Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, business optimization software specialist TIBCO Software
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at TIBCO's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
TIBCO facts
| Headquarters (Founded) | Palo Alto, Calif. (1996) |
| Market Cap | $4.6 billion |
| Industry | Application software |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $920.3 million |
| Management | Chairman/CEO Vivek Ranadive CFO Sydney Carey |
| Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | 10.5% |
| Cash/Debt | $308.4 million / $68.1 million |
| Competitors |
IBM
Oracle Progress Software |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 93% of the 484 members who have rated TIBCO believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
A couple of months ago, one of those Fools, All-Star RedandBlack, nicely summed up the TIBCO bull case for our community:
The company uses software, social media and cloud computing to give users real time relative information on the data within their organization. The amount of data generated keeps expanding which makes [TIBCO] products in demand. Long term outperform.
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