered universe. The underlying fundamental measurements behind this reading are consistent rather than mixed.

Quality research measures durability of the business itself from stored fundamentals: balance-sheet strength, profitability consistency and cash generation. It is a research reading, not a prediction of future returns.

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Fundamental Momentum

Middle

52

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Fundamental Momentum research reads 52 of 100. Stored measurements classify recent reported fundamentals as middle. This describes reported financial change already disclosed, with no forward-looking claim.

Fundamental Momentum research measures the direction of recently reported company fundamentals compared with the company's own history. It describes reported change, not future price movement.

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Capital Returns

Strong

71

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Capital Returns research reads 71 of 100, recorded as strong. No dividend is recorded for this company, so the reading rests on buybacks and dilution control. Share count has been reduced at about 3.5% a year in the stored window.

Capital Returns research measures how a company has actually returned cash to shareholders: dividend record, buyback effectiveness, dilution control and how those payments were funded.

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Valuation context

Price / earnings
13.7

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What this company does

Adobe’s mission is to empower everyone to create. We build innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. For over four decades, our innovations have transformed how people everywhere engage across all types of media. Adobe’s solutions are the foundation of digital experiences, starting with the first creative spark, to the creation and development of all content and media, to the personalized delivery across every channel.

Our focus revolves around serving our customer audiences: business professionals, consumers, creators, creative professionals and marketing professionals. The massive opportunity and evolving role of creativity across roles and industries have driven Adobe’s growth over the past four decades and are expected to continue to drive our growth going forward as we evolve our solutions and routes to market to anticipate the growing needs of our customers. In the artificial intelligence ("AI") era, we are harnessing the power of AI across our solutions by bringing together our commercially safe first-party and leading partner AI models best suited for the job; deploying conversational and agentic capabilities across offerings; ensuring ubiquity on all surfaces; delivering trusted and secure solutions; and expanding our global presence.

Adobe’s value proposition is to empower creative expression across multiple media types and channels, at scale, in a collaborative and secure environment, with an end-to-end integrated platform spanning ideation, creation, production and activation. We power the entire content workflow with Adobe’s AI platform, which offers customers brand safety, compliance, intellectual property protection, and reliability.

Adobe’s strategy is to empower our customer audiences—business professionals, consumers, creators, creative professionals and marketing professionals—to be more creative, productive and successful. Underpinning our customer-focused solutions is our AI strategy and Adobe’s AI platform. As a technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experience orchestration, we deliver end-to-end professional creative and marketing solutions. We support our customers to transform the way they connect with their customers and bring creativity and marketing together in new and powerful ways through a connected ecosystem of tools, agents and workflows. We are scaling differentiated digital and enterprise routes to market and automated workflows to expand our brand value and global reach.

Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed January 15, 2026. Read the filing

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