Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Relatively High Gross Margin Detected in Shares of Wave Systems in the Systems Software Industry (WAVX, CHKP, ROVI, PVSW, CA)
Written on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 7:29am

Below are the top five companies in the Systems Software industry as ranked by gross margin. Gross Margin tells you how many of your sales dollars are profit. If efficiency is improved, more profits will result.

Wave Systems (NASDAQ:WAVX) has gross margin of 94%, a sales growth of 45.5%, and trailing 12 months sales of $20.7 million.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) has gross margin of 88.6%, a sales growth of 16.7%, and trailing 12 months sales of $1 billion.

Rovi (NASDAQ:ROVI) has gross margin of 88.1%, a sales growth of 12.8%, and trailing 12 months sales of $518.1 million.
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ:PVSW) has gross margin of 87.2%, a sales growth of 5.6%, and trailing 12 months sales of $47.2 million.

CA Inc (NASDAQ:CA) has gross margin of 86.4%, a sales growth of 4.5%, and trailing 12 months sales of $4.4 billion.
SmarTrend is bullish on shares of ROVI and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on February 12, 2010 at $30.05. The stock has risen 45.4% since the alert was issued.