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Top Day Trader Alerts (AIB, AMAG, CIT, CVS, HAS, NBG)

247admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:49:04 +0000

These are this Monday morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen with price or volume moves.

Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) is seeing its ADRs trade lower yet again on concern of sovereign debt exposure in the PIIGS. Shares are down 7.5% at $3.06 in early pre-market trading.

AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAG) is up on thin volume after the company issued a statement defending its recent troubles as the same percentages as had been indicated in testing. The stock closed at $37.77 Friday and is up 5.9% at $40.00 on thin volume so far this morning.

CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is up 4% at $32.00 this morning after naming John Thain as CEO and Chairman of the company.

CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) is up 2.7% at $31.91 on over 50,000 shares after beating earnings expectations.

Hasbro Inc. (NYSE: HAS) is up after $1.09 EPS vs. $0.81 Thomson Reuters estimates. Revenue rose over 11% to $1.37 billion vs. $1.33 billion estimates. Shares are up 9% at $33.60 on almost 100,000 shares.

National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is seeing its ADRs down yet again over Greek debt risks and the concern in the PIIGS… Shares are down over 8% at $3.61 in early pre-market trading.

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Price snapshots take right around 8:40 AM EST

JON C. OGG
FEBRUARY 8, 2010

PREMARKET ALERT: Aetna (AET, CVS, MHS, ESRX)

247admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:53:23 +0000

Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) are down about 10 percent to $23.73 on premarket volume of about 3,700 shares as of 7:45 a.m. Eastern. The health insurer reported EPS ex items of 68 cents a share, 10 cents worse than analyst expectations. The company said earnings were affected by significantly higher commercial medical costs. Aetna guided fiscal 2009 EPS in a range of $2.75-2.90, vs. $3.53 consensus. Aside from earnings, Aetna is seeking to sell its pharmacy-benefit management business, The Wall Street Journal reported. Interested parties could include CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and Medco Health Solutions (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts (Nasdaq: ESRX).

Earnings Alert: At first blush, Rite-Aid report is deceptively positive (RAD)

247admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:18:56 +0000

Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) is a stock to watch for a volume spike this morning, after a close inspection of its mixed-bag results shows it was fairly positive relative to weak expectations.

The biggest positive is that Rite-Aid reaffirmed fiscal year sales and adjusted EBITDA guidance, and the company made progress in cleaning up its balance sheet, as well as boosting cash flow and liquidity. The Street may initially focus on a net loss that was slightly lower than expectation, and revenue for the quarter that was only in line.

But the overall picture looked positive. Provided the company doesn’t have very negative things to say about consumer demand on its conference call, the first-take is that it was a deceptively positive report.

Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) and CVS (NYSE: CVS) may also be stocks to watch, depending on the tone of the Rite-Aid analyst call. — Mike Tarsala.