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The most-watched software stock is ...
Looking at the aggregate data, we see that Rosetta Stone (NYSE: RST) is above the rest in terms of watch interest, the percentage of people keeping an eye on software stocks in general who are specifically watching each company. And for good reason. As CAPS player steelers303 wrote in March:
I tried Rosetta Stone and loved it. The beauty of the software is that the language you learn is completely independent of the language(s) you already speak fluently. This should make the business extremely scalable on an international scale. If they bring down the price a bit I think they will see some tremendous gains.
Here are the rest of the top fifteen most-watched companies in the industry with their watch interest along with the stocks' CAPS rating to show the sentiment of our investing community.
|
Company |
Market Cap (in millions) |
CAPS Rating (out of 5) |
Watch Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Rosetta Stone |
$308 |
*** |
61.8% |
|
2 |
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) |
$227,010 |
*** |
10.3% |
|
3 |
Activision Blizzard |
$13,810 |
**** |
6.2% |
|
4 |
Oracle |
$171,924 |
**** |
3.4% |
|
5 |
salesforce.com |
$20,978 |
* |
1.6% |
|
6 |
Ebix (Nasdaq: EBIX) |
$815 |
**** |
1.6% |
|
7 |
Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN) |
$6,772 |
**** |
1.4% |
|
8 |
VirnetX (AMEX: VHC) |
$1,933 |
* |
1.1% |
|
9 |
Adobe Systems |
$15,577 |
*** |
0.8% |
|
10 |
Electronic Arts |
$8,300 |
** |
0.7% |
|
11 |
Qlik Technologies |
$2,857 |
**** |
0.7% |
|
12 |
TIBCO Software |
$4,977 |
** |
0.5% |
|
13 |
Citrix Systems |
$15,600 |
** |
0.5% |
|
14 |
Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) |
$300 |
** |
0.5% |
|
15 |
Magic Software (Nasdaq: MGIC) |
$224 |
*** |
0.5% |
Sources: Motley Fool, Motley Fool CAPS.
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