Electronic Equipment Manufacturers

By Bob van der Valk The oil market turned around this week and spot market gasoline and diesel prices in turn went back down the week of May 1, 2011. This goes against the grain of what usually happens when American Petroleum Industry (API) and Department of Energy (DOE) inventory reports show...

Most Actives: F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) a provider of technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance and availability of servers, data storage devices and other network resources is trading at a price of $99.72, a dramatic change of -0.83 (-0.83...

OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronics and services, today announced that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide the Eagle® R60 Rail scanner and associated installation and operator...

Rofin-Sinar Tech (NASDAQ: RSTI) Reports EPS of $0.43 vs. $0.52 Estimate

Littelfuse (NASDAQ: LFUS) Reports EPS of $1.08 vs. $1.07 Estimate; Revenues $167M vs. $167M Estimate

Jefferies & Company has raised the price target on Mettler-Toledo (NYSE: MTD) from $200 to $215 and maintains its Buy rating.

Comverge (NASDAQ: COMV) Reports EPS of $(0.34) vs. $(0.40) Estimate; Revenues $18.6M vs. $17.96M Estimate

FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO) announced today that the District Court of Massachusetts has ruled in its favor in its on-going patent dispute with Nikon Metrology after trial, finding that Nikon's asserted U.S. Patent No. 6,611,617 is unenforceable due to inequitable conduct before the...

Mettler-Toledo (NYSE: MTD) Reports EPS of $1.45 vs. $1.39 Estimate; Revenues $498.8M vs. $465.24M Estimate

Gainers (% price change): Exar Corporation (EXAR) a fabless semiconductor company that designs, sub-contracts manufacturing and sells differentiated silicon, software and subsystem solutions for industrial, telecom, networking and storage applications is trading at a price of $6.59, a dramatic...

Coherent (NASDAQ: COHR) Reports EPS of $0.83 vs. $0.78 Estimate; Revenues $200.9M vs. $192.68M Estimate

Shares of Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) are higher on the session by 17.68%, trading at $36.54. Overall call volume is now running at 22.25x the daily average, with 66% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,157 contracts have traded on the session so far. Cognex Corporation is...

Frequency Electronics Inc. (Nasdaq: FEIM) has been awarded a multi-year development and production contract by Thales Alenia Space for the Iridium NEXT constellation of satellites. Frequency will provide the Master Oscillator Timing/Frequency Generation unit and the L-Band RF Up/Down Converters for...

By 10:25 am, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 6.85 points, or 0.05%, to 12,814.21, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index had dropped 3.08 points, or 0.23%. The NASDAQ composite index fell 13.57 points, or 0.47%. Some of the narrow based indexes that are supporting the markets...

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc (NASDAQ: KLIC) shares moved up 13.95% to $10.29 at 10:15 am. The volume of KLIC shares traded was 893% higher than normal. KLIC reported upbeat Q2 results. Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) shares rose 13.91% to $35.37. The volume of CGNX shares traded was 495%...