Dun & Bradstreet Holdings (NYSE:DNB) - Share price, News & Analysis

DNB fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	3/6
Future Growth	3/6
Past Performance	0/6
Financial Health	3/6
Dividends	0/6

DNB Stock Overview

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. provides business decisioning data and analytics in North America and internationally.

Rewards

Trading at 54.4% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 80.64% per year

Risk Analysis

Significant insider selling over the past 3 months

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Competitors

Price History & Performance

Summary of all time highs, changes and price drops for Dun & Bradstreet Holdings
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$15.36
52 Week High	US$22.42
52 Week Low	US$13.67
Beta	0
1 Month Change	-10.54%
3 Month Change	-9.59%
1 Year Change	-32.60%
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	-39.41%

Shareholder Returns

	DNB	US Professional Services	US Market
7D	5.4%	7.2%	6.6%
1Y	-32.6%	-17.3%	-18.4%

Return vs Industry: DNB underperformed the US Professional Services industry which returned -17.3% over the past year.

Return vs Market: DNB underperformed the US Market which returned -18.4% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is DNB's price volatile compared to industry and market?
DNB volatility
DNB Average Weekly Movement	6.0%
Professional Services Industry Average Movement	6.7%
Market Average Movement	8.1%
10% most volatile stocks in US Market	16.6%
10% least volatile stocks in US Market	3.2%

Stable Share Price: DNB is not significantly more volatile than the rest of US stocks over the past 3 months, typically moving +/- 6% a week.

Volatility Over Time: DNB's weekly volatility (6%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1841	6,296	Anthony Jabbour	https://www.dnb.com

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. provides business decisioning data and analytics in North America and internationally. It offers finance and risk solutions, including D&B Finance Analytics, an online application that offers clients real time access to its information, comprehensive monitoring, and portfolio analysis; D&B Direct, an application programming interface (API) that delivers risk and financial data directly into enterprise applications for real-time credit decision making; D&B Small Business, a suite of powerful tools that allows SMBs to monitor and build their business credit file; D&B Enterprise Risk Assessment Manager, a solution for managing and automating credit decisioning and reporting; and InfoTorg, an online SaaS application. The company also provides risk and compliance solutions, such as D&B Supplier Risk Manager that provides insights to help certify, monitor, analyze, and mitigate risk across the supply chain; D&B Onboard to provide comprehensive insights into businesses to facilitate KYC/AML compliance, as well as to minimize financial, legal, and reputational risk exposure; and D&B Beneficial Ownership that offers risk intelligence on ultimate beneficial ownership.

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Fundamentals Summary

How do Dun & Bradstreet Holdings's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
DNB fundamental statistics
Market Cap	US$6.67b
Earnings (TTM)	-US$78.00m
Revenue (TTM)	US$2.20b

3.0x

P/S Ratio

-85.5x

P/E Ratio

Is DNB overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report
DNB income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$2.20b
Cost of Revenue	US$680.10m
Gross Profit	US$1.52b
Other Expenses	US$1.60b
Earnings	-US$78.00m

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2022

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	-0.18
Gross Margin	69.05%
Net Profit Margin	-3.55%
Debt/Equity Ratio	100.3%

How did DNB perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

We’ve recently updated our valuation analysis.

Valuation

Is DNB undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

3/6

Valuation Score 3/6

Price-To-Sales vs Peers
Price-To-Sales vs Industry
Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio
Below Fair Value
Significantly Below Fair Value
PEG Ratio

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for DNB?

Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.

The above table shows the n/a ratio for DNB. This is calculated by dividing DNB's market cap by their current preferred multiple.
What is DNB's n/a Ratio?
n/a Ratio	0x
n/a	n/a
Market Cap	US$6.67b

DNB key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue	4.7x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA	14.1x
PEG Ratio	n/a

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

How does DNB's PS Ratio compare to its peers?

DNB PS Ratio vs Peers

The above table shows the PS ratio for DNB vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
Company	PS	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
Peer Average	1.2x

Forward PS

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: DNB is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (3x) compared to the peer average (1.2x).

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does DNB's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the U.S. Professional Services Industry?

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: DNB is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (3x) compared to the US Professional Services industry average (1.4x)

Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is DNB's PS Ratio compared to its Fair PS Ratio? This is the expected PS Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

DNB PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio	3x
Fair PS Ratio	3.2x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: DNB is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (3x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (3.2x).

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of DNB when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: DNB ($15.36) is trading below our estimate of fair value ($33.66)

Significantly Below Fair Value: DNB is trading below fair value by more than 20%.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

PEG Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate DNB's PEG Ratio to determine if it is good value.

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Future Growth

How is Dun & Bradstreet Holdings forecast to perform in the next 1 to 3 years based on estimates from 11 analysts?

Future Growth Score

3/6

Future Growth Score 3/6

Earnings vs Savings Rate
Earnings vs Market
High Growth Earnings
Revenue vs Market
High Growth Revenue
Future ROE

80.6%

Forecasted annual earnings growth

Earnings and Revenue Growth Forecasts

Analyst Future Growth Forecasts

Earnings vs Savings Rate: DNB is forecast to become profitable over the next 3 years, which is considered faster growth than the savings rate (1.9%).

