PTC Inc.

PTC Inc. is an industrial software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1985 under the name Parametric Technology Corporation. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the ticker PTC, and it is a member of the S&P 500 index. It develops software that manufacturing firms use to design and manage their products.

The core of the product portfolio is computer-aided design and product lifecycle management software. Creo is used for three-dimensional part and assembly design, while Onshape is a cloud-based design platform that runs in a browser. Windchill brings together a product's data from the concept stage to the end of its service life in a single structure. Codebeamer serves the management of software and systems development, and Arena serves cloud-based product data management. Income comes largely from subscriptions and maintenance contracts, and customers are concentrated in automotive, aerospace, machinery and medical device sectors.

Those following PTC stock typically track software spending in the manufacturing sector, subscription renewal rates, the adoption of cloud products and company acquisitions. On the PTC page at Lzzo.com the price is shown in US dollars, and a price chart and technical indicators appear on the same page.