Stock Review: Blackboard Inc (BBBB)

Blackboard Inc. is a provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Blackboard Inc.'s clients primarily include colleges, universities, schools and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants who serve these education providers and their students. The Company's software applications can be installed locally at a client site or hosted centrally in its data centers. Approximately 87% of Blackboard Inc.'s installations were installed locally and approximately 13% were hosted by it. Blackboard Inc had over 3,400 clients in approximately 70 countries holding more than 4,700 licenses of its software.

Blackboard Inc. clients were primarily U.S. post-secondary education institutes, which accounted for approximately 62% of its total revenues last year. Blackboard Inc. also sometimes serves as an application service provider, offering hosting for its clients that prefer to outsource the management of the hardware, bandwidth and servers necessary to run its applications. In addition to its products, it offers a variety of professional services, including project management, custom application development and training.

Key Stats

• Current Price = $41.81
• Market capital = $1.20B
• EPS = -0.32
• Trailing P/E = N/A
• Forward P/E = 58.07
• PEG Ratio (5 yr expected) = 4.08
• Profit Margin = -4.46%
• Operating Margin = -2.34%
• Return on Assets = 0.90%
• Return on Equity = -6.31%
• Revenue = $200.63M
• Gross Profit = $127.47M
• Qtrly Earnings Growth = 1213.50%
• Total Cash = $25.88M
• Total Debt = $18.83M
• Shares Short = $3.92M
• Short Ratio = 14.2
  

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