shares of software maker splunk splk rose sharply after hours on wednesday after the company boosted its fullyear outlook for profit sales and cash flow following cost cuts and thirdquarter results that beat expectations the company whose software helps businesses track data said it expected fullyear sales of between 3455 billion and 3485 billion up from a prior forecast for between 335 billion and 34 billion executives said they expected free cash flow of at least 420 million up from earlier expectations of 400 million shares rose 79 after hours splunk reported a thirdquarter net loss of 326 million or 20 cents a share compared with a loss of 3433 million or 214 a share in the same quarter last year revenue was 9298 million a 40 jump from 6648 million in the prioryear quarter adjusted for stockbased compensation amortization restructuring and software development costs splunk earned 83 cents a share analysts polled by factset expected adjusted earnings of 25 cents a share on revenue of 8475 million