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ANSYS – Issues upside guidance for FY12

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ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS). Last Market Price: 57.81, Change: +3.50, % Change: (6.44%). Shares trade in the range of 53.46 – 57.88 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 5.33B dollars, making it a Mid Cap Stock and has 92.23M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.2, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 1.84; P/E of 31.37 indicating high expected future growth in earnings. It operates in Technology sector and belongs to Software and Programming industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 101%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 44.37 – 57.88. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 428,611. Volume traded in the last session was at 391,125, 0.91 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $0.66, better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 23.7% year on year to $172.9 million
  • Company issues mixed guidance for Q4, sees EPS of 0.69-0.71
  • Company issues upside guidance for FY12, sees EPS of $2.80-2.90

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 28.00%, an Operating margin of 39.94%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 8.25%, Return on average equity of 11.33%. The organization has an employee strength of 1,660

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 196.98 million dollars, an estimate high of 202.60 million dollars and an estimate low of 188.70 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 180.10 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 186.89 million dollars, an estimate high of 192.14 million dollars and an estimate low of 175.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 167.10 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 0.69 dollars, an estimate high of 0.71 dollars and an estimate low of 0.63 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.64 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 0.66 dollars, an estimate high of 0.69 dollars and an estimate low of 0.59 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.59 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 159.32 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 162.26 million dollars, 2.94 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 154.21 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 158.05 million dollars, 3.83 million dollars more than estimates.

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Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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