Earnings vs Market: DNB is forecast to become profitable over the next 3 years, which is considered above average market growth.

High Growth Earnings: DNB is expected to become profitable in the next 3 years.

Revenue vs Market: DNB's revenue (4.5% per year) is forecast to grow slower than the US market (8.4% per year).

High Growth Revenue: DNB's revenue (4.5% per year) is forecast to grow slower than 20% per year.

Earnings per Share Growth Forecasts

Future Return on Equity

Future ROE: DNB's Return on Equity is forecast to be low in 3 years time (16.5%).

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Past Performance

How has Dun & Bradstreet Holdings performed over the past 5 years?

Past Performance Score

0/6

Past Performance Score 0/6

Quality Earnings
Growing Profit Margin
Earnings Trend
Accelerating Growth
Earnings vs Industry
High ROE

-43.4%

Historical annual earnings growth

Earnings and Revenue History

Quality Earnings: DNB is currently unprofitable.

Growing Profit Margin: DNB is currently unprofitable.

Past Earnings Growth Analysis

Earnings Trend: DNB is unprofitable, and losses have increased over the past 5 years at a rate of 43.4% per year.

Accelerating Growth: Unable to compare DNB's earnings growth over the past year to its 5-year average as it is currently unprofitable

Earnings vs Industry: DNB is unprofitable, making it difficult to compare its past year earnings growth to the Professional Services industry (33.1%).

Return on Equity

High ROE: DNB has a negative Return on Equity (-1.95%), as it is currently unprofitable.

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Financial Health

How is Dun & Bradstreet Holdings's financial position?

Financial Health Score

3/6

Financial Health Score 3/6

Short Term Liabilities
Long Term Liabilities
Debt Level
Reducing Debt
Stable Cash Runway
Forecast Cash Runway

Financial Position Analysis

Short Term Liabilities: DNB's short term assets ($732.3M) do not cover its short term liabilities ($973.4M).

Long Term Liabilities: DNB's short term assets ($732.3M) do not cover its long term liabilities ($5.2B).

Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Debt Level: DNB's net debt to equity ratio (93.4%) is considered high.

Reducing Debt: DNB had negative shareholder equity 5 years ago, but is now positive and has therefore improved.

Balance Sheet

Cash Runway Analysis

For companies that have on average been loss making in the past we assess whether they have at least 1 year of cash runway.

Stable Cash Runway: Whilst unprofitable DNB has sufficient cash runway for more than 3 years if it maintains its current positive free cash flow level.

Forecast Cash Runway: DNB is unprofitable but has sufficient cash runway for more than 3 years, even with free cash flow being positive and shrinking by 6.2% per year.

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Dividend

What is Dun & Bradstreet Holdings's current dividend yield, its reliability and sustainability?

Dividend Score

0/6

Dividend Score 0/6

Notable Dividend
High Dividend
Stable Dividend
Growing Dividend
Earnings Coverage
Future Dividend Coverage

Dividend Yield vs Market

Notable Dividend: Unable to evaluate DNB's dividend yield against the bottom 25% of dividend payers, as the company has not reported any recent payouts.

High Dividend: Unable to evaluate DNB's dividend yield against the top 25% of dividend payers, as the company has not reported any recent payouts.

Stability and Growth of Payments

Stable Dividend: Insufficient data to determine if DNB's dividends per share have been stable in the past.

Growing Dividend: Insufficient data to determine if DNB's dividend payments have been increasing.

Earnings Payout to Shareholders

Earnings Coverage: DNB is not paying a notable dividend for the US market.

Cash Payout to Shareholders

Cash Flow Coverage: Unable to calculate sustainability of dividends as DNB has not reported any payouts.

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Management

How experienced are the management team and are they aligned to shareholders interests?

2.4yrs

Average management tenure

CEO

Anthony Jabbour (53 yo)

3.33yrs

Tenure

US$9,376,618

Compensation

Mr. Anthony M. Jabbour is Non-Executive Director at Paysafe Group Plc since April 2021. Mr. Jabbour had been the Chief Executive Officer of Black Knight, Inc. since April 01, 2018 until May 16, 2022 and it...

CEO Compensation Analysis

Compensation vs Market: Anthony's total compensation ($USD9.38M) is about average for companies of similar size in the US market ($USD8.23M).

Compensation vs Earnings: Anthony's compensation has increased whilst the company is unprofitable.

Leadership Team

Experienced Management: DNB's management team is considered experienced (2.4 years average tenure).

Board Members

Experienced Board: DNB's board of directors are considered experienced (3.3 years average tenure).

Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: DNB insiders have sold more shares than they have bought in the past 3 months.

Recent Insider Transactions

Ownership Breakdown

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2022/06/26 00:00
End of Day Share Price	2022/06/24 00:00
Earnings	2022/03/31
Annual Earnings	2021/12/31