SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC)
Information Technology · Technology Distribution · NASDAQ
ScanSource is a technology distributor that bridges the gap between major suppliers and channel partners, offering a comprehensive ecosystem of hardware, cloud, and connectivity solutions.
What SCANSOURCE INC does
ScanSource is a leading technology distributor that provides hardware, software-as-a-service (SaaS), connectivity, and cloud services through a vast ecosystem of channel partners. The company operates through two primary segments: Specialty Technology Solutions (distributing barcode, POS, physical security, and networking hardware) and Intelisys & Advisory (focusing on cloud and connectivity services). Serving approximately 25,000 partners, ScanSource provides specialized expertise, technical support, and logistical configuration services to help channel partners deliver end-user business solutions.
Themes: cloud and connectivity services, supply chain and logistics, IT channel distribution, IoT and physical security solutions, retail technology infrastructure
Fundamentals
- Price$59.16 as of 2026-10-08 close
- Market cap$1.2B as of 2026-08-17 (share count; price 2026-10-08)
- 1-year return+40.5% 2025-10-08 close $42.10 → 2026-10-08 close $59.16
- P/E17.96 as of 2026-10-08
- Net margin+2.4% FY2026, SEC XBRL
- Gross margin+13.6% FY2026, SEC XBRL
- ROE+8.7% FY2026, SEC XBRL
- Debt / equity0.11 as of 2026-09-02
- Revenue growth (YoY)+3.8% as of 2026-09-02
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-5.2% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.08 as of 2026-09-02
- Last reported earnings2026-08-20 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
How SCSC compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiobottom 25% 253 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-10-08
- net profit marginmiddle range 380 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-09-02
- operating marginmiddle range 375 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-09-02
- gross marginbottom 10% 311 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-09-02
- return on equitymiddle range 370 covered Information Technology peers, as of 2026-09-02
- 3-year revenue CAGRbottom 25% 385 covered Information Technology peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)middle range 382 covered Information Technology peers, as of FY2026
Position among covered Information Technology companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
How SCANSOURCE INC looks technically
SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) is trading 28.3% above its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a longer-term uptrend. Its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 86 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal. A trend is forming but not yet strong — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 22 (a reading of 25+ marks a strong trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 6 trading days ago (its momentum flipped positive). It made a new 20-day high about 6 trading days ago.
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 28.3% above its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a longer-term uptrend | +28.3% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $56.80 | $56.80 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $46.11 | $46.11 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing high 24 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 24 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 86 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal | 86 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | a trend is forming but not yet strong — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 22 (a reading of 25+ marks a strong trend) | 22.1 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 53.4 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the lower half of its 14-day range ($56.33 to $63.37) — its "stochastic" reading is 40 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been slipping within that range over the last few sessions. | 40.2 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 6 trading days ago (its momentum flipped positive) | 6 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $66.78 | $66.78 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 11.4% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -11.4% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 75.2% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +75.2% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 11.4% below its highest point of the past year | 11.4% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day high about 6 trading days ago | 6 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day high about 6 trading days ago | 6 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $66.78 (set on 2026-08-20) | $66.78 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($34.27 to $62.22), and it has given back only a small part of its rise from last year’s low — 11% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $44.05 to $44.95. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 10.9% |
| From the all-time high | it is 11.4% below its all-time high | -11.4% |
| Nearest price level | it is sitting right on a resistance level at $59.24 — a price it turned at three times since 2026-08-04, most recently on 2026-09-14. Since 2024-10-08 it has 11 such levels below the current price and 1 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | +0.1% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $13.58 (set on 2008-12-02) | $13.58 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 335.6% above its all-time low | +335.6% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are narrower than usual versus its own recent 6-month history (tighter than about 89% of it) | 11th percentile |
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| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $1.84 between its high and its low — about 3.1% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $1.84 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $55.64 and $61.83 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $55.64 – $58.73 – $61.83 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 3.1% in a typical session — about typical for the companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 3.1% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 7.1 daily ranges above its 200-day average price (28.3% above it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 7.1 daily ranges above its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 1.24× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts' average price target is unchanged from the prior reading | 0.0% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | not available for this company yet | n/a |
