Services Sector

Services Sector Touching New Lows: Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS), ADT Corp (NYSE:ADT), CONN’S (NASDAQ:CONN), CHC Group Ltd (NYSE:HELI)

Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) on Mar. 6 announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on Staples, Inc. common stock of $0.12 per share. The dividend is payable on April 17, 2014, to shareholders of record on March 28, 2014. Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) stock performance was -2.43% in last session and finished the day at $11.22. Traded volume was 22.10 million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 11.38 million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.50. Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) insider ownership is 0.10%.

ADT Corp (NYSE:ADT) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January 30th. The company reported $0.43 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.06. ADT Corp (NYSE:ADT) dropped -1.81% to $28.23 yesterday on volume of 5.68 million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $28.06 – $29.07. ADT Corp (NYSE:ADT) has a market capitalization of 5.53 billion.

Morgan & Morgan announces that class action lawsuits have been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, on behalf of all purchasers of Conn’s, Inc. common stock (“Conn’s” or “Company”) (NASDAQ:CONN) between April 3, 2013 and February 19, 2014, inclusive (the “Class Period”), alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. CONN’S, Inc. (NASDAQ:CONN)’s stock on March 13, 2014 reported a lower of -4.21% to the closing price of $31.85. Its fifty two weeks range is $31.80 – $80.34. The total market capitalization recorded 1.15 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 1.72 million shares. In its share capital, CONN’S, Inc. (NASDAQ:CONN) has 35.96 million outstanding shares.

CHC Group Ltd. (NYSE:HELI), the parent company of CHC Helicopter, today reported its financial performance for the fiscal-2014 third quarter, which ended Jan. 31. On Thursday, shares of CHC Group Ltd (NYSE:HELI) dropped -13.37% to close the day at $7.71. Company return on investment (ROI) is 2.00% and its monthly performance is recorded as -17.01%.