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Company snapshot — PTC Inc

PTC 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
PTC makes software that manufacturers use to design, build and service physical products: Windchill for product lifecycle management, ThingWorx for industrial internet-of-things data, Creo for 3D design, Arena and Onshape for cloud-based product development, and ServiceMax and Kepware for field service and factory connectivity. Its customers are industrial and manufacturing companies that need to track a product from design through to end of life. It is headquartered in Boston.
Where it sits in the stack
In our Agentic Winners 40 index, PTC sits in Tier C, Application Leaders, the sleeve of software firms that hold the working data other applications must plug into. Its platforms hold the digital twins and product records that manufacturing agents need to read and write, making PTC a dependency for any agentic system operating on the factory floor.
Who it is priced against
Closelook groups it with the other Application Leaders — Adobe, Intuit, monday.com, Veeva Systems, HubSpot, Atlassian, Dassault Systèmes and Kingdee — as software firms that own a workflow rather than a model; the market also names Siemens as a competitor in industrial software.
Why Closelook tracks it
PTC is a constituent of the Agentic Winners 40 and carries a Closelook score, strongest on quality and weakest on momentum. The diary has named it in a dossier on the Agentic Winners 25, in a dossier on industrial and physical AI dependencies, and in the 101 piece setting out the index's tiers.
What the diary watches
Whether manufacturers extend ThingWorx and Windchill data into agentic workflows, since that would test the dependency the diary flags rather than assume it.

PTC Inc (PTC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology. Constituent of Agentic Winners 40.

The Closelook company score reads 54/100 composite (momentum 31, quality 85, valuation 61) 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 PTC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Agentic Winners 40 · Application Leaders · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Agentic Winners 40 · Application Leaders

Compared against PTC 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
PTC+2.5%+4.4%−8.2%+15.0%
Application Leaders+0.8%+4.0%+2.1%—
Agentic Winners 40+0.4%+2.1%+0.5%—

Against the index: 2.3 pts ahead on the week, 8.7 pts behind on the month; against its Application Leaders sleeve 10.3 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 PTC Inc (PTC)?

PTC Inc trades as PTC 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 PTC in a Closelook index?

Yes — PTC Inc is a constituent of Agentic Winners 40, as of 2026-09-18.

What is PTC Inc's Closelook composite score?

54 out of 100, with momentum 31, quality 85 and valuation 61 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does PTC trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 38.2% off its high: 38.2% 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 PTC doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month PTC Inc is −8.2% against +0.5% for the Agentic Winners 40 — 8.7 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 PTC Inc do?

PTC makes software that manufacturers use to design, build and service physical products: Windchill for product lifecycle management, ThingWorx for industrial internet-of-things data, Creo for 3D design, Arena and Onshape for cloud-based product development, and ServiceMax and Kepware for field service and factory connectivity. Its customers are industrial and manufacturing companies that need to track a product from design through to end of life. It is headquartered in Boston. Closelook groups it with the other Application Leaders — Adobe, Intuit, monday.com, Veeva Systems, HubSpot, Atlassian, Dassault Systèmes and Kingdee — as software firms that own a workflow rather than a model; the market also names Siemens as a competitor in industrial software.

Where does PTC Inc sit in the AI build-out?

In our Agentic Winners 40 index, PTC sits in Tier C, Application Leaders, the sleeve of software firms that hold the working data other applications must plug into. Its platforms hold the digital twins and product records that manufacturing agents need to read and write, making PTC a dependency for any agentic system operating on the factory floor. PTC is a constituent of the Agentic Winners 40 and carries a Closelook score, strongest on quality and weakest on momentum. The diary has named it in a dossier on the Agentic Winners 25, in a dossier on industrial and physical AI dependencies, and in the 101 piece setting out the index's tiers.

Where has Closelook written about PTC Inc?

PTC Inc appears in 4 Closelook pieces, most recently Dossier: The Agentic Winners 25 (2026-03-31); Daily Pulse: Introducing the Agentic Winners 25 (2026-03-31); Dossier: Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030 (2026-03-06). What Closelook said most recently: PTC's industrial IoT and PLM platforms manage the digital twins and product lifecycles that manufacturing agents will need to read and write. (Dossier, 2026-03-31). 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 PTC, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 4 pieces · newest: Dossier, “The Agentic Winners 25” (2026-03-31)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where PTC appears in the diary — 4 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Go deeper

Long reads

  • The Agentic Winners 25Dossier · $49 · 31 Mar 2026PTC's industrial IoT and PLM platforms manage the digital twins and product lifecycles that manufacturing agents will need to read and write.
  • Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030Dossier · $29 · 6 Mar 2026Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk Twin Studio) and PTC (ThingWorx + Creo) provide the industrial IoT middleware connecting factory-floor data to digital twins.

101 and glossary

  • Agentic Winners 40: Who Captures AI's Value101Tier C · Application Leaders (16) — Adobe, Intuit, Veeva, CoStar, Samsara, Tempus AI, HubSpot, Atlassian, PTC, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, Kingdee, freee, Money Forward, Appier, monday.com.

Dailies

  • Introducing the Agentic Winners 25Daily Pulse · 31 Mar 202625 names across 7 sectors: MAG7 Gateway (MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL), Platform (SAP, NOW, CRM, WDAY), Toll Booth (NET, DDOG, CRWD, TWLO, OKTA), Neocloud/Edge (DOCN, FSLY, QCOM), Data/Search (SNOW, MDB, ESTC), Vertical (VEEV, INTU, PTC, CSGP, IOT)…

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