>>> US Gapping Down

Gapping down
In reaction to earnings/guidance
:

  • BLUE -20.1%, EPZM -13.4% (announces Chief Executive Officer succession plan ) ELAN -8%, AVYA -7.7%, DRNA -1.4%, GOLD -1.3%,

Other news:

  • AXSM -45.5% (announces AXS-05 achieves primary and key secondary endpoints in the MERIT Phase 2 Trial in treatment resistant depression)
  • BIVI -34.2% (priced of its underwritten public offering of 2,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $8.00/share)
  • ETON -13.8% (today is PDUFA date for NDA for topiramate oral solution)
  • VNOM -4.9% (announces Midland Basin acquisition)
  • DMRC -4.6% (files for 3,740,240 share common stock offering by selling shareholders)
  • VNE -3.6% (to engage in discussions with Qualcomm (QCOM))
  • ZI -3.2% (announces secondary offering of 20 mln shares of Class A common stock by holders )
  • OXY -3% (Carl Icahn lowers active stake following the sale of nearly 3.5 mln shares)
  • AQB -3% (files for 18,219,824 share common stock offering by selling shareholders)
  • LXRX -2.2% (files for $200 mln mixed securities shelf offering)
  • GOLD -1.3% (announces second $250 million ($0.14 per share) return of capital tranche in addition to a $0.09 per share quarterly dividend)
  • PLL -1.3% (provides an update as to the county rezoning process for its Carolina Lithium Project)
  • REAL -0.9% (provides monthly business update for July), .

Analyst comments:

  • MRTN -2.5% (downgraded to Sector Weight from Overweight at KeyBanc)
  • GLP -2% (downgraded to Underweight from Equal Weight at Barclays; tgt $21)
  • WYNN -1.9% (downgraded to Neutral from Buy at BofA )
  • DLTR -1.7% (downgraded to Hold from Buy at Deutsche Bank)
  • WERN -1.1% (downgraded to Sector Weight from Overweight at KeyBanc)
  • ONEM -1% (downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Robert W. Baird; tgt lowered to $31)
  • DRI -0.9% (downgraded to In-line from Outperform at Evercore ISI), .