Gapping up
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance: ULTA +16.1%, CGA +8.3%, SPWH +7.6%, CVTI +7.6%, DRI +3.5%, NTWK +3%
M&A news: CNVR +32.6% (Alliance Data to acquire Conversant), ADS +2.4%
Other news: ASTI +11.5% (regains compliance with NASDAQ minimum bid price rule), STRI +11.5% (still checking), XPO +8.7% (announced a $700 mln investment by PSP Investments, GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; co also raised its FY17 financial targets), LXRX +8.4% (announced a publication in the American Diabetes Association's Journal),ACAD +4.8% (favorable commentary on Thursday's Mad Money), FUEL +4.4% (following late spike into the close), HTZ +4.2% (Hertz Global reaches an agreement-in-principle with Carl Icahn to add Three Directors), VNET +4% (cont volatility), RMTI +3.9% (still checking), CRTO +3.7% (following late move higher), BTX +3.7% (co's subsidiary reached an agreement with Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Technology for a clinical trial of immunotherapy vaccine for lung cancer), TASR +2.9% (favorable commentary on Thursday's Mad Money), ISIS +2.7% (favorable commentary on Thursday's Mad Money), SCOK +2.5% (following 18% move higher yesterday), OREX +2.3% (mentioned positive on CNBC's Fast Money), NVO +2.1% ( FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee votes 14-1 in favor of recommending approval of liraglutide for chronic weight management ), BCS +2.1% (John McFarlane appointed to succeed Sir David Walker as Chairman), WWAV +1.8% (cont M&A spec), TNET +1.6% (prices 12 mln shares of common stock at a price of $25.50 per share ), S +1.5% (announces exclusive new rate plan for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus and a revolutionary new way to acquire iPhone, also upgraded to Outperform from Mkt Perform at Cowen), FEYE +1.1% (cont volatility), HDS +1% (announces sale of 20,000,000 shares of common stock by selling stockholders)
Analyst comments: NLNK +4.9% (initiated with a Buy at Mizuho), TMUS +1% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at Argus), IRC +0.9% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc Capital Mkts), NFLX +0.7% (upgraded to Equal Weight from Underweight at Barclays)
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance: ULTA +16.1%, CGA +8.3%, SPWH +7.6%, CVTI +7.6%, DRI +3.5%, NTWK +3%
M&A news: CNVR +32.6% (Alliance Data to acquire Conversant), ADS +2.4%
Other news: ASTI +11.5% (regains compliance with NASDAQ minimum bid price rule), STRI +11.5% (still checking), XPO +8.7% (announced a $700 mln investment by PSP Investments, GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; co also raised its FY17 financial targets), LXRX +8.4% (announced a publication in the American Diabetes Association's Journal),ACAD +4.8% (favorable commentary on Thursday's Mad Money), FUEL +4.4% (following late spike into the close), HTZ +4.2% (Hertz Global reaches an agreement-in-principle with Carl Icahn to add Three Directors), VNET +4% (cont volatility), RMTI +3.9% (still checking), CRTO +3.7% (following late move higher), BTX +3.7% (co's subsidiary reached an agreement with Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Technology for a clinical trial of immunotherapy vaccine for lung cancer), TASR +2.9% (favorable commentary on Thursday's Mad Money), ISIS +2.7% (favorable commentary on Thursday's Mad Money), SCOK +2.5% (following 18% move higher yesterday), OREX +2.3% (mentioned positive on CNBC's Fast Money), NVO +2.1% ( FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee votes 14-1 in favor of recommending approval of liraglutide for chronic weight management ), BCS +2.1% (John McFarlane appointed to succeed Sir David Walker as Chairman), WWAV +1.8% (cont M&A spec), TNET +1.6% (prices 12 mln shares of common stock at a price of $25.50 per share ), S +1.5% (announces exclusive new rate plan for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus and a revolutionary new way to acquire iPhone, also upgraded to Outperform from Mkt Perform at Cowen), FEYE +1.1% (cont volatility), HDS +1% (announces sale of 20,000,000 shares of common stock by selling stockholders)
Analyst comments: NLNK +4.9% (initiated with a Buy at Mizuho), TMUS +1% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at Argus), IRC +0.9% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at KeyBanc Capital Mkts), NFLX +0.7% (upgraded to Equal Weight from Underweight at Barclays)