On Thursday, Shares of Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE:RAD), lost -0.24% to $8.39.
Rite Aid Corporation, declared sales results for June.
Year-to-Date
Same store sales for the 17-week period ended June 27, 2015 raised 2.8 percent over the preceding-year period. Front-end same store sales raised 0.6 percent while pharmacy same store sales raised 3.8 percent. Prescription count at comparable stores raised 1.3 percent over the preceding-year period.
Total drugstore sales for the 17 weeks ended June 27, 2015 raised 2.6 percent with sales of $8.643 billion contrast to $8.420 billion for the same period last year. Prescription sales represented 69.1 percent of total drugstore sales, and third party prescription sales represented 97.7 percent of pharmacy sales.
Rite Aid Corporation, through its auxiliaries, operates a chain of retail drugstores in the United States. The company sells prescription drugs and a range of other merchandise, counting over-the-counter medications, health and beauty aids, personal care items, cosmetics, household items, food and beverages, greeting cards, seasonal merchandise, and other every day and convenience products.
Shares of Praxair Inc. (NYSE:PX), declined -0.32% to $118.90, during its last trading session.
Praxair, will release its second quarter 2015 financial results on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, before the market opens and will host a conference call at 11:00 a.m. ET that morning.
Praxair, Inc. produces, sells, and distributes atmospheric, process, and specialty gases, in addition to surface coatings in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. The company offers atmospheric gases, such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases; and process gases comprising carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases, and acetylene.
Finally, Axcelis Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ACLS), ended its last trade with 2.64% gain, and closed at $3.11.
Axcelis Technologies, declared that Mary Puma, president and chief executive officer, Kevin Brewer, executive vice president and CFO, and Doug Lawson, executive vice president of corporate marketing and strategy, will take part in the Seventh Annual CEO Investor Summit 2015 on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 in San Francisco, California.
Axcelis Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and services ion implantation and other processing equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips worldwide. It provides offers a line of high energy, high current, and medium current implanters for all application requirements.
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