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Reporter Name | Relationship | Type | Amount | SEC Filing |
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Hall Eugene A | Chairman and CEO | Sell | $17,213,808 | Form 4 |
Herkes Claire | EVP, Conferences | Sell | $241,872 | Form 4 |
Gartner's Chairman and CEO, Eugene A Hall, has sold 34,060 shares of the company's common stock, with transactions dated September 12, 2024. The sales were executed at prices ranging from $502.73 to $506.99, reflecting a weighted average sale price. The total amount realized from these sales was $17,213,808. Following these transactions, Hall's direct ownership in Gartner stands at 1,143,401 shares.
Claire Herkes, EVP of Conferences at Gartner, sold 478 shares of common stock on September 13, 2024, at a price of $506.01 per share, totaling $241,872. After this sale, Herkes directly owns 1,905 shares of Gartner.
Gartner, Inc. , headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, is a leading global research and advisory company providing comprehensive insights, advice, and tools for business leaders across various sectors. With a by focusing on data-driven analysis, client-focused strategies, and expert advice and research services to help clients make informed decisions and drive successful business outcomes.
Companies valued at $10 billion or more are classified as "large-cap" stocks, and Gartner exemplifies this designation, highlighting its significant scale, stability, and influence in the global research and advisory industry. As a leading provider of business insights and advisory services, Gartner's large-cap status reflects its robust international presence, strong market leadership, and dedication to offering data-driven solutions that empower organizations to make informed decisions and achieve business success.
IT shares are trading marginally below their 1.4% decline over the same time frame.
In the longer term, IT is up 13.2% on a YTD basis, and the shares have gained 44.6% over the past 52 weeks. The VGT has gained 17.6% in 2024 and 32% over the past year.
To confirm the bullish price action, IT has been trading above its 50-day moving average since mid-June and its 200-day moving average since early June.
Shares of Gartner jumped 5.9% after the release of its strong Q2 earnings on Jul. 30. The company's revenue grew 6.1% year over year to $1.6 billion, exceeding Wall Street’s expectation. Its net income saw a year-over-year surge of 15.9% to $229.5 million.
Highlighting the contrast in performance, rival FORR has underperformed both IT and the border sector, with a 28.7% gain on a YTD basis.
Given IT's recent outperformance compared to the VGT, analysts are moderately optimistic about its prospects. The stock has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" from 10 analysts in coverage. The mean price target is $512.90, reflecting a marginal premium over current levels.
On the date of publication, Rashmi Kumari did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. For more information please view the Barchart Disclosure Policy here.
DUBAI, UAE – Forty percent of generative AI (GenAI) solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023, according to Gartner, Inc. This shift from individual to multimodal models provides an enhanced human-AI interaction and an opportunity for GenAI-enabled offerings to be differentiated.
Erick Brethenoux, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, said, “As the GenAI market evolves towards models natively trained on more than one modality, this helps capture relationships between different data streams and has the potential to scale the benefits of GenAI across all data types and applications. It also allows AI to support humans in performing more tasks, regardless of the environment.”
Multimodal GenAI is one of two technologies identified in the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle for Generative AI, where early adoption has potential to lead to notable competitive advantage and time-to-market benefits. Along with open-source large language models (LLMs), both technologies have high impact potential on organizations within the next five years.
Among the GenAI innovations Gartner expects will reach mainstream adoption within 10 years, two technologies have been identified as offering the highest potential - domain-specific GenAI models and autonomous agents (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Hype Cycle for Generative AI, 2024
Source: Gartner (September 2024)
“Navigating the GenAI ecosystem will continue to be overwhelming for enterprises due to a chaotic and fast-moving ecosystem of technologies and vendors,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. “GenAI is in the Trough of Disillusionment with the beginning of industry consolidation. Real benefits will emerge once the hype subsides, with advances in capabilities likely to come at a rapid pace over the next few years.”
Multimodal GenAI
Multimodal GenAI will have a transformational impact on enterprise applications by enabling the addition of new features and functionality otherwise unachievable. The impact is not limited to specific industries or use cases, and can be applied at any touchpoint between AI and humans. Today, many multimodal models are limited to two or three modalities, though this will increase over the next few years to include more.
“In the real world, people encounter and comprehend information through a combination of different modalities such as audio, visual and sensing,” said Brethenoux. “Multimodal GenAI is important because data is typically multimodal. When single modality models are combined or assembled to support multimodal GenAI applications, it often leads to latency and less accurate results, resulting in a lower quality experience.”
Open-Source LLMs
Open-source LLMs are deep-learning foundation models that accelerate enterprise value from the implementation of GenAI, by democratizing commercial access and allowing developers to optimize models for specific tasks and use cases. Additionally, they provide access to developer communities in enterprises, academia and other research roles that are working toward common goals to improve and make the models more valuable.
“Open-source LLMs increase innovation potential through customization, better control over privacy and security, model transparency, ability to leverage collaborative development, and potential to reduce vendor lock-in,” said Chandrasekaran. “Ultimately, they offer enterprises smaller models that are easier and less costly to train, and enable business applications and core business processes.”
Domain-Specific GenAI Models
Domain-specific GenAI models are optimized for the needs of specific industries, business functions or tasks. They can improve use-case alignment within the enterprise, while delivering improved accuracy, security and privacy, as well as better contextualized answers. This reduces the need for advanced prompt engineering compared with general-purpose models and can lower hallucination risks through targeted training.
“Domain-specific models can achieve faster time to value, improved performance and enhanced security for AI projects by providing a more advanced starting point for industry-specific tasks,” said Chandrasekaran. “This will encourage broader adoption of GenAI because organizations will be able to apply them to use cases where general-purpose models are not performant enough.”
