StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
July 28, 2008
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Stock: |
Aruba Networks, Inc. |
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Ticker Symbol: |
ARUN - Nasdaq - Technology -
Computer Peripherals |
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Buy: |
5.25
to 5.50 |
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Sell: |
7.00 |
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Info: |
Aruba
Networks, Inc. provides an enterprise mobility
solution that enables secure access to data,
voice, and video applications across wireless
and wireline enterprise networks in the United
States and internationally. It licenses and
sells ArubaOS, a modular and flexible operating
system that forms the core of its user-centric
network architecture and network, security,
application, and RF management services to give
network managers a centralized point-of-control
over the access points, mobile users, and mobile
devices; and additional software modules for
ArubaOS, which include policy enforcement
firewall, wireless intrusion protection, Remote
AP, VPN server, external services interface,
Wireless Mesh, and xSec. The company also
provides Aruba Mobility Management System that
automatically discovers, monitors, and manages
mobility controllers, access points, and users
simultaneously from a single console; and
mobility controllers that aggregates network
traffic from access points, process it using its
software controls, and delivers it to the
network primarily for offices, retail stores,
and campuses; and wireless access points and
wired access concentrators, which serve as
on-ramps that aggregate user traffic onto the
enterprise network and direct traffic to
mobility controllers. Its wireless access points
provide network access and security monitoring
services for wireless networks; and wired access
concentrators are designed for use in conference
rooms, auditoriums, public areas, and home
applications. The company serves finance,
retail, hospitality, technology, manufacturing,
media, healthcare, education, utilities,
telecom, government, transportation,
engineering, and construction industries. Aruba
Networks sells its products through value added
resellers, distributors, and original equipment
manufacturers. Aruba Networks was founded in
2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California |
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Financial Info: |
For
the nine months ended 4/30/2008, revenues
increased 51% to $130 million. Net loss
decreased 51% to $10.3 million. |
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Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 3.122, Total
Debt/Equity Ratio: 0.00, Trailing P/E: N/A,
Forward P/E: 30.94x, Price/Sales: 2.46,
Price/Book: 3.21 |
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Share Info: |
There are 82.58
million shares outstanding with 20.49
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 61.80% of the shares
outstanding. There have been 0 insider
purchases and 8 insider sales totaling 106,296
shares in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC Filings
As of 7/10/2008, there were 6.61 million shares short.
Net Institutional Selling:
10,856,400 shares last quarter. |
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Articles: |
Aruba Networks upgraded by Lazard Capital |
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