Based on key financial metrics such as the price-to-sales ratio, shareholder yield and the price-earnings ratio, the following 5 stocks made the list for top value stocks in the Software industry. Those looking for value stocks to add to their portfolio may want to use this list as a starting point for further investment research.

Why Focus on Undervalued Software Stocks?

Value investors seek to buy stocks at a discount to their intrinsic value. Long-term returns show that such strategies are advantageous. Value stocks, as a group, tend to outperform growth stocks over extended periods of time. Typically, value investors perform financial analysis of numerous metrics, don’t follow the herd and are long-term investors.

AAII’s A+ Investor Value Grade is derived from a stock’s Value Score. The Value Score is the percentile rank of the average of the percentile ranks of the price-to-sales ratio, price-earnings ratio, enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) ratio, shareholder yield, price-to-book-value ratio and price-to-free-cash-flow ratio. The score is variable, meaning it can consider all six ratios or, should any of the six ratios not be valid, the remaining ratios that are valid. To be assigned a Value Score, stocks must have a valid (non-null) ratio and corresponding ranking for at least two of the six valuation ratios.

What Goes Into AAII’s Value Grade?

Stock evaluation requires access to huge amounts of data as well as the knowledge and time to sift through it all, make sense of financial ratios, read income statements and analyze recent stock movement. AAII created A+ Investor, a robust data suite that condenses data research in an actionable and customizable way suitable for investors of all knowledge levels, to help investors with that task.

AAII’s proprietary stock grades come with A+ Investor. These offer intuitive A–F grades for more than just value. It is possible for a stock to appear cheap based on one valuation metric but appear expensive on another. It is also possible for one valuation ratio to be associated with outperforming stocks during certain periods of time but not others. Some stocks may even have null values for certain metrics like the price-earnings ratio or the price-to-book ratio but not others. An example of this would be a company with losses instead of profits or a negative book value because of heavy borrowing. Negative earnings or book value result in non-meaningful ratios that are left blank or null.

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5 Undervalued Software Stocks

Of course, there are countless value stocks that are worth mentioning, but this is a concise list of the top 5 undervalued stocks in the Software industry for Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Let’s take a closer look at their individual scores to see how they measure up against each other and the Software industry median.

The Value Grade is assigned based on how each stock’s composite valuation compares to all other stocks.

The process for assigning grades starts with each variable for a given stock. The percentile rankings for all valid ratios that a stock has are calculated. So, for instance, a stock could have a price-to-book ranking in the 43rd percentile, a price-earnings ranking in the 67th percentile, a price-to-sales ranking in the 23rd percentile, etc. Then, those rankings are averaged for each stock. (A minimum of two valid variables are required, though all six will be used if available.)

Once the average of the individual variables is calculated, that average is ranked against all stocks. Put another way, each stock’s composite valuation is compared to all other stocks. These ranks are then sorted into quintiles from the cheapest 20% (a grade of A) to the most expensive 20% (a grade of F).

As always, we recommend that you conduct proper due diligence and research before investing in any security. We also suggest that investors utilize numerous grades, not just value, when it comes to deciding whether a company is a good fit for their allocation needs.

CXApp Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

CXApp Inc., formerly KINS Technology Group Inc., is engaged in developing enterprise employee experiences (CX) platform with connected intelligence (AI). The Company's CXApp platform offers a range of technology workplace experience solutions, including an enterprise employee application, indoor mapping, on-device positioning, augmented reality technologies and an AI-based analytics platform, targeting the emerging hybrid workplace market to provide experiences across people, places, and things. The Company, through its Workplace SuperApp, creates a connected workplace by reducing app overload, data fragmentation, and complex workflows and streamlines all capabilities. It offers various features, such as desk booking, room booking, office mapping, indoor navigation, find a colleague, workplace analytics, internal communications, notifications and proximity messaging, amenities and reservations, event management, and meetings and enterprise briefing center (EBC).

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

CXApp Inc has a Value Score of 94, which is considered to be undervalued.

CXApp Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 1.98 compared to the industry median at 40.22. This means it has a lower share price relative to earnings compared to its peers. This could make CXApp Inc more attractive for value investors.

Shareholder yield is the sum of a stock’s dividend yield (paid over previous 12 months minus special dividends) and the percentage of net share buybacks over the previous 12 months. CXApp Inc’s shareholder yield is higher than its industry median ratio of (2.08%). Value investors may look for an attractive shareholder yield because it can be a powerful tool for identifying if the company has a good management team.

As one of the most common value metrics, the price-to-book ratio evaluates a company’s current market price relative to its book value. CXApp Inc’s price-to-book ratio is lower than its industry median ratio of 3.34. This could make CXApp Inc more attractive to investors looking for a new addition to their portfolio.

