On Wednesday, Following Stocks were among the “Top Priority Stocks” For Traders - Weight Watchers International, Inc (NYSE:WTW), Mattson Technology, Inc (NASDAQ:MTSN), Midway Gold Corp (USA) (NYSEMKT:MDW), VIVUS, Inc (NASDAQ:VVUS)
Weight Watchers International, Inc (NYSE:WTW)’s shares dwindled -5.99%, and closed at $6.90, hitting new 52-week low of $6.83. The stock volatility for the week is 8.71%, while for the month remained 7.99%. The company holds consensus target price of $8.50.
If we consider EPS growth of the company, then the company indicated the following observations:
The company showed 1.74 diluted EPS growth for trailing twelve months. However, YTD EPS growth remained -52.10% and Annual EPS growth for the past 5 years is considered as -5.40%.
The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 3.50. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Weight Watchers International, Inc. provides weight administration services worldwide. The company operates through North America, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and Other segments. It offers a range of products and services comprising nutritional, exercise, and behavioral tools and approaches. The company also provides various products, counting bars, snacks, cookbooks, food, and restaurant guides with PointsPlus values, Weight Watchers magazines, PointsPlus calculators, and fitness kits, in addition to ActiveLink products. In addition, it offers online subscription weight administration products, such as Weight Watchers Online that offers online and mobile content, functionality, resources, and interactive Web-based weight administration plans; and Weight Watchers eTools, an Internet weight administration product, which allows users to manage the day-to-day aspects of weight administration plans online or via their mobile devices. Further, the company provides applications for mobile devices, counting the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices; and third-party products, counting Fitbit. Weight Watchers International, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Mattson Technology, Inc (NASDAQ:MTSN), declined -5.76%, and closed at $3.76. The stock has price to sale ratio of 1.57, however, price to book ratio is 3.69. With recent decline, the year-to-date (YTD) performance reflected a 10.59% gain below last year. During the past month the stock lose -22.47%, bringing three-month performance to 2.17% and six-month performance to 49.21%. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.00. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Mattson Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits worldwide. The company offers dry strip, rapid thermal processing, and etch equipment to the semiconductor industry. Its dry strip products comprise the SUPREMA strip system that incorporates its Faraday Shielded inductively coupled plasma (ICP) radio frequency source and platform used in the production at 28 nm and 20nm technology nodes. The company’s rapid thermal processing products comprise the Helios and Helios XP systems for conventional annealing applications; and the Millios system for millisecond anneal applications. Its etch products comprise the paradigmE and Alpine systems that feature a proprietary faraday-shielded ICP plasma source combined with etch bias control to provide process on-wafer performance.
Midway Gold Corp (USA) (NYSEMKT:MDW), dipped -4.11%, and closed at $0.345, hitting new 52-week low of $0.32. The company holds the market capitalization of $64.31M. For the last twelve months, the stock was able to keep return on equity at -34.70%, while return on assets at -18.70%. Its 20-day moving average declined -34.54%, below 50-day moving average of -45.71%, below 200-day moving average of -57.33% from the latest market price of $ 0.34. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.50.(where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Midway Gold Corp. engages in the attainment, exploration, and development of gold and silver mineral properties in North America. The company holds interest in the Pan and Gold Rock Projects located along the prolific Battle Mountain/Eureka gold trend; the Spring Valley property, which is located in the Spring Valley Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada. It also has interest in the Tonopah property, which is located in Nye County, Nevada; and the Golden Eagle property located in the Eureka mining district in Ferry County, Washington. The company was formerly known as Red Emerald Resource Corp. and changed its name to Midway Gold Corp. in July 2002. Midway Gold Corp. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
VIVUS, Inc (NASDAQ:VVUS), dropped -5.43%, and closed at $2.61. The stock has the beta value of 1.14, and its volatility for the week is 5.26%, while for the month it is 6.67%. The company has the market capitalization of $271.10M. The company holds the book value per share of 0.80, whereas cash per share is 2.88. Price to book ratio remained 3.26, while price to sale ratio is 2.37. Analysts mean recommendation for the stock is said to be 3.30 (where 1=Buy, 5=sale).
VIVUS, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapies to address unmet needs in obesity, sleep apnea, diabetes, and sexual health in the United States and the European Union. The company offers Qsymia for the treatment of obesity as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and raised physical activity for chronic weight administration in adult patients with an initial body mass index of 30 or greater, or 27 or greater in the presence of at least one weight-related comorbidity, such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or high cholesterol; and STENDRA, an oral phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
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