Watch List: BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP), Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (NYSE:BAH)
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Shares of BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP) declined -0.26% to $34.83 on Tuesday. BP Plc is considering an initial public offering of its vast U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast pipeline assets, the company said on Tuesday, a move that would raise cash.
The projected spinoff, which would be called BP Midstream Partners, revives a plan first broached internally about five years ago before slumping crude oil prices caused the company to put the idea on hold, a person familiar with the proposal said.
BP’s plan would spin off crude oil, natural gas and fuel pipelines in a master-limited partnership (MLP), a tax-advantaged structure often used by pipeline and other capital intensive companies. If it decides to go ahead with the idea, BP said it would register the partner by year-end.
The company and its underwriters have retained advisors to explore the sale, the source said.
A spinoff likely would be one of the larger initial public offerings of the year, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity as the talks were private.
BP did not comment on the details or potential valuation of a possible transaction beyond the press release. It would own the MLP’s general partner and receive all of its distribution rights, the statement said. (Source: Reuters)
The stock settled at $34.83 per share, after floating in a range of $34.76 to $35.01. The stock moved on low volume, traded at a volume of 2.69 million shares, as compared to its average daily volume of 4.82 million shares. The market capitalization for the company is reported at $115.47 Billion.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (NYSE:BAH) opened at $33.00. It reached an intraday trading high of $33.08 and closed at $33.00. To assist organizations improve how they detect and defend against cyber attacks, Splunk Inc. (SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) recently declared a private beta of Booz Allen Cyber4Sight for Splunk. Designed to empower security analysts and threat hunters with actionable threat intelligence, the new offering combines cyber insights and security intelligence from Booz Allen’s Cyber4Sight® threat intelligence solutions with analytics-driven security insights from Splunk® Enterprise Security (Splunk ES). To learn more about Cyber4Sight for Splunk, visit Splunk (booth #1254) or Booz Allen (booth #112) at Black Hat 2017.
Cyber4Sight for Splunk enriches Splunk ES with valuable threat data collected by the firm’s diverse group of expert cyber analysts, drawing on decades of mission intelligence to provide intelligence monitoring services culled from over 170,000 targeted sources from the open and closed internet. Intelligence gained from these sources is fed into Cyber4Sight for Splunk, providing customers with a wealth of new information on threat actors and their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). Booz Allen Cyber4Sight connects and centralizes profiles of threat actors and their methods in a new online database, which streamlines a customer’s ability to quickly and effectively combat attacks.
With Cyber4Sight for Splunk, Splunk ES customers of all sizes gain access to actionable threat intelligence on a subscription basis, while expanding detection, investigation and response capabilities offered by the Splunk security analytics platform. This curated, ready-to-use content assists correlate data and events in Splunk ES, enabling actionable intelligence for a wide range of security scenarios. As increasingly sophisticated threats target organizations around the world, these combined insights from Splunk and Booz Allen Hamilton will equip customers with detailed information to proactively combat cyber adversaries.
“As soon as we started to use Cyber4Sight for Splunk, we were able to identify several threats that we quickly worked to mitigate,” said Enoch Long, Director of Cybersecurity Services, Alexion Pharmaceuticals. “It assists us to understand our threat and attack vectors, and enables us to quickly perform research on those threats through detailed and valuable reports.”
“Organizations are faced with an raised volume and sophistication of cyber threats, putting noteworthy pressure on cybersecurity professionals,” said Angela Messer, executive vice president and cyber innovation and talent officer, Booz Allen. “By bringing together Booz Allen’s best practices and intelligence with Splunk’s powerful analytics platform, we can generate responses against cyber threats with speed and precision.”
“In today’s cybersecurity landscape, security practitioners are frequently overwhelmed with investigating security threats. As hackers continue to find new ways to break into networks, it is essential to use real-time threat data to identify and respond to incoming attacks,” said Haiyan Song, senior vice president of Security Markets, Splunk. “The insight offered by Booz Allen Cyber4Sight for Splunk will assist reduces the time organizations spend analyzing and identifying attacks and threat actors, empowering our customers to act quickly on threat intelligence, reduce costs and increase effective detection.”
The stock price inclined 0.01 points or 0.03% at the market. The total volume traded for the day is 1.96M higher as compared to its average daily volume of 1.62M shares. The current EPS for the company has been recorded at $1.66 and the beta value recorded by the company stands at 1.32 points.