After Hours Summary: WFM +3% following earnings/guidance and dividend/buyback/CFO news... SNAP -23%, MNKD -19%, SYMC -7%, ELF -6% following earnings/guidanceAfter Hours Gainers:
Companies trading higher in after hours in reaction to earnings/guidance: SGMO +42.5% (also announced strategic collaboration with Pfizer), RELY +26.5%, PEGA +11.4%, XONE +10.5%, SCLN +4.6%, PFIE +4.5% (light volume), LPSN +4.4% (ticking higher), WFM +3.2% (also increases dividend, announces share repurchase; updates strategic initiations; names new CFO), ASM +3.2% (light volume), XON +2.8%, VUZI +2.7%, AYX +2.5%, RLGT +2.3%, ATH +2.3%, OMER +2.2%, DRYS +2.1%, EEP +2%, INO +1.7%, PCYG +1.2%, IOTS +1% (thinly traded), WATT +1%
Companies trading higher in after hours in reaction to news: PED +50.5% (continued strength - filed 10-Q and regained NYSE compliance today), MRK +3.1% (confirms FDA approval of KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) as first-line combination therapy with pemetrexed and carboplatin for patients with metastatic NSCLC irrespective of PD-L1 expression), NMM +2.3% (light volume; provides update for acquisition of 14-Vessel container fleet from Rickmers Maritime), ORLY +1% (to increase the authorization amount under its share repurchase program by an additional $1 billion, raising the aggregate authorization under the program to $8.75 billion)
After Hours Losers:
Companies trading lower in after hours in reaction to earnings/guidance: NH -24.4%, SNAP -23.2%, MNKD -18.8%, BCEI -16.8% (ticking lower), KGJI -16.7%, RGSE -16.3%, AVNW -16%, FRSH -11.8%, RESN -11.5% (light volume), NYRT -9.7%, NVCN -7.9%, HOLX -7.5%, SYMC -7.2%, ELF -6.2%, ANTH -6.2%, QUIK -4.2%, RUN -3.3%, IMMU -2.6%, STML -2.5% (light volume), AMBC -1.8%
Companies trading lower in after hours in reaction to news: ITUS -35.3% (proposed registered public offering of its common stock), CNAT -14.8% (to offer and sell shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering), MTBC -4.6% (announces $2.3 mln registered direct offering at $2.30 per share), SP -4.6% (announces certain existing stockholders intend to offer for sale 3.6 mln shares of its common stock in a secondary offering), ABR -3.3% (plans to make a public offering of 9,500,000 shares of its common stock), BCRX -1.8% (files for 11,710,951 share common stock offering by holders), CVTI -1.1% (US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued a pre-trial decision against one of its subsidiaries relating to a cargo claim incurred in 2008; co is reviewing its options regarding further appeals), MEOH -1.1% (initiated with Underperform at Bernstein; tgt $36), USFD -0.7% (commences 35 mln common stock offering by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR and certain members of management and the board)
