Shares of Wave Systems Rank the Highest in terms of Gross Margin in the Systems Software Industry (WAVX, CHKP, ROVI, PVSW, CA)
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 92.9%, a sales growth of 34.4%, and trailing 12 months sales of $22.4 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 64.6% since the alert was issued.
