Three Stocks Rising In A Weak Market (NFLX, IT, HE)

Three stocks today are significantly outperforming the markets today as separate news items affected each differently, but all with rising share prices. Shares of Hawaiian Electric Industries, HE are up 3.1% today as the utility company reported better than expected earnings. It is up on strong volume, having already traded 770,000 shares when the daily average volume is around 446,000 shares. Shares of Netflix NFLX are up over 6.3% as news is out that the online entertainment distributor is in agreements with Erix to distribute more content. Volume is strong, having already traded more than three times its average volume in today's trading. Shares of Gartner IT are up nearly 10% as the information technology firm reported much stronger than expected earnings yesterday and received some upgrades and price target increases. Gartner has also traded more than three times its daily volume.