{"id":1045787,"date":"2026-10-30T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045787"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:54:08","slug":"software-stocks-slide-as-fortinet-servicenow-fail-to-meet-lofty-investor-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/software-stocks-slide-as-fortinet-servicenow-fail-to-meet-lofty-investor-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Software stocks slide as Fortinet, ServiceNow fail to meet lofty investor expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of software companies tumbled in premarket trading on Thursday following disappointing results from Fortinet and ServiceNow, deepening worries about AI disruption that has plagued the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Software companies have been under intense scrutiny this year as investors weigh the likelihood of newer AI models disrupting traditional business models.<\/p>\n<p>The S&#038;P 500 Software &#038; Services Index has managed a 6% year-to-date rise, just about half the gains recorded by the S&#038;P 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of software companies tumbled in premarket trading on Thursday following disappointing results from Fortinet and ServiceNow, deepening worries about AI disruption that has plagued the sector. Software companies have been under intense scrutiny this year as investors weigh the likelihood of newer AI models disrupting traditional business models. The S&#038;P 500 Software &#038; Services Index has managed a 6% year-to-date rise, just about half the gains recorded by the S&#038;P 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045816,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045787\/revisions\/1045816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}