profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Alten
€87.30+0.06% today
+17.2% since Dec 18, 25
1-year low €51.601-year high €90.25
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay €27.93 for every €1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Alten sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €3.78 billion in 2022 to €4.10 billion in 2025, with €107 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Alten handed back 16% of the cash it generated last year.
€52M
Free cash flow 2025€318M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends€52M
Cash vs. debt€348M vs. €289M
Alten vs. similar companies
Alten grows the slowest of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alten | 27.9× · Fair price | ||
 IBM | 22.0× · Fair price | ||
 Accenture | 18.0× · Fair price | ||
 Tata Consultancy Services | 18.2× · Fair price | ||
 Infosys | 15.1× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Alten's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,783 | 4,069 | 4,143 | 4,099 | |
| 701 | 714 | 708 | 659 | |
| 393 | 351 | 355 | 293 | |
| 682 | 430 | 387 | 307 | |
| 458 | 233 | 186 | 107 | |
| 13.21 | 6.74 | 5.32 | 3.07 | |
| 18.5% | 17.6% | 17.1% | 16.1% | |
| 10.4% | 8.6% | 8.6% | 7.1% | |
| 12.1% | 5.7% | 4.5% | 2.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 3,367 | 3,412 | 3,643 | 3,637 |
| Cash | 602 | 323 | 288 | 348 |
| Total debt | 238 | 255 | 271 | 289 |
| Total liabilities | 1,528 | 1,375 | 1,433 | 1,413 |
| 1,839 | 2,037 | – | 2,223 | |
| 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | |
| 21.7% | 10.9% | – | 6.1% | |
| 24.9% | 11.4% | – | 4.8% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 241 | 241 | 430 | 330 | |
| 26 | 21 | 18 | 13 | |
| 215 | 220 | 413 | 318 | |
| Dividends paid | 44 | 51 | 52 | 52 |
| 1 | – | – | – | |
| 30 | 32 | 20 | 21 |
Valuation
- 27.9×
- –
- –
- 0.9×
- 0.7×
- 9.4×
- 9.5×
- 10.6%
- 3.6%
- 1.7%
Profitability
- 16.1%
- 7.1%
- 2.6%
- –
- 6.1%
- 12.9%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +2.7%
- −38.5%
- –
- –
- +0.2%
Financial health
- -0.2×
- 0.13
- –
- 26.2×
- 1.63
- –
- –
How it ranks in Technology
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 44%of 965
Bottom 44%of 972
Bottom 49%of 717
Bottom 27%of 977
Top 9%of 978
1.7%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$17a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
48.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 16.4%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
60Pass
Benjamin Graham
68Pass
Philip Fisher
33No pass
Peter Lynch
22No pass
Joel Greenblatt
31No pass
Charlie Munger
39No pass
Terry Smith
39No pass
Questions about Alten
Is Alten a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 2 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Alten AI analysis
What does Alten do?
Alten S.A. operates as an engineering and technology consultancy company in France, North America, Germany, Scandinavia, Benelux, Iberian, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Asia-Pacific, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, and internationally. It is in Information Technology Services, based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, with 55,713 employees.
Does Alten pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.7% a year, about 49% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €52.2 million in dividends.
Is Alten stock halal?
Yes. Alten passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 10% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
Who are Alten's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are IBM, Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Alten's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.