Friday, September 10, 2021

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022

tags:BLIN ,PRGS,ANET,QUIK,PATH,NEWR,

Sophos Group (LON:SOPH) had its target price decreased by Deutsche Bank from GBX 700 ($9.32) to GBX 630 ($8.39) in a note issued to investors on Friday. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Deutsche Bank’s price objective would suggest a potential upside of 23.29% from the company’s current price.

A number of other research firms also recently weighed in on SOPH. Numis Securities upped their target price on Sophos Group from GBX 570 ($7.59) to GBX 580 ($7.72) and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, May 18th. Credit Suisse Group upped their target price on Sophos Group from GBX 700 ($9.32) to GBX 750 ($9.99) and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, June 25th. Deutsche Bank reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Sophos Group in a report on Friday, May 18th. Shore Capital reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Sophos Group in a report on Thursday, May 17th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group reduced their target price on Sophos Group from GBX 865 ($11.52) to GBX 750 ($9.99) and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, May 8th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Sophos Group currently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of GBX 676.67 ($9.01).

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022: Bridgeline Digital, Inc.(BLIN )

Bridgeline Digital, Inc., incorporated on August 28, 2000, is a digital engagement company. The Company enables its customers to maximize the performance of their mission critical websites, intranets, and online stores. The Company is the developer of iAPPS Web Engagement Management (WEM) product platform and related digital solutions. The iAPPS platform deeply integrates web content management, eCommerce, eMarketing, social media management and web analytics capabilities within websites or online to help marketers deliver web experiences that attract, engage, and convert their customers across all digital channels. The iAPPS platform is delivered either through a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) multi-tenant business model or via a traditional perpetual licensing business model, in which the iAPPS software resides on a dedicated server. The Company's customers include middle market organizations and companies. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiary includes Bridgeline Digital Pvt. Ltd.

The Company's products include iAPPS Platform which provides a set of shared software modules that are critical to mission critical websites, on-line stores, intranets, extranets, and portals. The iAPPS platform allows companies and developers to create websites, web applications and online stores with advanced business logic, graphical user interfaces. The iAPPS platform is a Web Engagement Management (WEM) platform that unifies web content management, web Analytics, eCommerce, social media management and eMarketing capabilities deep within the websites, intranets or online stores, enabling customers to enhance and optimize the value of their web properties and better engage their website users. The iAPPS platform includes: iAPPS Content Manager, iAPPS Commerce, iAPPS Marketier, iAPPS Analyzer, iAPPSds and iAPPS Social.

The Company's Services include Digital Engagement Services, Digital Strategy Services, Usability Design and Information Architecture. The Digital Engagement Ser! vices addresses customer needs such as digital strategy, web design and web development, usability engineering, information architecture, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for their mission critical web site, intranet or online store. The Digital Strategy Services helps customers maximize the effectiveness of their online marketing activities to ensure that their web applications can be exposed to the potential customers that use search engines to locate products and services. The Company's SEO services include competitive analysis, website review, keyword generation, page technology, ongoing registration, monthly reports and monitoring. The Company's web analytics offer consulting and assistance in implementing iAPPS Analyzer or any other type of web analytics package. The Information Architecture is a design methodology focused on structuring information to ensure that users can find the appropriate data and can complete their desired transactions within a website or application. The usability design provides services, including usability audits, information architecture, process analysis and optimization, interface design and user testing.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Joseph Griffin]

    Here are some of the headlines that may have impacted Accern’s rankings:

    Get Bridgeline Digital alerts: Zacks: Bridgeline Digital Inc (BLIN) Given Average Recommendation of “Buy” by Analysts (americanbankingnews.com) Bridgeline Digital Shares Shoot Ahead on New Customer (baystreet.ca) Bridgeline Digital sees shares soar after its web analytics software welcomes a new user (proactiveinvestors.com) Procurement Services Provider Chooses the Bridgeline Unbound Insights Product for Web Analytics Solution (finance.yahoo.com)

    BLIN traded down $0.12 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $1.04. 455,300 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 548,370. The company has a current ratio of 0.98, a quick ratio of 0.98 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.53. Bridgeline Digital has a 12-month low of $0.79 and a 12-month high of $4.45. The company has a market cap of $4.92 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.33 and a beta of 0.14.

