Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. (CWAN)
Technology
- Fundamental
- 2
- Sentiment
- 2
- Technical
- 3
Do Nothing: fundamentalScore is 2 (below required floor of 3); strategy requires fundamentalScore >= 3 before any bullish entry.
Company overview
Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. provides a cloud-based platform for automating and centralizing investment data management. Its solutions include investment accounting, performance measurement, compliance monitoring, and risk analytics for insurers, asset managers, corporations, institutional investors, and government entities. The company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Fundamental
weakClearwater's fundamentals are weak due to negative profitability, high leverage, and limited public-equity upside post-acquisition.
CWAN has strong top-line growth and solid gross margins, but it is still unprofitable on a GAAP basis and leverage increased materially after acquisition-driven expansion (net debt/EBITDA ~7x; interest coverage negative). Valuation is expensive (EV/Sales ~9.8x; EV/EBITDA ~75x; free-cash-flow yield ~2%). SEC filings also show the company was acquired for $24.55/share cash and requested delisting, leaving limited upside for public investors. fundamentalScore: 2/5.
Sentiment
weakSentiment is muted with limited upside catalysts following the company's acquisition and delisting request.
The announced $8.4B take-private completion at $24.55/share (2026-06-25) dominates the near-term narrative and effectively pins CWAN while delisting/deregistration and cash-out mechanics play out; last ~14d media tone is slightly more positive than the prior 30–90d baseline but is mostly wire-driven. Legal/regulatory screening shows no regulator-confirmed investigations, with only routine deal-fairness law-firm solicitations in the background.
Technical
fairTechnicals are firm with price above key averages, but the stock is constrained by merger-arbitrage dynamics.
Price is above SMA20, SMA50, SMA200, EMA9, EMA21, and the latest daily VWAP, while RSI14 is 67.75, MACD is positive at 0.05 versus a 0.04 signal, and ADX14 is 60.94. That is bullish placement on paper. The restraint is that ATR14 is only 0.07, Williams %R is pinned at 0, and the last sessions are clustered around 24.53-24.56, so the tape looks more like a merger-arbitrage price pin than a fresh swing breakout. That mix supports a 3/5 chart score: firm trend position, but limited true expansion.
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