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Small Cap Bearish Stocks: Tutor Perini Corp (NYSE:TPC), GenMark Diagnostics, Inc (NASDAQ:GNMK), Benefitfocus Inc (NASDAQ:BNFT), Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP)

Tutor Perini Corporation (NYSE:TPC), a leading civil and building construction company, today announced that it will host a conference call at 7:30 AM Pacific Time on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, to discuss the Company’s first-quarter 2014 results. Tutor Perini Corp (NYSE:TPC) stock performance was -5.02% in last session and finished the day at $29.16. Traded volume was 265.90K shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 283.06K shares. The beta of the stock remained 2.18. Tutor Perini Corp (NYSE:TPC) insider ownership is 18.00%.

GenMark Diagnostics (NASDAQ:GNMK) is set to post its Q114 quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 6th. Analysts expect GenMark Diagnostics (NASDAQ:GNMK) to post earnings of ($0.25) per share and revenue of $6.40 million for the quarter. GenMark Diagnostics, Inc (NASDAQ:GNMK) dropped -5.38 percent to $8.80 Monday on volume of 281.00K shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $8.67 to $9.19. GenMark Diagnostics, Inc (NASDAQ:GNMK) has a market capitalization of $369.20million.

Benefitfocus Inc (NASDAQ:BNFT) updated its second quarter earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ($0.72)-($0.70) for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of ($0.64). Benefitfocus Inc (NASDAQ:BNFT)’s stock on May 5, 2014 reported a decrease of -6.83% to the closing price of $32.60. Its fifty two weeks range is $29.29 -$77.00. The total market capitalization recorded $817.72million. The overall volume in the last trading session was 318.20K shares. In its share capital, BNFT has 25.08million outstanding shares.

Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP) said Chief Financial Officer Leroy M. Ball was promoted to the position of chief operating officer. Ball, 45, will retain his responsibilities as CFO until a successor is named, the Downtown-based wood products company said. On Monday, shares of Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP) dropped -8.00% to close the day at $39.19. Company return on investment (ROI) is 13.40% and its monthly performance is recorded as -5.09%. Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP) quarterly revenue growth is 2.03%.