Avigilon Fights Back Against Falling Share Price With Share Buyback

Author: John Honovich, Published on May 08, 2015

Avigilon's stock is down 50% from their peak price last year.

The stock price is also significantly below the levels when Avigilon raised an additional $169 million from investors in the past 2 years.

Now, Avigilon is gearing up to buy back stock at the much lower price levels. In this note, we look at the plan and how it might help Avigilon.

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Comments (7)

Undisclosed #1

05/08/15 04:21pm

...******** *** **** **** ****** **** *** ****** ********* ** easily ***** *** ****.

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 05/08/15 05:55pm

"** **** ***** *** ******* *************."

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Undisclosed #1

In reply to John Honovich | 05/08/15 07:12pm

*** **** ** *****************?

Interest *******

*,***,*** ****** @ $** = $**,***,*** = ~$*,***,***/**** ********. ****'* > **% ** **** ********.

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Paying **** for the shares is essentially saying, "The best way we can create investor value with our available capital is not to invest more in R&D or Sales and Marketing, but rather to speculate, right alongside our investor, on what our future performance will be."

*** ** ***** ** ** ****** *** *** *** *****, ok.

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 05/09/15 01:02am

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Undisclosed #1

In reply to John Honovich | 05/09/15 01:51am

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 05/09/15 01:56am

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Undisclosed #1

05/12/15 08:22am

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