Posts for Ticker ‘SGMO’

Major Secondary Offerings Keep Coming (ALTH, ATAX, ARYX, APPY, GRS, LINE, SGMO, CAR)

Money Stack ImageWe are seeing more and more waves of secondary offerings continue to hit the Street since the stock market has held up. Many stocks are close to near-term highs and it seems they are raising cash in case the opportunity goes away.  Allos Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTH), America First Tax Exempt Investors, L.P. (Nasdaq: ATAX), ARYx Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARYX), AspenBio Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: APPY), Gammon Gold, Inc. (NYSE: GRS), LINN Energy, LLC (NASDAQ: LINE), and Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) have all priced secondary offerings.  Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NYSE: CAR) is one of the pending offerings.
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (AEZS, AKAM, CNQR, HK, SJT, SGMO, THRX)

Money_stack_picThese are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive calls from Wall Street this Thursday morning:

  • AEterna Zentaris (AEZS) Raised to Outperform at RBC.
  • Akamai Tech (AKAM) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
  • Concur Tech (CNQR) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • Petrohawk Energy (HK) Started as Buy at Collins Stewart.
  • San Juan Basin Royalty (SJT) Raised to Hold at Citigroup.
  • Sangamo BioScience (SGMO) Raised to Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.
  • Theravance (THRX) Raised to Outperform at Robert W. Baird.

Jon C. Ogg
February 5, 2009

24/7 Wall St. Day Trading Alert (FMCN)(SGMO)(OPTR)(GS)(LVS)(WYNN)(MPEL)

Cammonopoly_wideweb__430x3250Focus Media (FMCN) is getting crushed this morning after posted bad numbers. Details..

Sangamo Biosciences (SGMO) ran into drug trial troubles and will trade way down.

Optimer Pharmaceuticals (OPTR) is ready for a big move up after good results from its new antibotic product.

Goldman Sachs (GS) is ready to sell off on concerns about earnings and the potential need to raise more cash.

The Las Vegas Sands (LVS) could lose it casino in Macau. The is causing moves in Wynn (WYNN) and Melco Crown  (MPEL).

Douglas A. McIntyre

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (AA, AZ, ACAS, CAR, CMA, HTZ, KFN, SGMO, TM)

Down_arrow_redThese are the top early bird analyst downgrades we are seeing with more than two hours to the open on this Tuesday morning:

  • Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.
  • Allianz (NYSE: AZ) Cut to Hold from buy at Citigroup.
  • American Capital (NASDAQ: ACAS) Cut to Market Perform at William Blair; Cut to Hold at BB&T.
  • Avis Budget (NYSE: CAR) Cut to Underweight at Barclays.
  • Comerica (NYSE: CMA) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
  • Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) Cut to Equal Weight at Barclays.
  • KKR Financial (NYSE: KFN) Cut to Sell at Citigroup.
  • Sangamo Biosciences (NASDAQ: SGMO) Cut to Neutral at Merriman Curhan Ford; Cut to Sell at Piper Jaffray.
  • Toyota (NYSE: TM) Cut to Underweight at HSBC.

Jon C. Ogg
November 11, 2008

Pre-Market Stock News (June 19, 2007)

(ALTH) Allos Therapeutics trading down 20% after its Phase III study of Efaproxyn failed to meet primary endpoint of improvement in overall survival.
(BAY) Bayer raised guidance on Schering integration.
(BMY) Bristol-Myers: FDA Grants Priority Review for Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Investigational Oncology Treatment Ixabepilone.
(BTU) Peabody Energy was named Cramer’s favorite pick in the coal sector.
(CLRK) Color Kinetics trading up 11% at $33.00+ on $34 buyout from Philips Electronics.
(CPKI) California Pizza Kitchen trades ex-split today to reflect a 3-2 stock Split.
(CUB) Cubic received a $468 million contract to give mission support to Army readiness training center.
(DAL) Delta is considering a 125 Boeing order for Dreamliners.
(DJ) Dow Jones may get a bid from billionaire Ron Burkle.
(EXPE) Expedia buying back $3.5 Billion in stock.
(FDS) FactSet $0.52 EPS vs $0.51 estimate.
(GE) GE buying controlling stake in natural gas pipeline Regency for $603 million.
(INO) Inovio Biomedical’s selective electrochemical tumor ablation therapy demonstrated safety, tolerability, and complete responses in breast cancer study.
(LNET) LodgeNet noted positively by Cramer on Mad Money.
(MRO) Marathon Oil trades ex-split today to reflect a 2-1 stock split.
(PRGS) Progress Software $0.45 EPS vs $0.41e.
(STR) Questar trades ex-split to reflect a 2-1 stock split.
(SGMO) Sangamo BioScience reached milestones in agriculture collaboration with Dow AgroSciences.
(SIRI) SIRIUS signed Volkswagen as standard equipment on all Touareg, New Beetle, New Beetle Convertible, GTI, and GLI sales for the 2008 models.
(TASR) TASER announced foreign order for 1,375 devices.
(TSN) Tyson making product announcementthis morning.
(YHOO) Yahoo! trading up 8% after Semel stepped down as CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang came back as CEO; Semel remaining non-executive Chairman.
(ZGEN) ZymoGenetics entered a global collaboration pact with Bayer for development and commercialization of recombinant human thrombin.

Jon C. Ogg
June 19, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.