During Wednesday’s Current trade, Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), lost -0.54% to $110.71.
Apple® declared that James A. Bell, former chief financial officer and corporate president of The Boeing Company, has been elected to Apple’s board of directors. Bell brings more than four decades of experience in finance, planned planning and leadership in complex organizations. During his 38-year career at Boeing, he also oversaw Boeing Capital Corporation and Boeing Shared Services, and was interim CEO of The Boeing Company in 2005.
“James brings a wealth of global, financial and industrial experience from his successful career at Boeing as corporate president and CFO,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “I am thrilled to welcome him to Apple’s board of directors and I look forward to working with him.”
“We look for outstanding individuals to strengthen our board’s breadth of talent and depth of knowledge, and we are very happy to have identified a fantastic person in James Bell,” said Art Levinson, Apple’s chairman. “I’m confident that he will make many important contributions to Apple.”
Bell is a member of the board of directors of JP Morgan Chase, Dow Chemical Company, CDW, and a Trustee of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center. He has also worked with New Leaders for New Schools to assist develop talented teachers and principals, and served on many community-based boards. Bell attended California State University, Los Angeles where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
Apple Inc. (Apple) designs, manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.
Shares of Halcon Resources Corp (NYSE:HK), inclined 5.89% to $0.979, during its current trading session.
Halcón Resources Corporation (HK) declared plans to release its third quarter 2015 financial results on Thursday, November 5, 2015 after trading closes on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Company has also planned a conference call to talk about the release for Friday, November 6, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. EST (9:00 a.m. CST). Investors may take part in the conference call via telephone by dialing (877) 810-3368 for domestic callers or (914) 495-8561 for international callers, in both cases using conference ID 51197072, and asking for the Halcón call a few minutes preceding to the start time.
Halcon Resources Corporation is an independent energy company focused on the acquisition, production, exploration and development of onshore liquids-rich oil and natural gas assets in the United States.
Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON), during its Wednesday’s current trading session gained 0.66% to $88.20.
Monsanto Company (MON) declared fiscal year 2015 results reflecting year-over-year ongoing earnings per share growth of 10 percent or about 17 percent on an ongoing currency neutral basis, despite the downturn in the agriculture cycle. Year-over-year EPS declined eight percent on an as-stated basis. The performance of its global seeds and traits business, licensing agreements, and strong cost discipline were the biggest drivers of performance for the year. Company leadership noted the underlying strength of the company’s global business and technology portfolio positions it well for sustainable growth over the long-term horizon as the company executes on its plan to more than double 2014 ongoing EPS by 2019.
Results of Operations
Monsanto stated net sales of $2.4 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015. Net sales for the full fiscal year were $15 billion. Full-year net sales results were driven by the performance of the company’s Seeds and Genomics segment and licensing agreements, which were more than offset by foreign currency headwinds, declining corn acres and declines in glyphosate pricing.
Seeds and Genomics segment net sales were $1.3 billion for the quarter. For the fiscal year, net sales for the Seeds and Genomics segment reached $10.2 billion. Agricultural Productivity segment net sales were $1.1 billion for the quarter. Net sales for the Agricultural Productivity segment for the fiscal year reached $4.8 billion.
Monsanto stated a net loss of $495 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, contrast with a stated net loss of $156 million in the same period last year. Net income attributable to Monsanto for fiscal year 2015 was about $2.3 billion contrast to net income attributable to Monsanto of $2.7 billion in fiscal year 2014.
Monsanto Company (Monsanto) is a provider of agricultural products for farmers. The Company’s seeds, biotechnology trait products, and herbicides provide farmers with solutions that improve productivity, reduce the costs of farming, and produce better foods for consumers and better feed for animals.
Finally, Ruckus Wireless Inc (NYSE:RKUS), decreased -0.30%, to $13.11.
Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (RKUS) declared that it will host an investor webcast to talk about its recently introduced Ruckus UnleashedTM access points, based on a new controller-less architecture. Greg Beach, vice president, product administration, will present the features and positioning of Ruckus’ controller-less architecture followed by a Q&A session. The webcast will be accessible at Ruckus’ Investor Relations website, http://investors.ruckuswireless.com.
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Ruckus Wireless, Inc. is a global supplier of carrier-class Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) solutions. The Company’s products include high capacity, high-speed hardware gateways, controllers, wireless bridges, indoor and outdoor access points, gateway and controller software platforms, software management solutions, including reporting and analytics, and Wi-Fi-related cloud services, such as location-based positioning and public access.
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