5 Stocks Under Wall Street’s Radar: QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM), Orexigen Therapeutics (NASDAQ:OREX), Spectrum Brands (NYSE:SPB), Full House Resorts (NASDAQ:FLL), Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO)


On Wednesday shares of QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) closed at $69.73. Company’s sales growth for last 5 years was 20.60% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 10.50%. EdX, a nonprofit learning destination, and Qualcomm Education, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), announced a collaboration to further develop edX’s MOOC (massive open online course) mobile capabilities and enhance its open source platform to benefit connected learners around the world. As part of the collaboration, Qualcomm Education will contribute engineering resources and will license elements of its SDK code, which edX will distribute to the Open edX community.

Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OREX) in last trading activity fell -15.35% to close at $5.02. Company weekly performance is -22.77% while its quarterly performance stands at -6.34%. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OREX) is -46.42% away from its 52 week high. The controversy surrounding Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OREX) and its release of interim study data for its Contrave diet pill is quickly escalating. Amid accusations the drug maker misled investors and patients about the safety of its drug, Orexigen is now feuding with Takeda Pharmaceutical, its marketing partner, over the cost of a clinical trial that was required by the FDA at the time the diet drug was approved last fall.

On last trading day Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPB) increased 2.33% to close at $93.63. Its volatility for the week is 1.88% while volatility for the month is 1.48%. SPB’s sales growth for past 5 years was 14.70% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was -34.90%. Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPB) monthly performance is 6.96%. Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPB) announced that it has priced its previously-announced underwritten public offering of $500.0 million in shares of its common stock. The Company priced 5,405,405 shares at a price to the public of $92.50 per share.

Full House Resorts Inc. (NASDAQ:FLL) has 6.50% insider ownership while its institutional ownership stands at 31.30%. In last trading activity company’s stock closed at $1.70. Full House Resorts (NASDAQ: FLL) announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Net revenues in the first quarter of 2015 were $29.1 million versus $30.4 million in the prior-year period, primarily reflecting increased competition from recent casino openings near Rising Star and the September 2014 expiration of our tribal casino management contract in New Mexico.

On last trading day Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE:BRO) fell -0.13% to close at $31.83. Its volatility for the week is 0.93% while volatility for the month is 1.27%. BRO’s sales growth for past 5 years was 10.20% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 5.50%. Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE:BRO) monthly performance is -4.15%. On May 11, J. Scott Penny, Chief Acquisitions Officer of Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE:BRO) and Kenneth (“Ken”) A. Robinette, the principal of Bellingham Underwriters, Inc., announced that a subsidiary within Brown & Brown, Inc.’s National Programs Division has acquired certain assets of Bellingham Underwriters, Inc.


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