Seagate to Buy Dot Hill to Enhance Cloud Offerings
August 18 2015 - 9:00PM
Dow Jones News
Data-storage company Seagate Technology PLC has agreed to buy
Dot Hill Systems Corp., a maker of software and hardware storage
systems, to help enhance its cloud offerings. Seagate is set to pay
an 88% premium to Tuesday's closing stock price.
The transaction has an equity value of about $694 million.
Reflecting Dot Hill's June 30 balance-sheet cash, the deal has an
enterprise value of about $645 million, the companies said
Tuesday.
Seagate will pay $9.75 a share in the all-cash deal. Dot Hill
shares closed regular trading at $5.18, and rose 85% to $9.60 in
after-hours trading.
Seagate said the purchase will help it "accelerate the growth of
Seagate's OEM-focused cloud storage system and solutions
business."
The deal is expected to close in the fourth calendar quarter of
2015 and add to Seagate's fiscal 2016 earnings excluding items.
In its fourth quarter ended July 3, Seagate posted lower revenue
and profit. The company said in April that "near-term macro
uncertainty" has hurt its results.
Like other technology companies, Seagate has been aiming to
diversify its offerings in a shifting marketplace. In 2014, Seagate
bought the LSI flash business from Avago Technologies Ltd. for $450
million.
Dot Hill said earlier this month that it expects non-GAAP
revenue of $245 million to $260 million for 2015. Seagate's revenue
was $13.7 billion for the year ended July 3.
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