During Thursday’s Morning trade, Shares of Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO), lost -0.63% to $56.96.
Altria Group, declared that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.565 per common share, payable on January 11, 2016, to shareholders of record as of December 24, 2015. The ex-dividend date is December 22, 2015.
Altria Group, Inc., through its auxiliaries, manufactures and sells cigarettes, smokeless products, and wine in the United States and internationally. It offers cigarettes primarily under the Marlboro brand; cigars principally under the Black & Mild brand; and moist smokeless tobacco products under the Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky, and Marlboro Snus brand names.
Shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS), inclined 0.13% to $45.44, during its current trading session.
Synopsys, declared the release of its CODE V® version 10.8 solution, the company’s industry-leading software application for the design of imaging optical systems. The CODE V optical design software release 10.8 supports the design of high-performance asymmetric and freeform optical systems with algorithmic enhancements that yield highly accurate computations of optical system parameters and enable precise control of those parameters during design optimization. In addition, CODE V 10.8 provides designers with extended aspheric lens formulations, new ways to customize workflows and an expanded materials library.
“The updates in Synopsys’ CODE V 10.8 assist streamline the design of innovative optical applications,” said George Bayz, vice president and general manager of Synopsys’ Optical Solutions Group. “For example, we’ve strengthened CODE V’s industry-leading analysis and optimization capabilities with computational enhancements specifically targeted to address the unique challenges of optical systems containing tilted and decentered elements.”
“We rely on the speed, stability and flexibility of CODE V’s optimization capabilities to develop sophisticated optical systems,” said Russ Hudyma, managing partner, Hyperion Development LLC. “With its global optimization features, its ability to control constraints exactly, and an interface that allows us to set up user-defined merit functions quickly and easily, CODE V gives us ultimate design freedom.”
Synopsys, Inc. provides electronic design automation (EDA) software products used to design and test integrated circuits and electronic systems in the United States, Europe, Japan, and the rest of Asia Pacific. Its EDA solutions comprise Galaxy Design platform that provides integrated chip design solution; Verification Continuum Platform, which offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug; and FPGA design products that are complex chips programmed to perform specific functions.
Finally, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSK), gained 2.05%, and is now trading at $59.81.
Comcast Corporation declared that at its special meeting of shareholders in Philadelphia, holders of its Class A Common Stock and Class A Special Common Stock, each voting separately as a class, and Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, voting together as a single class, approved the Company’s proposal to amend and restate its Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation in order to reclassify each share of Comcast Class A Special Common Stock (Nasdaq: CMCSK) into one share of Comcast Class A Common Stock (Nasdaq: CMCSA).
Effective as of 5:00 PM (EST) on December 11, 2015, each share of Comcast’s Class A Special Common Stock will be reclassified into one share of Comcast’s Class A Common Stock, and the Class A Special Common Stock will cease trading on Nasdaq. Comcast’s Class A Common Stock, counting the new shares of Class A Common Stock into which the shares of Class A Special Common Stock were reclassified, will continue to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CMCSA.
Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. It operates through Cable Communications, Cable Networks, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks segments.
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