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Hedge Funds Disagree on PE Tender Offer for Esker as Shareholders Support It

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Shareholders of French software company Esker (EPA:ALESK) have overwhelmingly supported the tender offer from private equity firms Bridgeport and General Atlantic. However, recent hedge fund coverage of the stock varies.

THB and Brown Capital reported that Esker was among their best-performing stocks during the third quarter, precisely because of the September tender offer from the two PE firms.

Brown Capital and Langdon Partners weighed in on Esker during the third quarter — with one firm happy to lose the company with the offer going through and the other firm disappointed to see it go. Amid that disagreement comes the view that Esker could’ve done better than the tender offer — in the next three to five years...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.