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Why You Should Love Rackspace's Results

Strong growth isn’t easy to come by during a transition

By Tim Beyers – Nov 9, 2012 at 12:37PM EST

For much of the year, Rackspace Hosting (RAX +0.00%) has been one of 2012's big winners . Not this week. On Tuesday, the company reported revenue and earnings that met Street estimates, yet the stock is down nearly 7% over the past two days alone. Have investors forgotten how big a transformation the company is undergoing? A broad-based move to an open source infrastructure based on OpenStack could take profits to new heights in the years ahead. Find out more in the video below. 

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Tim Beyers
Tim Beyers is a Senior Investment Analyst and Lead Advisor at The Motley Fool. Tim leads the signature Rule Breakers investing service and co-leads Motley Fool Supernova’s Odyssey mission, a real-money portfolio designed to help individual investors build and manage a portfolio of Rule Breaker stocks. He also serves as a portfolio lead for Cloud Disruptors and is a contributing stock analyst for the Trends team. Tim has over 20 years of professional investing experience, including 17 years as an analyst for the market-beating Rule Breakers service and three years as its lead advisor.
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