OPNET Named to List of World's Most Successful Software Companies
Independent Industry Analyst Report Ranks OPNET as One of Seven Software Companies with Ten or More Consecutive Years of Growth and Profitability
BETHESDA, MD–August 18, 2005 – OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leading provider of management software for networks and applications, today announced that it has been ranked seventh in the Cape Horn Strategies 2005 Sustained Success Honor Roll.
The honor roll tracks successful software companies based on long-term financial performance. The report compares the financial performance of all 552 publicly traded software companies on the U.S. stock exchanges in 2004 and shows that OPNET is one of seven software companies to have recorded at least ten consecutive years of growth and profitability. Other software companies in the ranking included Microsoft, #1 with 24 years of profitable growth, and Business Objects, #4 with 12 years of profitable growth.
According to the report, “Of all the software companies on the U. S. stock exchanges -- NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ -- only 17 out of 552 in 2004 managed to achieve a record of five consecutive years or more of profitable growth. This year no company dropped from the Honor Roll, a positive indication of better health in our industry. For the Honor Roll members growth was outstanding. Not including Microsoft, the group had an annual growth rate of 34%, growing from $5.5 billion to $7.4 billion.”
Marc A. Cohen, OPNET's Chairman and CEO, stated, “We are very pleased to be ranked in the Sustained Success Honor Roll once again. We are in great company, and believe that it is a validation of our long term strategy. In the five years we have been a public company, our revenue has tripled, we completed three acquisitions, and released five new products."
To view the report online, please visit http://www.capehornstrategies.com/honor_roll.htm
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT) is a leading provider
of management software for networks and applications. For more information
about OPNET and its products, please visit http://www.opnet.com.
About Cape Horn Strategies
Since 1998, Cape Horn Strategies, Inc. has been providing strategic planning
and research services to the software industry. The president, Brian Turchin,
publishes his company’s research findings on sustained success in the “Executive
Strategy” column of Software Business magazine. For more information,
please visit http://www.capehornstrategies.com.
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Inc. ("OPNET")
assumes no obligation to update statements. Forward-looking statements are
predictions based upon information available to OPNET as of the date of this
press release and involve risks and uncertainties; therefore, actual events
or results may differ materially. For a discussion of risk factors, see OPNET's
reports, including its most recent 10-Q and 10-K, filed with the Securities & Exchange
Commission.
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OPNET Technologies, Inc.
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