Investopedia: Patience Is Proving Rewarding For Quest Shareholders

Lower-growth tech investments can be tricky, as the Street is often slow to reward consistent cash flow growth in favor of impressive revenue growth. In the case of Quest Software (Nasdaq:QSFT), though, patience is showing that value almost always eventually gets its due recognition.

A Low-Key Bidding War
Quest Software has been a rumored acquisition target for quite some time, as the company would offer an acquirer a platform-neutral array of software offerings in database development, identity management, performance monitoring and data protection. Although definitely not a household name, Quest has trafficked in shortfalls at Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) to build simpler-to-use solutions that has given it a large and diverse customer base.

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