Candlestick patterns
1
| Since a doji | 7 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 7 sessions ago |
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Price gaps
3
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-10-08 at essentially the same price it closed at the session before — no meaningful overnight gap | +0.1% |
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| Open gap | it gapped 25.8% above the previous close 34 sessions ago and has not traded back through the level it left behind at 51.42 — an "unfilled gap", which describes a price range no trade has since crossed and is not a forecast that it will be crossed | +25.8% |
| Gap filled | a 5.0% gap down opened on 2026-08-17 has been "filled" 34 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it took 3 sessions to close | 34 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it has closed lower 5 sessions in a row, a -4.92% move over the run — an unbroken run of down days, which describes what has already happened and says nothing about the next session | 5 sessions down |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock beat the market by 1.5 percentage points (the stock gained 2.5% while the market gained 1.0%) | +1.5% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock beat the market by 10.8 percentage points (the stock gained 14.6% while the market gained 3.8%) | +10.8% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock beat the market by 42.9 percentage points (the stock gained 60.3% while the market gained 17.5%) | +42.9% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock beat the market by 25.5 percentage points (the stock gained 40.5% while the market gained 15.0%) | +25.5% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 5 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bullish state: a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day, trading above its 200-day average, MACD momentum is positive, outperforming the market over 6 months, trading above the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 5 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 0 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 0 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 0.1% above the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-09-01 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established uptrend, with the band below acting as the level that would have to give way. The band itself is moderate, spanning 2.5% of the share price. | +0.1% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 25% above the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is showing a gain. That average is $47.22 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 190 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +25.3% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 3% above the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-08-20 (its 10-K), so the typical buyer over that stretch is showing a gain. That average is $57.64 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 35 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +2.6% |
Price levels it has turned at before
SCSC last closed at $59.16 on 2026-10-08. Since 2024-10-08 it has turned at 11 prices below its last close and 1 above; the 3 nearest below and the nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $59.24 | Resistance | 0.1% above the last close | turned there three times · 2026-08-04 to 2026-09-14 |
| $53.59 | Support | 9.4% below the last close | turned there four times · 2024-11-11 to 2026-07-23 |
| $49.95 | Support | 15.6% below the last close | turned there five times · 2024-10-17 to 2026-08-17 |
| $46.45 | Support | 21.5% below the last close | turned there four times · 2024-12-30 to 2026-05-11 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-10-08.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading above the 200-day moving average · beating the market · On a losing streak (5+ lower closes in a row) · Stretched far above its 200-day average (6+ daily ranges) · Trading above the Ichimoku cloud · Near a resistance level (pressing into a price that has capped it before) | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-10-08. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Mean price target$60.50 range $43.00 – $78.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-10-05. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for SCSC
- Consensus EPS estimate$1.11 next reporting period, as of 2026-10-05
- Estimate change, 30 days-$0.00717 (-0.6%) from $1.12, on 2026-08-31, 35-day window
- Readings revised upward0% of 6 comparable readings
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Reliance on key suppliers and potential termination or modification of agreements.","Macroeconomic conditions and supply chain challenges.","Credit risks associated with larger channel sales partners and suppliers."]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of SCSC's 10-Q filed 2026-05-07 against the prior one filed 2026-02-05.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Added:
- Added statement about 2026 U.S. Supreme Court invalidation of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Added statement that 'certain other tariffs remain in effect and the current administration has indicated that it will continue seeking to implement tariffs through other statutory authorities' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Added reference to 'ongoing conflict with Iran and geopolitical tensions' resulting in 'volatility in the global energy and commodity markets' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Added statement 'We expect to pass through to our channel sales partners any supplier price increases resulting from tariffs or other factors' with expanded scope to include 'other factors' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Removed:
- Removed statement 'In 2025, the U.S. announced a variety of additional tariffs on goods from multiple nations and trading blocks, prompting reciprocal tariffs and other retaliatory actions in response' (older filing, 2026-02-05)
- Removed entire paragraph regarding the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law on July 4, 2025, including discussion of bonus depreciation and international tax framework changes (older filing, 2026-02-05)
- Removed statement 'On October 20, 2025, we completed the acquisition of DataXoom, a leading connectivity provider dedicated to supporting purpose-built mobile deployments across our current supplier line card and beyond' (older filing, 2026-02-05)
- Removed Net Sales by Segment table for 'Quarter ended December 31' and 'Six months ended December 31' with 2025/2024 data (older filing, 2026-02-05)
- Removed Net Sales by Geography table for 'Quarter ended December 31' and 'Six months ended December 31' with 2025/2024 data (older filing, 2026-02-05)
