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CA, Inc. (CA)

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An independent providers of information technology management software. It develops, markets, delivers and licenses software products and services that allow organizations to run, manage and automate aspects of their computing environments.

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118 Outperforms
74 Underperforms
 

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43 Outperforms
25 Underperforms
 

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Long Island (5), S&P 500 (499), Cyclical (3415), Software (195), Large Cap (413), Options Backdating (?) (95), New York (31), Information Technology (963), It's a State! (20), Growth (1902), It's an Element! (50)
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CA, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $21.76
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $0.00
Previous Close: $21.52
Daily Range: $21.56 - $21.89
52-Week Range: $15.13 - $24.15
Volume: 3,978,094
Market Cap: $11.32B
P/E Ratio: 14.74
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CA VS S&P 500 (SPY)

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CA, Inc. (CA)

Avatar AlexFoley (77.03) Submitted: 4/15/08 2:25 PM

CA has been sitting at the bottom of the pack of information technology companies for a number of years, but things are looking up. The executive leadership team is finally starting to get a hold of the situation and are setting a new standard for the corpoarte culture, one which rids the company o...More

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CA, Inc. (CA)

Avatar longtimelong (< 20) Submitted: 5/28/08 12:25 PM

This company is dead. Cutting jobs in the US and hiring abroad to increase profits. No innovation. No flagship product. Even the company name CA was a horrible choice (abbreviation for California). Trying foing a Google search on the company name and see what you get (garbage). Unfortunately, there ...More

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Avatar alexrescue (< 20) Submitted: 12/24/09 1:50 AM : Outperform Start Price: $22.84 CA Score: -0.30

CA has a very strong book of business that generates significant ongoing maintenance revenue, and is easily leveraged into expanding footprints of existing customers. Additionally, the company has invested significantly in new emerging markets such as Project Portfolio Management (PPM), cloud computing & virtualization. All thats missing is a cohesive marketing campaign to allow this company to really outperform the market.

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Avatar johnstonz (90.75) Submitted: 12/23/09 2:44 PM : Outperform Start Price: $22.80 CA Score: -0.24

lots of inside buying

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Avatar memoandstitch (< 20) Submitted: 8/04/09 10:43 PM : Underperform Start Price: $21.69 CA Score: 6.59

fool

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Avatar gea1968 (93.68) Submitted: 8/04/09 6:13 PM : Outperform Start Price: $21.69 CA Score: -6.59

fundamentals and momentum; favorable StockScouter rating

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Avatar SophicFool (< 20) Submitted: 5/21/09 1:28 PM : Underperform Start Price: $17.16 CA Score: -4.99

While I feel this stock will grow over the next year, that growth will most likely not be better than the S&P 500 over that same time span.

CA deals with a wide variety of softwares used in IT to better manage their infrastructure. In particular IT security management and storage management. Since 2007 management has made a concerted effort to help their customers better control and manage their resources instead of replacing them. In a hard economic cycle, reorganizing instead of replacing should be a preference of many business owners as a way of saving money.

2009 sales were at $4,271M which was just shy of equaling 2008 sales which were $4277M. I suspect sales will stay flat through their 2010 FY with perhaps a slight bump should the economy rebound quickly in the later half of 2009. But my expectations are that growth of sales won't be reflected until their 2011 FY which begins in April of 2010.

So increase in stock price will most likely occur, but that increase I don't believe will exceed the gains posted by the S&P 500.

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Date		CallTime FrameStart
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TrackCharlesPayn 63.30 10/16/09 Outperform 3M $23.67-8.06%-1.53%-6.52
TrackNeedham 67.64 12/22/08 Outperform NS $18.55+17.32%+23.18%-5.86
TrackCowenandCo 86.76 10/01/08 Outperform NS $19.79+9.97%-4.48%+14.45
TrackRBCCapMkts 86.33 02/01/08 Outperform NS $23.10-5.79%-18.99%+13.20
TrackSherman < 20 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.27-13.90%-26.38%+12.48 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackRichPzena 38.72 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.27-13.90%-26.38%+12.48 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackNWQ < 20 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.27-13.90%-26.38%+12.48 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackDodgeCox 90.73 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.27-13.90%-26.38%+12.48 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackSoros 82.58 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.27-13.90%-26.38%+12.48 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackHAndW 80.22 09/30/07 Outperform NS $25.27-13.90%-26.38%+12.48 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackJimCramer < 20 05/24/07 Underperform 3W $25.05-13.12%-24.96%-11.84
TrackSusquehanna 74.67 02/08/07 Underperform NS $26.32-17.32%-21.40%-4.08

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