Barington Capital Raises Stake in Pep Boys (PBY)

In an amended 13D filing after the close on Pep Boys (NYSE: PBY), Barington Capital/James Mitarotonda disclosed a 8.1% (4.4 million shares) in the company. The fund said, "Since October 2, 2006 Barington Companies Equity Partners, L.P., Barington Companies Offshore Fund, Ltd., Barington Investments L.P. and RJG Capital Partners, L.P. purchased an aggregate of 545,900 shares of Common Stock."

Yesterday, Pirate Capital disclosed it raised its stake in Pep Boys to 11.7%.

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Pirate Capital Raises Pep Boys (PBY) Stake to 11.7%

In an amended 13D filing on The Pep Boys (NYSE: PBY), Pirate Capital disclosed an 11.7% stake (6.61 million shares) in the company as of Nov 20th. This is up slightly from the 11.3% stake (6.36 million shares), the firm disclosed in a filing this morning. A quarterly 13F filing showed Pirate owned 5.62 million shares as of September 30th.