Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK)Technology | Software - Application | San Diego, United States | NasdaqCM
18.85 USD
-0.36
(-1.874%) ⇩
(Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 18.85 |
Hot Take ↕ | Aug. 22, 2026, 4:11 a.m. EDT
The immediate outlook is driven by a powerful convergence of accelerating fundamentals and aggressive speculative positioning. While the stock recently corrected, the underlying business story is compelling: revenue growth has rebounded to 18%, earnings are surging nearly 250% year-over-year, and the forward P/E has compressed to a reasonable 15.6x, reflecting a shift from skepticism to recognition of the company's turnaround. This fundamental inflection is being amplified by a distinct options flow where traders are buying deep-delta calls, betting on a continuation of the recovery. The statistical forecast model offers only a weak lean, which is appropriate given the noise in short-term price action, but the structural setup—strong cash generation, a fortress balance sheet, and a clear path to profitability—supports a high-conviction near-term entry. The lack of a dividend is irrelevant here; the capital appreciation potential outweighs the need for income. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoTheta ✓ | 0.058221 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.073371 |
| AutoETS | 0.073373 |
| MSTL | 0.082240 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 42% |
| H-stat | 0.27 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.420 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.96 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 22.423 |
| Revenue per Share | 4.352 |
| Market Cap | 850,556,800 |
| Trailing P/E | 40.11 |
| Forward P/E | 15.81 |
| Beta | 0.98 |
| Profit Margins | 11.39% |
| Website | https://www.miteksystems.com |
As of Aug. 22, 2026, 4:11 a.m. EDT: Speculators are heavily positioning for upside, evidenced by massive open interest in out-of-the-money calls (over 3,000 contracts at the $12.50 strike for November expiration) compared to negligible put volume. The call-to-put ratio is skewed significantly toward bullish exposure, while implied volatility remains moderate, suggesting traders expect a rally rather than a crash.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.9098277 |
| Address1 | 770 First Avenue |
| Address2 | Suite 425 |
| All Time High | 23.29 |
| All Time Low | 0.05 |
| Ask | 23.88 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Audit Risk | 1 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 742,150 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 905,753 |
| Average Volume | 905,753 |
| Average Volume10Days | 742,150 |
| Beta | 0.979 |
| Bid | 13.72 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 2 |
| Book Value | 5.554 |
| City | San Diego |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 6 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 18.85 |
| Current Ratio | 2.744 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,786,665,600 |
| Day High | 19.29 |
| Day Low | 18.585 |
| Debt To Equity | 22.423 |
| Display Name | Mitek Systems |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,786,050,000 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,786,050,000 |
| Earnings Growth | 2.4 |
| Earnings Quarterly Growth | 2.492 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,786,046,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,786,046,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,786,046,400 |
| Ebitda | 49,551,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.25038 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 16.287 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 4.078 |
| Enterprise Value | 807,020,736 |
| Eps Current Year | 1.146 |
| Eps Forward | 1.192 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 0.47 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NCM |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 18.3012 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 0.5487995 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.029987076 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 90.98277 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 21.05 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -2.1999989 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.10451301 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 8.53 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 10.320001 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 1.2098477 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 8.53 - 21.05 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 599,841,000,000 |
| Float Shares | 43,690,641 |
| Forward Eps | 1.192 |
| Forward P E | 15.813758 |
| Free Cashflow | 50,713,624 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqCM |
| Full Time Employees | 561 |
| Fullday Change | -0.3599987 |
| Fullday Change Percent | -1.8740174 |
| Fullday Price | 18.85 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,785,542,400 |
| Gross Margins | 0.83611 |
| Gross Profits | 165,468,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.03185 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.88752 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 45,122,374 |
| Industry | Software - Application |
| Industry Disp | Software - Application |
| Industry Key | software-application |
| Ir Website | http://www.miteksystems.com/InvestorRelations.asp |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,759,190,400 |
| Long Business Summary | Mitek Systems, Inc. provides digital identity verification and fraud prevention solutions worldwide. The company offers Mobile Deposit, a mobile remote deposit capture solution for retail financial institutions, brokerages, and prepaid card providers; Check Fraud Defender, a cloud-hosted fraud mitigation service; Mitek Verified Identity Platform, an end-to-end identity verification solution; Mobile Verify, an omnichannel identity document verification engine; MiSnap, a software development kit that replaces manual image capture with auto-capture; CheckReader, which enables financial institutions to automatically extract data from checks once they have been scanned or photographed by the application; and Check Intelligence, a check fraud solution. It also provides IDLive Face, a passive face liveness detection; IDLive Doc, a document liveness detection; and IDLive Voice, an anti-spoofing voice liveness. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is based in San Diego, California. |
| Long Name | Mitek Systems, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 850,556,800 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_288586 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | 22,535,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,790,726,400 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 866,800,804 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 4 |
| Open | 19.13 |
| Operating Cashflow | 53,690,000 |
| Operating Margins | 0.21363 |
| Overall Risk | 3 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Peg Ratio | 1.38 |
| Phone | 619 269 6800 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 18.85 |
| Post Market Time | 1,787,959,804 |
| Previous Close | 19.21 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 16.448517 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 3.3939505 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 4.2978687 |
| Profit Margins | 0.11387 |
| Quick Ratio | 2.628 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | -0.3599987 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | -1.8740174 |
| Regular Market Day High | 19.29 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 18.585 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 18.585 - 19.29 |
| Regular Market Open | 19.13 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 19.21 |
| Regular Market Price | 18.85 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,787,947,201 |
| Regular Market Volume | 898,911 |
| Return On Assets | 0.054899998 |
| Return On Equity | 0.09233 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.182 |
| Revenue Per Share | 4.352 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.20204377 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 4 |
| Shares Outstanding | 45,122,374 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.080699995 |
| Shares Short | 3,642,601 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,784,073,600 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 3,416,964 |
| Short Name | Mitek Systems, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.082200006 |
| Short Ratio | 5.0 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | MITK |
| Target High Price | 26.0 |
| Target Low Price | 18.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 22.625 |
| Target Median Price | 23.25 |
| Total Cash | 99,711,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 2.21 |
| Total Debt | 56,175,000 |
| Total Revenue | 197,902,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | 0.47 |
| Trailing P E | 40.106384 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 14.0964 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 4.7536 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.33722085 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 898,911 |
| Website | https://www.miteksystems.com |
| Zip | 92,101 |