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Wednesday 29 July 2015
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Active Stocks Trader’s Round Up: Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE:SWN), CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL), Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC)

On Thursday, Shares of Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE:SWN), lost -0.95% to $19.75, hitting its lowest level.

Southwestern Energy Company declared that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $15.625 per share on its 6.25% Series B Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, payable on October 15, 2015, to holders of record on October 1, 2015. This equates to $0.78125 for each depositary share, which represents a 1/20th interest in a share of the Series B preferred stock. The dividend is for the dividend period starting on July 15, 2015 and ending on October 14, 2015.

Southwestern Energy Company explores, develops, and produces natural gas and oil in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Exploration, Development and Production; and Midstream Services.

Shares of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL), declined -0.79% to $28.96, during its last trading session, hitting its lowest level.

CenturyLink declared the growth of its global data center footprint to meet continued market demand. In the first half of 2015, CenturyLink accomplished data center expansion projects in six markets: Boston , London , Minneapolis-St. Paul , Phoenix , Seattle and Washington, D.C. The company also grew its market presence into Australia and central Washington .

The expansions add about 10.8 megawatts of critical capacity, bringing CenturyLink’s global data center capacity to more than 185 megawatts. The expanded facilities are built to support up to an additional 35 megawatts to meet future market demand.

Additionally, CenturyLink expanded its reach in the Asia-Pacific region to address growing customer demand by expanding the company’s public cloud platform to the Asia-Pacific market and partnering with a data center service provider within five Australian markets.

CenturyLink, Inc. provides various communications services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through two segments, Business and Consumer.

Finally, Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC), ended its last trade with -0.90% loss, and closed at $73.04.

Omnicom Group declared that its diluted net income per common share for the second quarter raised three cents, or 2.4%, to $1.26 per share as compared to $1.23 per share for the second quarter of 2014.

Omnicom’s worldwide revenue in the second quarter of 2015 reduced 1.7% to $3,805.3 million from $3,870.9 million in the second quarter of 2014. The components of the change in revenue comprised of an enhance in revenue from organic growth of 5.3%, an enhance in revenue from acquisitions, net of dispositions of 0.1% and a decrease in revenue from the negative impact of foreign exchange rates of 7.1% when contrast to the second quarter of 2014.

The change in organic revenue in the second quarter of 2015 as contrast to the second quarter of 2014 in our four fundamental disciplines was as follows: advertising raised 6.4%, CRM raised 4.3%, public relations raised 0.3% and specialty communications raised 8.0%.

For the second quarter of 2015, Omnicom’s earnings before interest, taxes and amortization of intangibles (“EBITA”), a non-GAAP financial measure, reduced $8.5 million, or 1.5%, to $565.7 million from $574.2 million in the second quarter of 2014. Our EBITA margin raised to 14.9% for the second quarter of 2015 as compared to 14.8% in the second quarter of 2014.

Omnicom Group Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as an advertising, marketing, and corporate communications services company in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia pacific. It offers services in advertising, customer relationship administration, public relations, and specialty communications areas.

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