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| 07-Oct-09 | Downgrade |
Robert W. Baird |
Outperform → Neutral |
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| 03-Jun-09 | Initiated |
Ladenburg Thalmann |
Buy |
$19 |
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| 24-Apr-09 | Reiterated |
Kaufman Bros |
Hold |
$12 → $14.50 |
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| 29-Jan-09 | Reiterated |
ThinkEquity |
Accumulate |
$18 → $19 |
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| 29-Jan-09 | Reiterated |
Needham |
Buy |
$28 → $25 |
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| 25-Sep-08 | Reiterated |
RBC Capital Mkts |
Sector Perform |
$24 → $23 |
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| 18-Jul-08 | Reiterated |
RBC Capital Mkts |
Sector Perform |
$20 → $24 |
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| 18-Jul-08 | Reiterated |
Kaufman Bros |
Buy |
$25 → $27 |
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| 18-Jul-08 | Reiterated |
Canaccord Adams |
Buy |
$25.25 → $29 |
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| 02-Jul-08 | Upgrade |
JP Morgan |
Underweight → Neutral |
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| 01-Jul-08 | Reiterated |
Kaufman Bros |
Buy |
$23 → $25 |
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| 18-Apr-08 | Reiterated |
RBC Capital Mkts |
Sector Perform |
$17 → $20 |
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| 18-Apr-08 | Reiterated |
Needham |
Buy |
$21 → $24 |
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| 01-Apr-08 | Downgrade |
RBC Capital Mkts |
Outperform → Sector Perform |
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| 25-Jan-08 | Reiterated |
RBC Capital Mkts |
Outperform |
$25 → $22 |
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| 24-Jan-08 | Downgrade |
Merriman Curhan Ford |
Buy → Neutral |
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| 08-Jan-08 | Upgrade |
Robert W. Baird |
Neutral → Outperform |
$28 → $26 |
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| 08-Jan-08 | Upgrade |
Needham & Co |
Hold → Buy |
$21 |
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| 08-Jan-08 | Reiterated |
RBC Capital Mkts |
Outperform |
$32 → $25 |
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| 08-Jan-08 | Reiterated |
Kaufman Bros |
Buy |
$35 → $23 |
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| 11-Dec-09 04:34PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Tran EDGAR Online |
| 10:05AM | Emerson wraps tender offer for Avocent at bizjournals.com |
| 07:08AM | Emerson Completes Tender Offer for Avocent Business Wire |
| 09-Dec-09 05:58PM | Emerson Tender Offer for Avocent to Expire on December 10 Business Wire |
| 07-Dec-09 06:06PM | InPlay: Emerson extends tender offer for Avocent Briefing.com |
| 06:06PM | Emerson Extends Tender Offer for Avocent Business Wire |
| 11:42AM | Leading Analyst Firm Again Positions Avocent's LANDesk in the Leaders Quadrant of Its PC Life Cycle Configuration Management Magic Quadrant Marketwire |
| 02-Dec-09 02:54PM | US SMALL/MIDCAPS-PF Chang's, RF Micro lift stocks at Reuters |
| 23-Nov-09 10:05AM | Avocent Unveils Combined LCD Consoles and KVM Switches for Effective Data Center Management Marketwire |
| 18-Nov-09 08:00AM | Avocent Upgrades MergePoint(R) Infrastructure Explorer to Help IT Better Manage Their Data Centers Marketwire |
| 10-Nov-09 09:00AM | Avocent Extends Market Leadership in PC Lifecycle Management, Endpoint Protection and IT Service Management Marketwire |
| 04-Nov-09 04:11PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report EDGAR Online |
| 03-Nov-09 11:00AM | Emerson Electric profit down 26% amid soft demand at MarketWatch |
| 02-Nov-09 06:48AM | Latest Merger Arbitrage Spreads at Seeking Alpha |
| 30-Oct-09 10:36AM | CORRECTED - Emerson sees negative underlying sales growth in 2010 at Reuters |
