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The best software stocks depend on your portfolio and investment goals — while volatility can be ideal for day traders, long-term investors will want to look to stocks with steadier gains over time.
The top computer stocks included on this page all trade on the S&P 500, have an analyst recommendation of "Buy" or better and are sorted by year-to-date performance.
Autodesk, Inc. provides 3D design, engineering, and entertainment technology solutions worldwide. It offers AutoCAD Civil 3D, a surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution; Autodesk Build, a toolset for managing, sharing, and accessing project documents for streamlined workflows between the office, trailer, and jobsite; Revit, a software built for building information modeling to help professionals design, build, and maintain energy-efficient buildings; Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, cloud-based design collaboration and design management software; BuildingConnected, a SaaS preconstruction solution; and Tandem, a cloud-based platform that transforms the built asset lifecycle.
Autodesk stock opened the day at $262.30 after a previous close of $259.47. The latest price was $259.47 (25-minute delay). Autodesk is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD6.1 billion and employs 15,300 staff.
Citrix Systems, Inc. , an enterprise software company, provides workspace, app delivery and security, and professional services worldwide. The company offers workspace services, including Citrix Workspace; Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops; Collaborative Work Management; Citrix Content Collaboration, a cloud-based file sharing, digital transaction, and storage solution, which provides enterprise-class data services on various corporate and personal mobile devices; Citrix Analytics for Security that assesses the behavior of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, and Citrix Workspace users and applies actions to protect sensitive corporate information; Citrix Analytics for Performance, which uses machine learning to quantify user experience; Citrix Secure Workspace Access that provides an end-to-end solution to implement Zero Trust principles; and Citrix Secure Internet Access, which provides a solution that protects direct internet access for branch and remote workers using unsanctioned apps.
Citrix Systems stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Citrix Systems is listed on the NASDAQ and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3.3 billion.
ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services for engineers, designers, researchers, and students. It offers structural analysis product suite that provides simulation tools for product design and optimization; the Ansys Mechanical product, an element analysis software; LS-DYNA solver for multiphysics simulation; and power analysis and optimization software suite.
ANSYS stock opened the day at $303.14 after a previous close of $302.74. The latest price was $302.74 (25-minute delay). ANSYS is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.5 billion and employs 6,500 staff.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, and other services worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification.
Cadence Design Systems stock opened the day at $262.79 after a previous close of $260.22. The latest price was $260.22 (25-minute delay). Cadence Design Systems is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.6 billion and employs 12,700 staff.
DocuSign, Inc. provides electronic signature solution in the United States and internationally. The company offers AI-powered intelligent agreement management (IAM) platform to optimize the agreement management process and provides e-signature solution that enables sending and signing of agreements on various devices; Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), which automates workflows across the entire agreement process; Document Generation streamlines the process of generating new, custom agreements; and Gen for Salesforce for automated agreement generation within Salesforce.
DocuSign stock opened the day at $77.00 after a previous close of $75.42. The latest price was $75.42 (25-minute delay). DocuSign is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3 billion and employs 6,838 staff.
Intuit Inc. provides financial management, compliance, and marketing products and services in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Small Business & Self-Employed, Consumer, Credit Karma, and ProTax.
Intuit stock opened the day at $592.00 after a previous close of $585.38. The latest price was $585.38 (25-minute delay). Intuit is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$17.2 billion and employs 18,800 staff.
Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; perform financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations.
Workday stock opened the day at $228.09 after a previous close of $221.02. The latest price was $221.02 (25-minute delay). Workday is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$8.4 billion and employs 20,482 staff.
HubSpot, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, a toolset for marketing automation and email, social media, SEO, and reporting and analytics; Sales Hub offers email templates and tracking, conversations and live chat, meeting and call scheduling, lead and website visit alerts, lead scoring, sales automation, pipeline management, quoting, forecasting, and reporting; Service Hub, a service software designed to help businesses manage, respond, and connect with customers; and Content Hub enables businesses to create new and edit existing web content.
HubSpot stock opened the day at $541.37 after a previous close of $539.69. The latest price was $539.69 (25-minute delay). HubSpot is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.6 billion and employs 8,246 staff.
ServiceNow, Inc. provides cloud-based solution for digital workflows in the North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates the Now platform, an AI platform for digital transformation machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, analytics, and low-code/no-code development tools.
ServiceNow stock opened the day at $800.06 after a previous close of $772.16. The latest price was $772.16 (25-minute delay). ServiceNow is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$11 billion and employs 26,293 staff.
Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services. This segment also provides LinkedIn; and dynamics business solutions, including Dynamics 365, a set of intelligent, cloud-based applications across ERP, CRM, power apps, and power automate; and on-premises ERP and CRM applications.
Microsoft Corporation stock opened the day at $373.75 after a previous close of $367.78. The latest price was $367.78 (25-minute delay). Microsoft Corporation is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$261.8 billion and employs 228,000 staff.
Adobe Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, operates as a technology company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising.
Adobe Systems Incorporated stock opened the day at $349.75 after a previous close of $348.80. The latest price was $348.80 (25-minute delay). Adobe Systems Incorporated is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$22 billion and employs 30,709 staff.
VMware, Inc. provides software solutions in the areas of modern applications, cloud management and infrastructure, networking, security, and workspaces in the United States and internationally. It offers VMware multi-cloud solutions, including VMware vSphere, a data center infrastructure that provides the fundamental compute layer; and vSAN and VxRail, which offers holistic data storage and protection options to applications running on vSphere; as well as VMware Cloud Foundation, a cloud platform that combines its vSphere, vSAN, and NSX with VMware Aria Cloud Management into an integrated stack that delivers ready cloud infrastructure for private and public clouds.
VMware stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). VMware is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$13.6 billion and employs 38,300 staff.
Splunk Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets cloud services and licensed software solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers unified security and observability platform, including Splunk Security that helps security leaders fortify their organization's digital resilience by mitigating cyber risk and meeting compliance requirements; and Splunk Observability, which provides visibility across the full stack of infrastructure, applications, and the digital customer experience.
Splunk stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Splunk is listed on the NASDAQ and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.2 billion.
Zoom Communications Inc. provides an Artificial Intelligence-first work platform for human connection in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers Zoom Meetings that offers HD video, voice, chat, and content sharing through mobile devices, desktops, laptops, telephones, and conference room systems; Zoom Phone, a cloud phone system; and Zoom Team Chat enables users to share messages, images, files, and content in desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices.
Zoom Video Communications stock opened the day at $71.63 after a previous close of $71.49. The latest price was $71.49 (25-minute delay). Zoom Video Communications is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.7 billion and employs 7,412 staff.
Zendesk, Inc. , a software development company, provides software as a service solutions for organizations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. Its flagship product is Zendesk Support, a system for tracking, prioritizing, and solving customer support tickets across various channels.
Zendesk stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Zendesk is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.6 billion and employs 6,440 staff.
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