Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) was upgraded by stock analysts at B. Riley from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a report issued on Tuesday. The firm currently has a $25.00 price target on the stock, up from their previous price target of $23.06. B. Riley’s price objective would indicate a potential upside of 9.41% from the stock’s previous close. Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) stock performance was 1.03% in last session and finished the day at $23.00. Traded volume was 11.64million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 13.84million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.67. Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) insider ownership is 0.30%.

Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:GLUU) on July 16 announced that its recent title releases have helped the company establish new company records in terms of revenue, downloads, and daily active users (DAU). Released on July 10th, Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores quickly achieved the #1 Top Free App ranking on the App Store for iPhone in 9 countries and set company records for global single-day downloads. Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:GLUU) rose 4.14 percent to $6.79 Friday on volume of 14.19million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $6.42 to $6.93. Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:GLUU) has a market capitalization of $619.04million.

Guidewire Software (NASDAQ:GWRE) VP Jeremy Henrickson sold 3,000 shares of Guidewire Software stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $37.77, for a total transaction of $113,310.00. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 21,976 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $830,034.Guidewire Software Inc (NYSE:GWRE)’s stock on July 18, 2014 reported a increase of 1.10% to the closing price of $37.78. Its fifty two weeks range is $33.66 -$58.00. The total market capitalization recorded $2.59billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 572,169.00million shares. In its share capital, GWRE has 68.56million outstanding shares.

For the first quarter of 2014, SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) on 21 may reported net revenues of $171.5 million, compared to $126.0 million for the same period last year. Non-GAAP net revenues for the first quarter of 2014 totaled $167.3 million, compared to $121.3 million for the same period last year. On Friday, shares of SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) advanced 0.43% to close the day at $46.75. Company return on investment (ROI) is 0.10% and its monthly performance is recorded as 0.06%. SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) quarterly revenue growth is -17.33%.

BPZ Resources (NYSE:BPZ) was upgraded by Zacks from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday. The firm currently has a $3.40 target price on the stock. Zacks‘s target price would indicate a potential upside of 11.11% from the stock’s previous close.BPZ Resources Inc (NYSE:BPZ) stock performance was 0.67% in last session and finished the day at $3.01. Traded volume was 507,162.00million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 764.57K shares. The beta of the stock remained 2.14. BPZ Resources Inc (NYSE:BPZ) insider ownership is 6.40%.