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Europe's Leading TV Channel, TF1, Integrates MicroStrategy Solution with SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse Application

PR Newswire (May 14, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.3.1

PR Newswire (Apr 24, 2013)
BancVue Selects MicroStrategy's Business Intelligence Platform and Wisdom Professional for Enhanced Business Analytics

PR Newswire (Apr 15, 2013)
MicroStrategy Global Brand Ambassador Patrick Cantlay Wins First Professional Golf Tournament

PR Newswire (Mar 4, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces Sale of Angel Subsidiary

PR Newswire (Feb 26, 2013)
MicroStrategy Positioned in the "Leaders" Quadrant of 2013 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Report

PR Newswire (Feb 13, 2013)
MicroStrategy Recognizes Excellence in Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence

PR Newswire (Jan 30, 2013)
MicroStrategy Cloud Gains Global Momentum

PR Newswire (Jan 29, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces Fourth Quarter 2012 Financial Results

PR Newswire (Jan 28, 2013)
MicroStrategy to Host 16th Annual "World" Conference, January 28-31, 2013, in Las Vegas

PR Newswire (Jan 17, 2013)
Microsoft's Mobile Allies
Tom Wynowski • Thu, Jan 17 • 9 Comments
Specialty Retailer Tilly's Rolls out Mobile Commerce App, Powered by MicroStrategy Alert

PR Newswire (Jan 11, 2013)
Nearly One in Two Sales Professionals Cite Lack of Mobile Access as Barrier to Selling, According to MicroStrategy Online Survey

PR Newswire (Dec 20, 2012)
MicroStrategy Enhances Innovative Big Data Capabilities with Certified Integration to Amazon Redshift Analytical Data Warehouse Service

PR Newswire (Nov 28, 2012)
MicroStrategy Rated #1 by Dresner Advisory Study for Second Year in a Row for Mobile Business Intelligence Offering

PR Newswire (Nov 19, 2012)
MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy Cloud Express, Innovative New SaaS Offering

PR Newswire (Oct 31, 2012)
MicroStrategy Announces Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results

PR Newswire (Oct 29, 2012)
Who Really "Likes" Romney? Who Really "Likes" Obama? Wisdom™ Knows!

PR Newswire (Oct 26, 2012)
MicroStrategy Receives Highest Ranking in Numerous KPIs in The BI Survey 12, Industry's Largest Independent Survey

PR Newswire (Oct 16, 2012)

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MicroStrategy's Management Hosts The Only Dashboard Platform You'll Ever Need Conference (Transcript)
Wed, Oct 3, 2012

Europe's Leading TV Channel, TF1, Integrates MicroStrategy Solution with SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse Application

PR Newswire (May 14, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.3.1

PR Newswire (Apr 24, 2013)
BancVue Selects MicroStrategy's Business Intelligence Platform and Wisdom Professional for Enhanced Business Analytics

PR Newswire (Apr 15, 2013)
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MicroStrategy Global Brand Ambassador Patrick Cantlay Wins First Professional Golf Tournament

PR Newswire (Mar 4, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces Sale of Angel Subsidiary

PR Newswire (Feb 26, 2013)
MicroStrategy Positioned in the "Leaders" Quadrant of 2013 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Report

PR Newswire (Feb 13, 2013)
MicroStrategy Recognizes Excellence in Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence

PR Newswire (Jan 30, 2013)
MicroStrategy Cloud Gains Global Momentum

PR Newswire (Jan 29, 2013)
MicroStrategy Announces Fourth Quarter 2012 Financial Results

PR Newswire (Jan 28, 2013)
MicroStrategy to Host 16th Annual "World" Conference, January 28-31, 2013, in Las Vegas

PR Newswire (Jan 17, 2013)
Specialty Retailer Tilly's Rolls out Mobile Commerce App, Powered by MicroStrategy Alert

PR Newswire (Jan 11, 2013)
Nearly One in Two Sales Professionals Cite Lack of Mobile Access as Barrier to Selling, According to MicroStrategy Online Survey

PR Newswire (Dec 20, 2012)
MicroStrategy Enhances Innovative Big Data Capabilities with Certified Integration to Amazon Redshift Analytical Data Warehouse Service

PR Newswire (Nov 28, 2012)
MicroStrategy Rated #1 by Dresner Advisory Study for Second Year in a Row for Mobile Business Intelligence Offering

PR Newswire (Nov 19, 2012)
MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy Cloud Express, Innovative New SaaS Offering

PR Newswire (Oct 31, 2012)
MicroStrategy Announces Third Quarter 2012 Financial Results

PR Newswire (Oct 29, 2012)
Who Really "Likes" Romney? Who Really "Likes" Obama? Wisdom™ Knows!