Autonomous Agents
Autonomous agents are combined systems that achieve defined goals without human intervention. They use a variety of AI techniques to identify patterns in their environment, make decisions, invoke a sequence of actions and generate outputs. These agents have the potential to learn from their environment and improve over time, enabling them to handle complex tasks.
“Autonomous agents represent a significant shift in AI capabilities,” said Brethenoux. “Their independent operation and decision capabilities enable them to improve business operations, enhance customer experiences and enable new products and services. This will likely deliver cost savings, granting a competitive edge. It also poses an organizational workforce shift from delivery to supervision.”
Gartner clients can read more in the report “Hype Cycle for Generative AI, 2024.” Learn more in the complimentary Gartner webinar “What Mature Organizations Do Differently for AI Success.”
Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference
Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business, including accelerating business transformation, application modernization, infrastructure and operations at the Gartner CIO & IT Executive Conference, taking place September 23-25 in São Paulo and November 19-21 in Dubai. Follow news and updates from the conference on X using #GartnerCIO.
About Gartner for Information Technology Executives
Gartner for Information Technology Executives provides actionable, objective insight to CIOs and IT leaders to help them drive their organizations through digital transformation and lead business growth. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/en/information-technology.
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Reporter Name | Smith James C |
Relationship | Director |
Type | Sell |
Amount | $3,949,541 |
SEC Filing | Form 4 |
Gartner Director, Smith James C, sold a total of 7,872 shares of Common Stock on September 11 and 12, 2024, for a total sale amount of $3,949,541. The transactions included sales at weighted average prices ranging from $500.23 to $503.39 per share. Following these transactions, Smith James C directly owns 564,218 shares of Gartner.
SEC Filing: GARTNER INC [ IT ] - Form 4 - Sep. 13, 2024
The Franklin U.S. Mid Cap Multifactor Index ETF (FLQM) made its debut on 04/26/2017, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund that provides broad exposure to the Style Box - Mid Cap Blend category of the market.
What Are Smart Beta ETFs?
The ETF industry has long been dominated by products based on market cap weighted indexes, a strategy created to reflect the market or a particular market segment.
Market cap weighted indexes work great for investors who believe in market efficiency. They provide a low-cost, convenient and transparent way of replicating market returns.
But, there are some investors who would rather invest in smart beta funds; these funds track non-cap weighted strategies, and are a strong option for those who prefer choosing great stocks in order to beat the market.
By attempting to pick stocks that have a better chance of risk-return performance, non-cap weighted indexes are based on certain fundamental characteristics, or a combination of such.
While this space offers a number of choices to investors, including simplest equal-weighting, fundamental weighting and volatility/momentum based weighting methodologies, not all these strategies have been able to deliver superior results.
Fund Sponsor & Index
Managed by Franklin Templeton Investments, FLQM has amassed assets over $943.83 million, making it one of the average sized ETFs in the Style Box - Mid Cap Blend. FLQM seeks to match the performance of the LibertyQ U.S. Mid Cap Equity Index before fees and expenses.
The LibertyQ U.S. Mid Cap Equity Index includes U.S. mid-capitalization companies that have favorable exposure to four investment style factors - quality, value, momentum and low volatility.
Cost & Other Expenses
For ETF investors, expense ratios are an important factor when considering a fund's return; in the long-term, cheaper funds actually have the ability to outperform their more expensive cousins if all other things remain the same.
Operating expenses on an annual basis are 0.30% for this ETF, which makes it on par with most peer products in the space.
FLQM's 12-month trailing dividend yield is 1.21%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
Most ETFs are very transparent products, and disclose their holdings on a daily basis. ETFs also offer diversified exposure, which minimizes single stock risk, though it's still important for investors to research a fund's holdings.
For FLQM, it has heaviest allocation in the Industrials sector --about 22.70% of the portfolio --while Consumer Discretionary and Information Technology round out the top three.
Taking into account individual holdings, Fair Isaac Corp (FICO) accounts for about 1.29% of the fund's total assets, followed by Dr Horton Inc (DHI) and Gartner Inc (IT).
The top 10 holdings account for about 11.14% of total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
The ETF return is roughly 12.10% and it's up approximately 23% so far this year and in the past one year (as of 09/13/2024), respectively. FLQM has traded between $40.75 and $54.84 during this last 52-week period.
FLQM has a beta of 1.02 and standard deviation of 17.19% for the trailing three-year period. With about 206 holdings, it effectively diversifies company-specific risk.
Alternatives
Franklin U.S. Mid Cap Multifactor Index ETF is a reasonable option for investors seeking to outperform the Style Box - Mid Cap Blend segment of the market. However, there are other ETFs in the space which investors could consider.
Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO) tracks CRSP US Mid Cap Index and the iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF (IJH) tracks S&P MidCap 400 Index. Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF has $67.34 billion in assets, iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF has $86.79 billion. VO has an expense ratio of 0.04% and IJH charges 0.05%.
Investors looking for cheaper and lower-risk options should consider traditional market cap weighted ETFs that aim to match the returns of the Style Box - Mid Cap Blend.
Bottom Line
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Reporter Name | Smith James C |
Relationship | Director |
Type | Sell |
Amount | $1,064,319 |
SEC Filing | Form 4 |
Gartner Director, Smith James C, sold 2,128 shares of Common Stock on September 10, 2024, for a total sale amount of $1,064,319. The sale was executed at a weighted average price of $500.15 per share. Following this transaction, Smith James C directly owns 572,090 shares of Gartner.
SEC Filing: GARTNER INC [ IT ] - Form 4 - Sep. 12, 2024
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