Active Watch List: Valley Financial Corp. Virginia (NASDAQ:VYFC), Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX), Ryland Group Inc. (NYSE:RYL), Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE:OWW), Cavco Industries (NASDAQ:CVCO)

Valley Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:VYFC) announced its consolidated financial results for the third quarter of 2014 and reported record quarterly net income available to common shareholders for the three months ended September 30, 2014 of $1,805,000 and $0.37 per diluted share as compared to $1,762,000 and $0.36 per diluted share for the prior year’s third quarter,…

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Morning Watch List: SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), Good Times Restaurants Inc. (NASDAQ:GTIM), InterCloud Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ICLD), HNI Corp. (NYSE:HNI)

SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), Sunedison Inc (NYSE:SUNE), and First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) are currently showing a down trend in terms of stock prices, mainly because of the declining oil prices, this does not mean that the future of energy does not belong to them. The stock prices are still up when seen from a long term…

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Worth Watching Stocks: First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR), Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NYSE:TEVA), Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida (NASDAQ:SBCF), REGI

First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November 6th. The company reported $0.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.64 by $0.23. The company had revenue of $889.00 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.05 billion. During the same quarter in the…

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Market Movers: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD), Altria Group Inc. (NYSE:MO), EPR Properties (NYSE:EPR), Southwest Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ:OKSB), S&W Seed Company (NASDAQ:SANW)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) on Nov. 11 announced the AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SoC) is powering the new Gizmo 2 development board from GizmoSphere, a nonprofit development board community. Gizmo 2 is a second-generation, open source development board, offering embedded programmers and advanced DIYers outstanding compute and graphics performance on a single platform for…

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Hot Watch List: Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE:CLF), Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE:NEM), Alkermes plc (NASDAQ:ALKS), STR Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:STRI), Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARIA)

Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE:CLF) last released its earnings data on Monday, October 27th. The company reported $0.21 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of ($0.05) by $0.26. The company had revenue of $1.30 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.28 billion. During the same quarter in the…

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Morning Watch List: Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI), Aastrom Biosciences (NASDAQ:ASTM), Yingli Green Energy (NYSE:YGE)

Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) rejected a takeover approach from Halliburton because the offer wasn’t high enough (paywall). Emails showed a counter-proposal made on “a very reasonable basis on which to reach agreement,” which it says Halliburton didn’t engage with before it went hostile on Friday, seeking to replace Baker Hughes’ entire board (paywall). Baker Hughes…

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