After Hours Summary: TER +11%, UCTT +10%, MKSI +7.5%, INTU +7%, PYPL +6%, NOW / XLNX +5% higher on earnings/guidance, WTW +6% on CEO news... MLNX -11%, FFIV -8%, AMGN -3%, ORLY -2% lower following earnings/guidanceAfter Hours Gainers:
Companies trading higher in after hours in reaction to earnings/guidance: CLWT +37.3% (very thinly traded), SHOR +11.6% (also expanded partnership with ScanSource), TER +11%, UCTT +10.4%, MKSI +7.5%, INTU +7.3%, CRY +6.9% (light volume), ALSN +6.8%, AXTI +6.5%, GGG +5.7%, PYPL +5.6%, DRE +5.5%, NOW +4.7%, IVTY +4.7% (ticking higher), XLNX +4.5% (also raises dividend), SSW +4.3%, CRHM +3.8% (light volume), WPG +3.6%, MMLP +2.3%, CAVM +2.2%, STNG +2.2%, WLL +1.9%, TSCO +1.8%, GG +1.8%, ROG +1.7%, KIM +1.5%, EXR +1.2%
Companies trading higher in after hours in reaction to news: PIP +15.1% (PharmAthene and Altimmune merger was approved for listing on the Nasdaq pending stockholders vote on May 4; expected to commence trading on May 5), WTW +6.2% (Weight Watchers appoints former HSNI CEO Mindy Grossman as its President and CEO effective July 2017), HRB +2.8% (H & R Block filed 19.4 mln returns in the U.S. for fiscal year 2017 through April 19, with Assisted returns -2.5% to 11.8 million, and DIY online returns +6.8% to 5.0 million), IPXL +0.7% (Impax Labs has received final FDA approval for a generic version of Merck's Vytorin tablets), FDX +0.7% (awarded a five-year $2,351,165,436 government contract),
After Hours Losers:
Companies trading lower in after hours in reaction to earnings/guidance: AMSC -35.7%, PACB -15.3%, MLNX -10.9%, JMP -8.4% (thinly traded), OPGN -8.3%, FFIV -8%, CMPR -7.2% (also Board authorizes the repurchase of up to 6.3 mln issued and outstanding ordinary shares on the open market through May 15, 2018), NTGR -6.5% (also authorizes 3 mln share repurchase program), CTXS -5.5%, BRKL -4.7% (also commences common stock offering; size not disclosed), AMGN -3.2%, ORLY -2.2%, BWLD -1.9%, EQIX -1.6%, SAM -1.3%, LVS -1.1%
Companies trading lower in after hours in reaction to news: SFST -5% (commences public offering of 700k shares of its common stock), TRU -0.7% (to offer for sale in an underwritten secondary offering 15,000,000 shares of common stock and purchase of 1,500,000 shares of common stock)