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Buy, Buy Orchard: Shares of ORCD Keep Surging...

Tuesday, November 03, 2009
by  presnikoff

(The following story is developing and contains some corrections and updates from our earlier coverage.  More updates ahead.)

Shares of the Orchard Enterprises (Nasdaq: ORCD) kept surging in Tuesday trading, the result of a stock buyout proposal by majority owner Dimensional Associates.  Dimensional, the private equity arm of JDS Capital, is now offering a per-share price of $1.84.  (Initially, we reported that $1.68 was the most recent offer, though this is not the case - to clarify, the offer has been raised).

The Orchard (ORCD), traditionally a lightly-traded, low-hanging stock, has now become a hot item, surging at one point to $1.70 during the day.  At the bell, shares finished at $1.65, up nearly 14 percent from a Monday closing valuation of $1.45.

Sounds interesting, though the company offered no guarantee that the stock purchase would be finalized.  "There can be no assurance that any agreement on financial or other terms satisfactory to the [recently created] Special Committee will be reached with Dimensional or that any transaction will be approved or consummated," the filing warned.

To clarify other details confirmed by the company through public filings:



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