
weakness, sales to large business showed improvement, and growth at Savvis accelerated slightly. Total sales declined 2.7% year over year, adjusted for the Qwest and Savvis deals. Management still expects to drive toward revenue stability
pressure to be in the space, who are paying insane valuations for dot-social and dot-cloud businesses (Centurylink buying Savvis at 10x EBITDA comes to mind). Since we own plenty of real companies, my concern is that they’ll overpay for their dot
subsidiary, Qwest (delisted as of April 4, 2012). CenturyLink is adding Qwest to its previous acquisitions of Embarq in 2009 and Savvis in 2011. CenturyLink's acquisitions have driven it to its current position as the third largest telecommunications corporation
Croc : CenturyLink ( CTL ) recently announced further measures to accelerate its integration of 2011 acquisitions Qwest and Savvis . The anticipation of non-cash charges is likely to impact earnings reports over the next few quarters. With that said
and cloud computing, the company acquired strategic assets through a series of corporate acquisitions. CenturyLink acquired Savvis in April of 2011. It also completed its 2010 acquisition of Qwest in April of 2011. The company acquired Embarq in 2009
Embarq was acquired and CenturyLink completed the integration of this company in the last quarter of 2011. CenturyLink acquired Savvis on July 15, 2011. This move transitions CenturyLink into managed hosting and collocation services. These virtual environments
options: (1) Go long CenturyLink ( CTL ). CenturyLink has dramatically transformed its business from acquiring Qwest and Savvis . According to T1 Banker, it is rated near a "strong buy" . (2) Go long Level 3 Communications ( LVLT ). L3 is accelerating
managed data center business, including Verizon via its acquisition of Terremark and CenturyLink CTL through its purchase of Savvis . In addition, Windstream has made heavy use of cash in financing these deals and assumed a large amount of debt. As a result
market remain firmly in place. As in the third quarter, the Savvis business posted weak revenue growth. Sales in the segment were ..... of the business. Management believes that the acquisition of Savvis temporarily disrupted sales activity, pointing to a 23% sequential
services to give them a lift . Verizon has shored up its cloud offerings by acquiring Terremark , while CenturyLink ( CTL ) has done so by acquiring Savvis . However, tough competition exists from AMZN , RAX , and others. Post your comment!