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Market Close: Big Winners & Losers for Thursday

thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Global Geophysical Services Inc. (NYSE: GGS) is up 74.8% at $3.74. ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI) is up 30.5% at $20.00. Old Second Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: OSBC) is up 30%…

By Paul Ausick
Published April 25, 2013, 4:43pm ET · 1 min read

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Here are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing:

Global Geophysical Services Inc. (NYSE: GGS) is up 74.8% at $3.74.

ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI) is up 30.5% at $20.00.

Old Second Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: OSBC) is up 30% at $4.25.

Angies’ List Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) is up 28.9% at $25.92.

Stamps.com Inc. (NASDAQ: STMP) is up 27.1% at $32.62.

And here are today’s five biggest losing stocks at closing:

Exide Technologies (NASDAQ: XIDE) is down 23.9% at $1.02.

QKL Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: QKLS) is down 23.7% at $4.06.

Whiting USA Trust I (NYSE: WHX) is down 23% at $7.37.

Point.360 (NASDAQ: PTSX) is down 20.5% at $1.01.

Maxcom Telecomunicaciones S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: MXT) is down 18.2% at $2.20.

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Paul Ausick

Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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