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Price
$243.32 → $244.84(+0.6%)
Discount
−1% to 18% → −2% to 17%(−1.0 pts)
Recent events
2026-10-06: Autodesk named Diana Colella executive vice president of its architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) business, its largest industry business. She follows Amy Bunszel, who retires and stays until November 2, 2026, to help with the change. Colella leads the Forma industry cloud and desktop products such as Revit and Civil 3D. She worked at Autodesk for almost 30 years and most recently led the AI change of the Media and Entertainment business. 2026-09-28: Piper Sandler kept its Overweight rating but cut its price target to $300 from $338. It said that AI could commoditize the interface or reduce seats at Autodesk, after OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra release. 2026-09-24: UBS kept its Buy rating and its $325 target after more than 25 industry conversations. It found no sign that AI displaces core CAD systems and said that most industry participants see Autodesk as a net beneficiary of AI. 2026-09-03: OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a model that can build CAD models from photos and drawings. OpenAI reported a score of 95.9% on the BenchCAD benchmark. Users connected it to Autodesk Inventor and Fusion. 2026-08-27: Autodesk reported Q2 fiscal 2027 results. Revenue was $2.05 billion, up 16%, and billings were $1.85 billion, up 10%. The non-GAAP operating margin was 41%. Free cash flow was $561 million. Current remaining performance obligations grew 12%, but total remaining performance obligations grew only 2%, because Autodesk gives fewer multi-year discounts. Autodesk raised its fiscal 2027 revenue guidance to $8.295 to $8.345 billion, including MaintainX. 2026-08-03: Autodesk completed its purchase of MaintainX for about $3.6 billion in cash. It drew a $1.0 billion 364-day term loan on the same day, at a weighted-average rate of 4.58%, and also used $1.0 billion of commercial paper and its own cash. 2026-06-15: Autodesk signed a $1.0 billion delayed-draw term loan to fund MaintainX and raised its revolving credit facility from $1.5 billion to $2.0 billion. In July 2026, it also started a commercial paper program of up to $2.0 billion. 2026-05-28: Autodesk reported Q1 fiscal 2027 results. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 18%. It raised its fiscal 2027 guidance and agreed to buy MaintainX, which expected more than $135 million of annual recurring revenue in 2026.