Investopedia: TIBCO May Be At A Tipping Point

Takeover speculation can be a mixed blessing. Sure, it's great to see the price of a stock you own soaring on the idea that another company is about to make a bid (or better yet, start a bidding war). Unfortunately, this kind of speculation can set unrealistic expectations and blind investors to the potential of the company on its own.

Such may be the case for TIBCO (Nasdaq:TIBX). As one of the only small independent middleware companies still standing, there is widespread expectation that the company will get bought out before too much longer. But what if that doesn't happen? While TIBCO is a small company competing with giants like IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), investors shouldn't just assume that it's "game over" if the company fails to sell out. TIBCO just have reached a tipping point where it could continue to work as an independent company.

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