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WANdisco - Placing to raise £16.3m

January 2018

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  • Epic Code:
  • WAND
  • Price:
  • 570p
WANdisco has placed 2.97m new shares (7.8% of the equity) at 550p to raise £16.3m before costs. Directors including David Richards and Yeturu Aahlad have also sold 1.04m shares at the same price. Earlier in the month, WANdisco signed an OEM agreement with Virtustream, Dell’s cloud business. Virtustream will sell Fusion as an embedded replication solution for hybrid cloud - so essentially this replicates the IBM deal where IBM sells Fusion embedded in IBM Big Replicate. The contract is for an initial  three years and has a minimum committed value of US$3.5m with fixed royalty payments.Having suggested topslicing at close to the peak at c.£8, it’s time to buy back. ...

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