Altair Engineering Inc.
—- Market cap
- —
- Debt
- +$188.65M
- Cash
- −$561.90M
Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
FY 2025 · View financials
Decision snapshot: ALTR stock price vs HUBB: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at HUBB's multiple
Needs HUBB P/E.
Implied fair value · at ALTR's multiple
Needs ALTR P/E.
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Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth edge
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: ALTR FY 2024 (ended Dec 31, 2024) · HUBB FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Six fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
ALTAIR ENGINEERING INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$8.85
Base
$10.42
Bull
$11.98
HUBBELL INC · implied price per share
Bear
$139.77
Base
$164.43
Bull
$189.10
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
0.22x
0.60x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
-4.39x
1.33x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$561.90M
$497.90M
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
$188.65M
$2.33B
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe ALTR can sustain 8.7% revenue growth while materially expanding operating margin from 2.7%, then ALTR looks interesting on the current implied price because it sits below both HUBB implied range and the DCF range; otherwise, HUBB’s superior profitability and returns suggest the relative quality premium is justified.
ALTR’s implied price of $4.57 sits below HUBB implied range of $4.82 to $33.83 and also below the DCF range of $5.08 to $6.88, suggesting limited valuation support at the low end of the modeled range. However, the comparison is hard to interpret cleanly because ALTR has no listed P/E, P/S, or EV-based multiples while HUBB trades at 28.6x P/E and 4.3x P/S.
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