PR Newswire (Oct 26, 2012)
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Company Description

MicroStrategy is a worldwide provider of business intelligence software that enables companies to report, analyze and monitor the data stored across their enterprise to reveal the trends and insights needed to make better business decisions. The MicroStrategy mission is to empower every business... More

Sector: Technology

Industry: Business Software & Services

Country: United States

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Monday, May 20, 2:10 PM MicroStrategy (MSTR -1.7%) trades lower in response to a downgrade to Market Perform from JMP. The downgrade comes 3 weeks after shares were clobbered thanks to a giant Q1 miss headlined by a 24% Y/Y drop in license revenue at a time when most rivals are growing. 2 Comments [Tech]
Tuesday, April 30, 2:20 PM Informatica (INFA -3%), Splunk (SPLK -1.9%), and Qlik (QLIK -3%), 3 names hyped as analytics/big data plays, slump in response to Microstrategy's (MSTR -11.1%) big Q1 miss, which includes a 24% Y/Y drop in produce license revenue. As is its custom, the business intelligence software vendor gives no reason for its miss, nor does it provide guidance or an earnings call. It is, however, happy to note its buyback program ($455M remaining) has been extended to April 2018. Microstrategy's numbers are overshadowing solid results from rival Actuate (BIRT +6.2%); the company posted 16% Y/Y Q1 license rev. growth, compared with nearly flat total rev. growth. Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Earnings]
Tuesday, April 30, 12:46 PM Midday top 10 gainers: TTHI +45%. PTIE +26%. DRRX +26%. MTOR +23%. MGAM +20%. OIS +16%. GIB +14%. HGSH +15%. ARWR +13%. TXRH +13%.
Midday top 10 losers: DCTH -44%. AVEO -26%. NUAN -18%. AOSL -18%. PBI -16%. AEIS -13%. MSTR -10%. ANV -10%. ELTK -10%. SYN -10%. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, April 30, 12:03 AM MicroStrategy (MSTR): Q1 EPS of -$0.46. Revenue of $130.2M (-6% Y/Y) misses by $22.19M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech]
Monday, April 29, 12:10 AM Notable earnings after Monday’s close: ANAD, ANH, BWLD, CBL, CRK, CSE, CYH, DTLK, ESRX, GGP, HIG, HLF, HTZ, IDTI, JEC, MAS, MSTR, NEM, PCL, QGEN, RGR, RJET, RVBD, SBAC, SSW, SU, TXRH, VECO 1 Comment [Earnings]
Sunday, April 28, 5:35 PM Notable earnings after Monday’s close: ANAD, ANH, BWLD, CBL, CRK, CSE, CYH, DTLK, ESRX, GGP, HIG, HLF, HTZ, IDTI, JEC, MAS, MSTR, NEM, PCL, QGEN, RGR, RJET, RVBD, SBAC, SSW, SU, TXRH, VECO 1 Comment [Earnings]
Friday, March 22, 11:31 AM "Our issues are primarily execution-related," Tibco (TIBX -15.3%) CEO Vivek Ranadive asserts on his company's FQ1 call. He suggests Tibco has "weak leadership" in the Americas and the U.K., and hints at a restructuring. Shares have been hit with 2 downgrades following a revenue miss and light guidance. An 8% Y/Y sales drop in the critical finance vertical and a decline in $1M+ deals offset 50% growth in telecom. Randadive argues Tibco's ability to process both business transactions and events through its middleware/analytics offerings is a key differentiator. INFA -5.6% (previous). QLIK -3.1%. MSTR -2.2%. 1 Comment [Tech, On the Move, Earnings]
Tuesday, March 5, 9:52 AM An upgrade to Outperform from FBR sends MicroStrategy (MSTR +6.6%) shooting higher. The firm expects recent sales personnel changes and margin expansion to provide a lift, and notes shares only trade at 1.4x EV/sales, well below the 3.2x sported by its peer group (ed: shares do, however, trade at a steep 26x 2014E EPS). Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
