Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for OTEX in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
Sep 28 close
This week's news around Open Text centers on debt management activity. The company revised terms of its cash tender offer for its 3.875% Senior Notes due 2028, disclosed via an 8-K filing on 25 September, and separately plans to conditionally redeem $1.0 billion of its 6.900% Senior Secured Notes due 2027 on 2 October, contingent on financing, while exploring a new senior secured notes offering under Rule 144A and Regulation S to fund the redemption and general corporate purposes.
Open Text closed at $22.22, down 1.3%, and sits below both its 50-day average of $24.00 and 200-day average of $24.83, with the 50-day below the 200-day. Shares are down 11.8% over one month but up 0.6% over three months and 3.2% over six months, and remain down 40.3% over the past year, with a 52-week range of $19.77 to $39.90. The GekkoIndex reads 64.2, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone, and the gap to Gekko Fair Value of $39.20 stands at -43.3%.
The next earnings date falls on 4 November, 36 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the prior report on 6 August showed EPS of $1.14 against a $1.03 estimate, with an 8 of 8 beat streak, though shares reacted -2.8%, against an average absolute reaction of 6.8%. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the respective 90-day and 30-day windows. Seasonality over five years shows a 1.3% average return across the next 20 trading days, positive in 4 of those years.
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Open Text scores 4 supportive, 0 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive0 mixed1 headwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $22.22 is below the 50-day ($24.00) and 200-day ($24.83) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart64.2, Accumulation
Reading 64.2 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex43.3% below
Price is 43.3% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
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No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart moneyReports in 36 days
Next report Nov 4, 2026, 36 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings+1.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +1.3% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonalityA description of current data, not a recommendation. How this page works
Open Text closed at $22.22 on Sep 28, 2026, −40.3% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $19.77 to $39.90.
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Open Text builds software that helps organizations manage and safeguard their information. Its offerings cover content services and business network tools for handling data both inside a company and with outside partners, alongside security products aimed at preventing cyber threats, keeping operations running, and responding to breaches through digital forensics and dedicated resilience tools. Familiar names such as Carbonite and Webroot sit within this security lineup.
The company's technology is built around its Information Management platform, supported by tools for eDiscovery and unstructured data analysis, a developer cloud offering API services, and AI-driven analytics for structured and unstructured information. It also provides digital process automation and a digital experience platform, along with customer support, consulting, training, and cloud services. Its customers range from large enterprises and mid-market companies to government bodies, smaller businesses, and individual users, and it works alongside partners including SAP, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Accenture, ATOS, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, and Tata Consultancy Services.
Founded in 1991, Open Text is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, with operations extending across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, wider Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other regions. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker OTEX.
Open Text’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 64.2, in the Accumulation zone, up 0.7 points over five sessions.
Up 0.7 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 65 | −0.2% | −2.1% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 256 | −0.2% | −1.8% | ||
| Neutral | 332 | −0.5% | −0.9% | ||
| Distribution | 9 | Too few readings yet | |||
| Selling | 10 | −0.4% | −9.3% | ||
Average OTEX share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
Open Text trades 43.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $39.20, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Open Text shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$39.20
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026
43.3% Undervalued
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Open Text, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
No open-market insider purchases were filed for OTEX in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
No trades in OTEX were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Open Text has been buying back its own shares.
From company filings.
Open Text reports on Nov 4, 2026 (36 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Nov 4, 2026
36 days away
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | $1.14 est $1.03 | $1.33B est $1.29B | −2.8% |
| May 7, 2026 | $0.70 est $0.40 | $1.26B est $1.26B | +7.3% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | $1.13 est $1.04 | $1.32B est $1.30B | +6.6% |
| Nov 5, 2025 | $1.00 est $0.94 | $1.27B est $1.34B | −3.3% |
| Aug 7, 2025 | $0.97 est $0.86 | $1.31B est $1.26B | +6.8% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | $0.82 est $0.81 | $1.25B est $1.28B | −4.9% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $1.11 est $0.93 | $1.33B est $1.32B | −8.3% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | $0.93 est $0.80 | $1.27B est $1.28B | −14.2% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Open Text is $27.95, +25.8% from the last close.
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Open Text averaged +1.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.4% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +0.3% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +1.0% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +1.3% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −0.7% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, OTEX’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5.6%.
Open Text’s market cap is $5.39B, with a P/E ratio of 9 and revenue of $5.25B over the last twelve months.
Coverage of Open Text this week reads neutral: 1 positive, 3 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
Open Text’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 17.3% above |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Neutral | 15.7% above |
| ORCLOracle | Accumulation | 25.9% below |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Neutral | 16.1% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 27.2% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Neutral | 5.9% below |
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Open Text’s market cap is $5.39B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $22.22, with 242.1M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 9.
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Open Text is $27.95, +25.8% from the last close. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
On Gekko’s estimate Open Text is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $22.22 is 43.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $39.20. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
Open Text is expected to report on Nov 4, 2026 (36 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.94 per share on revenue of $1.23B. Open Text beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 6.8% on average across the report.
Open Text’s 52-week high is $39.90 and its 52-week low is $19.77; it closed at $22.22 on Sep 28, 2026, −40.3% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $52.70 on Nov 17, 2021.
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