PowerShares DWA Technology Momentum ETF

VeriSign (VRSN) generated investor returns of 48.3% in the trailing 12-month period and -4.3% in the trailing one-month period. In comparison, it generated -4.7% in 2014.

In 3Q15, VeriSign’s (VRSN) return on assets (or ROA) was 14.4% compared to 16.8% for the same period last year and 13.3% in 3Q13.

VeriSign’s market share has decreased from 52.5% in 2007 to 46.6% at the end of fiscal 2014. It was driven by saturation in the .com domain segment and low acceptance of a .net domain name.

In 3Q15, VeriSign (VRSN) recorded net additions for registrations of 1.7 million with a gross figure of 9.2 million. The total .com and .net domain name registrations stand at 135.2 million.

Intuit shares fell steeply, nearly 19%, in August 2015. This followed the company’s fiscal 4Q15 results and the announcement of the divestiture of three of its software products.

The PBV ratios of Guidewire Software, Computer Sciences, Pegasystems, and Ebix were 6.2x, 1.4x, 7.4x, and 3.2x, respectively, as of December 1, 2015.

The peers outperformed Jack Henry & Associates based on the PE ratio. However, Jack Henry & Associates is way ahead of its peers based on the PBV ratio.

An analysis based on the PE and PS ratios of SS&C Technologies and some of its peers reveals that the company’s peers have outperformed it.

SS&C Technologies has a market cap of $7.2 billion. Its YTD price movement has been rising quarter-over-quarter in 2015. Peers include Paycom and LogMeIn.

The price-to-book value ratios of Cadence Designs, ARM, Ansys, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics are 4.36x, 8.68x, 3.78x, 2.47x, and 2.40x, respectively.

Cadence Design Systems has a market capitalization of $6.2 billion. Cadence’s year-to-date price movement has been rising quarter-over-quarter in 2015.

The SPDR MFS Systematic Growth Equity ETF (SYG) invests 3.7% of its holdings in VeriSign.