Blackboard, Inc. (BBBB)

Robert628496 (91.62) Submitted: 5/28/06 8:06 PM : Start Price: $28.46 BBBB Score: 43.43

Blackboard?s Academic Suite software enables high school and college instructors to easily interact with their students via the web. Assignments and other course material can be posted and students can submit their work via the system as well. A very attractive feature of Blackboard is integration with major textbook publishers. The emergence and continued growth of numerous for-profit education providers, who have online course offerings of considerable scope, has put pressure on the not-for-profits to enhance their web-based course capabilities. Increasingly, institutions of all kinds are looking for ways to answer this demand, and they are turning to Blackboard in large numbers. And once on board, the company?s clients renew at a rate in excess of 90%. Its moat has recently widened as a result of its acquisition of chief competitor WebCT, an acquisition which will enable Blackboard to further expand its international presence via WebCT?s considerable international client base.

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