Autodesk Stock Slides 22% Over 7 Straight Down Days
A seven-day slide has erased a significant piece of the company’s value, focusing attention on the gap between its price and its fundamentals.
Autodesk (ADSK) stock has now moved lower for 7 consecutive trading days, a slide that has erased a cumulative 21.6% from its share price. That move has cut about $12 billion from the company’s market value, which now stands at about $45 billion.
For anyone holding the stock, this kind of persistent selling can be unsettling, regardless of their long-term view of the business itself.
ADSK Versus The S&P 500, Streak And Beyond
Here is how ADSK stock stacks up against the S&P 500 over the streak and the periods around it:
| Return Period | ADSK | S&P 500 |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | -2.6% | -0.6% |
| 7D (Current Streak) | -21.6% | -0.7% |
| 1M (21D) | -14.8% | -1.1% |
| 3M (63D) | -5.7% | 3.6% |
| YTD 2026 | -28.3% | 12.1% |
| 2025 | 0.1% | 16.4% |
| 2024 | 21.4% | 23.3% |
| 2023 | 30.3% | 24.2% |
Is the price reflecting the business?
The sources do not point to a clear driver for the seven-day decline; meanwhile, Autodesk’s fundamentals show continued strength, with revenue over the last twelve months up 17.9% compared to the S&P 500 median of 8.4%. Its operating margin of 27.9% is also well ahead of the 18.6% median for the index. The company’s free cash flow yield is 6.3%.
This is not a market-wide phenomenon; the S&P 500 returned -0.7% over the same 7 trading days. While the stock’s price-to-earnings multiple of 27.1 is above the S&P 500 median of 23.0, it remains below the median of 35.9 for Information Technology stocks. The streak is also not entirely unique, as 3 other S&P 500 stocks are on similar losing streaks.
A streak is information, not an instruction.
A long streak in either direction is a signal about momentum and where the market’s attention is focused. It is not a signal to buy or sell. The disciplined move is to use the new information, in this case, a much lower price, to re-evaluate the underlying business. The numbers here provide a starting point for that work, weighing a period of sharp selling against a backdrop of continued growth and profitability.
A slide like this always poses the same follow-up: which marked-down stocks are actually worth buying? Our Buy the Dip screen runs that test every day, flagging beaten-down names whose fundamentals still hold up.
Weakness In One Name Should Be Noise, Not News
For a diversified holder, a streak like this is a data point. For a concentrated one, it is a hole in the plan. The difference is never the stock; it is the portfolio built around it.
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