North America Systems Software: Post-CIQ26 Coverage Report Card: KPIs Looking Stable

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North America Systems Software: Post-CIQ26 Coverage Report Card: KPIs Looking Stable

Cloudflare Inc,Crowdstrike Holdings Inc,Dynatrace,Fortinet, Inc.,International Business Machines

Corp,Okta, Inc.,Palo Alto Networks, Inc.,Progress Software Corporation,Rubrik, Inc.,Zscaler .

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and/or its affiliates has a significant financial interest in relation to Akamai Technologies,

Inc.,Cloudflare Inc,Crowdstrike Holdings Inc,International Business Machines Corp,Palo Alto Networks, Inc.,Progress Software

Corporation. (For an explanation of the determination of significant financial interest, please refer to the policy for managing

conflicts of interest which can be found at www.citiVelocity.com.)

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Compensation is not linked to specific transactions or recommendations. Like all Firm employees, analysts receive

compensation that is impacted by overall Firm profitability which includes investment banking, sales and trading, and

principal trading revenues. One factor in equity research analyst compensation is arranging corporate access events between

institutional clients and the management teams of covered companies. Typically, company management is more likely to

participate when the analyst has a positive view of the company.

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