On Thursday, Following U.S. Stocks were among the “Top Gainers“: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co (NASDAQ:HMHC), Manitowoc Company Inc (NYSE:MTW), Seattle Genetics, Inc (NASDAQ:SGEN), BGC Partners, Inc (NASDAQ:BGCP)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co (NASDAQ:HMHC)’s shares picked up 5.11%, and closed at $22.01. The stock volatility for the week is 2.99%, while for the month remained 2.51%. The company holds consensus target price of $22.00.
If we consider EPS growth of the company, then we will notice the following observations:
The company showed -0.81 diluted EPS growth for trailing twelve months. However, Annual EPS growth for the past 5 years is considered as -10.00%.
The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.00. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company provides education solutions for educational institutions and consumers worldwide. It delivers content, technology, and services to about 50 million students. The company operates in two segments, Education and Trade Publishing. The Education segment develops, publishes, and markets various comprehensive curriculum programs that focus on reading, literature and language arts, mathematics, science, world languages, and social studies for the pre-K-12 market; and comprehensive intervention solutions for assisting English language learners, in addition to products providing incremental instruction in a particular subject area.
Manitowoc Company Inc (NYSE:MTW), raised 5.05%, and closed at $21.44. The stock has price to sale value of 0.75, however, price to book value is 3.52. With recent incline, the year-to-date (YTD) performance reflected a -2.99% decline below last year. During the past month the stocks lose -31.57%, bringing three-month performance to 14.78% and six-month performance to -22.26%. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.40. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells cranes and related products, and foodservice equipment worldwide. The Cranes and Related Products segment offers lattice-boom cranes, counting crawler and truck mounted lattice-boom cranes, and crawler crane attachments; tower cranes comprising top slewing, luffing jib, topless, and self-erecting tower cranes; mobile telescopic cranes, such as rough terrain, all-terrain, truck mounted, and industrial cranes; and boom trucks comprising telescopic boom trucks under the Manitowoc, Potain, Grove, National Crane, and Shuttle lift brands.
Seattle Genetics, Inc (NASDAQ:SGEN), enhanced 4.67%, and closed at $38.11. The company holds the market capitalization of 4.53B. For the trailing twelve months, the stock’s return on equity value remains -34.10%, while return on assets value is -16.20%, in response to its return on investment value of -36.70%. Its 20-day moving average gained 9.92%, above 50-day moving average of 15.34%, above 200-day moving average of 5.01% from the latest market price of $38.11. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.40.(where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Seattle Genetics, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and commercializes antibody-based therapies for the treatment of cancer. The company is developing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), a technology designed to harness the targeting ability of antibodies to deliver cell-killing agents directly to cancer cells. Its lead product, ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin), is an ADC that is commercially accessible in about 50 countries, counting the United States, Canada, Japan, and members of the European Union for relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and relapsed systemic an plastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL) in partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited.
BGC Partners, Inc (NASDAQ:BGCP), rose 4.66%, and closed at $8.98. The stock has the beta value of 1.62, and its volatility for the week is 2.52%, while for the month it is 2.93%. The company has the market capitalization of $1.90B. The company holds the book value per share of 1.82, whereas cash per share is 2.93. Price to book value is estimated to be 4.93, while price to sale value is 1.11. Analysts mean recommendation for the stock is said to be 2.00 (where 1=Buy, 5=sale).
BGC Partners, Inc. operates as a brokerage company in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Financial Services and Real Estate Services. The Financial Services segment provides brokerage services, counting fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities, futures, and structured products. This segment also offers trade execution, broker-dealer, clearing, processing, information, and other back-office services to a range of financial and non-financial institutions; and electronic marketplaces comprising government bond markets, interest rate derivatives, spot foreign exchange, foreign derivatives, corporate bonds, and credit derivatives.
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