Friday, March 1, 2:12 PM Business intelligence software firms Microstrategy (MSTR +1%), Qlik (QLIK +2.8%), and Actuate (BIRT +5.3%) move higher in the wake of machine data analytics leader Splunk's (SPLK +6.2%) FQ4 beat and strong Q1 guidance. Splunk, now close to its post-IPO highs, boasted on its earnings call of adding 400+ customers in FQ4, up from 350+ in FQ3. $100K+ orders totaled 171, up from 125 in FQ3, and included a $20M deal. Management talked up the potential of the security compliance market (25%-30% of bookings), and said it now has 160 customers on its Storm cloud platform. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Tuesday, February 26, 9:25 AM Angel.com, a Microstrategy (MSTR) subsidiary that provides cloud-based customer support software, is being sold by the company to private Genesys (a former Alcatel-Lucent unit), for $110M in cash. The sale, expected to close in March, comes as Angel.com faces intense competition from Salesforce.com's Service Cloud, Oracle's RightNow unit, and others. (PR) Comment! [Tech]
Friday, February 15, 2:00 PM Amazon (AMZN) has launched its Redshift data warehousing service for AWS, trademark aggressive pricing and all. Business intelligence software firms SAP, IBM, Microstrategy (MSTR +3.4% - up thanks to Qlik), and Actuate (BIRT +0.8%) are among the launch partners. Interestingly, so is Informatica (INFA +1.2%) - though Redshift represents competition for Informatica's data warehousing solutions, the company is offering a subscription-based Redshift connector. Informatica and Teradata (TDC +0.2%) sold off when Redshift was first announced. Comment! [Tech]
Thursday, February 14, 5:06 PM Middleware/analytics software provider Tibco (TIBX) +1.6% AH in response to business intelligence software firm Qlik's Q4 beat and strong 2013 guidance. Both companies have been hyped on occassion as big data plays. Other names that could move higher include Qlik rivals Microstrategy (MSTR) and Actuate (BIRT), data warehousing vendors Informatica (INFA) and Teradata (TDC), and machine data software king Splunk (SPLK). Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Tuesday, January 29, 5:45 AM MicroStrategy (MSTR): Q4 EPS of $0.73 misses by $0.25. Revenue of $164.5M (+3% Y/Y) beats by $5M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech]
Friday, January 25, 10:44 AM Informatica's (INFA +10.4%) big Q4 beat (I, II) is stoking a rally in enterprise software stocks. Microsoft's decent Server & Tools performance might also be helping . Business intelligence/analytics firms are among the standouts - SPLK +2.8%. QLIK +7.2%. TIBX +3.8%. TDC +3.9%. MSTR +3.5% - but there are also others. SAP +2.6%. RHT +3.3%. N +2.4%. CTXS +1.7%. On its earnings call, Informatica noted Facebook is a buyer of its new PowerCenter Big Data Edition software, which can handle data integration projects on Hadoop clusters and many other platforms. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Thursday, January 24, 6:14 PM Informatica (INFA) reportedly guides on its Q4 call for Q1 revenue of ~$201M and EPS of $0.29-$0.32. Shares +8.2% AH, paring some of the gains they saw on news of a huge Q4 beat, but still up strongly. Deferred revenue reached $250.8M in Q4, up from $226.9M in Q3 and $214.6M in Q4 '11. Some other big data/analytics plays, such as SPLK, TIBX, BIRT, QLIK, TDC, and MSTR, could rally tomorrow. Comment! [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Monday, November 19, 2012, 10:15 AM Microstrategy (MSTR -3.6%) is making new 52-week lows after disclosing sales chief Donald Hunt has been axed. The move comes a month after the business intelligence software firm missed Q3 estimates and announced a reorg in which Hunt lost his status as an executive officer. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]

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Dividend Sheet
George Soros Current Investment Portfolio as of Q1/2011 + http://t.co/7dGiMEj + $GOOG $VZ $RL $GILD $AMZN $ACTG $NIHD $URS $T $COH $MSTR $NG
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Market Trend Signal
MSTR has a new SELL Signal in the Market Trend Signal system. Looks for Trend Following Trading Stocks.
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Joshua Hayes
One new beautiful new long and an add to an existing long. Pretty solid. AAPL GOOG BIDU MSTR PCLN continue to lead.
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George Chadwick
MSTR - added to model portfolio. See comments. Maximize401k.wordpress.com
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