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UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2019 12 19

This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for ALRM, INOV, and PAA.
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Alarm.com Holdings Inc.

Alarm.com is a platform for the intelligently connected property. The company provides a suite of cloud-based solutions for smart residential and commercial properties. The company's service provider partners can deploy its interactive security, video monitoring, intelligent automation and energy management solutions as stand-alone offerings or as combined solutions to address the needs of a range of customers. The company's subscribers can connect to their property through the company's family of mobile apps, websites, and engagement platforms like voice control through Amazon Echo and Google Home, wearable devices like the Apple Watch and TV platforms such as Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.

Inovalon Holdings Inc. Class A

Inovalon Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare. Through the Inovalon ONE? Platform, the company brings to the marketplace a capability to interconnect with the healthcare ecosystem, aggregate and analyze data in real-time. The company's technology platforms and analytics are informed by data pertaining to physicians, clinical facilities, individuals, and medical events. The company sells subscription licensing of its platform solutions, as well as provides related arrangements for advisory, implementation, and support services.

Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

Plains All American Pipeline is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and provides logistics services for crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas. The company has three operating segments: Transportation, which provides activities associated with transporting crude oil and NGL on pipelines, gathering systems, trucks and barges; Facilities, which provides storage, terminalling and throughput services for crude oil, NGL and natural gas, as well as NGL fractionation and isomerization services and natural gas and condensate processing services; and Supply and Logistics, which provides merchant-related activities.

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