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Seagate Technology PLC (Public, NASDAQ:STX) increased 0.20%, to close at $15.03 and its overall traded volume was 2.60M shares during the last session against its average volume of 11.51M. STX opened the day at $14.93, it made an intraday low of $14.76 and an intraday high of $15.03. The stock has a 52 week low of $9.84 and 52 week high of $21.58. STX’s market capitalization is 7.10B and it has 472.69M outstanding shares.

About Seagate Technology PLC (Public, NASDAQ:STX)

Seagate Technology plc (Seagate) designs, manufactures, markets and sells hard disk drives. The Company produces a range of disk drive products addressing enterprise applications, where its products are primarily used in enterprise servers, mainframes and workstations; client compute applications, where its products are used in desktop and notebook computers; and client non-compute applications, where its products are used in a variety of devices, such as digital video recorders (DVRs), and other consumer electronic devices, such as personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems and digital media systems. The Company sells its disk drives primarily to major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors and retailers. In addition to manufacturing and selling disk drives, the Company provides storage services for small- to medium-sized businesses, including online backup, data protection and recovery solutions.

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:CY) increased 1.09%, to close at $18.58 and its overall traded volume was 2.60M shares during the last session against its average volume of 2.71M. CY opened the day at $18.38, it made an intraday low of $18.25 and an intraday high of $18.61. The stock has a 52 week low of $9.73 and 52 week high of $18.61. CY’s market capitalization is 3.08B and it has 165.85M outstanding shares.

About Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:CY)

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Cypress) is a broad-line semiconductor company and a supplier of programmable solutions in systems. Approximately 7,000 customers use Cypress’s flagship PSoC programmable system-on-chip platform, and various end products that range from cell phones and MP3 players to washing machines, personal computers (PCs) and communications switches. In addition to PSoC, its offerings include capacitive sensing and touchscreen solutions, universal serial bus (USB) controllers, and general-purpose programmable clocks. It has four segments: Consumer and Computation Division, Data Communications Division, Memory and Imaging Division and Emerging Technologies and Other.

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:STLD) decreased -0.71%, to close at $18.30 and its overall traded volume was 2.55M shares during the last session against its average volume of 3.71M. STLD opened the day at $18.43, it made an intraday low of $18.24 and an intraday high of $18.55. The stock has a 52 week low of $12.89 and 52 week high of $20.47. STLD’s market capitalization is 3.97B and it has 217.05M outstanding shares.

About Steel Dynamics, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:STLD)

Steel Dynamics, Inc. is a steel producer and metals recycler. The primary sources of its revenues are from the manufacture and sale of steel products; processing and sale of recycled ferrous and nonferrous metals, and to a lesser degree, fabrication and sale of steel joist and decking products. The Company operates in three segments: steel operations, metals recycling and ferrous resources operations, and steel fabrication operations.

Novell, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:NOVL) decreased -0.34%, to close at $5.92 and its overall traded volume was 2.53M shares during the last session against its average volume of 13.50M. NOVL opened the day at $5.95, it made an intraday low of $5.92 and an intraday high of $5.96. The stock has a 52 week low of $4.13 and 52 week high of $6.53. NOVL’s market capitalization is 2.08B and it has 351.58M outstanding shares.

About Novell, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:NOVL)

Novell, Inc. develops, sells and installs software that is positioned in the operating systems and infrastructure software layers of the information technology (IT) industry. The Company develops and delivers Linux operating system software for a range of computers from desktops to servers. In addition, it provides a portfolio of integrated IT management software for systems, identity and security management for both Linux and mixed-platform environments. The Company operates in two business segments: Security, Management and Operating Platforms business unit segment (SMOP) and Collaboration Solutions (CS). Novell, Inc. delivers Linux and related solutions for the enterprise. The SUSE Linux Enterprise platform underpins all of its products. Within the Company’s CS business unit segment, it provides collaboration solutions that provide the infrastructure, services, and tools customers require to collaborate across a myriad of devices.

American Capital Ltd. (Public, NASDAQ:ACAS) decreased -0.53%, to close at $7.56 and its overall traded volume was 2.51M shares during the last session against its average volume of 2.66M. ACAS opened the day at $7.61, it made an intraday low of $7.56 and an intraday high of $7.66. The stock has a 52 week low of $2.39 and 52 week high of $8.17. ACAS’s market capitalization is 2.58B and it has 341.26M outstanding shares.

About American Capital Ltd. (Public, NASDAQ:ACAS)

American Capital, Ltd. (American Capital) is an equity firm and a global asset manager. The Company invests in private equity, private debt, private real estate investments, early and late-stage technology investments, special situation investments, alternative asset funds managed by the Company and structured finance investments. On April 1, 2009, the Company completed the combination of three portfolio companies within its Financial Services Group to create Core Financial Group, a diversified commercial finance holding company. On July 13, 2009, American Capital completed the sale of its portfolio company, People Media to Match.com. On September 15, 2009, it completed the sale of its portfolio company, Axygen BioScience Inc., including its subsidiaries Axygen Inc. and Sorenson BioScience Inc. On October 13, 2009, the Company completed the sale of its portfolio company, Imperial Supplies Holding Inc.