Today’s Trade Alerts include: Autodesk Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK), Vmware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), Cadence Design Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS), ACI Worldwide Inc. (Nasdaq: ACIW), Mentor Graphics Corp. (Nasdaq: MENT), and MICROS Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRS).
“Autodesk Inc. (ADSK) shares surged 11% Friday, continuing the move Monday morning, trading up nearly 1% to $38.42. Share activity is still moving from financial results that one analyst called a ‘classic strong quarter, with virtually no holes to poke.’ Autodesk operates as a design software and service company. It sells its products and services through distributors and resellers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific...
“The company's results easily surpassed Wall Street's expectations and the company's own guidance. For the three months ended July 31, 2008, Autodesk reported earnings of $89.8 million, or 39 cents per share, on $619.5 million in revenue. Excluding items, Autodesk earned 56 cents per share in the latest quarter, while Wall Street on average had expected the company to report earnings of 52 cents per share on $606.4 million in revenue for the quarter, according to a survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters…
“For fiscal 2009, ending in January, Autodesk said it expects to report earnings of $1.72 to $1.78 per share, or $2.24 to $2.30 excluding items, on $2.5 billion to $2.53 billion in revenue, while it expects earnings of 40 cents to 42 cents per share, or 54 cents to 56 cents excluding items, on $625 million to $635 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter...”
“Vmware Inc. (VMW) shares slipped less than 1% to $39.55 Monday morning. Vmware provides virtualization solutions. The company recently announced the industry’s most popular and reliable hypervisor, VMware ESX, has been named Product of the Year by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine…
“According to Jeff Lewis, group publisher, Penton Media, the magazine's editors selected winners based on the product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and its value to the customer…
“Vmware's virtualization platform products include Player that enables individuals to run virtual machines on their desktops; Fusion, a desktop virtualization product for users of Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers; Workstation for software developers and enterprise IT professionals; Server that enables virtual partitioning of a server; ESX Server, an enterprise-class virtualization platform that runs directly on the hardware; Virtual SMP that enables a virtual machine to use four physical processors simultaneously; and VMFS that allows multiple ESX Servers to share block-based storage…”
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