Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. Announces A Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against magicJack VocalTec Ltd.
Rigrodsky
& Long, P.A. announces that a complaint has been filed in the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on
behalf of all persons or entities that purchased the common stock of
magicJack VocalTec Ltd. (“magicJack” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ GM: CALL)
between February 28, 2012 and January 8, 2013, inclusive (the “Class
Period”), alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
against the Company and certain of its officers (the “Complaint”).
If you purchased shares of magicJack during the Class Period, or
purchased shares prior to the Class Period and still hold magicJack, and
wish to discuss this action or have any questions concerning this notice
or your rights or interests, please contact Timothy
J. MacFall, Esquire or Peter Allocco of Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., 825
East Gate Boulevard, Suite 300, Garden City, NY at (888) 969-4242, by
e-mail to info@rigrodskylong.com,
or at: http://www.rigrodskylong.com/investigations/magicjack-vocaltec-ltd-call.
magicJack is a cloud communications leader that is the inventor of
voice-over-Internet-Protocol (“VoIP”), the softphone (“magicJack PC”)
and the award winning magicJack products. The Complaint alleges that
throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and
misleading statements, and omitted materially adverse facts, about the
Company’s business, operations and prospects. Specifically, the
Complaint alleges that: (i) the Company overstated revenue, earnings and
cash flow in its United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”) filings; (ii) the Company overstated its cash balance by
investing its shareholder cash in highly aggressive and unconventional
securities; (iii) the Company has overstated its earnings by
inconsistently treating its allowance for doubtful accounts and billing
adjustments; (iv) the Company improperly altered the estimated life of
its assets, causing a decrease in its depreciation expense; (v) while
the Company claimed that it was writing down its excess inventory of
chips, it instead wrote down finished products in order to hide
weakening sales momentum; and (vi) as a result of the above, the
Company’s financial statements were materially false and misleading at
all relevant times. As a result of defendants’ false and misleading
statements, the Company’s stock traded at artificially inflated prices
during the Class Period.
According to the Complaint, on January 9, 2013, Copperfield Research
published a report revealing, among other things, that the Company had
been consistently overstating its revenue and profitability. According
to the report, “magicJack has presented its retail investor base with
earnings press release and financial tables that are overstated and
later altered based on the corresponding SEC filings.” On this news,
shares in magicJack fell over 13%, closing at $15.30 per share on
January 9, 2013, from a close of $17.31 per share on January 8, 2012, on
volume of over 1.8 million shares.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later
than March 19, 2013. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting
on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order
to be appointed lead plaintiff, the Court must determine that the class
member’s claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that
the class member will adequately represent the class. Your ability to
share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether
or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. Any member of the proposed class
may move the court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their
choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member.
While Rigrodsky
& Long, P.A. did not file the Complaint in this matter, the
firm, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware and Garden City, New York, regularly
litigates securities class, derivative and direct actions, shareholder
rights litigation and corporate governance litigation, including
claims for breach of fiduciary duty and proxy violations in the Delaware
Court of Chancery and in state and federal courts throughout the United
States.
Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.