Quick Heal Technologies Analysis

dividend

Pros

• Dividends paid are well covered by earnings (2.8x coverage).
• Quick Heal Technologies's pays a higher dividend yield than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in India (0.75%).
• Quick Heal Technologies's dividend is above the markets top 25% of dividend payers in India (3.1%).

Cons

• Dividend payments have increased, but Quick Heal Technologies only paid a dividend in the past 4 years.
• Quick Heal Technologies has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years and during this time payments have been volatile (annual drop of over 20%).

health

Pros

• Quick Heal Technologies is able to meet its short term (1 year) commitments with its holdings of cash and other short term assets.
• Quick Heal Technologies is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Quick Heal Technologies is profitable, therefore cash runway is not a concern.
• Quick Heal Technologies has no debt, it does not need to be covered by operating cash flow.
• Quick Heal Technologies has no debt, it does not need to be covered by short term assets.
• Quick Heal Technologies's cash and other short term assets cover its long term commitments.
• Quick Heal Technologies has not taken on any debt in the past 5 years.
• Quick Heal Technologies has no debt, therefore coverage of interest payments is not a concern.
• Quick Heal Technologies has no debt.

Cons

• High level of physical assets or inventory.

management

Pros

• The tenure for the Quick Heal Technologies board of directors is about average.
• Kailash's compensation has been consistent with company performance over the past year, both up more than 20%.
• More shares have been bought than sold by Quick Heal Technologies individual insiders in the past 3 months.
• The tenure for the Quick Heal Technologies management team is about average.

Cons

• Kailash's remuneration is higher than average for companies of similar size in India.

misc

Pros

Cons

• Quick Heal Technologies is not covered by any analysts.
• Quick Heal Technologies has significant price volatility in the past 3 months.

past

Pros

• Quick Heal Technologies's year on year earnings growth rate has been positive over the past 5 years.
• Quick Heal Technologies used its assets more efficiently than the IN Software industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
• Quick Heal Technologies has significantly improved its use of capital last year versus 3 years ago (Return on Capital Employed).

Cons

• Quick Heal Technologies's 1-year earnings growth is negative, it can't be compared to the 5-year average.
• Quick Heal Technologies has not efficiently used shareholders’ funds last year (Return on Equity less than 20%).
• Quick Heal Technologies's 1-year earnings growth is negative, it can't be compared to the IN Software industry average.

value

Pros

• Quick Heal Technologies is good value based on earnings compared to the IN Software industry average.
• Quick Heal Technologies is good value based on earnings compared to the India market.

Cons

• Quick Heal Technologies's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a moderate discount (< 20%).
• Quick Heal Technologies's share price is above the future cash flow value, it's not available at a substantial discount (< 40%).
• Quick Heal Technologies is overvalued based on assets compared to the IN Software industry average.
• QUICKHEAL underperformed the Software industry which returned -29.9% over the past year.
• QUICKHEAL underperformed the Market in India which returned -14.8% over the past year.
• NSEI:QUICKHEAL is down -4.2% underperforming the Software industry which returned 8.8% over the past month.
• NSEI:QUICKHEAL is down -4.2% underperforming the market in India which returned 9% over the past month.