>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to strong earnings/guidance
:

  • MOV +11.1%, TITN +11.1%, VRNT +7.6%, PRGS +5.3%, SAIC +5.1%, PVH +4.8%

Other news:

  • PSDV +17.8% (announces Transformative Acquisition of Icon Bioscience Inc. and Growth Capital Financing with Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners)
  • ARA +10.9% (ticking higher -- withdraws common stock offering announced on March 26, 2018; believes that current market conditions are not conducive for an offering)
  • OSTK +6.6% (Overstock.com files U.S. Supreme Court brief in South Dakota v. Wayfair state tax case)
  • CJ +5.1% (to join S&P SmallCap 600)
  • PTCT +3.5% (prices offering of 4 mln shares of common stock at $27.04 per share)
  • LITE +2.5% (to join S&P MidCap 400)
  • SRNE +2.2% (issues update to stock holders; states co is in better position to execute on commercialization efforts), . 

Analyst comments:

  • NVAX +7.3% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Seaport Global Securities)
  • MGEN +6.3% (initiated with a Buy at Jefferies)
  • CGEN +3.8% (initiated with a Outperform at Oppenheimer)
  • DCI +2.6% (upgraded to Buy from Hold at Edward Jones)
  • YNDX +1.8% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup)
  • BP +1.8% (upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Citigroup)
  • HOG +1.7% (upgraded to Neutral from Underperform at Longbow)
  • TAHO +1.7% (initiated with a Buy at Cantor Fitzgerald)
  • NVTR +1.1% (initiated with a Buy at SunTrust)