Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Decision snapshot: ALTR stock price vs RELX: 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 RELX's multiple
Needs RELX 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) · RELX FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Seven 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
RELX PLC · implied price per share
Bear
$1.83
Base
$2.16
Bull
$2.48
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
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Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
-4.39x
5.60x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$561.90M
$131.00M
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
$188.65M
$11.78B
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe ALTR can convert its 81.3% gross margin and 8.7% revenue growth into materially higher operating and net margins, then ALTR looks worth holding or accumulating because its $5.01 implied price sits near the low end of the DCF range and below RELX-implied range.
On RELX-implied basis, ALTR’s implied price of $5.01 sits below RELX implied range of $7.05 to $47.96 and only slightly below the DCF range midpoint, suggesting the market is not fully pricing in RELX-like multiples. The gap appears driven more by ALTR’s much smaller scale and weaker margins than by a clear outright mispricing.
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