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NASDAQ Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs (MASI, RCII, CNTY, SEAC)
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 10:06am | 122Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) shares jumped 2.35% to create a new 52-week high of $34.43. MASI's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 28.25%. Rent-A-Center Inc (NASDAQ: RCII) shares gained 1.76% to touch a new 52-week high of $36.33. RCII is scheduled to post its Q1 results on April 25. Century...
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Benzinga's Top Downgrades (BCR, NKA, TZOO, MDRX)
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 8:22am | 134C.R. Bard Inc (NYSE: BCR) was downgraded by Goldman from "buy" to "neutral." BCR's shares closed at $100.88 yesterday. BCR's PEG ratio is 1.43. Stifel Nicolaus downgraded Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC (NYSE: NKA) from “buy” to “hold.” NKA's stock closed at $22.09 yesterday. NKA's PEG ratio is 6....
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Advises Investors To Buy Fortune Brands (TEVA, SDRL, HCBK, FO, PUDA, BTU, BIDU, SINA, RVBD, HOC, WFT, EW)
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 12:22am | 346On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Teva Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: TEVA) is a “mystery to me. That stock has been crushed. The health care stocks are going to bottom here." He believes that SeaDrill Limited (NYSE: SDRL) is “good. I like the oil drillers. There might...
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Straddle Earnings 04-06-2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 7:10pm | 959Cusick's Corner The market is now gearing up for earnings and a lot of readers are asking how can we strategize for these events. Strategically you can plan for these events based on your interpretation of volatility, and in options that is measured by Implied Volatility. This is confusing so I...
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Puts Purchased on Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (ZMH)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 3:42pm | 122Shares of Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZMH) are higher on the session by 1.32%, currently trading at $61.17. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today....
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Intuitive Surgical Rises Nearly 5% (ISRG)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 3:19pm | 139Shares of Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) have risen nearly 5% on Wednesday to $368.19. The move is coming on heavy volume, with more than 962,000 ISRG shares trading hands compared to a daily average volume of around 573,000. ISRG currently has a market cap of $14.44 billion. The stock trades...
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Covidien Receives FDA Premarket Approval for Pipeline Embolization Device
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 3:16pm | 63Covidien (NYSE: COV) today announced that it received Premarket Approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the Pipeline® Embolization Device, indicated for the endovascular treatment of adults (22 years of age or older) with large or giant wide-necked intracranial aneurysms in the...
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Options Brief: Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 2:26pm | 93Shares of Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE: BDX) are higher on the session by 0.51%, trading at $80.80. Overall call volume is now running at 4.16x the daily average, with 100% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,032 contracts have traded on the session so far. Becton,...
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Early Afternoon Biggest Percentage Gainers And Losers (BLTI, ABAT, SIMO, HILL, NLST, AMSC, SWKS, LNG, PUDA, MCZ)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 2:16pm | 395Best 1) BioLase Technology (NASDAQ: BLTI): Trading up 21.7% to $5.89. Shares have steadily climbed throughout the day as the company announced that it expects its first-quarter forecast to come in better than estimates, changing its anticipated revenue forecast from $9.25 million to $10.4 million...
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Stocks Near Or Above 52-Week High (FAST, GWW, STJ, HSY, PGN, IRM, WPI, ADP, AA, MCO)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 2:02pm | 239Fastenal (NASDAQ: FAST) is currently trading at $68.47, which is above the previous 52-week high of $66.78. W.W. Grainger (NYSE: GWW) is currently trading at $143.86, which is above the previous 52-week high of $142.32. St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ) is currently trading at $53.63, which is above...
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Eckert & Ziegler Withdraws Offer to Acquire Theragenics
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 1:23pm | 88The Executive Committee of Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG (Reuters: EUZ.DE) today determined not to increase, or to continue to pursue, its offer to acquire Theragenics Corporation (NYSE: TGX) due to continued resistance from the Theragenics board of directors against any kind...
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FDA Approves Ev3's New Ped Device To Treat Brain Aneurysms (COV)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:16pm | 21FDA Approves Ev3's New Ped Device To Treat Brain Aneurysms (NASDAQ: COV)
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Early Afternoon Biggest Percentage Gainers And Losers (HILL, ABAT, SIMO, BLTI, DYSL, AMSC, XNPT, PUDA, VHC, SCOK)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:05pm | 338Best 1) Dot Hill Systems (NASDAQ: HILL): The stock is currently trading up over 20% to $3.27 after the company reported that it will be launching a new video storage product. 2) Advanced Battery Technologies (NASDAQ: ABAT): After starting out the day in negative territory, shares have...
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Early Morning Biggest Percentage Gainers And Losers (SIMO, BLTI, HILL, ETC, LZB, AMSC, DEER, NTE, ATRN, MY)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 10:21am | 188Best 1) Silicon Motion Technology (NASDAQ: SIMO): Stock is surging 22.25% to $9.67. 2) BioLase Technology (NASDAQ: BLTI): Jumping 15.7% to $5.6. 3) Dot Hill Systems (NASDAQ: HILL): Shares are currently up 11.03% to $3.02. 4) Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH): Equity is showing a gain of 10.13%...
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Morning Market Movers (ORCH, SIMO, HILL, BLTI)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 9:46am | 156Orchid Cellmark Inc (NASDAQ: ORCH) climbed 38.06% to $2.78 at 9:45 am. Laboratory Corporation of America (NYSE: LH) announced its plans to acquire ORCH for $85.4 million or $2.80 per share, representing a 40% premium over ORCH's closing price of $2 per share on Tuesday. Silicon Motion Technology...