Stocks To Watch For August 25, 2015

Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Wall Street expects Best Buy Co Inc BBY to report its quarterly earnings at $0.34 per share on revenue of $8.29 billion. Best Buy shares slipped 0.58 percent to $29.11 in after-hours trading. Analysts are expecting Toll Brothers Inc TOL to have earned $0.49 per share on revenue of $1.05 billion in the latest quarter. Toll Brothers shares rose 0.03 percent to $38.10 in after-hours trading. Linn Energy LLC LINE and LinnCo LLC LNCO named David B. Rottino as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of both LINN and LinnCo. LINN Energy shares declined 6.64 percent to close at $2.25 yesterday, while LinnCo dipped 7.80 percent to $2.01 in pre-market trading. The Valspar Corp VAL is projected to report its quarterly earnings at $1.26 per share on revenue of $1.17 billion. Valspar shares tumbled 3.49 percent to close at $75.73 yesterday. Monsanto Company MON has lifted its offer to acquire Syngenta AG (ADR) SYT from CHF 449 per share to CHF 470 per share, according to sources as reported by Bloomberg on Monday. That would value Syngenta at $47 billion. Monsanto shares fell 4.01 percent to close at $93.56 yesterday, while Syngenta shares jumped 5.77 percent to close at $81.00 yesterday. Analysts expect Sanderson Farms, Inc. SAFM to post its quarterly earnings at $2.90 per share on revenue of $750.94 million. Sanderson Farms shares gained 1.03 percent to $68.60 in the after-hours trading session. Childrens Place Inc PLCE is expected to report a quarterly loss at $0.33 per share on revenue of $380.57 million. Childrens Place shares dropped 2.26 percent to close at $57.18 yesterday.