In an opinion entered in the case on January 3, 2023, U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal of the Southern District of Florida dismissed with prejudice a putative securities class action complaint against Citrix Systems, Inc. (“Citrix”) and certain of its officers in a case concerning the company’s business model transformation. Plaintiffs brought suit in response to a decline in the company’s stock price, alleging that Citrix and its officers made false and misleading statements about the company’s transition from selling on-premise perpetual licenses to selling cloud-based subscription services. Specifically, Plaintiffs challenged public statements made in 2020 and early 2021 regarding this transition, which preceded the company’s 2021 disclosures of financial results, including missed earnings-per-share targets and revenue projections. Plaintiffs alleged that Citrix and its officers falsely assured investors that the transition was proceeding to plan when, in fact, the transition was beset by myriad problems, including weakened relationships with sales partners, an inability to rapidly transfer large numbers of customers to the cloud without partner help, complications with the company’s sales organization that limited Citrix’s ability to sell the cloud platform, and a failure to convert business continuity license customers to the cloud.
The court dismissed the entire case, holding that Plaintiffs failed to allege facts sufficient to raise a strong inference of scienter...
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