Mid-Afternoon Market Update: Sanmina Jumps On Upbeat Earnings; Cancer Genetics Shares Slide

Toward the end of trading Tuesday, the Dow traded up 0.11 percent to 24,556.34 while the NASDAQ declined 0.85 percent to 7,025.21. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.11 percent to 2,641.05.


Leading and Lagging Sectors

Tuesday afternoon, the industrial shares climbed 1.3 percent. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Woodward, Inc. WWD up 17 percent, and Meritor, Inc. MTOR up 11 percent.

In trading on Tuesday, communication services shares fell 0.8 percent.


Top Headline

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ reported better-than-expected earnings for its fourth quarter, while sales missed estimates.

Verizon reported a bottom line of $1.12 against $1.09 estimates, with revenue of $34.28 billion falling shy of $34.39 forecasts.

Verizon said it expects 'low single-digit percentage' revenue growth in 2019.

 


Equities Trading UP

Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. VYGR shares got a boost, shooting up 34 percent to $10.80 after the company announced a collaboration with Neurocrine Biosciences. The company received an upfront payment of $165 million and can receive up to $1.7 billion in milestones.

Shares of Sanmina Corporation SANM shot up 18 percent to $32.17 after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for its fourth quarter and issued strong second-quarter guidance. Sanmina also reported that CFO David Anderson will retire and the company has begun search for a permanent replacement.

Woodward, Inc. WWD shares were also up, gaining 17 percent to $90.37 following upbeat Q1 earnings.


Equities Trading DOWN


GameStop Corp. GME shares dropped 28 percent to $11.18 after the company said it is no longer pursuing sale of the firm due to a 'lack of available financing on terms that would be commercially acceptable to a prospective acquiror.'

Shares of Cancer Genetics, Inc. CGIX were down 17 percent to $0.2550. Cancer Genetics priced its public offering of 15.217 million shares at 23 cents per share for generating gross proceeds of about $3.5 million.

Brinker International, Inc. EAT was down, falling around 11 percent to $42.11 following Q2 results. Brinker posted in-line Q2 earnings, while sales exceeded estimates.


Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded up 2.85 percent to $53.47 while gold traded up 0.38 percent to $1,314.30.


Silver traded up 0.48 percent Tuesday to $15.84, while copper rose 1.55 percent to $2.7215.

 

Eurozone

European shares closed higher today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 climbed 0.8 percent, the Spanish Ibex Index gained 0.63 percent, while Italy’s FTSE MIB Index climbed 0.48 percent. Meanwhile the German DAX gained 0.08 percent, and the French CAC 40 climbed 0.81 percent while U.K. shares rose 1.29 percent.

Economics

The Federal Open Market Committee begins its two-day policy meeting today.

The Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index declined 1.8 percent during the first three weeks of January versus December.

The S&P/CaseShiller home price index rose 0.3 percent for November versus October.

The Conference Board consumer confidence index declined to 120.2 in January, versus revised reading of 126.6 in December.

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