Market Update After Hours December 24
Market Summary
| Dow Jones |
13,139.08 |
-51.76 |
(-0.39%) |
| S&P 500 |
1,426.66 |
-3.49 |
(-0.24%) |
| Nasdaq |
3,012.60 |
-8.41 |
(-0.28%) |
Gainers
Liberty Interactive (Ventures group) (NASDAQ:LVNTB) 65.32 +5.41 (9.03%) , Liberty has purchased a total of 4,799,848 shares of common stock of TripAdvisor from Barry Diller and The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation at a price of $62.50 per share
Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA (ADR) (NYSE:GOL) 5.83 +0.40 (7.37%), the Company started the process of winding up the activities of its subsidiary Webjet and the discontinuation of its brand.
Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE:RAD) 1.31 +0.08 (6.50%) Rite Aid Corp. here on Thursday reported net income of $61.9 million during the fiscal third quarter that ended Dec. 1 – the company’s first quarterly profit in more than five years.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (NYSE:PPC) 7.49 +0.37 (5.20%) Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (PPC) announced that it will voluntarily transfer its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to The NASDAQ Global Select Market. “As part of our effort to reduce costs and optimize value for our stockholders, we determined that the move to NASDAQ will provide our stockholders the most cost-effective services available in the market today,” said William Lovette, President and CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride.
Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) 12.40 +0.54 (4.55%) On Dec 18th 2012 Group Vice President Ziad Ojakli sold 25,000 shares for a total amount of $289,500.00.
Losers
Companhia Energetica Minas Gerais (ADR) (NYSE:CIG.C) 11.30 -1.44 (-11.30%), deadline expired to receive a $769 million dividend from the Brazilian electric utility.
Companhia Energetica Minas Gerais (ADR) (NYSE:CIG) 12.23 -0.64 (-4.97%)
AU Optronics Corp. (ADR) (NYSE:AUO) 4.30 -0.22 (-4.87%) . The company announced its preliminary consolidated November 2012 revenue of NT$33,901 million, up by 1.4% month-over-month and up by 10.9% year-over-year.
Sterling Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:STSA) 20.32 -0.95 (-4.47%) Compass Point initiated coverage on Sterling Financial Corporation with a Neutral rating and a $20 price target.
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) 26.06 -1.21 (-4.44%) the company said it will hold a meeting with analysts and investors on January 10, instead of January 7 announced earlier. HLF has hired Moelis & Co. as a strategic adviser.
After Hours Most Active
NYSE Ten Most Active Share Volume
| Symbol | Company | Last Sale | Share Volume |
| F | Ford Motor Company |
$12.31 |
5,112,031 |
| BAC | Bank of America Corporation |
$11.23 |
471,665 |
| UAL | United Continental Holdings, Inc. |
$23.86 |
361,605 |
| AKS | AK Steel Holding Corporation |
$4.42 |
273,267 |
| GE | General Electric Company |
$20.81 |
179,782 |
| XOM | Exxon Mobil Corporation |
$86.80 |
153,867 |
| T | AT&T Inc. |
$33.83 |
147,498 |
| UPS | United Parcel Service, Inc. |
$74.58 |
145,308 |
| PFE | Pfizer, Inc. |
$25 |
144,004 |
| USB | U.S. Bancorp |
$32.37 |
123,894 |
NASDAQ Ten Most Active Share Volume
| Symbol | Company | Last Sale | Share Volume |
| QQQ | PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 |
$64.98 |
932,155 |
| RIMM | Research in Motion Limited |
$10.56 |
317,593 |
| INTC | Intel Corporation |
$20.61 |
265,542 |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corporation |
$27.05 |
234,835 |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems, Inc. |
$19.79 |
215,874 |
| QCOM | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
$62 |
184,426 |
| FB | Facebook, Inc. |
$26.93 |
140,557 |
| VOD | Vodafone Group Plc |
$25.14 |
131,394 |
| SBAC | SBA Communications Corporation |
$70.74 |
103,216 |
| MU | Micron Technology, Inc. |
$6.23 |
97,211 |
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Post Written By: Ed Liston
Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.
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