| 06:06AM | CORRECTED - CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-Emerson sees negative underlying sales grow at Reuters |
| 04:17AM | UPDATE - Emerson sees negative sales growth in 2010 at Reuters |
| 01:24AM | Emerson says sees six more months of "toughness" at Reuters |
| 27-Oct-09 08:01AM | Microsoft Gains End-to-End Control of Thames Valley Data Center with Avocent Management Solution Business Wire |
| 26-Oct-09 10:17AM | U.S. regulators approve Emerson's purchase of Avocent at Reuters |
| 22-Oct-09 09:26AM | New Star Analyst Rankings for Avocent Corporation StarMine |
| 21-Oct-09 04:45PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits EDGAR Online |
| 04:18PM | Avocent Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results Business Wire |
| 17-Oct-09 08:06PM | Readers See Gains, but Are Bested by Darts at The Wall Street Journal Online |
| 15-Oct-09 01:15PM | Kendall Law Group Investigates Avocent Merger on Behalf of Shareholders Business Wire |
| 14-Oct-09 09:37AM | Avocent Offers Strategic Advice to Effectively Manage IT Assets Marketwire |
| 13-Oct-09 08:34PM | Law Office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC Announces Investigation on Behalf of Shareholders Avocent Corp. Business Wire |
| 12-Oct-09 01:15PM | Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Investigates Possible Breach of Fiduciary Duty by the Board of Avocent Corp. - AVCT Business Wire |
| 07-Oct-09 05:08PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Other Events, Financial Statements and E EDGAR Online |
| 08:20AM | Emerson Agrees to Acquire Avocent Zacks.com |
| 07:55AM | Avocent downgraded by Robert W. Baird Briefing.com |
| 06-Oct-09 08:43PM | [$$] Emerson Pays $1.2 Billion for IT Company at The Wall Street Journal Online +21.15% |
| 07:00PM | IBD's Top 10 - Tuesday Investor's Business Daily |
| 06:00PM | Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces Investigation On Behalf of Shareholders of Avocent Corp. Business Wire |
| 05:18PM | Emerson to buy Avocent for $1.2 billion AP |
| 04:58PM | Boeing, MGM Mirage, Corning, Avocent big movers AP |
| 04:50PM | Emerson agrees to buy Avocent for $1.2 billion at MarketWatch |
| 04:45PM | Bears Silenced Again as Earnings Season Nears Indie Research |
| 04:38PM | Emerson Electric to Buy Avocent for $1.2 Billion at SmartMoney.com |
| 04:35PM | Commodity prices fuel Wall Street rally at FT.com |
| 04:30PM | Tech Stocks: Tech stocks end day with broad gains at MarketWatch |
| 04:28PM | Equities Roundup: The Wizards of Oz at Seeking Alpha |
| 04:20PM | Bulls Stay On Top at Forbes.com |
| 04:12PM | Stocks Shine in Gold's Aura at TheStreet.com |
| 03:56PM | Stocks Rise as Gold Hits New High at TheStreet.com |
| 03:38PM | Wolf Haldenstein Investigating Avocent Corporation Proposed Acquisition Business Wire |
| 03:06PM | Avocent Shares Surge on $1.2B Emerson Bid at TheStreet.com |
| 02:11PM | Stocks Extend Gains; Gold Reaches New High at TheStreet.com |
| 01:30PM | Emerson to acquire Avocent for $1.2bn at FT.com |
| 12:04PM | Falling Dollar Fuels Gains at Forbes.com |
| 11:55AM | [video] Dollar Trouble at Forbes.com |
| 11:28AM | [$$] Smart Money Gets Crushed at RealMoney by TheStreet.com |
| 11:25AM | Down Goes The Dollar at Forbes.com |
| 11:11AM | Deal Du Jour: Emerson Acquiring Avocent For $1.2 Billion at Barron's Online |
| 10:41AM | Stocks Extend Gains; Dollar Weakens at TheStreet.com |
| 10:41AM | Stocks Rise; Dollar Weakens at TheStreet.com |
| 10:39AM | UPDATE - Emerson to buy Avocent for $1.2 billion at Reuters |
| 10:39AM | Emerson to buy Avocent for $1.2 billion Reuters |
| 09:23AM | UPDATE - Emerson to buy Avocent for $1.2 bln at Reuters |
| 09:16AM | Futures Rise; Dollar Weakens at TheStreet.com |
| 08:53AM | Data Storage Centers Undervalued Relative To Growth Prospects According To Stifel Nicolaus Wall Street Transcript |
