Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
Teradata Corporation is a data analytics and cloud data platform company that provides enterprise software, analytics, and related services. The company operates primarily in the enterprise data analytics, cloud computing, and data management industries, focusing on helping large organizations store, manage, and analyze complex data at scale. Teradata’s core value proposition centers on high-performance analytics, hybrid and multi-cloud deployment flexibility, and support for mission-critical workloads.
Teradata’s primary revenue drivers include subscription-based cloud software, on‑premises analytics platforms, and professional consulting services. Its customers are predominantly large enterprises across industries such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and government. A key strategic advantage is its long-standing expertise in massively parallel processing (MPP) analytics and its ability to support hybrid environments across major public clouds. Teradata traces its origins to analytics technology developed within NCR Corporation in the late 1970s and became an independent public company following its separation and IPO in 2007, subsequently transitioning from a hardware-centric model to a cloud-first software and services company.
Business Operations
Teradata generates revenue through two primary business segments: Subscription and Consulting. The Subscription segment includes cloud software subscriptions, on‑premises software licenses, and related maintenance and support, with a growing emphasis on recurring cloud revenue. The Consulting segment provides implementation, optimization, and analytics advisory services designed to help customers deploy and maximize the value of Teradata platforms.
The company operates globally, delivering its technology through its flagship Teradata Vantage analytics platform, which supports deployment on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and on‑premises infrastructure. Teradata controls proprietary database and analytics technologies optimized for large-scale workloads and maintains strategic partnerships with major cloud service providers. Its operations are supported by wholly owned subsidiaries that manage regional sales, services, and support activities worldwide.
Strategic Position & Investments
Teradata’s strategic direction emphasizes accelerating cloud adoption, expanding recurring subscription revenue, and modernizing analytics workloads for enterprise customers. Growth initiatives focus on increasing penetration of Teradata Vantage in public cloud environments, enhancing AI and machine learning capabilities, and migrating legacy on‑premises customers to hybrid and cloud-based solutions.
The company has historically complemented organic development with targeted acquisitions, including Think Big Analytics, which expanded Teradata’s consulting and advanced analytics capabilities. Teradata continues to invest in emerging areas such as AI-driven analytics, data integration, and workload optimization across multi-cloud environments. Public disclosures indicate a disciplined capital allocation strategy centered on platform innovation, customer retention, and selective technology investments rather than large-scale acquisitions.
Geographic Footprint
Teradata is headquartered in San Diego, California, and operates across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa. The company serves customers in more than 100 countries, with a particularly strong presence among large enterprises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia.
International operations play a significant role in Teradata’s revenue mix, supported by regional sales teams, consulting organizations, and support centers. Its global footprint enables the company to support multinational customers and deliver analytics solutions that comply with regional data, security, and regulatory requirements.
Leadership & Governance
Teradata is led by an executive team with experience in enterprise software, cloud computing, and large-scale technology transformations. The leadership emphasizes a strategy focused on cloud-first innovation, operational discipline, and long-term customer value creation.
Key executives include:
- Steve McMillan – President and Chief Executive Officer
- Claire Bramley – Chief Financial Officer
- Louis Landry – Chief Product Officer
- Hilary Ashton – Chief Communications Officer
- Dan Spurling – Chief Revenue Officer
The company is governed by a board of directors that provides oversight on strategy, risk management, and corporate governance, with policies aligned to public company standards and regulatory requirements.