Today’s Market Winners and Losers

January 24, 2013 by 247sam

Thursday’s stock market is mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.58%, the Nasdaq down 0.17% and the S&P 500 up 0.50%. Today’s winners include an online streaming company and a transportation firm reporting strong fourth-quarter earnings. Meanwhile, both of today’s losers reported disappointing fourth-quarter results.

These are Thursday’s market winners and losers.

Biggest Winners

Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) are up 36.94% to $141.41 on trading volume of 8.1 million shares. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $0.13 a share, better than the $0.13 per share net loss Wall St. analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected. Before Thursday, the 52-week high was $133.43.

Shares of Swift Transportation Co. (NYSE: SWFT) are up 21.31% to $12.41 on trading volume of 6.1 million shares. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $0.34 a share, better than the $0.26 a share Wall St. analysts expected. The 52-week high is $12.82.

Biggest Losers

Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are down 9.82% to $463.02 on trading volume of 26.6 million shares. The company reported the slowest profit growth since 2003 for the fourth-quarter and the weakest revenue growth in more than three years. The 52-week low is $443.14.

Shares of ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI) are down 8.94% to $13.04 on trading volume of 1.6 million shares. Sales at the for-profit educator slid 18% for the fourth-quarter as new enrollment declined by 11%. Before Thursday, the 52-week low was $13.90.

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