Small Cap Stocks In News: Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARIA), Scientific Games Corp (NASDAQ:SGMS), FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL), Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG)

Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) announced that it will report its first quarter 2014 financial results on Wednesday May 7 2014 before the market opens. Following the announcement at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time company management will host a conference call and webcast discussion of the results and provide a general corporate update. Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) stock performance was 1.48% in last session and finished the day at $7.20. Traded volume was 9.47million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 18.98million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.50. Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) insider ownership is 1.80%.

Lottery-and-gaming company Scientific Games Corp (NASDAQ:SGMS) saw revenue growth on the back of the acquisition of WMS Industries last year. Scientific Games Corp (NASDAQ:SGMS) rose 0.53 percent to $11.46 Thursday on volume of 9.35million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $11.13 to $11.50. Scientific Games Corp (NASDAQ:SGMS) has a market capitalization of $961.88million.

FuelCell Energy Inc (NASDAQ:FCEL) is an integrated state of the art fuelcell company. It designs, produces, sells, installs, operates and service ultra-clean, reliable and efficient stationary fuel cell power plants for distributed baseload power generation. The company produces electricity electrochemically without combustion, thereby rendering the process of electricity generation clean, quiet and pollution free. FuelCell Energy Inc (NASDAQ:FCEL)’s stock on Apr 17, 2014 reported a increase of 2.51% to the closing price of $2.45. Its fifty two weeks range is $0.87 -$4.74. The total market capitalization recorded $579.32million. The overall volume in the last trading session was 8.99million shares. In its share capital, FCEL has 253.92million outstanding shares.

Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) shares have had an eventful year so far. A string of good news drove the share price to rise as much as 200% since the beginning of the year. There are some investors and analysts, however, who are skeptical about the growth of the shares because they have risen significantly in such a short span. On Thursday, shares of Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) advanced 3.39% to close the day at $7.32. Company return on investment (ROI) is -180.80% and its monthly performance is recorded as 17.87%. Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) quarterly revenue growth is 106.20%.