Company Profiles
Software Industry: Compare & Contrast
Dec. 31, 2009
Nasdaq photo
CDC Corp. CEO Peter Yip (center) rings the
opening bell on September 13, 2007 as his
company begins trading on the Nasdaq.
Adobe Systems, Inc., based in San Jose, California, has the highest credit standards of the 122 publicly-traded software technology companies in the Credit Standards Index (CSI) with a CSI score of of 1.40. CDC Corporation, based in Hong Kong, China, is last with a CSI score of 4.30.
Adobe Systems, Inc. leads all software technology companies in credit standards for the second consecutive year further illustrating the close correlation between credit standards and profitability. Adobe's net profit was 24.4 percent, the tenth highest in the industry.
