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Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks September 15th To 19th And Year-To-Date

Louis Columbus
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The highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date when measured by share price gains are Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN) up 68.65% or $9.22 per share since its IPO earlier this year, NetScout Systems (NASDAQ:NTCT) up 54.61%, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) up 42.56%, F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) up 37.4%, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) up 34.16%, and Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) up 32.2%.  A $10K investment in Zendesk shares at IPO are now worth $16,865, leading all companies in the index.

Enterprise software companies IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are also included in the index.  Microsoft’s share price YTD is up 27.02% with a $10K investment made on January 2nd worth $13,055 as of market close Friday.  Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) is up 4.03% for the year, delivering $10,613 on $10K invested on January 2nd.

Worst performing year-to-date are BrightCove (NASDAQ: BCOV) down 57.64%, Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CUDA) down 35.26%, Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD) down 29.87%, Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) down 19.74% and Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA) down 19.71%.

Who’s Delivering The Best Returns

The following graphic compares how $10,000 invested on January 2nd of this year in the highest performing cloud computing stocks, in addition to IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are valued today. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.

Please see the full Cloud Computing Index for market caps, average volumes, 52-week high and low share prices, Earnings per Share, Price/Earnings Ratio, and Beta.  I am using the Google Finance Portfolio option to track the performance of these stocks.  For information on how this index was created, see the description at the end of this post.

I do not hold equity positions or work for any of the companies mentioned in this blog post or included in the and this post is not meant to provide investment advice.  It is simply a glimpse into the performance of these company’s stock prices over time. This index began in one of my MBA courses as a teaching tool.

You can download an Excel file of the Cloud Computing Index here. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.

Best Performing Cloud Computing Stocks, September 15th to 19th, 2014

Worst Performing Cloud Computing Stocks, September 15th to 19th, 2014

Best Performing Cloud Computing Stocks In 2014

Worst Performing Cloud Computing Stocks In 2014

Comparing Cumulative Stock Performance

Performance of the Cloud Computing Index over the last year is compared to NetSuite, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle and SAP is below. This index has been up 18.73% over the last year, with NetSuite (NYSE:N) down 16.87%, Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) up 10.39%, IBM (NYSE:IBM) up 2.08%, Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) up 16.89% and SAP (NYSE:SAP) down .05%. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.

Specifics on the Cloud Computing Stock Index

I used The Cloud Times 100 and the First Trust ISE Index together as the basis of the index, selecting 54 companies all of which are publically traded.  The latest edition of the Cloud Computing Index is shown here.  The filter applied to these companies is that 50% or more of their revenues are generated from cloud-based applications, infrastructure and service

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Louis Columbus
Louis Columbus