| 08:41AM | Before the Bell: General Mills, AIG, Avocent in focus at MarketWatch |
| 07:51AM | Emerson Buys Avocent for $1.2 Billion at TheStreet.com |
| 07:48AM | Futures Rise Taking Their Cue From Abroad at TheStreet.com |
| 07:47AM | UPDATE - Emerson to buy Avocent for $1.2 bln at Reuters |
| 07:37AM | Pay Czar, Emerson: Tuesday's Headlines at TheStreet.com |
| 07:27AM | Emerson to buy Avocent for $1.2 billion at MarketWatch |
| 07:27AM | Emerson to Buy Avocent For $1.2 Billion at Fox Business |
| 07:00AM | Emerson to Acquire Avocent Corporation Business Wire |
| 06:00AM | Avocent Empowers MindTree With Centralized Data Center IT Management From Any Location in the World Marketwire |
| 29-Sep-09 09:51AM | EMA Whitepaper Stresses Holistic Approach to Best Practices in Power Management for Desktop and Data Center Marketwire |
| 01:00AM | Avocent, CenterPoint Energy: Ratings Changes at TheStreet.com |
| 28-Sep-09 06:00AM | Avocent Unveils New Customer Migration Program to Help Enterprises Upgrade Their IT Infrastructures and Address Pain Points Marketwire |
| 22-Sep-09 09:55AM | Avocent Offers Strategic Advice for Asset Management and IT Governance Initiatives Marketwire |
| 21-Sep-09 05:22PM | Avocent Offers Strategic Advice for Asset Management and IT Governance Initiatives Marketwire |
| 16-Sep-09 05:58PM | Avocent to Present at Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2009 Smid Cap Conference on September 22, 2009 Business Wire |
| 09-Sep-09 04:01PM | Avocent to Present at Jefferies 3rd Annual Technology Conference on September 15, 2009 Business Wire +6.89% |
| 03-Sep-09 01:31PM | Data Hosting and Data Storage Industry Showing Greater Upside as SaaS Companies Grow, According to Industry Expert Wall Street Transcript |
| 01:31PM | Data Hosting and Data Storage Industry Showing Greater Upside as SaaS Companies Grow, According to Industry Expert Wall Street Transcript |
| 01-Sep-09 04:01PM | Avocent to Present at Kaufman Brothers' 12th Annual Investor Conference on September 10, 2009 Business Wire |
| 31-Aug-09 12:47PM | "Enterprise Computing, System Software, and Vertical Market Software are Key Areas of Growth" According to Industry Expert Wall Street Transcript |
| 25-Aug-09 09:01AM | Enterprise Software Public Valuations are Expensive for Certain Names: Earnings and Cash Flow Projections Take the Lead in Determining Winners Wall Street Transcript |
| 18-Aug-09 09:04AM | AVOCENT CORP Financials EDGAR Online Financials |
| 10-Aug-09 06:00AM | Avocent Unveils Major Upgrade to Effectively Manage the Service Desk Marketwire |
| 07-Aug-09 04:19PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report EDGAR Online |
| 04-Aug-09 04:01PM | Avocent to Present at the Morgan Keegan Technology Conference on August 11, 2009 Business Wire |
| 28-Jul-09 01:51AM | Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Tuesday Zacks.com |
| 23-Jul-09 04:02PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Exhibits EDGAR Online |
| 04:01PM | Avocent Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results Business Wire |
| 07:07AM | Q2 2009 Avocent Corporation Earnings Release - Time Not Supplied CCBN |
| 13-Jul-09 04:01PM | Avocent Corporation Announces Second Quarter Conference Call On the Internet GlobeNewswire |
| 02-Jul-09 04:15PM | AVOCENT CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Financial Statements and Exhibits EDGAR Online -5.99% |
| 07-Jun-09 03:13AM | 20 'Bathwater Babies' and 20 'Dogs with Fleas' for the Week at Seeking Alpha |
| 03-Jun-09 04:01PM | Avocent to Present at the RBC Capital Markets Technology, Media & Communications Conference on June 9, 2009 Business Wire |
| 06:00AM | Avocent Offers a Foundation for Cost Allocation and Strategic Asset Steering Marketwire |
| 02-Jun-09 06:00AM | Avocent Expands Its Line of LCD Console Trays for the Data Center Marketwire |
