34 Stocks Moving In Friday's Mid-Day Session

Gainers

• LATAM Airlines Group S.A. LTM shares climbed 31% to $11.84 after the company announced Delta Air Lines will invest $1.9 billion for a 20% stake in the company through a public tender offer at $16 per share.
• Aravive, Inc. ARAV gained 12% to $9.30. Aravive highlighted presentation of data from initial 12 patients in Phase 1b portion of its Phase 1b/2 ovarian cancer study of avb-500 in late breaking oral presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress in Barcelona.
• Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation AGTC shares rose 10.3% to $4.4132 after reporting Q4 results. BMO Capital upgraded Applied Genetic Tech from Market Perform to Outperform and raised the price target from $5 to $9.
• Fang Holdings Limited SFUN rose 10.1% to $2.30.
• GoPro, Inc. GPRO shares jumped 10% to $5.15.
• Francesca's Holdings Corporation FRAN gained 9.8% to $15.77.
• Arcus Biosciences, Inc. RCUS rose 9.5% to $9.65.
• TG Therapeutics, Inc. TGTX climbed 9.3% to $5.88.
• Dillard's, Inc. DDS gained 8.7% to $64.78.
• Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. ADVM gained 8.6% to $5.69. Adverum Biotechnologies will present additional clinical data from first cohort of OPTIC Phase 1 trial of ADVM-022 intravitreal gene therapy to treat wet AMD at The American Academy Of Ophthalmology 2019 Annual Meeting.
• Contango Oil & Gas Company MCF rose 8.4% to $2.72 after the company reported signing of deal to buy assets of White Star Petroleum for $132.5 million.
• Abeona Therapeutics Inc. ABEO gained 8.1% to $2.53.
• Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. TTPH gained 6.5% to $5.09.
• Vail Resorts, Inc. MTN rose 5.6% to $243.15 after the company reported better-than-expected results for its fourth quarter on Thursday.
• Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS rose 5.4% to $58.92 after the company was added to the S&P 500 index.
• Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. UEPS rose 5.2% to $3.82 after the company reported preliminary results for its fourth quarter.
• Wells Fargo & Co WFC rose 4.4% to $51.00 after the company named Charles Scharf as president and CEO. Mr. Scharf is a banking veteran and the market may perceive this as a good sign for the company's outlook.

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Losers

• Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CNCE shares dropped 33.3% to $6.59.
• Precipio, Inc. PRPO dipped 14% to $2.8145.
• Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. GIFI shares dipped 11.5% to $5.01. The Pennant Group will replace Gulf Island Fabrication, which will be removed from the S&P SmallCap 600 effective Wednesday, October 2.
• Progress Software Corporation PRGS shares fell 11% to $37.33. Progress Software reported stronger-than-expected earnings for its third quarter and raised its quarterly dividend from $0.15 to $0.16. However, the company issued weak sales forecast for FY19.
• NextCure, Inc. NXTC dropped 10.4% to $31.98.
• electroCore, Inc. ECOR fell 9.7% to $2.24.
• Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PIRS dropped 9.6% to $4.16.
• McDermott International, Inc. MDR dropped 9.1% to $2.00.
• NeuBase Therapeutics, Inc. NBSE shares declined 9% to $5.39.
• Vivint Solar, Inc. VSLR shares fell 8.8% to $5.38 after declining 8.10% on Thursday.
• Micron Technology, Inc. MU fell 8.6% to $44.40. Micron reported upbeat results for its fourth quarter. The company guided to first-quarter adjusted EPS of 39-53 cents and sales of $4.8-$5.2 billion.
• Rite Aid Corporation RAD shares fell 8% to $7.21.
• AxoGen, Inc. AXGN dropped 8% to $12.66.
• Akerna Corp. KERN dipped 6.1% to $6.56.
• Koninklijke Philips N.V. PHG shares fell 6% to $45.30
• Box, Inc. BOX fell 5.7% to $16.08. JP Morgan downgraded Box from Neutral to Underweight.
• Aytu Bioscience Inc AYTU fell 5% to $1.3130 after reporting FY19 EPS and sales results.