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Ultimate Software Group Shares Popped: What You Need to Know

By Evan Niu (TMFNewCow) | More Articles
December 5, 2011 | Comments (0)

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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.

What: Shares of software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Ultimate Software Group (Nasdaq: ULTI  ) popped by as much as 11% today before settling down to close out with a gain of 6% after cloud stocks got boosted by M&A activity.

So what: SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF  ) is being acquired by German software giant SAP (NYSE: SAP  ) in a deal valued at $3.4 billion. The deal carries a 52% premium and is giving hope to other cloud-based investors that industry consolidation may lie ahead.

Now what: Other cloud stocks jumped following the news, including Concur Technologies (Nasdaq: CNQR  ) and Taleo (Nasdaq: TLEO  ) . Ultimate Software specializes in human capital management SaaS and human resource management solutions. The HR management market is estimated around $3 billion and counting, which may prompt large enterprise behemoths like Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL  ) and SAP to pick up smaller shops.

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