Today, we have shortlisted 8 U.S. technology stocks that have reported strong gross profit, operating profit and net profit margins during the trailing twelve month period. Based on the consensus estimates of analysts polled by Bloomberg, these companies are estimated to report low P/E ratios for fiscal year 2014.
| Company Name |
Ticker |
Exchange |
Market Cap |
Last Price |
Average Volume |
Price Change (1-Month) |
TTM * Gross Profit Margin |
TTM* Operating profit Margin |
TTM* Net Profit Margin |
Best P/E 2014(E) |
|
Progress Software Corp |
PRGS |
NASDAQ |
1,228.5 |
24.25 |
242,164 |
3.5% |
90.4% |
24.5% |
15.4% |
16.4 |
|
j2 Global Inc |
JCOM |
NASDAQ |
2,395.2 |
50.18 |
251,290 |
-4.1% |
82.9% |
32.4% |
20.6% |
15.0 |
|
Ebix Inc |
EBIX |
NASDAQ |
532.5 |
13.89 |
389,203 |
-8.4% |
80.5% |
35.9% |
28.1% |
9.0 |
|
InterDigital Inc/PA |
IDCC |
NASDAQ |
1,569.5 |
39.41 |
370,384 |
-10.9% |
70.3% |
46.6% |
25.6% |
17.1 |
|
PDF Solutions Inc |
PDFS |
NASDAQ |
394.6 |
12.79 |
243,441 |
-37.2% |
63.0% |
33.3% |
21.7% |
12.7 |
|
Inteliquent Inc |
IQNT |
NASDAQ |
412.5 |
12.46 |
373,118 |
-1.5% |
55.1% |
27.5% |
16.2% |
12.8 |
|
SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc |
SSNC |
NASDAQ |
3,731.1 |
43.28 |
180,655 |
-4.9% |
45.9% |
25.5% |
16.8% |
18.9 |
|
Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc |
AFOP |
NASDAQ |
225.1 |
12.09 |
334,996 |
-15.6% |
39.4% |
25.5% |
22.9% |
9.8 |
Source: Bloomberg
*TTM – Trailing Twelve Months
Company Description
Progress Software Corp (NASDAQ: PRGS)
Progress Software Corporation develops, markets, and distributes application development, deployment, and integration software to business, industry, and government worldwide. The company’s products include databases, application servers, messaging servers, and development tools for Internet/Web, extranet, and intranet applications as well as for client/server and host applications.
j2 Global Inc (NASDAQ : JCOM)
j2 Global, Inc. provides cloud-based communications and storage messaging services. The company offers online fax, virtual voice, hosted email, email marketing, online backup and unified communications services.
Ebix Inc (NASDAQ: EBIX)
Ebix, Inc. supplies software and electronic commerce solutions to the insurance industry. The company provides a series of application software ranging from carrier systems, agency systems, and exchanges to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance and financial industries. Ebix provides products, support, and consultancy to customers on several continents.
InterDigital Inc/PA (NASDAQ: IDCC)
InterDigital, Inc. develops technology for advanced digital wireless telecommunications applications. The company offers both time divisions multiple accesses and wide band code division multiple access proprietary and standards compliant digital wireless technology to customers, licensees, and companies.
PDF Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: PDFS)
PDF Solutions, Inc. provides infrastructure technologies and services to optimize performance and improve yield of manufactured integrated circuits. The company provides its services and technologies to integrated device manufacturers such as Toshiba Corporation and Texas Instruments Incorporated.
Inteliquent Inc (NASDAQ: IQNT)
Inteliquent, Inc. provides tandem interconnection services. The company provides its services to carriers and service providers, including wireless, wireline, cable telephony and Voice over Internet Protocol companies.
SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: SSNC)
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. develops and markets computer software for financial services providers. The software enables trading and modeling, portfolio management and reporting, accounting, performance measurement, reconciliation, reporting, processing, and clearing.
Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc (NASDAQ: AFOP)
Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a variety of high performance fiber optic components and modular solutions for leading and emerging communications equipment manufacturers. The company offers a broad product line of passive optical components including interconnect systems and couplers and splitters.
