On Wednesday, Following Stocks were among the “Top Priority Stocks” For Traders – Threshold Pharmaceuticals, (NASDAQ:THLD), Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ:CY), Advanced Micro Devices, (NASDAQ:AMD), Frontline (NYSE:FRO)

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:THLD) decreased -5.32%, and closed at $4.09. The company holds the market capitalization of $307.90 M. For the last twelve months, the stock was able to keep return on equity at 84.50%, while return on assets at -26.70%, in response to its return on investment at 129.60%. Its 20-day moving average decreased -8.06%, above 50-day moving average of 1.18%, above 200-day moving average of 8.92% from the latest market price of $4.09. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 1.80. (Where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (THLD) a biotechnology company, discovers and develops therapeutic agents that target tumor cells for the treatment of patients living with cancer in the United States. Its lead investigational small molecule, TH-302, is being evaluated in two pivotal Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma indication and pancreatic cancer; and various earlier-stage clinical trials for therapeutic areas, including advanced leukemias, multiple myeloma, advanced renal cell carcinoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:CY) declined -5.81%, and closed at $14.43. The company has the market capitalization of $4.91 billion. The beta value of the stock is 1.52. On the other hand the stock’s volatility for the week is 3.72%, and for the month is 3.22%. The stock’s price to book ratio is $11.36, however price to sale ratio is $6.38. Analyst’s mean recommendation regarding this stock is 2.50. (Where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (CY) provides mixed-signal programmable solutions, specialized semiconductor memories, and integrated semiconductor solutions worldwide. The company’s Memory Products division designs and manufactures static random access memory (SRAM) products and nonvolatile RAMs used to store and retrieve data in networking, wireless infrastructure and handsets, computation, consumer, automotive, industrial, and other electronic systems; and general-purpose programmable clocks.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) decreased -5.73%, and closed at $2.63. The stock has price to sale ratio of 0.37, however, price to book ratio is 10.96. During the past month the stock lose -15.16%, bringing three-month performance to -0.75% and six-month performance to -27.55%.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. The company’s products primarily comprise x86 microprocessors as an accelerated processing unit (APU), chipsets, discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), and semi-custom System-on-Chip (SoC) products. It provides x86 microprocessors for desktop PCs under the AMD A-Series, AMD E-Series, AMD FX CPU, AMD Athlon CPU and APU, and AMD Sempron APU and CPU brands; and microprocessors for notebook and 2-in-1s under the AMD A-Series, AMD E-Series, AMD C-Series, AMD Z-Series, AMD FX APU, AMD Phenom, AMD Athlon CPU and APU, AMD Turion, and AMD Sempron APU and CPU brands.

Frontline Ltd (NYSE:FRO) shares picked down -6.10%, and closed at $2.31. The stock volatility for the week is 5.45%, while for the month remained 5.19%. The company holds consensus target price of $2.13.

If we consider EPS growth of the company, then the company indicated the following observations:

The company showed -1.55 diluted EPS growth for trailing twelve months. However, YTD EPS growth remained -121.70% and Annual EPS growth for the past 5 years is considered as -17.70%.

The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 3.40. (Where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).

Frontline Ltd (FRO) a shipping company, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates oil tankers and oil/bulk/ore carriers. The company provides seaborne transportation of crude oil and oil products. Its very large crude carriers (VLCCs) primarily transport crude oil from the Middle East Gulf to the Far East, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, as well as Suezmax tankers trade in the Atlantic Basin, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. As of December 31, 2014, the company’s tanker fleet consisted of 22 vessels, including 14 VLCCs and 8 Suezmax tankers.

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