Posts Tagged ‘KV-A’

KV just the tonic, NVDA hooks up, QTWWD spooked

Monday, February 14th, 2011

KV Pharmaceutical Co. (NYSE: KV.A) shares screamed higher 39.7%, to $6.12, on volume of 6.0 million, or eight times its normal daily volume. KV said Monday it expects to raise $32 million through a private placement of Class A stock

Nvidia Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) dealt in 29.4 million shares Monday, surpassing a daily average of 24.7 million. Prices for NVDA subsided, though, by 1.6% to $23.10, after announcing over the weekend partnerships with Samsung and Atmel.

Quantum Fuel systems Technological Inc. (Nasdaq: QTWWD) eased in price by 15.6% Monday to $6.06. Volume was 271,711 shortly before the close, or more than five times its average, after announcing a quarterly operating loss of $4.9 million.

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SDIX soars, BAC busy, KV troubled

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: SDIX) shares shot higher 42.5 percent Wednesday to $2.65, on volume of 2,094,668 shares, towering over its full-day average of about 31,000. SDIX announced Wednesday its RapidChek SELECT Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) test system has been reviewed by FDA and determined to be equivalent in accuracy, precision and sensitivity to their current standard methods for poultry house environmental drag swabs and pooled egg testing.

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) traded in 113,699,846 shares noon Wednesday, nearly half its all-day average. Prices for BAC moved forward 1.8 percent to $14.95, as part of a general upward trend for bank stocks.

K-V Pharmaceutical Company (NYSE: KV.A) fell 21.9 percent Wednesday to $1.78. Volume for the stock was 1,722,746 shares or nearly five times its daily verage, after the company said it was “evaluating its liquidity outlook” in light of a delay by U.S. regulators over approval of a treatment to prevent preterm birth.

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KV surges, BAC trades, JTX swoons

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

KV Pharmaceutical CLA (NYSE: KV-A) increased 14.69 percent in price Wednesday to $2.42. Volume was 480,021 shares, rapidly catching up on its daily average of 548,417. The St. Louis-based KV announced today that it has entered into an agreement with US Healthcare I, L.L.C. and US Healthcare II, L.L. C. affiliates of New York-based Centerbridge Partners, L.P for a senior secured debt financing package of up to $120 million.

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) was a volume leader Wednesday, dealing in 71,100,577shares, compared to its three-month daily average of 196,016,000. The carmaker saw its stock price skid 1.63 percent to $11.74. BAC was ordered by a U.S. judge to return $500 million of deposits it seized from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc shortly after Lehman’s record bankruptcy.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (NYSE: JTX) fell in price by noon Wednesday by 18.88 percent to 82.74 cents. Volume was 1,954,063 shares, more than four times its three-month daily average.

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