  • [By Alexander Bird]

    Here are the top performers from last week…

    Penny Stock Current Share Price Last Week's Gain Staffing 360 Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: STAF) $2.58 96.35% IZEA Inc. (Nasdaq: IZEA) $1.65 85.19% ShiftPixy Inc. (Nasdaq: PIXY) $3.35 78.38% MER Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq: MTSL) $3.31 41.07% IsoRay Inc. (NYSE: ISR) $0.60 38.64% TransGlobe Energy Corp. (Nasdaq: TGA) $3.74 37.76% Actinium Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCMKTS: ATNM) $0.27 26.31% Blonder Tongue Labs Inc. (NYSE: BDR) $1.56 24.58% Bridgeline Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: BLIN) $1.51 24.51% Cel-Sci Corp. (NYSE: CVM) $0.91 24.03%

    While these penny stocks generated strong returns last week, they're unlikely to produce the same level of profit again anytime soon.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022: Progress Software Corporation(PRGS)

Progress Software Corporation provides software solutions for various industries worldwide. Its OpenEdge segment offers Progress OpenEdge, a development software, which builds multi-language applications for secure deployment across various platforms and mobile devices, as well as cloud; and Progress Corticon, a business rules management system that enables applications with decision automation and change process, and decision-related insight capabilities. The company's Data Connectivity and Integration segment provides Progress DataDirect Connect software, which offers data connectivity using industry-standard interfaces to connect applications running on various platforms; and Progress DataDirect Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) based connection management service that simplifies SQL access to a spectrum of cloud-based data sources through a single standards-based interface. Its Application Development and Deployment segment offers Telerik Dev Tools, a design, quality assurance, debugging, and reporting suite; Telerik Dev Cloud, a cloud-based application design, deployment, hosting, and testing suite; Telerik Platform, an end-to-end application lifecycle solution; Telerik ALM, an application lifecycle management suite for testing Web, mobile, and desktop applications; Telerik Sitefinity, a Web content management and customer analytics platform; Progress Rollbase, a software that allows the creation of SaaS business applications; and Modulus Node.js and MongoDB cloud platforms that helps in the development of business and consumer applications. The company also provides project management, implementation, custom development, programming, and other services, as well as services to Web-enable applications; and training services. It sells its products directly to end-users, as well as indirectly to application partners, original equipment manufacturers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Progress Software Corp (NASDAQ:PRGS) saw a large growth in short interest in September. As of September 14th, there was short interest totalling 1,252,744 shares, a growth of 39.0% from the August 31st total of 901,413 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 440,053 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.8 days. Currently, 2.8% of the shares of the stock are sold short.

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Progress Software Corp (NASDAQ:PRGS) was the recipient of some unusual options trading activity on Thursday. Stock traders bought 775 put options on the stock. This is an increase of approximately 1,170% compared to the typical daily volume of 61 put options.

  • [By Steve Symington]

    Shares of Progress Software Inc. (NASDAQ:PRGS) are plunging, down 16.7% as of 1:45 p.m. EDT, after the strategic business applications specialist announced mixed third-quarter 2018 results and reduced its full-year guidance.

  • [By Garrett Baldwin]

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    The Top Stock Market Stories for Wednesday The U.S. markets are preparing for the eighth interest rate hike since 2015, and the Federal Reserve may not be done yet. Markets are weighing the possibility that the Fed may raise rates one more time this year (in December). The hikes come as the Fed is attempting to shrink its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. When Powell speaks this afternoon, expect a few questions about the impact of the trade war between the United States and China. Reporters will also likely want to know about geopolitical risks to the U.S. economy and how they might affect growth in a higher-interest-rate environment. Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. During his talk, Trump praised the U.S. economy and defended his administration's actions this year on trade. Trump said that the United States will no longer endure "abuse" from other trade partners. The U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer also said Tuesday that the U.S. is prepared to proceed on a new trade deal with Mexico without the participation of Canada. Oil prices are in focus after President Trump called out OPEC members before the U.N. on Tuesday. During his talk, Trump accused OPEC and non-OPEC participants in collusion efforts on production and prices of ripping off the rest of the world. Three Stocks to Watch Today: NKE, SVMK, DB Shares of Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) fell 3.5% after the sports apparel giant reported earnings after the bell. The company topped earnings expectations and reported profit growth of 15%. However, investors took some profits off the table. Shares of Nike stock are up more than 35% on the year. SVMK, the parent company of SurveyMonkey, has priced its upcoming IPO at $12 per share. That figure is above analysts' initial range expectation of $9 to $11 per share. The firm expects to reach a market capitalization of $1.46 bil

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022: Arista Networks, Inc.(ANET)

Arista Networks, Inc. provides cloud networking solutions. The company offers extensible operating systems, a set of network applications, and Ethernet switches. It serves a range of industries, including Internet companies, service providers, financial services organizations, government agencies, media and entertainment companies, and others. Arista Networks, Inc. markets its products through direct sales force and channel partners, such as distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, and original equipment manufacturer partners. The company was formerly known as Arastra, Inc. and changed its name to Arista Networks, Inc. in October 2008. Arista Networks, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

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    The networking company was expected to top quarterly estimates this time around as sector rivals Arista Networks  (ANET) - Get Report and Juniper Networks  (JNPR) - Get Report both topped estimates in their releases. 

