After-Hours Market Movers; YY Inc., Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.

Calithera Biosciences Inc. CALA soared nearly 39 percent to $18.90 in Thursday's extended session after the company obtained rights to develop and commercialize a portfolio of preclinical compounds aimed at treating cancer from TransTech Pharma. Financial terms were undisclosed. YY Inc. YY picked up nearly 7 percent in after-hours trading, changing hands at $58.25 recently, after the Chinese social media platform provider posted favorable quarterly earnings. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. MSO rose 5 percent to $5.12, after the company offered investors its fourth-quarter earnings report. Finisar Corp. FNSR gained more than 5 percent to $21.20 when the data communications equipment company posted a strong fourth-quarter outlook. Prothena Corp. PRTA ticked up more than 3 percent to $28 when the Ireland-based biotech company provided financial guidance and fourth-quarter results. Checkpoint Systems, Inc. CKP lost 18 percent to $10.90 on disappointing quarterly results. Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. CNAT fell 16 percent to $5.63 in the after-hours session. The company said in a Thursday filing that its Chief Medical Officer Gary C. Burgess resigned. PowerSecure International, Inc. POWR shares declined more than 12 percent to $10.92 in the extended session Wednesday after closing up 14 percent. The company posted results Tuesday. Violin Memory Inc. VMEM lost nearly 12 percent, trading recently at $3.52 after the flash storage company posted a scratchy quarterly performance. Emergent Biosolutions Inc. EBS sank 6 percent to $27.99 after the company posted quartelry results and said it is investigating contamination of product at a manufacturing operation.
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