Market Share: Fall in share prices may equal good purchase opportunities
Despite positive earnings reports from federal IT services providers throughout 2004, the group's stock performance was mired for most of the year by the uncertainty of political elections and potential budget slowdowns.
Online extra: Market Share -- As Bush prospects rise, so do federal IT stocks
Despite no change in strong business trends among the federal IT service companies over the past few quarters, investors have been driving stocks higher in the past couple of months.
Feds fear offshore outsourcing, while contractors fear a backlash
Government employees and contractors are worried about offshore outsourcing, but for different reasons.
Undecided on e-voting
The market potential promised in the Help America Vote Act of 2002 has yet to materialize for government systems integrators.
Market Watch: Are M&A deals in government services really high risk?
In my view, the attributes of the government services industry reduce the risk in mergers and acquisitions to a level well below what is prevalent in other business sectors. The recent history and pace of industry transactions supports this thesis. With few exceptions, government services mergers and acquisitions have added value to the acquirers business, quantitatively, qualitatively or both.
Market Share: Strong performance doesn't lift federal IT stocks
Despite two quarters of mostly good earnings reports from federal IT service firms, these companies continue to underperform in the S&P 500.
Market Watch: Strong fundamentals trump occasional problems
The federal government services business, as reflected in the performance of publicly traded federal IT companies, turned in a record performance over the past year.
Forecast: Federal IT spending to slow
The federal government's spending on information technology will slow down over the next five years, but the impact on IT contractors will be minimal, according to London market research firm Datamonitor plc.
State and local e-gov spending to double by '08
The state and local market for e-government products and services will soon reverse its dramatic decline.
Market Share: IT firms need action on supplemental funding bills
After three consecutive quarters of improvement in business performance, commercial IT spending dropped in June. Dozens of commercial software and hardware companies preannounced weak second-quarter results, blaming customer purchase delays and a lack of large sales.
The big looks to get bigger
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s IT division is aiming for double-digit growth, and the unit's president said that business process outsourcing is a big part of that strategy.
Market Share: War's uncertain impact causes anxiety
First quarter results in the federal IT industry were generally good, but the industry kept investors on their toes the past couple of months: A big positive earnings surprise by ManTech International Corp. was followed about a month later by a big negative earnings surprise from ManTech.
Infotech and the Law: Public rules are good for private companies
In the regulatory fallout from Enron, WorldCom and other business scandals, owners and officers of privately held IT companies may find reason to be thankful they missed the booming initial public offering market.
Integrators see opportunities, challenges for RFID
Between 2005 and 2007, spending on radio frequency identification technology will outpace spending on software and application development, according to a survey.
Short-term federal IT security spending to flatten, Input says
Federal government spending on information technology security products and services will increase in fiscal 2005 just 2 percent over fiscal 2004 spending.
Market Watch: How to evaluate contingent payments in sale transactions
Undeniably, the cash has flowed over the past three years as defense and government IT companies have participated in an active mergers and acquisitions market. But in an estimated one-fourth of those transactions, the flow has tended toward non-cash payments.
Convergence calls: 10 telecom trends to impact IT companies
The telecommunications industry is once again in a state of flux. Still acclimating to the flood of competition unleashed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and licking its wounds from a scandal-tainted 2000 market crash, the industry now must grapple with how best to deliver a wide variety of services over a changing network infrastructure.
Market Share: Jitters get the better of investors
Investor nervousness over higher interest rates, record oil prices and global unrest have pushed down most stock indexes and have pressured the shares of the federal IT firms.
Market Watch: Wake up, America
Increasingly, some industry observers, analysts and investors are expressing concern about emerging risks that may derail the strong operating and stock market performance of government services companies.
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