- Reworded:
- Changed period reported from 'quarters and six months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024' to 'quarters and nine months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025' (newer filing reports Q3 2026 vs. Q3 2025 and nine-month periods)
- Changed 'evolving geopolitical and trade relationships' to 'evolving geopolitical conflicts and trade relationships' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Changed segment discussion for Specialty Technology Solutions from 'The increase for the quarter is primarily a result of growth in North America' to 'The increase for the quarter is primarily a result of growth across most technologies in North America' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Changed Intelisys & Advisory quarterly description from growth attribution to statement that 'net sales decreased $0.4 million, or 1.5%, compared to the prior-year period' with cause 'primarily reflects lower Resourcive sales' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Changed Intelisys annualized net billings language from 'Quarterly net billings for Intelisys increased 2.5% over the prior-year quarter to bring annualized net billings to approximately $2.85 billion' to 'Quarterly annualized net billings for Intelisys totaled approximately $2.88 billion' (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Changed geographic reporting from 'United States and Canada' to separate 'United States' and 'Brazil' entries (newer filing, 2026-05-07)
- Notes:
- The two filings report different reporting periods (December 31, 2025 vs. March 31, 2026), making direct operational comparison limited; changes reflect both temporal difference and actual updates
- Text in older filing was truncated at 'United States and Canada $ 1,389,582 $ 1,399,130 $ (9,548) (0.7)', preventing full comparison of six-month geographic data
Risk Factors
- Added:
- Newer filing (2026-05-07) includes financial data for quarter and nine months ended March 31, 2026
- Newer filing balance sheet dated March 31, 2026 with comparison to June 30, 2025
- Newer filing income statement shows nine months ended March 31, 2026 compared to nine months ended March 31, 2025
- Removed:
- Older filing (2026-02-05) included financial data for quarter and six months ended December 31, 2025
- Older filing balance sheet dated December 31, 2025 removed in newer filing
- Older filing income statement for six months ended December 31, 2025 removed in newer filing
- Older filing comparison periods of December 31, 2024 and 2024 removed in newer filing
- Reworded:
- Balance sheet period changed from December 31, 2025 to March 31, 2026
- Income statement periods changed from quarter and six months ended December 31, 2025 to quarter and nine months ended March 31, 2026
- Comparative income statement periods changed from December 31, 2024 and 2024 to March 31, 2025 and 2025
- Notes:
- Forward-looking statements section text is identical between both filings
- Table of contents page numbers are identical between both filings
- The shareholders' equity statement appears truncated in both source texts and comparison is incomplete
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
0 open-market purchases and 10 open-market sales by insiders in the last 90 days, of which we have read Form 4 filings through 2026-10-04. The 5 days since 2026-10-04 have not been checked yet.
- Last 30 days · read to 2026-10-040 buys · 6 sells ($5M) — 2 selling insiders
- Last 90 days · read to 2026-10-040 buys · 10 sells ($5M) — 4 selling insiders
- Last 180 days · read to 2026-10-040 buys · 10 sells ($5M) — 4 selling insiders
Activity heuristic: net selling (a transparent product heuristic from the counts above, not a prediction or advice)
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-09-11. Based on Form 4 filings read through 2026-10-04; anything filed since is not yet included.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about SCSC's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
5 institutional 13F filers reported holding SCSC as of 2026-06-30 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 5
- Reported shares held 4,928,478
- Reported value $256,724,401
reported quarterly holdings change (2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30): 0 new, 3 increased, 2 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
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Short interest (FINRA)
SCSC had 1,035,861 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-09-15 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
SCSC had 5.14% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-09-15 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 3.89 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 1,035,861
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 5.14%
- Prior settlement (shares) 899,619
- Reported change 15.14%
- Days to cover (reported) 3.89
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-09-15 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Ingram Micro
- TD SYNNEX (SNX)
- Arrow Electronics (ARW)
- Avnet (AVT)
- Westcon-Comstor
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Frequently asked questions
What does SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) do?
ScanSource is a leading technology distributor that provides hardware, software-as-a-service (SaaS), connectivity, and cloud services through a vast ecosystem of channel partners. The company operates through two primary segments: Specialty Technology Solutions (distributing barcode, POS, physical security, and networking hardware) and Intelisys & Advisory (focusing on cloud and connectivity services).
What sector is SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) in?
SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) is classified in the Information Technology sector. Its industry is Technology Distribution. It trades on NASDAQ.
Who are SCANSOURCE INC's (SCSC) competitors?
Notable peers of SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) include Ingram Micro, TD SYNNEX, Arrow Electronics, Avnet and Westcon-Comstor. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) overbought or oversold right now?
SCANSOURCE INC (SCSC) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 53, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-10-08). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on SCSC come from?
Fundamentals come from SEC XBRL company filings for the figures marked with a fiscal year, and market data, as of 2026-09-02 for the rest; prices are market data, as of 2026-09-02; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: SEC XBRL company filings for the figures marked with a fiscal year, and market data, as of 2026-09-02 for the rest. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-10-08.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.