Is Adobe Stock Underperforming the Nasdaq?

With the maximum market of $ 151.3 billion, Adobe Inc. (Adbe) is one of the largest software companies in the world. The company operates through three basic sectors: digital media; Digital experience, publishing, advertising, and providing solutions that enable individuals and institutions to create, manage and improve digital content.

Companies worth $ 10 billion or more generally “large” shares, and Adobe fits this standard completely. Its leading offers, including Creative Cloud and Document Cloud, pay the majority of revenues through subscription and licensing models, which serve a wide range of creative professionals, companies and consumers worldwide.

Nevertheless, the shares of San Jose, in California, decreased by 39.3 % of 52 weeks at $ 587.75. ADBE shares have decreased by 13.7 % over the past three months, resulting from NASX in NASX by 11.9 % on the same time frame.

In the long run, the Adobe shares decreased by 19.8 % on the basis of YTD, which leads to NASX twice by 11.1 %. Moreover, the shares of the program maker decreased by 36.4 % over the past 52 weeks, compared to the NASX return by 22.2 % on the same time frame.

Despite the recent fluctuations, the stock has been traded under average for 50 days and 200 days since last year.

Despite expectations with the profitability of the average Q2 2025 of $ 5.06 and $ 5.9 billion, Adobe shares decreased by 5.3 % the next day. Investors have become cautious with the expansion of fears that AI’s integration of the company like Firefly with Openai and Google Models will take longer to generate meaningful returns, although the administration raised the revenues of the entire year to $ 23.5 billion – 23.6 billion dollars.

Moreover, ADBE shares have greatly reduced the processing of automatic competing data, Inc. (ADP). ADP 11.5 % shares have gained 52 weeks and 3.9 % on the basis of YTD.

Despite the performance of the stock, analysts remain moderately optimistic about Adobe. The stock contains a consensus classification for “moderate purchase” of 36 analysts in coverage, and the average target price of $ 485.39 of $ 36.1 % for current levels.

On the date of publication, Sohini Mondal did not have positions (either directly or indirectly) in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article are only for media purposes. This article was originally published on Barchart.com