It was just a couple of weeks ago when the Blue Oval revealed its fastest Mustang on earth at the Detroit Auto Show – the new Shelby GT350R, and the car is already breaking records. According to Evo, the redesigned Ford Motor Company’s (NYSE:F) Shelby GT350R Mustang has lapped the infamous Nurburgring in just 7 minutes and 32:19 seconds, beating the previous record-holder General Motors Company’s (NYSE:GM) Chevrolet Camaro Z/28. On Monday shares of Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) closed at $15.08. Company’s sales growth for last 5 years was 0.50% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 10.27%.
Discover Financial Services, one of the most reputed brands in U.S. financial services industry, and one of the largest card issuers in the United States, released its financials for the fourth quarter of 2014 on 21st January, 2015. On the fourth quarter results, David Nelms, Chairman and CEO of Discover, said “We delivered solid performance this quarter”. Overall, DFS reported a net income of $404 million as compared to $602 million i.e. a decline of almost 33% Y-o-Y. Despite this, total loans grew $4.2 billion (6.4% Y-o-Y), whereas credit card loans grew $3 billion (5.6% Y-o-Y). Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) in last trading activity increased 0.21% to close at $56.70. Company weekly performance is -5.77% while its quarterly performance stands at -8.04%. Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) is -15.06% away from its 52 week high.
Epizyme Inc (NASDAQ:EPZM) reported a shortfall of 293,574 shares or 9.2% in the short interest. The remaining shorts are 18.8% of the total floated shares. The net short interest, as on December 31,2014, stood at 2,909,553 shares and the stock s days to cover will be 8 by factoring in the average per day volume of 377,050 shares. On December 15,2014, 3,203,127 shares were shorted. On last trading day Epizyme, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPZM) increased 2.94% to close at $20.69. Its volatility for the week is 5.51% while volatility for the month is 5.13%. Epizyme, Inc. (NASDAQ:EPZM) monthly performance is 16.89%.
After Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) splits in two later this year, Meg Whitman will be CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the forthcoming corporate computing and networking company, and Dion Weisler will head up HP Inc., the printing and PC company, the company announced. On Monday shares of Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) closed at $38.84. Company’s sales growth for last 5 years was -0.50% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 4.89%.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) reported encouraging second quarter 2015 results with earnings of 77 cents exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 70 cents. Revenue of $26.47 billion was up 14.1% sequentially and 8.0% from last year, better than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $26.06 billion. Management said that the U.S. did better than expected and Europe was generally in line with expectations. However, the disappointment was related to China and Japan. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) in last trading activity decreased -0.36% to close at $47.01. Company weekly performance is 1.67% while its quarterly performance stands at 5.07%. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is -5.48% away from its 52 week high.