adobe stock has been slipping in the new year but director laura desmond scooped up shares of the maker of creative software including photoshop and acrobat adobe ticker adbe underperformed in 2021 rising 134 while the sp 500 index was up 27 investors were disappointed with adobe’s recurring revenue in september and poor guidance in the middle of december sent shares tumbling analysts haven’t been bullish in 2022 and shares are down 9 so far this year while the index has slipped 3