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Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis is Tech Insider's Senior Equity Research analyst covering Internet and Interactive Entertainment. Prior to joining TI in 2011, Chris spent six years at Baird Capital having established the company’s Internet and Video Game research practice. Prior to Wall Street, Chris was a business analyst developing software at Chubb Corporation, and was a co-founder and CFO of Latin American career services website Detacuche.com. Chris appears frequently in the financial and industry press, including CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, among others.

Today’s Hot List : BP (NYSE:BP), Progenics Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:PGNX), Supertel Hospitality (NASDAQ:SPPR), Unum (NYSE:UNM), Comtech Telecommunications. (NASDAQ:CMTL)

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BP plc (NYSE:BP) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 8th will be given a dividend of 0.585 per share on Friday, September 19th. This represents a $2.34 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 6th.BP plc…

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Stocks to Watch: Masco (NYSE:MAS), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAD), Kforce Inc. (NASDAQ:KFRC), Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE:NSC)

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TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Masco Corporation (NYSE:MAS) as a buy. The company’s strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the…

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Investors Are Watching : Banco Bradesco (NYSE:BBD), Qlik Technologies (NASDAQ:QLIK), Albany Molecular Research Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRI), CNB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:CCNE), Credicorp (NYSE:BAP)

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Banco Bradesco S.A. (NYSE:BBD) Brazil’s second-largest private-sector lender, beat second-quarter profit estimates by a large margin on Wednesday after managing to incorporate the impact of higher borrowing costs into earnings. Banco Bradesco S.A. (NYSE:BBD)’s stock on 30 July traded at beginning with a price of $15.69and when day-trade ended the stock finally decreased -1.02% to…

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Thursday’s Stocks : Altria Group (NYSE:MO), Altera (NASDAQ:ALTR), Artesian Resources Corp. (NASDAQ:ARTNA), BroadVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:BVSN), Pembina Pipeline Corporation (NYSE:PBA)

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Altria Group Inc. (NYSE:MO) is the largest tobacco producer in the United States. It owns the industry’s most valuable brand—Marlboro. The company’s stock has performed incredibly well for the first part of 2014—up 9 percent, which isn’t bad for a defensive company. But I think that this outperformance is about to change. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE:MO)’s…

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Investors Alert – Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX), UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) , UTStarcom (NASDAQ:UTSI) , Heritage Oaks (NASDAQ:HEOP) , Infosys (NYSE:INFY)

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Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) had its price objective hosited by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $12.00 to $13.00 in a report released on Wednesday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. currently has an underweight rating on the stock. Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) stock performance was 0.47% in last session and finished the day at $12.84. Traded volume was 9.79million…

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Market Movers – Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) , Linn Energy (NASDAQ:LINE) , Ellington Financial (NYSE:EFC) , LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE:LYB) , Carolina Financial (NASDAQ:CARO)

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Verizon Communications Inc, (NYSE:VZ) the largest U.S. wireless telecommunications company, on Tuesday reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue on a jump in wireless customers and a surge in tablet sales. The increase in customers is a boost for Verizon, which has been reluctant to follow rivals like T-Mobile US Inc which have discounted aggressively. Verizon Communications Inc….

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