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Company snapshot — Adobe Systems Incorporated

ADBE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Adobe sells software for creating and managing digital content and customer experiences, split across three lines: Digital Media covers tools for photographers, video editors and designers to make, publish and promote content; Digital Experience gives brands and marketers a platform to plan, run and measure campaigns; and a smaller Publishing and Advertising line covers e-learning, document tools and Adobe's advertising business. It also has a partnership with HUMAIN to build generative AI models and AI-powered applications. The company is based in San Jose and sells mainly through its own website, app stores and resellers.
Where it sits in the stack
Adobe carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index. It sits in the Technology sector, in the Software - Application industry, the applications software sleeve of the wider universe the diary tracks.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group for Adobe is built around creative and business software, putting it alongside Salesforce, Microsoft, Intuit and Autodesk; the market also weighs it against Figma as a design-tools rival.
Why Closelook tracks it
Adobe sits in the Nasdaq-100 and carries a Closelook score across three modules so far, with quality reading as the strongest and momentum as the weakest. The diary has quoted it in a Dossier mapping software firms against AI disruption risk and in a Weekly Signal tracking its share-price drawdown, and returns to it often given how many times its name comes up across our coverage.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak momentum reading turns, and whether the HUMAIN generative-AI partnership shows up in how the Digital Media and Digital Experience lines are priced and sold.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology.

The Closelook company score reads 66/100 composite (momentum 42, quality 92, valuation 74) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ADBE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 9 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Baird, 2026-09-11 · last print 2026-09-10

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for ADBE from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Baird — target 250 Target set to $250 (+0.5% to spot) 2026-09-11
  • Price target Evercore ISI — target 250 from 225 Target raised to $250 from $225 (+0.4% to spot) 2026-09-11
  • Price target BMO Capital — target 270 from 230 Target raised to $270 from $230 (+9.8% to spot) 2026-09-11
  • Latest print EPS 6.13 against 6.08 expected — a +0.8% beat 2026-09-10

9 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 9 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Creative and business software · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Creative and business software

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against ADBE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index Agentic Winners 40 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Agentic Winners 40 · as of 2026-09-17

DayWeekMonth3 months
ADBE+0.9%+1.5%−4.0%+28.7%
Application Leaders+0.8%+4.0%+2.1%—
Agentic Winners 40+0.4%+2.1%+0.5%—

Against the index: 0.6 pts behind on the week, 4.5 pts behind on the month; against its Application Leaders sleeve 6.1 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sector × region Technology in US: −2.1% week · −3.4% month · −1.2% quarter · +32.1% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE)?

Adobe Systems Incorporated trades as ADBE on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is ADBE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Adobe Systems Incorporated is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

What is Adobe Systems Incorporated's Closelook composite score?

66 out of 100, with momentum 42, quality 92 and valuation 74 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is Adobe Systems Incorporated's earnings print record?

Across the 11 prints Closelook covers, Adobe Systems Incorporated beat EPS estimates 11 times and revenue estimates 11 times; the three-day reactions split 2 up, 2 flat and 7 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-09-02 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does ADBE trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 31.9% off its high: 31.9% below its 52-week high, under its 200-day — a deeper resizing of the trend, not a shallow dip. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is ADBE doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month Adobe Systems Incorporated is −4.0% against +0.5% for the Agentic Winners 40 — 4.5 points behind its index, as of 2026-09-17. Its Application Leaders sleeve is +2.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does Adobe Systems Incorporated do?

Adobe sells software for creating and managing digital content and customer experiences, split across three lines: Digital Media covers tools for photographers, video editors and designers to make, publish and promote content; Digital Experience gives brands and marketers a platform to plan, run and measure campaigns; and a smaller Publishing and Advertising line covers e-learning, document tools and Adobe's advertising business. It also has a partnership with HUMAIN to build generative AI models and AI-powered applications. The company is based in San Jose and sells mainly through its own website, app stores and resellers. Closelook's peer group for Adobe is built around creative and business software, putting it alongside Salesforce, Microsoft, Intuit and Autodesk; the market also weighs it against Figma as a design-tools rival.

Where does Adobe Systems Incorporated sit in the AI build-out?

Adobe carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index. It sits in the Technology sector, in the Software - Application industry, the applications software sleeve of the wider universe the diary tracks. Adobe sits in the Nasdaq-100 and carries a Closelook score across three modules so far, with quality reading as the strongest and momentum as the weakest. The diary has quoted it in a Dossier mapping software firms against AI disruption risk and in a Weekly Signal tracking its share-price drawdown, and returns to it often given how many times its name comes up across our coverage.

What has Wall Street done on Adobe Systems Incorporated recently?

The most recent analyst action on Adobe Systems Incorporated on the Closelook wire is a price target by Baird on 2026-09-11 (target 250). 9 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 9 target changes. Its latest earnings print on the wire, 2026-09-10: EPS 6.13 against 6.08 expected — a +0.8% beat. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelook written about Adobe Systems Incorporated?

Adobe Systems Incorporated appears in 15 Closelook pieces, most recently Midday 10: Day after the hike — yields fall and the lines are retaken: 10-year 4.95%, chips +3% over $505, S&P ETF above $757.83 (2026-09-17); Morning 10: Rates — the Fed hikes and the 10-year closes above 5%: the belly sold, the relief unwound, chips back under $505 (2026-09-17); Morning 10: Rates — Fed day at a 5% 10-year: the hike is priced, the cycle is not; Yardeni cuts the S&P target to 7,900 (2026-09-16). What Closelook said most recently: Adobe (ADBE) closed $244.45 , down 1.49%, with an intraday range $243.50–$254.08 and a 52-week range of $224.13–$422.95 — the stock trades near its yearly low, already down 29.9% year-on-year. (Weekly Signal, 2026-04-19). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ADBE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 15 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “Day after the hike — yields fall and the lines are retaken: 10-year 4.95%, chips +3% over $505, S&P ETF above $757.83” (2026-09-17)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where ADBE appears in the diary — 15 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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