Aluminum

SMART Technologies (NASDAQ: SMT) +7.08% on heavy volume. E TRADE Financial (NASDAQ: ETFC) +7.73% on average volume. Crosstex Energy (NASDAQ: XTXI) +5.59% on heavy volume. Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX) +5.00% on Goldman Sachs upgrade to Neutral. TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ:...

Analysts at Piper Jaffray upgraded CNinsure Inc (NASDAQ: CISG) from “underweight” to “neutral.” CISG's shares closed at $10.38 yesterday. CNinsure's PEG ratio is 0.29. Analysts at Goldman Sachs upgraded Century Aluminum (NASDAQ: CENX) from “sell” to “neutral.” CENX's shares closed at $11.79...

Goldman Sachs has upgraded Century Aluminum (NASDAQ: CENX) from Sell to Neutral.

Below are the top aluminum stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp (NYSE: NOR) is 14.57%. NOR's ROE for the same period is 57.50%. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Century Aluminum...

Infosys BPO (NASDAQ: INFY) today announced a five year renewal of its contract with Alcoa Global Business Services. Alcoa (NYSE: AA) is a producer of aluminum and alumina with over USD 21 billion in revenues. Infosys BPO's partnership with Alcoa started in 2004 and has grown to include services...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX) is a “great story. If it goes back down, I'm going to recommend it." For Covidien (NYSE: COV), he said, "You hold on and buy more. That is a great company that is a buy, buy, buy." Cramer said that Alcoa (...

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) moved up 2.46% to $17.49 in the pre-market session. MS' trailing-twelve-month revenue is $31.56 billion. Abercrombie & Fitch Co (NYSE: ANF) added 1.38% to $72.00 in the pre-market session. ANF reported a 64% surge in its fiscal second-quarter profit. Regions...

Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) reported a 14% rise in its fiscal-second-quarter net income. Home Depot's quarterly profit surged to $1.36 billion, from $1.19 billion, in the year-ago period. Its earnings per share rose to $0.86 from $0.72. Shares outstanding dropped 5.2% to 1.58 billion. Home Depot's...

Aluminum Corp of China Limited (NYSE: ACH) reported a 127.8% surge in its pretax profit in the first half. Its revenue climbed 10.9% in the first half. ACH shares dropped 0.57% to $18.09 in after-hours trading.

Shares of Century Aluminum (NASDAQ: CENX) are higher on the session by 6.62%, trading at $11.27. Overall put volume is now running at 2.19x the daily average, with 18% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,957 contracts have traded on the session so far. Century Aluminum Company is...

Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a $60 million stock repurchase program. "We believe that the repurchase program is in the best interests of our shareholders," said Logan Kruger, Century's President and CEO. Under the program,...

J.P. Morgan has published a research report on Alumina Limited (NYSE: AWC) lowering the price target by twenty Australian cents. In the report, J.P. Morgan wrote, "Alumina's interim results confirmed the tough operating environment during H1, which offset much of the positive commodity price...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Triquint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) is “levered to cell phones and I do not like tech. I also don't like banks and I don't like health care or defense, either." For SodaStream (NASDAQ: SODA), he said, "The highest growth...

ADP (NYSE: ADP) today announced that Alcoa (NYSE: AA) has selected the ADP Taxware Enterprise Solutions platform for its sales and use tax process. Alcoa recognized ADP's expansive tax content, flexible tax engine and advanced technology and accordingly selected ADP's Taxware Enterprise to supply...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Alcoa (NYSE: AA) is an “undervalued company that's running on multiple cylinders. It's cheap." Cramer believes that Walter Industries (NYSE: WLT) “wants to bring out value; so it might be a takeover target. I like it." For...