ACI Worldwide, Inc. (ACIW)

ACI Worldwide, Inc. develops, markets, installs, and supports software products and services for facilitating electronic payments in the United States and worldwide. It operates through Payment Software, and Billers segments. The company offers ACI Acquiring, a solution to process credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions, deliver digital innovation, fraud prevention, and reduce fees; ACI Issuing, a digital payment issuing solution; and ACI Connetic, a solution that offers payment services for processing, routing, and managing various payment types. It provides ACI real-time payments, a solution that provides connectivity to payment rails; ACI RTGS and cross-border, a payments engine that offers multi-currency, payment and STP processing, and back-office integration interfaces; and ACI digital central infrastructure, a solution that offers real-time payments service. Further, it offers ACI Payments Orchestration Platform, a payments platform that orchestrates and optimizes payments; ACI Fraud Management for merchants, billers, and financial institutions; ACI Fraud Scoring Services with artificial and human insights with data intelligence; and Speedpay, an integrated suite of digital billing, payment, disbursement, and communication services. Additionally, it offers electronic bill presentment and payment services to consumer finance, insurance, healthcare, higher education, utility, government, subscription provider, telecommunications, and mortgage sectors; product installations and configurations, and custom software modifications; and business and technical consultancy, on-site support, product education, and testing services, as well distributes software developed by third parties. It has strategic partnerships with dLocal. The company was formerly known as Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and changed its name to ACI Worldwide, Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska.

Symbol
ACIW
Exchange
Nasdaq
Sector
Technology
Industry
Software - Infrastructure
Market cap
$4.98B
52 week range
38.05 - 61.08

Valuation

Share price
$49.22 (close of 2026-09-23)
P/E (TTM)
22.47x
Price to book
3.33x
Price to free cash flow
16.00x
Enterprise value
$5.66B
Book value per share
$14.79

Price performance

PeriodChange
1 day-0.75%
5 days-4.04%
1 month-5.09%
3 months+8.97%
6 months+20.37%
Year to date+2.95%
1 year-6.00%
3 years+111.16%
5 years+56.66%
10 years+159.87%
All time+1551.68%

Profitability and growth

Return on equity
14.92%
Return on invested capital
11.51%
Return on assets
7.30%
Return on capital employed
13.75%
Gross margin
48.99%
Net margin
12.88%
EBITDA margin
24.26%
Revenue growth
10.38%
Net income growth
11.59%
Free cash flow growth
-9.73%

Cash flow and balance sheet

Free cash flow yield (TTM)
6.25%
Current ratio
1.58x
Net debt to EBITDA
1.46x

Latest reported year

Period end
2025-12-31
Fiscal year
2025
Revenue
$1.76B
Cost of revenue
$897.65M
Gross profit
$862.13M
EBITDA
$426.86M
Net income
$226.66M
Earnings per share
$2.18
Shares outstanding
103.96M

Income statement by year

Period endRevenueGross profitNet incomeEPS
2025-12-31$1.76B$862.13M$226.66M$2.18
2024-12-31$1.59B$802.50M$203.12M$1.93
2023-12-31$1.45B$733.37M$121.51M$1.12
2022-12-31$1.42B$725.83M$142.18M$1.25
2021-12-31$1.37B$731.73M$127.79M$1.09
2020-12-31$1.29B$671.86M$72.66M$0.62
2019-12-31$1.26B$640.84M$67.06M$0.58
2018-12-31$1.01B$579.43M$68.92M$0.59
2017-12-31$1.02B$571.90M$5.13M$0.04
2016-12-31$1.01B$560.79M$129.53M$1.10

Margins and returns by year

Period endGross marginNet marginReturn on equityReturn on capital
2025-12-3148.99%12.88%14.92%11.51%
2024-12-3150.34%12.74%14.26%12.05%
2023-12-3150.49%8.37%9.18%8.69%
2022-12-3151.05%10.00%11.92%6.33%
2021-12-3153.39%9.32%10.27%7.25%
2020-12-3151.91%5.61%6.02%5.28%
2019-12-3150.93%5.33%5.93%4.85%
2018-12-3157.38%6.83%6.57%6.56%
2017-12-3155.84%0.50%0.67%3.35%
2016-12-3155.76%12.88%17.16%11.60%

Cash and debt by year

Period endCashDebt
2025-12-31$196.46M$776.67M
2024-12-31$216.39M$889.65M
2023-12-31$164.24M$963.60M
2022-12-31$124.98M$1.02B
2021-12-31$122.06M$1.02B
2020-12-31$165.37M$1.12B
2019-12-31$121.40M$1.34B
2018-12-31$148.50M$650.99M
2017-12-31$69.71M$667.94M
2016-12-31$75.75M$653.60M

Free cash flow by year

Period endFree cash flowStock-based compensation
2025-12-31$309.92M$70.63M
2024-12-31$343.35M$41.28M
2023-12-31$159.59M$24.55M
2022-12-31$130.28M$29.75M
2021-12-31$199.89M$27.24M
2020-12-31$297.09M$29.60M
2019-12-31$109.51M$36.76M
2018-12-31$165.67M$20.36M
2017-12-31$120.48M$13.68M
2016-12-31$59.02M$43.61M

Investor relations

Next earnings report

Next confirmed report
2026-11-05
Consensus EPS estimate
$0.50

Past earnings dates

ReportedFiscal periodEPS estimate
2026-08-06Jun/2026$0.31
2026-05-07--
2026-02-26--
2025-11-06--
2025-08-07--
2025-05-08--
2025-02-27--
2025-02-26--

Filings and sources

Company website
aciworldwide.com
SEC filings
10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
Earnings calendar
All upcoming reports

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