{"id":40025,"date":"2014-01-14T07:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40025"},"modified":"2014-01-14T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:51:35","slug":"activist-hedge-fund-wants-changes-at-juniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/activist-hedge-fund-wants-changes-at-juniper.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Hedge Fund Wants Changes At Juniper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/images2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40028\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/images2.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/images2.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/images2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Tech company Juniper Networks\u00a0saw its stock rise nearly 10% yesterday when Paul Singer&#8217;s\u00a0hedge fund,\u00a0Elliot Management,\u00a0sent the board of directors\u00a0suggestions on how to boost their share price and increase profits.<\/p>\n<p>The $23 billion hedge fund holds 6.2% of the tech company&#8217;s common stock.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund said that the shareholders are frustrated by Juniper&#8217;s\u00a0under-performance and is recommending low-risk, high-reward initiatives including buyback proposals.\u00a0Elliott said that these moves could result in a stock price of\u00a0$35\u00a0to\u00a0$40 per share, They currently stand at approximately $25.\u00a0Juniper&#8217;s shares have gained 16% in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuniper welcomes the opinions and insights of its shareholders and is always open to constructive input toward the goal of enhancing shareholder value,\u201d the company said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Tech company Juniper Networks\u00a0saw its stock rise nearly 10% yesterday when Paul Singer&#8217;s\u00a0hedge fund,\u00a0Elliot Management,\u00a0sent the board of directors\u00a0suggestions on how to boost their share price and increase profits. The $23 billion hedge fund holds 6.2% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activist-funds","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40029,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40025\/revisions\/40029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}