| 01-Jun-09 06:00AM | Avocent Desktop and Data Center Solutions Lauded With Multiple Product Innovation Awards Marketwire +6.14% |
| 27-May-09 06:00AM | Aserdiv Is Named Avocent Certified Elite Partner Marketwire |
| 26-May-09 04:34AM | Power Plays on Energy Management at Seeking Alpha |
| 18-May-09 06:00AM | Avocent to Show Interop 2009 Attendees How to Bring New ROI to Data Centers Marketwire +6.90% |
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| Avocent Corporation designs, manufactures, licenses, and sells software and hardware products and technologies that provide connectivity and centralized management of information technology (IT) infrastructure in the United States and internationally. It has three divisions: Management Systems, LANDesk, and Connectivity and Control. Management Systems division offers products, such as keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM); LCD console trays; serial console; power control; digital extension; management appliances; management software; and embedded manageability technologies, such as intelligent platform management infrastructure and embedded KVM systems. It offers solutions and technologies for data centers, remote access and distributed branch office environments, mid-size server rooms for the small and medium business market, and desktop switching and universal serial bus hubs for control of desktops, small offices, and home-based businesses. LANDesk division delivers systems, security, and service management software for desktops, servers, and mobile devices across an enterprise. Its products and technologies primarily include the LANDesk Management Suite product, the LANDesk Security Suite, and LANDesk Patch Manager product software. In addition, this division provides professional services, training, maintenance, upgrade protection, and customer support offerings. Connectivity and Control provides managed audio visual infrastructure solutions for commercial digital signage, presentation, and rental and staging markets. Its Emerge product family allows industry professionals to deliver analog, IP-wired, and wireless solutions for AV extension, switching, distribution, and signal processing needs. The company offers its hardware and software products and services through its own sales force, and through original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, distributors, and reseller arrangements. Avocent was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. As of December 11, 2009, Avocent Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co. |
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Relationship |
Date |
Transaction |
Cost |
#Shares |
Value ($) |
#Shares Total |
SEC Form 4 |
| MACSWEENEY KIERAN | Senior VP, Managing Dir. Inter | Sep 09 | Sale | 19.01 | 10,000 | 190,100 | 13,667 | Sep 11 06:01 PM | | MACSWEENEY KIERAN | Senior VP, Managing Dir. Inter | Aug 14 | Sale | 16.08 | 10,000 | 160,817 | 23,667 | Aug 18 05:23 PM | | Daly Stephen M | Senior VP & LANDesk GM | Jun 01 | Buy | 13.37 | 1,400 | 18,718 | 52,896 | Jun 08 07:03 PM | | BLANKENSHIP EDWARD H | Senior VP Finance & CFO | Jan 22 | Option Exercise | 14.97 | 7,313 | 109,476 | 48,519 | Jan 26 09:50 PM | | Kienast Kay E | EVP - Chief Marketing Officer | Jan 22 | Option Exercise | 14.97 | 3,500 | 52,395 | 18,555 | Jan 26 09:47 PM | | MACSWEENEY KIERAN | Senior VP, Managing Dir. Inter | Jan 22 | Option Exercise | 14.97 | 3,315 | 49,626 | 33,667 | Jan 26 09:46 PM | | Mulligan Eugene F | Senior VP, Operations | Jan 22 | Option Exercise | 14.97 | 4,875 | 72,979 | 34,577 | Jan 26 09:47 PM | | WEEKS DOYLE C | President, COO | Jan 22 | Option Exercise | 14.97 | 16,587 | 248,307 | 98,887 | Jan 26 09:45 PM | | SARACINO SAMUEL F | Exec VP of Legal and Corp | Jan 22 | Option Exercise | 14.97 | 6,419 | 96,092 | 56,775 | Jan 26 09:46 PM |
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