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Tuesday 13 October 2015
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Investor’s Alert - Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (NYSE:BAH), Global Net Lease Inc (NYSE:GNL), Cempra Inc (NASDAQ:CEMP), Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT)

On Monday, Shares of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (NYSE:BAH), gained 1.12% to $26.71.

Booz Allen Hamilton, has named Allen Middleton, former Deputy Director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), as an advisor and thought leader for the firm’s healthcare clients who are transforming healthcare systems in defense, civil and commercial markets. Middleton was named as an independent consultant July 1, and is a recognized expert in health care policy, operations, and the design of health care systems.

“As the health care system in the U.S. evolves from a traditional fee-for-service model to a more integrated outcome-based model based on patient risk assessment, all facets of the health care system must evolve as well,” said Andrea Inserra, Booz Allen senior vice president and a leader in the firm’s military health business. “Al Middleton is a recognized thought leader whose experience and expertise in all areas of health care delivery will assist shape that transformation.”

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation provides administration consulting, technology, and engineering services to corporations, institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and the U.S. government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets in the United States and internationally.

Shares of Global Net Lease Inc (NYSE:GNL), declined -0.27% to $9.11, during its last trading session.

Global Net Lease, declared it has reached its second half 2015 investment aim of $200 million by concluding the acquisition of five net lease properties in two separate transactions for about $110.8 million in addition to the $95.3 million of real estate already purchased in the second half.

Recent Transaction Highlights

  • Total Purchase Price: About $110.8 million
  • Recent Properties Purchased: Five properties totaling 834,865 net rentable square feet, counting:
  • Office Depot European Headquarters: A build-to-suit office building located in Venlo, the Netherlands, and net leased to Office Depot International B.V., a wholly-owned partner of Office Depot Inc., who has occupied the property since 1998. This property serves as the tenant’s European headquarters and comprises 178,584 net rentable square feet with a remaining lease term of 13.4 years.
  • Finnair Net Leased Properties: Four industrial/logistics buildings located at Helsinki Airport, Finland, totaling 656,281 net rentable square feet with combined remaining lease terms of about nine years. The buildings are all net leased to Finnair Plc., the national airline of Finland and one of the world’s largest operating airlines with over 70 destinations worldwide to Europe, Australasia and North America. Finnair Plc. is majority owned by the AAA Moody’s-rated Finnish government.
  • Total Current Annual Rent: About $9.4 million
  • Initial NOI Yield: 8.5%

Global Net Lease, Inc is a real estate investment trust. The firm invests in the real estate markets across the globe. It focuses on acquiring and managing a globally-diversified portfolio of plannedally-located commercial real estate properties.

At the end of Monday’s trade, Shares of Cempra Inc (NASDAQ:CEMP), lost -1.32% to $31.36.

Cempra, declared it will be making two poster presentations at Infectious Disease Week 2015, being held in San Diego from October 7-11, 2015.

Both presentations will take place during the Poster Abstract Session on October 9, 2015 between 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. PDT in the Poster Hall.

  • Characterization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection and Outcomes in the SOLITAIRE-Oral, Global Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Solithromycin — Poster Number 893, presented by David Oldach, M.D., FIDSA. The abstract is available here.
  • Detection of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in a Phase 3 Trial Comparing Oral Solithromycin as compared to Oral Moxifloxacin for Treatment of Community-attained Bacterial Pneumonia in Adults — Poster Number 894, presented by Jorge Vidal, Ph.D. The abstract is available here.

Cempra, Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, focuses on developing antibiotics to meet medical needs in the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases in North America. Its lead product candidates comprise solithromycin (CEM-101), which is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of community attained bacterial pneumonia, in addition to for uncomplicated bacterial urethritis; and Taksta (CEM-102), an antibiotic that has accomplished Phase II clinical trials for refractory bone and joint infections.

Finally, Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT), ended its last trade with 1.17% gain, and closed at $44.19.

Capgemini, declared a global alliance partner relationship with Fortinet (FTNT), a leader in high performance cybersecurity solutions. Through this relationship Capgemini will further reinforce its cybersecurity services portfolio leveraging Fortinet products to assist reduce customer cybersecurity costs and improvement the resilience of clients’ infrastructure and applications. This alliance allows enterprise organizations to benefit from the combination of Fortinet’s expertise in innovative and effective security products and Capgemini’s cybersecurity services, on a global scale. Together Capgemini and Fortinet will provide new packaged cybersecurity services such as web application security, security for new generation datacenters SDDC (software-defined datacenters1), and Security Operation Centers specialized in Advanced Data Analysis (3rd generation capabilities) to assist enterprise customers to detect and react to sophisticated cyber attacks.

Capgemini will work with Fortinet as a key partner, within its ecosystem of security product suppliers, to deliver physical and virtualized security protection and security supervision services. Fortinet’s product portfolio — counting FortiWeb web application firewalls, FortiGate network security appliances, and FortiDDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack mitigation appliances — will assist to protect applications, provide security services for clouds and datacenters.. These products will be part of Capgemini’s tailored security services for infrastructure, applications and network protection, aiming to deliver flexibility, better performance and to reduce total cost of ownership to enterprise customers. Beyond technology integration, the agreement also covers human expertise with the training of 300 Capgemini engineers around the world to Fortinet’s eight-level certification program. Capgemini and Fortinet already work together to deploy security solutions across HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estate in the UK.

Fortinet, Inc. provides cyber security solutions for enterprises, service providers, and government organizations worldwide. The company offers FortiGate physical and virtual appliances products that provide various integrated security and networking functions to protect data, applications, and users from network- and content-level security threats; FortiManager product family to manage the system configuration and security functions of multiple FortiGate devices from a centralized console; and the FortiAnalyzer product family, which enables the collection, analysis, and archiving of content and log data generated by its products.

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