On Monday, Opko Health Inc. (NYSE:OPK)’s shares inclined 0.18% to $16.58.
Opko Health Inc. (OPK) may fit the first condition of being at or near its highs, but it does not fulfill the second. Those short Opko don’t seem to mind all that much, being that 44.92M shares are presently held short, constituting 67% of the float. That’s about a million more shares than last month, representing over $15M in capital spent on shorting the stock in one month, at least.
While shorting itself may tend to discourage some retail investors from taking a position, institutional investors in addition to company insiders are usually astute enough to know that for every short seller, there is a buyer of those shares on the other side. Close to 70% of Opko’s float is held by either insiders or institutions, and it is doubtful that any of those shares will be put on the open market any time soon. And even if some are, the company’s founder and CEO, Dr. Phillip Frost, is picking shares at the same pace that shortsellers are borrowing them to sell.
OPKO Health, Inc., a biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel and proprietary technologies in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. The company develops various solutions to diagnose, treat, and prevent various conditions, counting point-of-care tests, molecular diagnostics tests, laboratory developed tests, and proprietary pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Its products comprise 4Kscore test that measures the blood plasma levels of four different prostate-derived kallikrein proteins.
American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC)’s shares gained 0.27% to $18.85.
American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) declared that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend on its 8.000% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) (AGNCP) of $0.50 per share for the second quarter 2015. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2015 to preferred shareholders of record as of July 1, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of June 29, 2015.
In addition, AGNC’s Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend on its 7.750% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”) underlying its outstanding depositary shares (AGNCB), equivalent to $0.484375 per depositary share for the second quarter 2015. Each depositary share represents a 1/1,000th interest in a share of the Series B Preferred Stock. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2015 to preferred shareholders of record as of July 1, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of June 29, 2015.
American Capital Agency Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company invests in residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprise or by the United States government agency. It funds its investments primarily through short-term borrowings structured as repurchase agreements.
At the end of Monday’s trade, Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC)‘s shares surged 0.79% to $77.71.
Western Digital® Corp. (WDC) declared that the company will release its financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter ended July 3, 2015 after the close of the market on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The investment community conference call to talk about these results will be broadcast live over the Internet that day at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern. The live and archived conference call webcast can be accessed online at investor.wdc.com. The telephone replay number is 1-800-348-3536 in the U.S. or +1-203-369-3257 for international callers.
Western Digital Corporation, through its auxiliaries, develops, manufactures, and sells data storage solutions that enable consumers, businesses, governments, and other organizations to create, manage, experience, and preserve digital content. It provides hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives for desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), and performance enterprise and capacity enterprise markets.
Southern Co (NYSE:SO), ended its Monday’s trading session with 0.09% gain, and closed at $43.40.
Southern Co (SO) declared that for the ninth successive year IDG’s Computerworld has recognized the company as one of the best workplaces for information technology professionals in its annual ranking of the 100 “Best Places to Work in IT” list. In this year’s rankings, Southern Company was listed as the highest-rated “large” utility company.
Computerworld’s 2015 “Best Places to Work in IT” feature ranks the top 100 work environments for technology professionals, based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, training and retention.
In addition, Computerworld conducted extensive surveys of IT workers, which accounted for about half of the total scoring. More than 23,000 IT employees from the final 100 companies across the country accomplished the Computerworld survey. The employee survey comprised of topics such as satisfaction with training and development programs, compensation, benefits and work/life balance.
The Southern Company, together with its auxiliaries, operates as a public electric utility company. It is involved in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. The company also constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets, counting renewable energy projects. As of December 31, 2014, it operated 33 hydroelectric generating stations, 33 fossil fuel generating stations, 3 nuclear generating stations, 13 combined cycle/cogeneration stations, 9 solar facilities, 1 biomass facility, and 1 landfill gas facility.
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