>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance/SSS
:
  • SHLD +29%, TLYS +12.6%, SNPS +10.1%, KR +8.2%, BOSC +7%, MIK +5.9%, RYB +4%, TITN +3.2%, CS +3.2%, COST +2.2%,
M&A news:
  • CHDN +1% (To sell its Big Fish Games mobile gaming subsidiary to Aristocrat Technologies in an all-cash deal for $990 mln)
Other news:
  • ADMP +8.4% (Submits prior approval supplement to FDA)
  • CS +3.2% ( provides 2019-2020 objectives at its Investor Day)
  • TXMD +1.5% (Resubmits the New Drug Application for TX-004HR with the FDA)
Analyst comments:
  • VSTM +5.7% (initiated with a Buy at ROTH Capital; tgt $12)
  • MDCO +5.3% ( upgraded to Outperform from Perform at Oppenheimer)
  • WAIR +2.8% (upgraded to Hold from Sell at Deutsche Bank)
  • HCA +2.2% ( upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JP Morgan)
  • BSX +1.5% upgraded to Buy from Neutral at BTIG Research)
  • GILD +0.9% (upgraded to Buy at Maxim Group)