Today’s Watch List : Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ:PTEN), Brightcove (NASDAQ:BCOV), Benefitfocus (NASDAQ:BNFT), Home Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOMB), Nymox Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:NYMX)

In a report published Tuesday, Wunderlich Securities analyst Jason A. Wangler reiterated a Hold rating on Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN), and raised the price target from $34.00 to $37.00. Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN)’s stock on 31 July traded at beginning with a price of $35.85 and when day-trade ended the stock finally moved down -5.22% to end at $34.35. Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN)’s showed weekly performance of -8.13%.

Brightcove, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCOV) a leading global provider of cloud services for video, today announced that Yelp, which connects people with great local businesses, has launched a new video feature powered by Brightcove. Yelp users can upload short video clips up to 12 seconds long with the help of the Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform and the Brightcove Zencoder cloud-based encoding service. Brightcove, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCOV) on Thursday closed at $5.95. Stock institutional ownership is 69.40% while insider ownership includes 3.90%. Brightcove, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCOV) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -37.91%.

Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNFT) a leading provider of cloud-based benefits software solutions, today announced that Del Taco LLC has selected the Benefitfocus HR INTOUCH MARKETPLACE® to support benefits administration and address relative requirements set forth by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Founded in 1964 in Southern California, Del Taco has become one of the largest quick-service Mexican restaurants with 546 restaurants and more than 7,500 employees across 17 U.S. states. Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNFT)’s shares on Thursday traded in the range of 38.37 – 40.32and ended up on $38.54. Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNFT) distance from 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) is -21.18%. Its EPS growth for past 5 years was 0.00%.

On July 30, 2014Home Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOMB) an Arkansas corporation (“Home”), Centennial Bank, an Arkansas state bank (“Centennial”), Broward Financial Holdings, Inc., a Florida corporation (“Broward”), Broward Bank of Commerce, a Florida state bank (“Broward Bank”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Agreement”), under which Home and its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Centennial, will acquire Broward and its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Broward Bank. The Agreement provides that, in a series of transactions, an acquisition subsidiary to be formed by Home will merge with Broward, and Broward Bank will merge into Centennial (collectively, the “Merger”). Following the Merger, Home expects to merge Broward into Home. Home Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOMB)’s stock on 31 July moved down -2.88% to the closing price of $30.06. Its fifty two weeks range is $24.83 – 38.98. The total market capitalization recorded $1.958B. Home Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOMB) monthly performance is -9.95%.

Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ:NYMX) is pleased to announce new positive efficacy data for U.S. Study NX02-0022, the Company’s repeat injection study of NX-1207 for BPH. Analysis of symptomatic improvement from repeat injection over a 1 to 2 year period showed a mean improvement of 8.2 points (p < .001) in the AUA BPH Symptom Index Score. Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ:NYMX) on Thursday closed at $4.95. Stock institutional ownership is 3.20% while insider ownership includes 52.21%. Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ:NYMX) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 0.15%.