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HANGZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 14, 2024 – A guest walks past the logo of the 2024 Dassault Systemes Automotive and Transportation Industry Summit Forum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, June 14, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Shares of French software giant Dassault Syst\u00e8mes<\/a> plummeted as much as 21% in early trade on Wednesday, putting the stock on track for its worst trading day ever. <\/p>\n

By 9:30 a.m. in London, the Paris-listed shares pared deeper losses to trade around 18% lower, after trading of the stock was briefly suspended at the open. <\/p>\n

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Dassault Systemes share price<\/p>\n

It came after the company published its fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday morning, which showed revenues from software dropped 5% in the final three months of last year. <\/p>\n

For the full year, total revenue was flat at a weaker-than-expected 6.24 billion euros ($7.43 billion), and software revenue also showed little growth at 5.64 billion euros. <\/p>\n

Analysts had been expecting total revenues to hit 6.3 billion euros, according to LSEG data. <\/p>\n

The company also set guidance of revenue growth in the range of 3% to 5% for 2026. <\/p>\n

Dassault Syst\u00e8mes “will lead the Industrial AI transformation” through its industrial AI offering 3D UNIV+RSES,” CEO Pascal Daloz said in a statement alongside the results. <\/p>\n

“This is not a short-term goal. It is a long-term commitment to redefine how industries innovate, operate, and compete,” he said. “In 2025 and 2026, we are focused on disciplined execution, aligning resources around our strategic priorities to deliver measurable, industry-defining impact.”<\/p>\n

‘SaaS apocalypse’<\/p>\n

Software companies were at the center of markets’ AI fear<\/a>s last week, as new artificial intelligence tools from Anthropic triggered a sell-off of software-as-a-service\u00a0and data provider stocks. Over the course of the week, Dassault Syst\u00e8mes shares shed more than 4% of their value. <\/p>\n

Aoifinn Devitt, senior investment advisor at Moneta, said that Dassault Syst\u00e8mes’ sharp fall on Wednesday is just the latest example of the so-called “SaaS apocalypse” trade. <\/p>\n

“There is really a concern right now around some of those winners that led the charge last year,” Devitt told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe.”<\/p>\n

The earnings report was “a weak finish and a weak guide,” for the company, analysts at UBS said in a Wednesday note.<\/p>\n

“[Dassault] talks of ‘aligning the organisation to focus’ on execution,” they said. “Having set a goal to grow at least 7% pa from 2024-29, the guidance means [the company] now needs to grow 8.2-8.9% in 2027-29.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 CNBC’s Hugh Leask contributed to this article. <\/p>\n

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