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[Dwight]

If you are feeling a little crazy, re-adjust by listening to the leg worm bit.

[Rob]

Oi what a topic I have missed on here!

now what did you do fellas? did you eat cookies or smoked it... or perhaps an omelette heavily sprinkled with 'herbs' before you wrote this educated stock market analysis.

And BTW Autodesk does not have knees, right? ...well if yes how many?

[Braza]

Come on Rob! Don't tell me you can't see those beautiful flying-shining-pink knees?!... :roll::lol::lol::lol::lol::o8):mrgreen:

[Rod Jurich]

This gets better by the minute thanks Paulo

[LaszloNagy]

Though at precisely 11am (Sept. 1, 2009) GS went live with the new website and ac13 announcement, that is the same time that ADSK stock feel (exactly the same time). Coincidence maybe, though I think not. That is just my opinion based on observation of the stock and the relationship that it potentially makes with the GS site and AC13. Is that too much of stretch, that the site went live, the stock fell a little bit??? Is it also too much to think that investors see a relationship between GS and Autodesk? Too what level they consider the two in the same ring is beyond me.

I am also into stock markets in the last 3 years or so.
I can distinctly remember that on September 1 the whole American stock market fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from 9496 the day before to 9310 on Sept 1, a nice daily drop. I believe Autodesk just fell with all the rest of the market that day.
Also, Autodesk is a much bigger company (over 5 Billion Dollars) than Graphisoft and architectural software is only a small segment of their product portfolio. In that portfolio they have AutoCAD, AutoCAD Light, AutoCAD Architecture (I think that's the name of Architectural Desktop now) and Revit. This announcement would mean some threat only to the latter two, I think.
So the announcement of AC13 could not possibly affect Autodesk that much, in my opinion.

[Matthew Lohden]

... or perhaps an omelette heavily sprinkled with 'herbs' before you wrote this educated stock market analysis.

Probably as good as most stock analysts. Better than the ones who rated all those mortgage derivatives (AKA "toxic waste") as grade A investments.

[Dwight]

Judging by the numbers of downloads on the UFO clips, many forum members are curious. Please send comments by PM.

[ares997]

Autodesk Shocks Markets With 31% Revenue Drop:

Autodesk's Q3 results were so awful that even the BBC's World Service took notice, naming the company and its 31% drop in revenues during one of its brief business reports last week. In contrast, revenues of competitors PTC and Dassault dropped "just" 18% and 13%, respectively. When management revealed the news, the ADSK share price dropped ten percent, and has barely recovered as of this morning.

Figure 2: ADSK share price makes like the Cliffs of Dover.
(Source: finance.yahoo.com)

The primary reason for the drop in revenues was an agonizing 41% drop in sales of AutoCAD and LT, the dynamic due that generated the bulk of Autodesk's revenues in years past. Sales dropped, despite $500 rebates offered to new customers. For LT, the company offers a double rebate to those who download the 30-day trial version, just about cutting in half the price of the overpriced, under featured software.

(Quarterly numbers are normally compared with the same quarter a year earlier.)

Most disturbing to financial analysts was the fall in subscription income, once touted by a former ceo as the guarantee for smoothed future income. Over the past three quarters (nine months), subscription billings declined by 14%, 11%, and now 10%. Customers aren't necessarily stopping payment on subs, explains current ceo Carl Bass; they just aren't paying for licenses unused by laid-off employees. Fire 30% of workers; pay 30% less in maintenance.

While Mr Bass is cheered by signs of the recession's end, he still worries over poor employment numbers. Greater spending on Autodesk software will come about only when more CAD users are employed. Layoffs, however, continue in the tech industry this month.

Nevertheless, the company did find some cheery spots in its financial numbers. It didn't run a loss in Q3, as it had in Q2. The drop in 3D sales was not as severe as it was for AutoCAD. And the company is still the largest CAD vendor.

http://investors.autodesk.com

[Thomas Holm]

I was planning to get into stocks myself. Then I read somewhere that the best investment advisor was a gorilla throwing darts at a stock chart. So I went out to find such a gorilla. Still looking...