We’re only at May’s halfway point, but the Talkin’ Cloud Stock Index has already experienced a full month’s worth of twists and turns. High-profile cloud outages seemed to barely touch the stock price of the 20 cloud and SaaS companies we track – before those prices dropped significantly. And now, for the week ending May 13, 2011, the Talkin’ Cloud Stock Index rose a solid 1.4 percent, putting it up a net 14.13 percent from the start of the year.

In a nice reversal from previous weeks this year, there was only one loser we want to spotlight this time around. But before we get into all that, here’s our standard warning: TalkinCloud doesn’t offer specific financial advice, and the decision to buy, sell or hold is yours, not ours. We maintain the index to match cloud chatter against real-world financial performance.

The Winner’s Circle

And One Loser

And that, as they say, is that. A gain is a good thing, no doubt, but it only covers about half of last week’s shortfall. Make sure to come back next week for more updates on the cloud financial progress.

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