On Wednesday, Following Stocks were among the “Top Priority Stocks” For Traders - Oil States International, Inc (NYSE:OIS), Atwood Oceanics, Inc (NYSE:ATW), 500.com Ltd (NYSE:WBAI), Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (ADR) (NYSE:SID)

Oil States International, Inc (NYSE:OIS)’s shares picked up 1.65%, and closed at $39.44. The stock has the beta value of 1.99, and its volatility for the week is 2.51%, while for the month it is 2.85%. The company has the market capitalization of $2.03B. The company holds the book value per share of 25.74, whereas cash per share is 1.04. Price to book ratio remained 1.53, while price to sale ratio is 1.11. Analysts mean recommendation for the stock is said to be 2.50 (where 1=Buy, 5=sale).

Oil States International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides specialty products and services to oil and natural gas companies worldwide. It operates through two segments, Offshore Products and Well Site Services. The Offshore Products segment designs, manufactures, fabricates, inspects, assembles, repairs, tests, and markets subsea equipment and offshore vessel and rig equipment. Its products and services comprise flexible bearings and connection systems; casing and conductor connections and pipes; subsea pipeline products; compact ball valves, manifold system components, and diverter valves; marine winches, mooring systems, cranes, and other heavy-lift rig equipment; production, workover, completion, and drilling riser systems and their related repair services; blowout preventer stack assembly, integration, testing, and repair services; and other products and services.

Atwood Oceanics, Inc (NYSE:ATW), raised 1.65%, and closed at $29.01. The company holds the market capitalization of $1.86B. For the last twelve months, the stock was able to keep return on equity at 12.20%, while return on assets at 7.00%, in response to its return on investment at 8.90%. Its 20-day moving average declined -0.86%, below 50-day moving average of -3.76%, below 200-day moving average of -25.62% from the latest market price of $29.01. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.50.(where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).

Atwood Oceanics, Inc., an offshore drilling contractor, engages in the drilling and completion of exploratory and developmental oil and gas wells worldwide. As of November 10, 2014, it owned a fleet of 13 mobile offshore drilling units, in addition to 3 ultra-deepwater drill ships under construction. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

500.com Ltd (NYSE:WBAI), enhanced 1.64%, and closed at $11.79. The company has the market capitalization of $408.30M. On the other hand the stock’s volatility for the week is 9.71%, and for the month is 13.40%. The stock’s price to book ratio is 2.32, however price to sale ratio is 4.44. Analyst’s mean recommendation regarding this stock is 3.00. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).

500.com Limited provides online sports lottery services in the People’s Republic of China. It operates as an aggregator and processor of lottery purchase orders from its registered user accounts. The company offers a suite of online lottery services, information, user tools, and virtual community venues. Its lottery sales services comprise individual lottery purchase, lottery pool purchase, automatic tag-along purchase, recurring purchase, and locked-in lottery number purchase services. The company provides its services through its mobile applications to mobile users, in addition to through its online platform. As of December 31, 2013, it had 19.1 million registered user accounts.

Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (ADR) (NYSE:SID), rose 1.63%, and closed at $1.87. The stock volatility for the week is 4.55%, while for the month remained 4.59%. The company holds consensus target price of $13.76.

If we consider EPS growth of the company, then the company indicated the following observations:

The company showed -0.02 diluted EPS growth for trailing twelve months. However, YTD EPS growth remained -875.00% and Annual EPS growth for the past 5 years is considered as -44.03%.

The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 3.80. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).

Companhia Siderrgica Nacional operates as an integrated steel producer primarily in Brazil. It operates through five segments: Steel, Mining, Cement, Logistics, and Energy. The company primarily produces carbon steel and various steel products for automotive, home appliance, packaging, construction, and steel processing industries. Its products comprise slabs, which are semi-finished products used for processing hot-rolled, cold-rolled or coated coils, and sheet products; hot-rolled products, counting heavy and light-gauge hot-rolled coils and sheets; cold-rolled coils and sheets; galvanized products, such as flat-rolled steel coated with zinc or a zinc-based alloy; and tin mill products, which comprise of flat-rolled low-carbon steel coils or sheets comprising tin plate, tin free steel, low tin coated steel, and black plate products. The company also owns interests in various mining assets, counting the Casa de Pedra mine and the Namisa mines that produce iron ore and are located in Congonhas; TECAR, a solid bulk seaport terminal located in Itagua port in the state of Rio de Janeiro; Minerao Bocaina that produces dolomite and limestone and is located in Arcos in the state of Minas Gerais; and a tin asset located in Ariquemes, in the state of Rondnia.

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