Gapping up
In reaction to earnings/guidance:
- RGP +5.1%, CAG +0.7%
Other news:
- CNBKA +23.2% (Century Bancorp to be acquired by Eastern Bankshares (EBC) for $115.28 per share)
- EBC +8.1% (Century Bancorp to be acquired by Eastern Bankshares (EBC) for $115.28 per share)
- MASS +4.9% (provides handheld mass spec for trace detection to U.S. Border Patrol)
- INVE +4% (prices 3.29 mln share common stock offering at $10.65/share)
- PLL +3.4% (increases resources by 40%)
- FPI +3.2% (stock offering)
- GME +3.1% (Board intends to elect Ryan Cohen as Chairman)
- AZN +3% (Italy will start recommending AZN vaccine only for people over aged 60, according to Reuters)
- VLRS +3% (reports March traffic data)
- BNGO +2.2% (announces presentations on optical genome mapping at AACR)
- HHC +2.1% (Correne Loeffler has been appointed to serve as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective April 19)
- NTST +1.9% (prices offering of 9,491,903 shares of its common stock at $18.65 per share)
- GBT +1.7% (reports Phase 3 HOPE study of Oxbryta Tablets published in The Lancet Haematology)
- SBBP +1.5% (announces publication of diabetes subgroup analysis)
- TWTR +1.2% (has discussed a $4 bln deal to buy audio chat app Clubhouse, according to Bloomberg), .
Analyst comments:
- BSIG +8% (upgraded to Overweight from Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley)
- ALRM +3.4% (upgraded to Outperform from In-line at Imperial Capital)
- CARG +3.3% (upgraded to Outperform from Mkt Perform at Raymond James)
- MSM +3% (upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Wells Fargo)
- TXT +2.4% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Goldman)
- VNOM +1.4% (upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper Sandle)
- USB +1.1% (upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JP Morgan)