On Friday, American Electric Power Company Inc (NYSE:AEP)’s shares inclined 0.46% to $56.58.
American Electric Power (AEP) stated second-quarter 2015 earnings, prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), of $430 million or $0.88 per share, contrast with $390 million or $0.80 per share in second-quarter 2014. Operating earnings (GAAP earnings not taking into account special items) for second-quarter 2015 were $429 million or $0.88 per share, contrast with second-quarter 2014 operating earnings of $390 million or $0.80 per share.
The difference in second-quarter 2015 GAAP and operating earnings was due to commodity hedging within the Generation & Marketing segment.
American Electric Power Company, Inc., a public utility holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale to retail and wholesale customers. The company generates electricity using coal and lignite, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric and other energy sources. It also supplies and markets electric power at wholesale to other electric utility companies, rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, and other market participants.
Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN)’s shares gained 1.68% to $4.85.
Windstream (WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions, declared it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the Niche Quadrant of the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, North America1, and the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, North America2. Gartner analysts evaluated service providers for each Magic Quadrant based on the criteria of completeness of vision and ability to execute.
In the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service, Gartner analysts evaluated 14 service providers offering Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions to evaluate providers of DRaaS services in deploying and managing virtual machine replication or physical machine replication into the cloud.
The Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, North America reviewed 19 service providers that offer cloud-enabled managed hosting and bring cloudlike consumption and provisioning attributes to the traditional managed hosting market.
Windstream Holdings, Inc. provides communications and technology solutions in the United States. It offers managed services and cloud computing services to businesses, in addition to broadband, voice, and video services to consumers primarily in rural markets. The companys primary business service offerings comprise integrated voice and data services, multi-site networking, data center services, managed services, high-speed Internet, and voice services.
At the end of Friday’s trade, IMS Health Holdings Inc (NYSE:IMS)‘s shares surged 4.67% to $33.15.
IMS Health Holdings, Inc.(IMS), a leading global provider of information and technology services to the healthcare and life sciences industries, declared results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.
Second-Quarter 2015 Operating Results
Revenue for the second quarter of $742 million was up 24.6 percent on a constant currency basis and 12.0 percent on a stated basis, contrast with the second quarter of 2014. Early in the second quarter, the company closed the acquisition of Cegedim’s CRM and Planned Data businesses (“the Cegedim Acquisition”). Not taking into account the impact of the Cegedim Acquisition, revenue was up 5.2 percent on a constant currency basis and down 4.6 percent on a stated basis, with the difference entirely due to the year-over-year strengthening of the U.S. dollar as compared to key currencies in which the company transacts business.
The company’s strong revenue growth in the second quarter comprised of a 45.6 percent enhance in technology services revenue on a constant currency basis, up 33.3 percent on a stated basis, as compared to the same period last year. Information offerings revenue was up 9.4 percent on a constant currency basis and down 3.2 percent stated. Emerging markets revenue raised 29.4 percent in the second quarter on a constant currency basis and 8.8 percent on a stated basis. Developed markets revenue grew 23.5 percent on a constant currency basis and 12.7 percent stated.
Not taking into account the Cegedim Acquisition, technology services revenue raised 11.7 percent on a constant currency basis and 3.8 percent stated, and information offerings revenue raised 0.5 percent on a constant currency basis and declined 10.7 percent on a stated basis.
IMS Health Holdings, Inc. provides information and technology services to healthcare industry worldwide. Its principal products comprise national information offerings that provide performance metrics related to the sales of pharmaceutical products, prescribing trends, medical treatment, and promotional activity through multiple channels; and sub-national offerings, which offer information related to the measurement of sales at the regional, zip code, and individual prescriber level.
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd (ADR )(NASDAQ:MPEL), ended its Friday’s trading session with -1.43%, and closed at $20.63.
Melco Crown Entertainment Limited (MPEL) declares that it will file its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2015 on Form 6-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on Thursday, August 6, 2015, to be followed by a conference call on the same day at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (or 8:30 p.m. Hong Kong Time).
Melco Crown Entertainment Limited, through its auxiliaries, develops, owns, and operates casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities in Asia. It owns and operates City of Dreams, an integrated casino resort that has 500 gaming tables and 1,400 gaming machines; about 1,400 hotel rooms and suites; a wet stage performance theater with about 2,000 seats; about 30 restaurants and bars, and 70 retail outlets; and recreation and leisure facilities, counting health and fitness clubs, swimming pools, spa and salons, and banquet and meeting facilities.
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