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    Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE:ANET) CFO Ita M. Brennan sold 3,700 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $366.65, for a total value of $1,356,605.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 7,709 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,826,504.85. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link.

  • [By Joseph Griffin]

    Summit Trail Advisors LLC lowered its holdings in shares of Arista Networks Inc (NYSE:ANET) by 1.7% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 21,300 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 374 shares during the quarter. Arista Networks makes up approximately 1.6% of Summit Trail Advisors LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 17th biggest position. Summit Trail Advisors LLC’s holdings in Arista Networks were worth $4,488,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

  • [By Steve Symington]

    Shares of Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) climbed 32.8% in February, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, after the networking products company announced strong fourth-quarter 2018 results.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022: QuickLogic Corporation(QUIK)

QuickLogic Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, develops and markets low power customizable semiconductor and software algorithm solutions for tablets, wearables, smartphones, and mobile enterprise markets. The company's customer specific standard products incorporate its ArcticLink III S, ArcticLink III VX and BX, PolarPro 3, PolarPro II, and Eclipse II solution platforms, as well as packaging, proven system blocks, custom logic, sensor software algorithms, software drivers, and architecture consulting. Its products include pASIC 3, QuickRAM, and QuickPCI. The company markets and sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers through a network of sales managers and distributors in North America, Europe, and Asia. QuickLogic Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

  • [By Max Byerly]

    QuickLogic Co. (NASDAQ:QUIK)’s share price reached a new 52-week low during trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $0.98 and last traded at $0.97, with a volume of 294 shares. The stock had previously closed at $0.99.

  • [By Logan Wallace]

    QuickLogic (NASDAQ: QUIK) and SemiLEDs (NASDAQ:LEDS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

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  • [By Logan Wallace]

    Media headlines about QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK) have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. QuickLogic earned a coverage optimism score of 0.11 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned headlines about the semiconductor company an impact score of 46.5432440392545 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next several days.

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022: UiPath, Inc.(PATH)

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, and Japan. It develops UiPath Studio, a platform designed for RPA developers looking to build complex process automations with built-in governance capabilities, such as robust debugging tools, application programming interface automation, wizards to automate desktop or web applications, leverage custom code, and to integrate machine learning models into production workflows. The company also offers UiPath Robots, which emulates human behavior to execute the processes built in UiPath Studio; and UiPath Orchestrator that tracks and logs robot activity, along with what people do in tandem to maintain strict compliance and governance through dashboards and visualization tools. In addition, it provides maintenance and support for its software, as well as professional services, such as training and implementation services to facilitate the adoption of its platform. UiPath Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Joe Tenebruso (tmfguardian)]

    Shares of UiPath (NYSE:PATH) fell 9.6% on Wednesday, following the release of the automation software leader's fiscal 2022 second-quarter results. 

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    Elsewhere after hours, shares of UiPath  (PATH) - Get UIPATH INC Report fell after the company reported its latest financial results. 

Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2022: New Relic, Inc.(NEWR)

New Relic, Inc. (New Relic), incorporated on October 5, 2007, is a provider of enterprise software. The Company's cloud-based platform and range of products (known as New Relic Software Analytics Cloud) enable organizations to collect, store and analyze software data in real time. The Company's New Relic Software Analytics Cloud consists of an integrated suite of products, a data database and an open platform. Its products for technology users focus on software performance management and monitoring. New Relic offers an integrated suite of products, which include New Relic APM for application performance management; New Relic Mobile for mobile application performance management; New Relic Servers for server monitoring for cloud and data centers; New Relic Browser for end user experience monitoring and performance monitoring; New Relic Synthetics for software testing through simulated usage; New Relic Plugins, which are plugins to extend its functionality into other applications; New Relic Alerts for policy management and delivering alerts across entire suite of products, and New Relic Insights for real-time big data analytics for business managers.

The Company's products are based on a cloud architecture and a software as a service (SaaS) delivery model. New Relic's SaaS solution can manage hybrid cloud and heterogeneous architectures, including on-premise software. Its products support a range of software development languages and frameworks, such as Java and .NET, Ruby, hypertext preprocessor (PHP), Python and Node.js, as well as mobile operating systems, including iPhone operating system (iOS) and Android. The Company provides application program interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) for customers, partners and developers to build applications, which integrate with and embed its product functionality into other applications. The Company has developed a library of purpose-built software agents that supports a range of programming languages, mobile platforms and operating! systems.. Its agent software code is deployed onto application servers, browsers, mobile devices and operating systems. The Company's cloud-based, big data database can store and prepare amounts of data for analysis and querying. Its New Relic Insights application, which utilizes a flexible and schema-less database architecture for unstructured data, allows storage of new data types, including data collected by agents and through its APIs.

