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December 2008 Winners…
| Company |
Symbol |
% Increase |
December Close |
Analysis |
| SCM Microsystems, Inc. |
65.44% |
$2.25 |
SCM Microsystems and Hirsch Electronics Corp. announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. | |
| Force Protection, Inc. |
50.25% |
$5.98 |
FRPT announced that it has received two contract awards, for $30 million, from Marine Corps Systems Command for 188 Cougar Exterior Ballistic EFP Kits. | |
| VERSAR INC |
42.07% |
$4.12 |
VERSAR said that it has been awarded an $8.26 million task order for Architect Engineering Services at multiple locations in Iraq | |
| UNIVERSAL SEC INSTRM |
31.47% |
$3.30 |
UUU's CEO, Harvey Grossblatt recently siad, "We are pleased with the improvement in UNIVERSAL'S results from continuing operations in the June 30, 2008 quarter and increases the Company's book value as of September 30, 2008 to $9.60 per share." | |
| VICON INDS INC |
31.29% |
$5.58 |
VII fourth quarter revenues were the highest of any quarter in the Company’s 41 year history. | |
| Elbit Systems Ltd. |
24.85% |
$46.48 |
ESLT announced that it was recently awarded several airborne upgrade contracts at a total value of approximately $80 million. | |
| BRINKS COMPANY |
23.47% |
$26.88 |
BCO announced that it has acquired a Brazilian security company, "Sebival", for approximately $50 million. | |
| VMWARE, INC. |
22.43% |
$23.69 |
VMware announced its intention to expand its strategic relationship with HP to include the joint development of management software solutions that manage both physical and virtual datacenter resources. |
|
| TASER International |
21.38% |
$5.28 |
TASER said that Bass Pro Shops began carrying the consumer focused TASER(r) C2 Personal Safety device in selected stores throughout the United States. | |
| TREND MICRO | 19.66% |
$35.00 |
BigFix and Trend Micro announced today a joint licensing agreement that will result in a comprehensive and modular Trend Micro endpoint security management solution, powered by the BigFix platform, that scales to the requirements of very large enterprises with more than 10,000 endpoints. |
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