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Insight Enterprises, Inc. NSIT

Market cap $4.7BP/E 23.1× trailingGross margin 22.1%Reports Thu 29 Oct, before the open
$156.04
−2.21 (−1.39%)live 09:40 ET
52-wk $63.62 – $168.50
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Orin's take
0.62conviction · moderate
Refreshed 25 Aug · take v4. A new filing or a print queues the next refresh.

Insight Enterprises' Q2 2026 results — EPS of $3.86 versus a $2.95 consensus and $2.45 a year ago — confirm a genuine operating inflection, with management raising full-year gross profit and adjusted EPS guidance under its new AI-focused "One Insight" plan. At $145.29 the stock trades at a P/E of 21.21, roughly in line with the peer median of 21.19, and RSI has cooled to 59.6 from prior overbought levels.

However, FY2025 fundamentals remain weak — revenue declined 5.22% with net income down 36.98% and total debt rising to $1.59B — and 24-month insider net selling of $163.1M persists, warranting a hold until the turnaround shows sustained traction across multiple quarters.

What could go wrong

  • Multi-year revenue decline. FY2025 revenue fell 5.22% YoY, the third consecutive annual decline from $10.43B in FY2022 to $8.25B in FY2025.
  • Elevated leverage. Total debt rose to $1.59B in FY2025 from $1.08B in FY2024, while stockholders' equity declined to $1.65B from $1.77B.
  • Persistent insider selling. Over the trailing 24 months, insiders net sold 764,496 shares for $163.1M, with the most recent sale on 2026-08-13 at $154.83 per share.
  • Margin compression. FY2025 net margin fell to 1.91% from 2.87% in FY2024, and FCF margin contracted to 3.39% from 6.74%.

What would change my mind

Sustained revenue growth. Q3 2026 or Q4 2026 reports positive year-over-year revenue growth, confirming the Q2 inflection is not a one-quarter event.bullish
Debt reduction. Total debt declines meaningfully from the FY2025 level of $1.59B, indicating free cash flow is being directed toward deleveraging.bullish
Guidance miss or cut. Management lowers the raised full-year gross profit or adjusted EPS guidance issued at Q2 2026, signaling the turnaround is stalling.bearish
Insider buying emerges. Open-market insider purchases appear, reversing the 24-month net selling pattern of $163.1M.bullish

Where this comes from: Zacks news article, 2026-08-06 · MarketBeat Q2 earnings call highlights, 2026-08-07 · derived_metrics FY2025 · fundamentals FY2025 and FY2024. Orin's read on NSIT; not advice.

Twelve months actual closes to 2026-09-23 · actual filings

Sept 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26

50-day average 200-day average · volume below

Largest holders · 13F Q2 2026

Money flow
FilerPositionOf fund
Morgan Stanley$345.4M0.0% of fund
Vanguard Portfolio Management$312.8M0.0% of fund
Vanguard Capital Management$165.5M0.0% of fund
State Street$149.0M0.0% of fund
Fmr$114.4M0.0% of fund
Geode Capital Management$99.2M0.0% of fund

58 filers · quarter ended Q2 2026 · positions, not flows

Insiders, last 24 months: 500 Form 4 filings, net −$163.0M. Of the 50 on hand, 0 were open-market purchases and 3 sales— the rest are grants, option exercises and tax withholding.

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Where it trades

· Technology
MetricNowOwn medianSector
P/E23.1×53.3×
EV/EBITDA12.9×
P/S0.56×
P/B3.0×
What the price assumes

5.6%

free-cash-flow growth every year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, is what today’s price implies — starting from $0.3B of trailing free cash flow. It is an assumption the market is making, not a forecast Orin is making.

What Wall Street published

7 firms · 2026-09-23
Consensus target

$143

$75$180 · −8% against today's price

How they rate it
  • 3 buy or overweight
  • 3 hold
  • 1 underweight or sell

The analysts’ consensus and their own ratings, not Orin’s. A target is a twelve-month opinion published by the firm that wrote it.

Against the companies it is compared to

median P/E 24.9× of 1 peers
CompanyMarket capP/EEV/EBITDAGrossNetROE
NSITInsight Enterprises, Inc.$5B23.1×12.9×22.1%2.5%13%
AVTAvnet, Inc.$8B24.9×13.6×10.4%1.2%7%

The median is of the 1 peers listed above and nothing else — check it against the column. This company trades 7.0% below it. The peer set is the vendor’s, so a company can appear here that a person would not have chosen.

What it has traded at

P/E by fiscal year
FY14 14.1×FY25 16.3×

What its sector has traded at

Technology
FY14 9.0×FY26 48.0×

Two scales, drawn separately on purpose: a sector median and one company’s multiple are not the same number and putting them on one axis invites a comparison neither series supports.

Every estimate on one scale

price $156.04
52-week range$64 – $169
Analyst targets$75 – $180
At sector P/E (53×)$365

The vertical rule is the current price. Ranges and point estimates are the backend’s, published as they were calculated; an arrow means the estimate sits beyond this scale, and its number is on the right.