Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PROS (company)

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Desertarun (talk) 18:56, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PROS (company)

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Sources are largely routine transactional coverage, not in-depth and independent. No evidence of notability. Previously deleted and salted at PROS * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:07, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies, Travel and tourism, and United States of America. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 16:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. That's odd. I would normally expect a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange to have lots of coverage. Perhaps the problem is that hits are being masked by other uses of the word Pros. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 16:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:45, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep~~, just barely~~ This company may have the worst search-optimized name of all time, complicating any BEFORE search, but I am having a hard time finding independent, secondary, reliable sources providing significant coverage to meet WP:NORG. Examples: Reuters (already cited in article; trivial coverage); the three Houston Business Journal pieces already cited (trivial coverage); and an additional Reuters story (trivial coverage). However, I can identify an additional Houston Business Journal story and two scholarly book mentions (here, here). I think it just scrapes under the line, but it's close. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:51, 16 April 2024 (UTC) Updating my view to "keep" based on the analyst reports identified by Cunard below. Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:40, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.

From Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Publicly traded corporations (my bolding):

There has been considerable discussion over time whether publicly traded corporations, or at least publicly traded corporations listed on major stock exchanges such as the NYSE and other comparable international stock exchanges, are inherently notable. Consensus has been that notability is not automatic in this (or any other) case. However, sufficient independent sources almost always exist for such companies, so that notability can be established using the primary criterion discussed above. Examples of such sources include independent press coverage and analyst reports.

Analyst reports

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/PRO/price-target/^{Internet Archive} contains a list of analyst reports available under a paywall:

Date	Brokerage	Analyst Name	Action	Rating	Price Target	Upside/Downside on Report Date	Details
3/4/2024	Needham & Company LLC		Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$40.00	+11.23%	View Report Details
1/12/2024	KeyCorp		Upgrade	Sector Weight ➝ Overweight	$43.00	+24.46%	View Report Details
12/4/2023	Robert W. Baird		Boost Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$40.00 ➝ $47.00	+20.20%	View Report Details
5/24/2023	Craig Hallum		Boost Target		$32.00 ➝ $37.00	+32.47%	View Report Details
5/3/2023	Stifel Nicolaus		Lower Target		$36.00 ➝ $34.00	+28.54%	View Report Details
4/19/2023	Oppenheimer		Initiated Coverage	Outperform	$37.00	+36.94%	View Report Details
3/4/2022	Morgan Stanley		Lower Target	Equal Weight	$35.00 ➝ $33.00	+5.74%	View Report Details
12/14/2021	JPMorgan Chase & Co.		Upgrade	Underweight ➝ Neutral	$37.00	+10.02%	View Report Details
12/17/2020	Northland Securities		Boost Target	Outperform	$56.00 ➝ $61.00	+25.49%	View Report Details
10/30/2020	Royal Bank of Canada		Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Sector Perform	$33.00	+5.06%	View Report Details
2/12/2020	Bank of America	John King	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$80.00	+53.73%	View Report Details
7/26/2019	Nomura Securities		Boost Target	Buy	$77.00 ➝ $79.00	+7.98%	View Report Details
5/23/2019	DA Davidson		Boost Target	Neutral	$50.00	-6.94%	View Report Details
5/10/2019	JMP Securities		Reiterated Rating	Mkt Perform ➝ Market Perform			View Report Details
6/29/2017	Pacific Crest		Boost Target	Overweight	$30.00 ➝ $35.00	+29.06%	View Report Details
5/3/2017	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft		Boost Target	Buy	$35.00	+37.42%	View Report Details
2/13/2017	William Blair		Reiterated Rating	Outperform			View Report Details
8/25/2015	TD Securities		Lower Target	Speculative Buy	C$0.35 ➝ C$0.30		View Report Details
4/8/2015	Dundee Securities		Initiated Coverage	Buy			View Report Details
2/28/2014	Jefferies Financial Group		Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold	$47.00 ➝ $37.00	-9.89%	View Report Details

There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow PROS to pass Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Primary criteria, which requires "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject".

Cunard (talk) 10:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per sources identified by Cunard. ~Kvng (talk) 16:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Per the sources by Cunard. They prove GNG. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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