On Friday, Joy Global Inc. (NYSE:JOY)’s shares declined -1.50% to $38.86.
Joy Global Inc. (JOY) stated second quarter fiscal 2015 results.
Second Quarter Summary
- Bookings $745 million, down 29 percent from a year ago.
- Service bookings $595 million, down 15 percent from a year ago.
- Net sales $810 million, down 13 percent from a year ago.
- Earnings per diluted share $0.40, contrast to $0.73 a year ago.
- Not taking into account pension settlement and restructuring charges of $24 million, adjusted earnings per diluted share $0.59, contrast to $0.76 a year ago.
- Accomplished €110 million acquisition of Montabert in June, an underground hard rock mining equipment and service provider.
Joy Global Inc. manufactures and services mining equipment for the extraction of coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands, gold, and other minerals. It operates in two segments, Underground Mining Machinery and Surface Mining Equipment. The Underground Mining Machinery segment produces armored face conveyors, battery haulers, continuous chain haulage systems, continuous miners, conveyor systems, feeder breakers, flexible conveyor trains, hard rock mining products, high angle conveyors, long wall shearers, powered roof supports, road headers, roof bolters, and shuttle cars.
Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC)’s shares gained 0.03% to $38.57.
Teradata Corporation (TDC) the big data analytics and marketing applications company, introduced Teradata Loom® 2.5, a solution for data lake management. Teradata Loom enables a wider range of users to more easily find, access, and analyze data in data lakes. This helps generate new business insights, which can be integrated with the existing analytical ecosystem to drive higher levels of productivity.
Teradata Corporation provides analytic data platforms, marketing and analytic applications, and related services in the United States and internationally. Its analytic data platforms comprise software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services for data warehousing and big data analytics.
At the end of Friday’s trade, AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE:AFL)‘s shares dipped -0.67% to $62.57.
AFLAC Incorporated (AFL) the leading provider of voluntary insurance at the work site in the United States, is ranked No. 9 in Newsweek’s 2015 Green Rankings for the U.S. 500 and No. 16 for the Global 500. The U.S. 500 comprises of the 500 largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the U.S. by market capitalization as of December 31, 2014. The Global 500 comprises of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the world by market capitalization as of December 31, 2014.
Aflac maintains an employee-led Green Committee in addition to a board-level Sustainability Committee, both of which oversee the company’s overall sustainability program called Aflac SmartGreen. Aflac’s philosophy comprises five key areas: Business Operations, Facilities Administration, Waste Administration, Employee Engagement, and Planned Sourcing and Procurement. In 2014, Aflac became the first insurance company in the United States to be ISO 50001 Energy Administration System registered.
According to Newsweek, the data for its rankings is obtained from primary sources, counting annual reports, audited financial statements, proxy statements and sustainability reports. Secondary data is obtained from HIP Investor, Bloomberg and the CDP. All companies are contacted for data verification once all accessible items of data have been obtained.
The 2015 Newsweek Green Rankings measure the environmental performance of large public companies using eight clearly defined key performance indicators. The methodology is clear and rules- based, and the process meets the test of being replicable by a third party.
Aflac Incorporated, through its partner, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers various voluntary supplemental insurance products, counting cancer plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans, and annuities in Japan.
Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS), ended its Friday’s trading session with -2.46% loss, and closed at $35.33.
MakerBot, a global leader in the desktop 3D printing industry, and Stratasys AP Ltd, a partner of MakerBot’s parent company Stratasys Ltd. ( SSYS), a leading global provider of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions, recently declared the strengthening of MakerBot’s market presence in Asia Pacific through MakerBot Asia Pacific & Japan (MakerBot APJ), a new MakerBot division to capture the growth potential of desktop 3D printers and scanners in the region. Stratasys has a strong presence in the region and MakerBot APJ aims to leverage on the existing Stratasys infrastructure to strengthen its local operations and expand availability of its products. MakerBot APJ will continue to support the existing MakerBot network of distributor and reseller partners in Asia Pacific.
Stratasys has 10 regional offices to serve its customers in Asia Pacific, counting the Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong and presences in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Busan, Singapore and Bangalore. These Stratasys offices will support MakerBot’s local business operations with marketing, sales and customer support initiatives. MakerBot APJ will be led by Shiry Saar, who has been designated General Manager and is based in Stratasys’ Asian headquarters in Hong Kong, operating under Stratasys AP Ltd. Saar had served in several administration roles at Stratasys formerly.
Stratasys Ltd. provides additive manufacturing (AM) solutions for the creation of parts used in the processes of designing and manufacturing products; and for the direct manufacture of end parts. Its AM systems utilize its patented fused deposition modeling and inkjet-based PolyJet technologies to enable the production of prototypes, tools used for production and manufactured goods directly from three-dimensional (3D) CAD files or other 3D content. The company offers entry-level desktop 3D printers for idea and design development, a range of systems for rapid prototyping, and production systems for direct digital manufacturing under the Dimension, Objet, Fortus, Polyjet, SolidScape, and MakerBot brands.
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