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Lead Plaintiff Deadline: December 23, 2019
Defendants misrepresented the reason for iRobot’s acquisitions of SODC and Robopolis, which was to control the Company’s largest distributors so that Defendants could inflate sales and revenue figures by stuffing the channel. Defendants further misled investors by repeatedly telling them throughout the Class Period that the Company was seeing continued double-digit revenue growth, and by attributing the growth to increased demand for the Roomba, when in reality Defendants were engaging in channel-stuffing to artificially boost sales. Defendants also misstated that the Company’s channel inventory levels had not changed and would not change dramatically from quarter to quarter or year over year, when in fact iRobot was deliberately stuffing the channel in order to claim false revenue growth.