I-On Digital Corp’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

On Digital Corp is a Korea-based company mainly engaged in the software business. The Company is engaged in the development and operation of application software for enterprise content management systems (CMSs), digital marketing as well as other fields and provision of software as a service (SAAS). The Company is also engaged in the provision of information technology (IT) convergence, IT consultancy and other related technical services.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

I-On Digital Corp has a Value Score of 91, which is considered to be undervalued.

I-On Digital Corp’s price-earnings ratio is 17.6 compared to the industry median at 40.2. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes I-On Digital Corp more attractive for value investors.

You can read more about I-On Digital Corp’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

iSpecimen Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

iSpecimen Inc. is a technology-driven company. The Company designed iSpecimen Marketplace platform to transform the biospecimen procurement process to accelerate medical discovery. Its technology consolidates the biospecimen buying experience in a single, online marketplace that brings together healthcare providers who have biospecimens and researchers across industry, academia, and government institutions who need them. The Company’s marketplace platform ingests de-identified healthcare data provided by healthcare supply partners. The iSpecimen Marketplace supports the supply chain management and bioprocurement process for specimens and associated data. The Company’s platform helps with administrating and reporting function for researchers, suppliers, and internal personnel, including user and compliance management. The Company serves to biopharmaceutical companies, in vitro diagnostic (IVD) companies, and government/academic institutions.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

iSpecimen Inc has a Value Score of 76, which is considered to be undervalued.

iSpecimen Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make iSpecimen Inc less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 3.34.

You can read more about iSpecimen Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Movella Holdings Inc’s Value Grade

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Movella Holdings Inc. is a full-stack provider of integrated sensors, software, and analytics that enable the digitization of movement. The Company powers real-time character movement in digital environments, transforms movement into digital data that provides actionable insights, renders digitized movement to enable the creation of sophisticated and animated content, creates new forms of monetizable intellectual property (IP) with biomechanical digital content, and provides spatial movement orientation and positioning data. It offers full-stack product portfolio includes differentiated sensor fusion modules, motion capture systems, visualization software, and artificial intelligence (AI) cloud analytics enabled by its technologies. The Company?s sensors and software are used by global motion picture studios, video game publishers and virtual creators for three-dimensional (3D) character animation, and other applications, such as virtual concerts.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Movella Holdings Inc has a Value Score of 95, which is considered to be undervalued.

Movella Holdings Inc’s price-earnings ratio is 4.7 compared to the industry median at 40.2. This means that it has a lower price relative to its earnings compared to its peers. This makes Movella Holdings Inc more attractive for value investors.

Movella Holdings Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Movella Holdings Inc less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 3.34.

You can read more about Movella Holdings Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Versus Systems Inc’s Value Grade

Value Grade:

Versus Systems Inc. is developing in-game prizing and promotions engine. The Company offers a business-to-business software platform that allows video game publishers and developers, as well as other interactive media content creators, to offer in-game prizing and rewards based on the completion of in-content challenges. The Company enables players, viewers and users to choose from among the offered prizes and then complete in-game or in-application challenges to win the prizes. Its platform facilitates several types of single player prize challenges that includes a range of prize types, including coupons, sweepstakes-style prizes, consumer packaged goods (CPG) and downloadable content (DLC). The Company's platform can be integrated into television, mobile, console, and personal computer (PC) games, as well as streaming media and mobile applications.

Stocks with a Value Score from 81 to 100 are considered deep value, those with a score between 61 and 80 are value and so on.

Versus Systems Inc has a Value Score of 65, which is considered to be undervalued.

Versus Systems Inc’s price-to-book ratio is higher than its peers. This could make Versus Systems Inc less attractive for value investors when compared to the industry median at 3.34.

You can read more about Versus Systems Inc’s key financial metrics like shareholder yield, price-to-free-cash-flow and EV/EBITDA ratio, or learn more about its Momentum and Growth Grades, by subscribing to A+ Investor.

Other Software Stock Grades

Value is just one of the five Stock Grades included in our A+ Investor service. AAII members can see the top-graded stocks—those with grades of A or B for value, growth, momentum, earnings estimate revisions and quality—on the A+ Stock Grades Screener.

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Choosing Which of the 5 Best Software Stocks Is Right for You

Choosing which value stocks to invest in will ultimately depend on your individual goals and allocation; however, comparing similar value stocks in the same industry can help you analyze which might be better investments for you in the long run. So, let’s take a look at the Value Grade for all of our stocks.

• CXApp Inc stock has a Value Grade of A.
• I-On Digital Corp stock has a Value Grade of A.
• iSpecimen Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.
• Movella Holdings Inc stock has a Value Grade of A.
• Versus Systems Inc stock has a Value Grade of B.

Now that you have a bit more background about each of the 5 undervalued stocks in the Software industry as well as their overall grades, it’s time for you to conduct additional research to see if these could fit your portfolio needs based on your goals and risk tolerance. AAII can help you figure out both and identify which investments align with what works best for you.

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Additional Resources About Software Stocks

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