New Relic APM

New Relic APM provides visibility into the performance and usage of server-based applications, such as data pertaining to response time, transaction throughput, error rates, transactions and user satisfaction. New Relic APM provides a range of features, including transaction tracing, X-ray sessions, cross application tracing, thread profiling, database diagnostics and slow structured query language (SQL) traces. New Relic APM provides reporting and alerting functionality through standard configurations, as well as customer-defined policy configurations. The alerts include application performance degradation, falling traffic and declining user satisfaction metrics. Alerts can be delivered through a range of channels, including e-mail, text messages, push notifications and social channels, and can be integrated with bug tracking systems and group chat applications. New Relic APM's transactions feature enables business users to collect and analyze data generated by business transactions separately from data about application performance.

New Relic Mobile

New Relic Mobile provides code-level visibility into the performance and health of mobile applications running on the iOS and Android mobile operating systems. New Relic Mobile provides code-level diagnostics for native application code running on the mobile device and enables performance, throughput, crash reporting and error analysis for the interactions between the mobile application and the supporting backend services. New Relic Mobile provides detail! on usage ! of mobile device resources, including central processing unit (CPU), memory and network bandwidth from actual user devices. The User Interactions feature provides breakdowns of time spent in the code running on the device, including view loading, method calls and data store activity.

New Relic Servers

New Relic Servers provides visibility into server and operating system performance for physical and virtual servers, including servers that are deployed on-premise or in the cloud, by analyzing key metrics, which include CPU usage, physical memory, network activity, and disk input/output utilization and capacity. New Relic Servers provides end-to-end visibility into how server resources and utilization levels impact the applications being run. By presenting server performance with application performance in a shared user interface, New Relic Servers enables various departments to collaborate in identifying and addressing underlying performance issues.

New Relic Browser

New Relic Browser monitors the page view experiences of actual end users for desktop and mobile browser-based applications, and provides code-level diagnostics for JavaScript code running directly in the browser. New Relic Browser monitors the page load time for user interactions, providing data on how time is spent during each page load, including network time, request queuing, document object model processing and page rendering. New Relic Browser can automatically identify, track and analyze the geographic location of each page view to provide performance analytics by geography, including response time, user satisfaction, application adoption and usage trends.

New Relic Synthetics

New Relic Synthetics simulates usage and reproduces functionality that enables its users to test their software across the entire development life cycle. New Relic Synthetics uses open standards, including the open source scripting language Selenium. New Relic Synthetics is integrated i! nto the C! ompany's product suite, including New Relic APM, New Relic Browser and New Relic Insights. It lets the users select what region they want their test scripts to run from. Users can also run test scripts on their own systems.

New Relic Plugins

New Relic Plugins provides customers, partners and third-party developers with APIs and SDKs to build plugins that extend its functionality and data into various applications or information technology (IT) environment. The New Relic Plugin Central marketplace offers a range of downloadable plugins to users. It offers a click and drag dashboard creation tool that allows users to customize their user experience. Plugins are built to monitor IT architecture elements, including databases, networks, queuing systems, and communication tools, enabling customers to monitor their entire application stack.

New Relic Alerts

New Relic Alerts is a centralized notification system that delivers alerts from across the products in the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud. It allows users to manage alert policies and alert conditions, so that they receive early notification to identify potential performance issues and take action. New Relic Alerts is designed to integrate with communication and collaboration applications. New Relic Alerts provides a dedicated user interface for alert configuration and incident management across New Relic products.

New Relic Insights

New Relic Insights enables technology and business users to perform real-time analysis. New Relic Insights is built on an event database that runs in a cloud-hosted, distributed super-cluster. The Company has developed New Relic Query Language (NRQL) as a SQL-type query language for real-time analytics. NRQL has autocomplete capabilities that assist users by providing syntax as they type, suggesting built-in analytics functions, and can list the attributes and event types available for querying. New Relic Insights produces data visualizations with! every qu! ery, with pre-built charts and graphs. New Relic Insights also includes a feature called Data Apps that enables users to create and publish a set of customer-curated dashboards, along with an optional search field, for use by non-technical business users.

The Company competes with AppDynamics, Inc., Dynatrace LLC, Splunk Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, BMC Software, Inc., CA, Inc., Compuware Corporation, Riverbed Technology, Inc., SAP SE, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Google Inc. and Webtrends Inc.

Advisors' Opinion:
  • [By Chris Neiger]

    Shares of New Relic (NYSE:NEWR), the software-as-a-service company, rose 25.5% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, after an analyst upgraded the company's stock and raised its price target.

  • [By Brian Feroldi]

    New Relic (NYSE:NEWR), a technology company focused on application performance management software, reported its fiscal third-quarter 2019 results on Wednesday. The results exceeded the high end of management's guidance range across the board. The broad-based prosperity allowed the company to boost its full-year guidance for the third time in a row.

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