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Symantec Corp. (SYMC)

Sector:

IT Services

Index:

Nasdaq 100

Market Cap

$9,309m

Change Today

Price Down-$0.94 (-7.81%)

Share Price

$11.09

Symantec Corp. Overview

Founded in 1982, Symantec is the world leader in information security technology, providing a broad range of software, appliances and services, including its Norton brand of security products, to businesses, individuals and service providers. The company provides client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, security management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services to businesses and service providers around the world.

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Income & Efficiency

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 0.0% 0.0%
Div Cover n/a n/a
Op Mrgn 10.3% 27.9%
ROCE 411.0%  

Valuation

Latest F'cast
P/E 20.9 8.2
PEG 0.8 0.4
Pr/Revenue 1.6 1.5
Pr/Book 0.8  

Growth

Latest F'cast
Revenue 13.0% 5.0%
PBT 12.8% 141.6%
EPS 26.2% 20.1%
DPS n/a n/a

Symantec Corp. Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue ($m) Pre-tax ($m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Mar-05 2,582.85 858.13 81.00¢ 26.3 0.2 +119% n/a 0.0%
31-Mar-06 4,143.39 362.72 16.00¢ 105.2 n/a -80% n/a 0.0%
30-Mar-07 5,199.37 631.62 42.00¢ 41.2 0.3 +162% n/a 0.0%
31-Mar-07 5,199.37 631.62 42.00¢ 41.2 n/a n/a n/a 0.0%
28-Mar-08 5,874.42 712.52 53.00¢ 31.7 1.2 +26% n/a 0.0%

Symantec Corp. Forecasts

Year Ending Revenue ($m) Pre-tax ($m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Mar-09 6,166.10 1,721.41 135.76¢ 8.2 0.4 +20% n/a 0.0%
31-Mar-10 6,320.22 1,793.83 142.62¢ 7.8 1.5 +5% n/a 0.0%

Covering analysts: Actual, Argus Research, Atlantic Equities, Bank of America Securities, Barclays Capital, Citigroup Investment Research, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Research, First Analysis Securities Corp, Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co, Garp Research & Securities, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Mackinac Research - Soleil, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Keegan, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Pacific Crest, Raymond James, RBC Capital Markets, Robert W. Baird & Co, Standard & Poors, Stanford Financial, Stifel Nicolaus, ThinkPanmure, Thomas Weisel Partners, Wachovia Securities

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Note 2: RiskGrade figures are provided by RiskMetrics.

Note 3: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

Symantec Corp. Market Data

Currency US Dollars
Share Price $11.09  
Change Today -$0.94
52 Week High $22.65
52 Week Low $10.05
Volume 12,519,508
Shares Issued 839.39m
Market Cap $9,309m
Beta 0.86
RiskGrade 420

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 11
Buy 3
Neutral 16
Sell 0
Strong Sell 0
Total 30
buy
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Symantec Corp. Dividends

No dividends found

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