Stephens Inc.

-- Improves company's financial position with free cash flow accretive transaction that lowers dividend payout ratio while maintaining solid balance sheet -- Provides approximately $35 million in annual expense and capital savings -- Includes tax assets with an estimated net present value of approximately $130 million -- Grows rural footprint with expansion into Iowa and Minnesota and adds approximately 256,000 access lines, about 95,000 high-speed Internet customers and about 26,000 digital TV customers -- Iowa Telecom Chairman and CEO Alan Wells to join Windstream board of directors ...

DOYLESTOWN, PA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/20/09 -- Accredited Business Consolidators Corp., trading as Italian Oven, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: IOVE) today issued the following response to certain shareholder inquiries and extends its share issuance moratorium until June 30, 2009. Management's policy regarding the issuance of shares is that, until the Company's subsidiaries are fully operational and reporting, it does not plan to sell shares of IOVE. For this reason, IOVE entered into a share issuance moratorium that prohibits management from approving any new shares. In addition, IOVE reduced its authorized common stock to 450,000,000 despite having 436,399,500 shares issued and outstanding. At a meeting on November 18, 2009, IOVE extended the share issuance moratorium until June 30, 2009. Of the 436,399,500 shares of IOVE, only 328,018,200 shares are in the public float on hand with the Depositary Trust Corporation. The remaining shares are on file with the transfer agent, and 70,546,600 are restricted. These numbers did not change. As IOVE issued no shares ...

Comverge, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMV) announced today the pricing of an underwritten offering of 2.4 million shares of common stock at $10.50 per share. Comverge has also granted ...

EAST HANOVER, N.J., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comverge, Inc. (Nasdaq: COMV), a leading provider of comprehensive smart grid, demand management, and energy efficiency solutions, announced today the pricing of an underwritten offering of 2.4 million shares of common stock at $10.50 per share. Comverge has also granted the underwriters the option to purchase up to 360,000 additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Comverge intends to use the net proceeds from this offering of approximately $23.5 million (and the net proceeds from any exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares of common stock) to repay outstanding indebtedness, finance the capital requirements of its current ...

PINE BLUFF, Ark., Nov. 17, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Simmons First National Corporation (Nasdaq: SFNC) today announced it raised $64.925 million through its previously disclosed public offering by issuing 2,650,000 shares of its common stock. The net proceeds of the offering after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses were approximately $61.4 million. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 397,500 shares of the Company's common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Stephens Inc. is serving as lead book-runner and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is serving as joint book-runner for the offering. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. is serving as co-manager. This news ...