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September 2008 Winners…
| Company | Symbol |
% Increase |
September Close |
Analysis |
| RURAL/METRO |
30.26% |
$2.54 |
RURL reported net income of $4.1 million for its fiscal year compared to a prior-year net loss of $1.0 million. | |
| SECURE COMPUTING |
28.04% |
$5.48 |
McAfee announced it will acquire Secure Computing for $5.75 per common share in cash. | |
| PROTECTION ONE |
24.08% |
$8.81 |
Richard Ginsburg, president and CEO, recently said, ``Our team's intense focus on Protection One's more than 100,000 commercial customers across the United States has resulted in growing revenues from this segment and has enhanced our capabilities to offer innovative security solutions." | |
| TASER |
10.00% |
$7.15 |
TASER announced that the French Government will allow local police to carry TASER devices. | |
| 3COM | 9.91% |
$2.33 |
3Com announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $100 million. | |
| FLIR SYSTEMS | 7.62% |
$38.42 |
FLIR said that it has been awarded a new delivery order totaling $96.6 million from the U.S. Army for its Star SAFIRE® III stabilized multi-sensor systems. | |
| MAGAL SECURITY | 7.23% |
$8.75 |
MAGS announced today that it has received an order for the installation of a municipal surveillance security solution in a large city in Latin America, based on its FORTIS Command and Control System. | |
| ALADDIN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS | 5.95% |
$13.36 |
ALDN said that Durham Regional Police in Canada chose the Aladdin eToken two-factor authentication device to comply with Canadian Police Information Centre regulations. |
|
| APPLIED SIGNAL | 5.02% |
$17.38 |
APSG announced it has been awarded a contract option by the U.S. Government to provide an enhanced system for the detection and identification of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices based on its neu-VISION™ neutron interrogation technology. | |
| MINE SAFETY APPLIANCES | 4.93% |
$38.12 |
MSA said that it has been awarded two separate contracts to supply the U.S. Air Force with a newly developed self-contained breathing apparatus system. |
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