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Blackbaud

BLKB on Nasdaq. Blackbaud sells software for fundraising and financial management to nonprofits, schools, and companies. Market value $2.0bn.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
14.0%very high

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $14.00 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
13.6×fair

You pay 13.6 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
1.2%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 1 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 42 of 100. Price score: 97 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$43.51 a share, 70% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $25.58 to $70.71.

Pays no dividend

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.2
0.1
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0.2
0.2
0.3
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26
Revenue
$928m$1.1bn$1.1bn$1.2bn$1.1bn
Operating margin
2.7%-2.7%4.2%-23.5%16.9%
Debt to equity
1.341.160.968.5013.06
Shares outstanding
0.05bn0.05bn0.05bn0.05bn0.05bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)8 of 9
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt13.06× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 4.3% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesYes, 15% fewer since 2021

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $291 million last quarter, up 3% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $35 million, up 34% on a year ago.
  • It keeps 20 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, after losing 22 cents a year earlier.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $277 million, up from $184 million.
  • 7% fewer shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit more of the company.
  • Debt is $1.1 billion more than cash, about the same as a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in 2 of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$287m
December 2024$302m
March 2025$270m
June 2025$282m
September 2025$281m
December 2025$295m
March 2026$281m
June 2026$291m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$18m
December 2024Not reported
March 2025$4m
June 2025$26m
September 2025$47m
December 2025$37m
March 2026$31m
June 2026$35m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
18 February 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
28 October 2026

Who owns it

2 long-term investors we follow own it, down from 3 last quarter. 283 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26

Sold out this quarter

Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

3 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 7 sold $6m, $1m of it under preset trading plans.

  • Anderson Chad
    Executive VP and CFO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    1 September 2026
    Shares
    2,000
    Price
    $47.56
    Value
    $95,120
  • Benjamin David J
    EVP, Chief Commercial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    31 August 2026
    Shares
    2,086
    Price
    $48.27
    Value
    $100,699
  • Gianoni Michael P
    President and CEO, Director
    Sold
    Date
    25 August 2026
    Shares
    17,000
    Price
    $47.35
    Value
    $804,984
  • Gregoire Kevin P.
    EVP, Chief Operating Officer
    Sold
    Date
    6 August 2026
    Shares
    22,000
    Price
    $45.50
    Value
    $1m
  • Anderson Chad
    Executive VP and CFO
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    1 June 2026
    Shares
    6,205
    Price
    $31.31
    Value
    $194,279
  • Gregoire Kevin P.
    EVP, Chief Operating Officer
    Sold
    Date
    4 March 2026
    Shares
    2,000
    Price
    $50.02
    Value
    $100,040
  • Olson Jon W
    SVP and General Counsel
    Sold
    Date
    3 March 2026
    Shares
    5,000
    Price
    $49.10
    Value
    $245,500
  • Olson Jon W
    SVP and General Counsel
    Sold
    Date
    27 February 2026
    Shares
    10,000
    Price
    $48.23
    Value
    $482,300
  • Benjamin David J
    EVP, Chief Commercial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    24 February 2026
    Shares
    14,349
    Price
    $47.47
    Value
    $681,147
  • McDearis Kevin
    EVP & Chief Technology Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    23 February 2026
    Shares
    15,462
    Price
    $46.42
    Value
    $717,801

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 18 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 29 Jul 2026 and 4 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

  • It carries a lot of debt: 13.1× its equity.

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The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
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