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Red Hat Could Follow Q3 Beat With A Strong Q4

Red Hat (RHT) might be looking at an encore. The enterprise software company could post a strong fiscal Q4 after the market close Wednesday. Such a report would follow its Q3 beat in December, which sent the stock rising nearly 11%. Red Hat is best known as the No. 1 provider of open-source Linux-based operating system software and related services. Companies migrating from older Unix-based systems and Microsoft (MSFT) Windows systems use Linux.

Is Oil Driving Q1 Earnings Estimates Lower? – Earnings Preview

It has been the usual practice for quarterly earnings estimates to come down ahead of the start of each earnings season. This trend has been particularly notable over the last couple of years as management teams have been consistently

Microsoft Beats Apple In Cash, Short-Term Investments

If cash is king, then Microsoft (MSFT) wears the crown. Among companies in the S&P 500, Microsoft had the highest amount of cash and short-term marketable securities as of the end of Q4, to the tune of $90.25 billion, reports FactSet Research. General Electric (GE) is close behind Microsoft, followed by Google (GOOGL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO). Cash and short-term investments among all companies in the S&P 500 is at a record high $1.43 trillion.