Stocks Getting Investor’s Focus: National Bank of Greece (NYSE:NBG), Barclays (NYSE:BCS), Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S)


National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) stock has an average recommendation of Underweight with an average target price of $3.84. Shares of National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) closed at $4.97 in last trading session. Yesterday share price of the company was traded in the range of $4.94 – $5.03. Company now has a market value of $11.91 billion. National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 0.67 and price to cash ratio as 0.34.

British fraud prosecutors announced plans Monday to file criminal charges against three former Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) employees over alleged manipulation of benchmark interest rates, broadening an already sprawling global investigation into the London interbank offered rate, or Libor. The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office said it is charging Peter Johnson, Jonathan Mathew and Stylianos Contogoulas with conspiring to defraud between June 2005 and August 2007. That brings to 13 the number of individuals criminally charged in the Libor investigation in the U.S. and U.K. since 2012. Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) stock traded in the range of $17.02 – $17.14 and at the end of the day, it closed at $17.06. Average trading volume of the company is $4.52M. Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE:BCS) return on equity ratio is recorded as 2.80% and its return on assets is 0.10%.

China’s largest search engine Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) is scheduled to report its earnings on February 26. Maxim Group analyst Echo He believes Baidu’s fourth quarter revenue may beat the consensus. Consolidating 91 Wireless, a popular mobile app platform that Baidu bought in July for $1.8 billion, could bring in incremental revenue, according to He: Consolidating 91 Wireless in 4Q13 may bring $40M-$45M in incremental revenue and $10M-$15M in incremental net income. Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) after opening at $170.04, moved down -1.51% to $167.48 on last trading day. Company’s 52 week range is $82.98 – $185.50.

Research analysts at Cowen and Company upped their price target on shares of Sprint Corp. (NYSE:S) from $7.25 to $8.25 in a report released on Thursday, American Banking and Market News reports. Cowen and Company’s target price would indicate a potential downside of 1.79% from the stock’s previous close. Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) stock hit highest price at $8.45, beginning with a price of $8.44 and decreased -0.12% to the close at $8.40 with day range of $8.30 – $8.45. The total market capitalization of the stock is $33.03 billion.


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