The financial statements and forecast are presented after the recent broad price decline in the software sector on global stock exchanges, driven by concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) will disrupt software companies' business models.
"The result was worse than the most negative had feared," wrote analysts at investment bank JPMorgan in a comment on Dassault Systèmes' financial statements.
Other software stocks were dragged down. German SAP and French Capgemini were down 2.0 and 3.3 percent respectively.
