Autodesk Inc. $44 – Nasdaq symbol ADSK

AUTODESK INC. $44 (Nasdaq symbol ADSK; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 231.2 million; Market cap: $10.2 billion; WSSF Rating: Average) makes software that engineers and architects use to design machinery and buildings.

The company has completed its review of its stock option… Read More

The Scandal Is Over But Worries Remain

Autodesk and Nvidia had to restate their reported earnings for the past few years to correct errors related to the timing of executive stock options. Fixing these accounting errors is a plus, but both stocks face some business uncertainty.

AUTODESK INC. $44 (Nasdaq symbol ADSK; Aggressive… Read More

Two Software Leaders With Growth Ahead

SYMANTEC CORP. $17.07 (Nasdaq symbol SYMC; SI Rating: Average) (1-408-517-8000; www.symantec.com; Shares outstanding: 924.6 million; Market cap: $15.8 billion) is a leading maker of antivirus and Internet security software. Symantec’s best known product is Norton AntiVirus, comprising 30% of revenues. Norton continues to benefit from… Read More

Watch This Exposure

In the past year, the SEC has investigated more than 120 companies over the backdating of executive stock options. The agency thinks companies improperly or illegally manipulated the exercise price on stock options they granted to their managers, to expand the manager’s profits at the… Read More

Autodesk Inc. $38 – Nasdaq symbol ADSK

AUTODESK INC. $38 (Nasdaq symbol ADSK; WSSF Rating: Average) makes AutoCAD, the world’s top selling computer aided design program. About 4 million architects and engineers in over 100 countries use it to design and test new buildings and products. This business supplies nearly 90% of… Read More

Top software makers still have appeal

Our recommendations in software stocks have delivered huge gains in the past few years. But many now face growing competition from free software on the Internet, or they trade at high p/e’s. Computer makers are also demanding lower prices for pre-installed programs to keep the… Read More

Stick with Fair Isaac

I still haven’t come across anything to beat FAIR ISAAC INC. $44 (New York symbol FIC; WSSF Rating: Average), our “Stock of the Year” for aggressive investors in 2005. So for now, we’ll let Fair Isaac hang on to the Stock of the Year title… Read More