Volume Spike Investor

Here are four stocks seeing sizable drops in this morning’s pre-market trading after earnings and guidance came in at very disappointing levels.  Here are today’s big gap-down stocks (9:05 AM EST):

Molex Inc. (NASDAQ: MOLX) -10%
STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) -3.5%
VistaPrint (NASDAQ: VPRT) -16%
Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) -10% or so…

You can see the full synopsis on each at [...]

Higher gas costs are already rolling back into hitting airline stocks.  As some of these have risen 3-fold or more from lows after the last $30+ drop in oil prices per barrel, any rise in black gold takes a toll.

UAL Corporation (NASDAQ: UAUA) closed yesterday at $12.40 and the last trade at 9:03 AM EST [...]

Shares of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY) are being hit hard pre-market.  The provider of integrated computer systems for in-house and outsourced data processeing for financial institutions missed its earnings targets last night.   As of 8;30 AM EST we have only seen about 5,500 shares trade hands, but the drop is by [...]

Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is rather active in pre-market trading.  The company’s stock was cut to “Underperform” at Oppenheimer this morning along with a couple other communications carriers.  As of 8:55 this has traded over 150,00 shares and the stock is down nearly 5% at $3.23.  What is surprising more than the drop [...]

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is leading the stocks pre-market as the most active NASDAQ trading issue, although it isn’t really the highest gap-up seen.  Shares are trading up about 5% at $11.63 pre-market at 8:45 AM ESTand we have seen about 513,000 shares trade hands.  The company’s earnings were a disappointment to most since it [...]

Verenium Corp. (NASDAQ: VRNM) is spiking significantly higher in pre-market trading.  The company signed a biofuel production pact with BP plc (NYSE: BP).  The pact will lead to cellulosic ethanol production using non-food stocks and Verenium will receive $90 Million in funding from BP over the next 18 months.  The market cap before today’s spike [...]

Amgen (AMGN) indicating up 3% more after solid earnings… watch for potential profit taking later in the morning after huge gain yesterday.
BE Aerospace (BEAV) is trading up almost 7% after the company managed to beat earnings and raise guidance despite woes at airline carriers themselves; short covering adding to gains.
Concur Technologies, Inc. (CNQR) gapping up [...]