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January 2009 Winners…
| Company |
Symbol |
% Increase |
January Close |
Analysis |
| Alladin Knowledge Systems |
79.71% |
$11.07 |
ALDN said that it has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by private equity firm Vector Capital in a deal valued at about $160 million. | |
| hi/fn |
38.14% |
$3.26 |
Hifn announced the Express DS 4100,
an advanced Network Interface Card that includes bandwidth optimization and security for in-transit data across Local and Wide Area Networks. |
|
| Richardson Electronics |
27.65% |
$3.74 |
RELL announced a share repurchase program, and declared a cash dividend. | |
| ActivIdentity |
24.02% |
$2.22 |
ACTI said that 1Q 2009 revenue increased 5.8% to $16.3 million over prior-year quarter and 4.2% sequentially. | |
| OnTrack Innovations |
23.78% |
$1.77 |
OTI was awarded a $4 million contract for a limited scale first stage eID System for Ecuador. | |
| Aware |
19.79% |
$2.24 |
Aware raised revenue guidance for fiscal 2008 with annual revenues expected in the $28 to $31 million range. | |
| CheckPoint Software |
19.38% |
$22.67 |
CHKP said that Check Point ZoneAlarm ForceField provides unique protection against a recently discovered engineered attack that utilizes forged Secure Sockets Layer certificates. | |
| Optelecom-NKF |
19.24% |
$5.02 |
Optelecom-NKF announced the appointment of Dave Patterson as President effective March 9, 2009.
Prior to joining the Company Mr. Patterson served as President and CEO of Siemens AG subsidiary, Siemens Government
Services.
|
|
| SanDisk |
19.06% |
$11.43 |
SNDK unveiled its third-generation family of solid-state drives. Using multi-level cell NAND flash memory technology, SanDisk's G3 Series establishes new benchmarks in performance and price-performance leadership in the SSD industry. | |
| Universal Security | 17.27% |
$3.87 |
UUU said for the nine months ended December 31, 2008, net income was $4,787,207, or $1.93 per basic and diluted share, compared to a loss of $526,647, or $0.21 per basic and diluted share. |
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