Key transition weighs on Teradata

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TERADATA CORP. $40 (New York symbol TDC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 120.9 million; Market cap: $4.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.teradata.com) makes computers and software to capture and store large amounts of data for individual businesses—its clients. The company then analyzes this information and identifies customer buying habits and other trends. Under a new strategy, Teradata sells its products as cloud-based subscriptions, instead of one-time purchases of software packages. As a result of that change, its revenue in the three months ended December 31, 2017, was unchanged from a year earlier at $626 million. Teradata has also hired new staff and increased its research spending. That cut its earnings by 17.1%, to $0.58 a share from $0.70. Teradata is a hold. hold…