Some of the biggest winners to date have included Bank of America, home builders like PulteGroup and much-maligned Netflix, which is up sharply on the young year after a 2011 marred by an ill-fated effort to split its DVD-by-mail and streaming video businesses.
The firm got a lucky break when it beat out IBM to get an order from the trading arm at ICICI Bank, which remains one of his biggest customers for software to date. (The bank has sold its stake in NCDEX so is no longer a competitor.) Other big brokerages followed suit.