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$292.35-3.87%as of Sep 22, 2026
Prev close
$304.12
Day range
$288.25 – $310.74

INTU fell 3.9% in a session where the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.8%, so the move looks stock-specific rather than market-driven. The business still shows 13.9% revenue growth and 27.4% operating margin, but the step-down from a sharp intraday high to a 292.35 close leaves the tape looking more mixed than cleanly supportive.

INTU

INTUIT INC

As of Sep 22, 2026

58/100

Worth keeping an eye onHealth Score

Why it moved

INTU finished down 3.9% while the S&P 500 was -0.0% and the Nasdaq 100 was +0.8%, so the decline was not explained by the broad market. The day’s path also matters: it opened at 310.74, hit 310.74, then fell to 288.25 before closing at 292.35, which is a clear fade rather than a steady drift. With no sector-peer move provided for this session, the primary read is stock-specific pressure, likely a reversal after a prior software rerating rather than a market-wide selloff.

Is this normal volatility

This looks like more than ordinary noise, but not like fundamental deterioration. INTU still shows revenue growth of 13.9% YoY (TTM), latest quarter +13.7% YoY, and EPS +20.4% YoY (TTM), alongside gross margin +80.2%, operating margin +27.4%, and net margin +21.3%, which is a solid operating profile. Valuation is not cheap at PE 17.7 and forward PE 11.6, though the PEG of 1.27 — P/E divided by earnings growth, so what investors pay per unit of growth — is only moderate rather than extreme, and beta of 0.93 suggests the stock is not inherently highly volatile. So a 3.9% drop can happen, but the session reads as a sharper-than-average swing in a stock whose fundamentals remain intact, not as a signal that the business has weakened.

Earnings preview

The next earnings date is not available this period, so I cannot place the report on a calendar from the facts given. What the market is positioned around is clear: revenue growth of 13.9% YoY (TTM), latest quarter +13.7% YoY, EPS +20.4% YoY (TTM), and margins of gross +80.2%, operating +27.4%, and net +21.3%. The recent news flow also points to two live questions: whether QuickBooks monetization in payments, Bill Pay, and lending can sustain growth, and whether the software rerating tied to AI-disruption fears and capital rotation can persist; prior print reaction patterns are not provided in the facts, so I will not infer them.

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