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Pierre FerraguÊ

Cisco to acquire Splunk. Our take.

Yesterday Cisco announced its intention to acquire
Splunk in all cash deal for an equity value of ∼$28bn, or
$157 a share, a 31% premium to Wednesday's closing
price of $120.

For further details and our take.
Underlyings
Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco Systems designs and sells a range of technologies that power the Internet. The company's business is organized into the following three geographic segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company's products and technologies are grouped into the following categories: Infrastructure Platforms; Applications; Security and Other Products. In addition to its product offerings, the company provides a range of service offerings, including technical support services and other services. The company delivers its technologies through software and services. The company's customers include businesses of all sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers.

Splunk Inc.

Splunk provides software solutions that enable users to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on machine data. The company's main product is Splunk Enterprise, a machine data platform, comprised of collection, indexing, search, reporting, analysis, alerting, monitoring and data management capabilities. The company's Splunk Cloud delivers the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise as a service, while Splunk Light provides log search and analysis for information technology environments. The company also provides services that include maintenance and customer support, training services to its customers and channel partners, as well as consulting and implementation services to customers through its services team.

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