Key Developments: Splunk Inc (SPLK.O)
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Latest Key Developments (Source: Significant Developments)
Announces Strategic Alliance With Splunk Inc
DataSift announced a strategic alliance with Splunk Inc. Integrating the DataSift platform into Splunk's market leading big data platforms, customers can now stream social data from DataSift into Splunk Stormand Splunk Enterprise, Splunk's multi-tenant cloud service and on-premise platform for machine-generated big data. The result of this seamless integration is that organizations can now analyze and correlate social media data with business and operational data. Full Article
Splunk Inc Issues Q1, FY 2014 Revenue Guidance In Line With Analysts' Estimates
Splunk Inc announced that for the first quarter of 2014, it expects total revenue to be between $52 million and $54 million. For fiscal 2014, it expects total revenue to be between $260 million and $270 million. According to I/B/E/S estimates, analysts were expecting the Company to report revenue of $52 million for the first quarter of 2014 and revenue of $263 million for fiscal 2014. Full Article
Splunk Inc Issues Q4 2013 Revenue Guidance In Line With Analysts' Estimates; Raises FY 2013 Revenue Guidance
Splunk Inc announced that for the fourth quarter of 2013, it expects total revenue to be between $58 million and $60 million. For fiscal 2013, it expects total revenue to be between $192 million and $194 million (was previously $183 million to $186 million as of August 30, 2012). According to I/B/E/S estimates, analysts were expecting the Company to report revenue of $58 million for the fourth quarter of 2013 and revenue of $186 million for fiscal 2013. Full Article
Splunk Inc And Rock The Vote Partner On U.S. Election Social Media Visualization
Splunk Inc announced a partnership with Rock the Vote to allow young voters who get a majority of their news via social media to better follow and understand the online conversation around the U.S. presidential election. Rock the Vote and Splunk's corporate social responsibility initiative, Splunk4Good, worked together to build a visualization, which will display a unique set of real-time political data about President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney from October 3, 2012 through Election Day, November 6, 2012. The visualization built on Splunk software is on the Rock the Vote home page. Full Article
Splunk Inc Issues Q3 2012 Revenue Guidance; Raises FY 2012 Revenue Guidance
Splunk Inc announced that for the third quarter of 2013, it expects total revenue to be between $45 million and $47 million. For fiscal 2013, it expects total revenue to be between $183 million and $186 million (was previously $174 million to $177 million as of May 31, 2012). Full Article
Splunk Inc Prices Secondary Public Offering
Splunk Inc announced the pricing of 11,744,064 shares of its common stock at $28.25 per share in a secondary offering. All of the shares will be sold by existing stockholders. In addition, the underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,761,609 additional shares of common stock from certain of the selling stockholders. As part of the offering, all selling stockholders have agreed to lock-up agreements that will extend the initial public offering lock-up period on 50% of their shares until 180 days after this offering. Splunk will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares in this offering. The primary purposes of the offering are to facilitate an orderly distribution of shares and to increase the Company's public float. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, and UBS Securities LLC, Pacific Crest Securities LLC and Cowen and Company LLC are acting as co-managers. Full Article
Splunk Inc Issues Q2, FY 2013 Revenue Guidance
Splunk Inc announced that for second quarter 2013, it expects total revenue to be between $38-$40 million. For fiscal 2013, it expects total revenue to be between $174-$177 million. Full Article
Splunk Inc Prices Initial Public Offering
Splunk Inc announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 13,500,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share. A total of 12,507,278 shares are being offered by Splunk, and a total of 992,722 shares are being offered by selling stockholders. In addition, Splunk has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,025,000 shares to cover over-allotments, if any. Splunk will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, and UBS Securities LLC, Pacific Crest Securities LLC and Cowen and Company LLC are acting as co-managers. Splunk's common stock will trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol SPLK. Full Article
Splunk Inc Sees IPO Priced At $8-$10 Per Share-Reuters
Reuters reported that Splunk Inc, said it expects its Initial Public Offering of 13.5 million shares to be priced between $8 and $10 apiece. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company said it plans to sell about 12.5 million shares, with its selling stockholders offering the rest. At the top of its expected price range, the Company would have a market value of about $925.3 million. The Company, which expects to list its stock on the Nasdaq under the symbol 'SPLK', is backed by private equity firms Sevin Rosen, August Capital and Ignition Partners. Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, J.P.Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch are lead underwriters to the offering. Full Article
Splunk Inc Receives U.S. Patent For Innovative Time-Series Search Engine Technology
Splunk Inc announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued Splunk a patent for its pioneering technology that organizes, indexes, searches and presents time-series data. Full Article
Splunk to add 2000 customers this year as "big data" thrives
- Data analytics software maker Splunk Inc expects to break even on an adjusted basis and is looking to increase its customer base by about 40 percent, or 2,000 customers, this year, its chief executive told Reuters.
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