DALLAS, Texas - Today’s Trade Alerts include: Zones Inc. (Nasdaq: ZONS), Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (Nasdaq: SSCC), Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: VNDA), DayStar Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: DSTI), XOMA Ltd. (Nasdaq: XOMA), and GenVec Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC).
“Zones Inc. (ZONS) shares surged 53% yesterday to $8.35 after the company announced Firoz Lalji, CEO and chairman of Zones, is buying the rest of the company not yet owned by him for about $52 million and taking it private. Shares slightly fell in early Friday trading, down less than 1% to $8.30...
“Zones operates as a direct marketing reseller of information technology products to the small-to-medium-sized business market, enterprise accounts and public sector accounts in the United States…
“Lalji is paying $8.65 a share for the 46% of the company not yet owned by him, a premium of 59% above the company's stock closing price on July 30. At present, there are 13.22 million outstanding shares of stock, according to Yahoo Financial...”
“Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (SSCC) shares slipped less than 1% to $5.66 Friday morning. Smurfit-Stone, through its subsidiary, Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises Inc., manufactures paperboard and paper-based packaging products primarily in North America…
“Smurfit-Stone recently announced the completion of its acquisition of a 90% interest in Calpine Corrugated LLC, an independent corrugated container producer in Fresno, California. The company will consolidate Calpine Corrugated into its operations in the third quarter of 2008, including both assets and liabilities of approximately $55 million…”
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