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Perion Network

PERI
23
Internet Content & Information · Communication Services
Price
$9.81
+0.31 (+3.26%)
Market Cap
$405.2M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
23
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+11.3% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 37.8M (2021) → 42.1M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Perion Network is a digital advertising technology company based in Israel. It helps brands and advertisers show ads to people across websites, apps, and connected TV. Its main products include tools for search advertising, display ads, and video ads, and it serves both advertisers looking to reach audiences and publishers (website owners) who want to earn money from their content.

Perion makes money by taking a cut of the advertising spending that flows through its platform — it connects advertisers with ad space and keeps a percentage of each transaction. The company operates mainly in the United States and Europe and generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Perion has historically relied heavily on a partnership with Microsoft's Bing search advertising network, which creates meaningful concentration risk — if that relationship weakens, revenue can drop sharply. Diversifying away from that dependency and growing its non-search advertising products is the key challenge the business faces going forward.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-4.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

-117.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$35M/ year

Declining (-6% vs prior year)

7.9% of revenue

Below sector average (12%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

7.0%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$269M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue declining

Perion Network's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
26.6%
Modest — 26.6% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-7.6%
Losing money on operations — -7.6%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-2.8%
Weak — -2.8% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+2.9%
Nearly flat sales (+2.9% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
8.0%
Modest free cash flow (8.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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