Early Day Notes: Pain Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTIE), Marriott International (NASDAQ:MAR), Netlist Inc. (NASDAQ:NLST), West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE:WST)


AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE:AVG) shares moved up 2.93% in last trading session and ended the day at $20.72. AVG Gross Margin is 85.20% and its has a return on assets of 4.60%. AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE:AVG) quarterly performance is 4.59%.

AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG) announced that Jeff Ross has been named chief financial officer. He will be succeeding outgoing CFO John Little who will remain through completion of his transition duties, as well as the filing of the company’s 2015 annual report. Ross is joining the company in early April and will assume the title of CFO the day following the first quarter earnings announcement, which is currently expected to be on or about April 27th, 2016. Ross will also be a member of AVG’s Management Board, pending shareholder approval.

Pain Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTIE) ended the last trading day at $2.16. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 5.95% and price to cash ratio as 3.16. Pain Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTIE) showed a weekly performance of 0.47%.

Pain Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTIE) announced that it has resubmitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a New Drug Application (NDA) for REMOXY®, an abuse-deterrent formulation of extended-release oxycodone (CII) capsules. Pain Therapeutics expects to be notified by the FDA of a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date within 30 days. The original REMOXY NDA has a Priority Review designation.

On 30 March, Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAR) shares moved up 1.20% and was closed at $71.55. MAR EPS growth in last 5 year was 21.10%. Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAR) year to date (YTD) performance is 7.13%.

Marriott International Inc. (NASDAQ:MAR) is facing the prospect that four months of work toward completing a purchase of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. is about to come undone. Starwood received a takeover offer of $82.75 a share, or $14 billion, from a group led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. That’s higher than Marriott’s last bid, raising the stakes for the lodging company to counter a second time to save a merger that would create the world’s biggest hotel operator.

Netlist Inc. (NASDAQ:NLST) shares moved up 3.73% in last trading session and ended the day at $1.39. NLST Gross Margin is 26.30% and its has a return on assets of -92.90%. Netlist Inc. (NASDAQ:NLST) quarterly performance is 55.13%.

On 18 March, Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ:NLST), reiterated that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has confirmed the validity of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,001,434 and 8,359,501 following Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) initiated by SanDisk and Smart Modular Technologies. Netlist’s ‘434 and ‘501 patents cover self-test technologies widely used in high-performance memory modules, including LRDIMM, SSDs, and Storage Class Memory.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) caters to the Healthcare space. It has a net profit margin of 6.80% and weekly performance is 3.15%. On the last day of trading company shares ended up at $68.46. West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 13.15%.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved a second-quarter 2016 dividend of $0.12 per share. The dividend will be paid on May 4, 2016, to shareholders of record as of April 20, 2016.


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