5 Stocks in Dramatic Moves: Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ), Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ:BIIB), Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST), Workday (NYSE:WDAY), Richardson Electronics (NASDAQ:RELL)


Mondelez International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDLZ) will release its fourth quarter and full year 2014 financial results on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 8 a.m. EST and will host a conference call at 10 a.m. EST that day. On Tuesday shares of Mondelez International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDLZ) closed at $36.63. Company’s sales growth for last 5 years was -2.70% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 11.13%.

Speculation that mergers and acquisitions will be a key theme for the health-care sector in 2015 might already be turning out to be true, with US biotech Biogen Idec Inc (NASDAQ:BIIB) announcing Sunday that it has sealed a deal with privately held UK-based Convergence Pharmaceuticals through which it would be able to gain access to the company’s portfolio of experimental drugs for chronic nerve pain. On Tuesday shares of Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ:BIIB) closed at $352.74. Company’s sales growth for last 5 years was 11.10% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 23.40%.

Casella Waste Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CWST) recorded a -8.68% change in the short interest in the past month. The 3-month %change in short interest stands at -0.88%. A decrease in 1-month short interest eases the pressure off the stock while an increase is a negative overhang. On last trading day Casella Waste Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CWST) fell -1.29% to close at $3.82. Its volatility for the week is 5.10% while volatility for the month is 5.01%. CWST’s sales growth for past 5 years was 0.90% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 26.80%. Casella Waste Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CWST) monthly performance is 2.41%.

Workday, Inc. (NYSE:WDAY) a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, announced that Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO of Workday, will be a keynote speaker at the Evercore ISI 2015 Software Outlook Summit in Menlo Park, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. The keynote is scheduled to begin at 12:10 p.m. Pacific Time / 3:10 p.m. Eastern Time. Workday, Inc. (NYSE:WDAY) has 1.00% insider ownership while its institutional ownership stands at 96.70%. In last trading activity company’s stock closed at $83.85.

On January 7, Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (NASDAQ:RELL), reported sales and earnings for its second quarter ended November 29, 2014. The Company also announced that its Board of Directors declared a $0.06 per share quarterly cash dividend. Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 were $33.8 million, a 4.5% decrease compared to net sales of $35.4 million in the prior year. On last trading day Richardson Electronics Ltd. (NASDAQ:RELL) fell -0.52% to close at $9.58. Its volatility for the week is 2.27% while volatility for the month is 1.45%. RELL’s sales growth for past 5 years was -0.50% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 58.10%. Richardson Electronics Ltd. (NASDAQ:RELL) monthly performance is -4.77%.


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