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Why These Stocks Hot Today? salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), Emerald Oil, Inc. (NYSEMKT:EOX), Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), USG Corporation (NYSE:USG)

On Thursday, in the course of current trade, Shares of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), gained 4.48%, and is now trading at $73.30.

salesforce.com, declared results for its fiscal first quarter ended April 30, 2015.

Salesforce delivered the following results for its fiscal first quarter 2016:

Total Q1 revenue was $1.51 billion, an enhance of 23% year-over-year, and 27% in constant currency. Subscription and support revenues were $1.41 billion, an enhance of 22% year-over-year. Professional services and other revenues were $106 million, an enhance of 33% year-over-year.

Q1 GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.01, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.16. The company’s non-GAAP results exclude the effects of $143 million in stock-based compensation expense, $40 million in amortization of purchased intangibles, $0.8 million in amortization of attained lease intangibles, $6 million in net non-cash interest expense related to the company’s convertible senior notes, and a one-time gain of $37 million in operating lease termination resulting from a building purchase, and are based on a projected long-term non-GAAP tax rate of 36.5%. Diluted GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share calculations are based on about 664 million diluted shares outstanding during the quarter.

Cash generated from operations for the fiscal first quarter was $731 million, an enhance of 54% year-over-year. Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities finished the quarter at $1.92 billion.

salesforce.com, inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions, with a focus on customer relationship administration to various businesses and industries worldwide.

During an Afternoon trade, Shares of Emerald Oil, Inc. (NYSEMKT:EOX), skyrocketed 1,464.53%, and is now trading at $8.45, hitting its highest level.

Emerald Oil, declared the launch of an underwritten public offering of the Company’s common stock with an aggregate public offering size of $150,000,000. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund the formerly declared acquisition of certain assets in the Delaware Basin, to repay outstanding credit facility borrowings and for general corporate purposes. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of common stock with an aggregate offering size of about $22,500,000.

Credit Suisse, Johnson Rice & Company and Barclays are acting as bookrunners for this offering.

Emerald Oil, Inc. operates as an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company in the United States. The company designs, drills, and operates oil and natural gas wells.

Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), during its Thursday’s current trading session gained 0.14%, and is now trading at $44.35.

Oracle Corporation, users and the development community worldwide are celebrating 20 years of Java. Recently, Java serves as the critical backbone of software that touches both our work and personal lives. From innovations in enterprise big data, cloud, social, mobile and the Internet of Things, to connected cars, smartphones and video games, Java continues to assist developers push the boundaries in technology innovation.

“Java has grown and evolved to become one of the most important and dependable technologies in our industry recently. Those who have chosen Java have been rewarded many times over with enhances in performance, scalability, reliability, compatibility, and functionality,” said Georges Saab, vice president of development, Java Platform Group at Oracle. “The Java ecosystem offers outstanding libraries, frameworks, and resources to assist programmers from novice to expert alike. The development of Java itself occurs in the transparent OpenJDK community. With the considerable investment from Oracle and others in the community, we look forward to the next 20 years of Java’s evolution and growth.”

Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems, and related services worldwide. It provides software and hardware systems, and related services to manage their cloud-based or on-premise IT environments, in addition to to deploy cloud software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service.

Finally, USG Corporation (NYSE:USG), gained 0.35% Thursday.

On May 15, USG Corporation was named Innovator of the Year by The Executives’ Club of Chicago. The award, which is given to a company whose new product, service, process or business model has resulted in organic growth and measurable economic benefit to the region, was presented to USG for its development of USG Durock™ Brand EcoCap™ Self-Leveling Underlayment, a product that offers a noteworthy reduction in several environmental impacts.

With its breakthrough geopolymer binder technology, USG Durock™ Brand EcoCap™ Self-Leveling Underlayment is a quick-setting, eco-friendly cement-based product for use over concrete subfloors and wood subfloors in interior applications. The technology also brings noteworthy improvement in building environmentally sustainable structures.

Dr. Srinivas Veeramasuneni, Vice President of the USG Corporate Innovation Center in Libertyville, accepted the award on behalf of the organization at The Executives’ Club Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon, which was attended by leaders in Chicago’s business community. Awardees were chosen based on a nomination process and formal application.

USG Corporation, through its auxiliaries, operates as a manufacturer and distributor of building materials worldwide. Its Gypsum segment provides gypsum and related products that are used to construct walls, ceilings, roofs, and floors of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings, in addition to in various industrial applications.

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