19.  AZZ provides galvanizing and metal coating services, welding solutions,  specialty electronic equipment and highly engineered services to the power generation,  transmission, distribution, refining, and industrial markets.  Materially False and Misleading  Statements Issued During the Class Period   34.  Plaintiff brings this action as a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil  Procedure 23(a) and (b)(3) on behalf of a class, consisting of all persons and entities that  purchased or otherwise acquired AZZ securities between July 3, 2018 and October 8, 2019,  inclusive, and who were damaged thereby (the “Class”).  Excluded from the Class are  Defendants, the officers and directors of the Company, at all relevant times, members of their  immediate families and their legal representatives, heirs, successors, or assigns, and any entity in  which Defendants have or had a controlling interest.   40.  The market for AZZ’s securities was open, well-developed and efficient at all  relevant times.  As a result of these materially false and/or misleading statements, and/or failures  to disclose, AZZ’s securities traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period.   Plaintiff and other members of the Class purchased or otherwise acquired AZZ’s securities  relying upon the integrity of the market price of the Company’s securities and market  information relating to AZZ, and have been damaged thereby.   41.  During the Class Period, Defendants materially misled the investing public,  thereby inflating the price of AZZ’s securities, by publicly issuing false and/or misleading  statements and/or omitting to disclose material facts necessary to make Defendants’ statements,  as set forth herein, not false and/or misleading.  The statements and omissions were materially  false and/or misleading because they failed to disclose material adverse information and/or  misrepresented the truth about AZZ’s business, operations, and prospects as alleged herein.   52.  Plaintiff repeats and re-alleges each and every allegation contained above as if  fully set forth herein.    63.  Plaintiff repeats and re-alleges each and every allegation contained above as if  fully set forth herein.    64.  Individual Defendants acted as controlling persons of AZZ within the meaning of  Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act as alleged herein. By virtue of their high-level positions and  their ownership and contractual rights, participation in, and/or awareness of the Company’s  operations and intimate knowledge of the false financial statements filed by the Company with  the SEC and disseminated to the investing public, Individual Defendants had the power to  influence and control and did influence and control, directly or indirectly, the decision-making of  the Company, including the content and dissemination of the various statements which Plaintiff  contends are false and misleading. Individual Defendants were provided with or had unlimited  access to copies of the Company’s reports, press releases, public filings, and other statements  alleged by Plaintiff to be misleading prior to and/or shortly after these statements were issued  and had the ability to prevent the issuance of the statements or cause the statements to be  corrected.    65.  In particular, Individual Defendants had direct and supervisory involvement in the  day-to-day operations of the Company and, therefore, had the power to control or influence the  particular transactions giving rise to the securities violations as alleged herein, and exercised the  same.   Background   Violation of Section 20(a) of The Exchange Act   Against the Individual Defendants   Violation of Section 10(b) of The Exchange Act and   Rule 10b-5 Promulgated Thereunder   Against All Defendants  