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6/18/2021 12:06pm
Wall Street in Fives - Must Read Lists at Midday

Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these Top Fives, as compiled by the editors of The Fly. 


1. STOCK NEWS: 

  • CAI International (CAI) agreed to be acquired by Mitsubishi HC Capital for $56 per share [more]
  • Orphazyme (ORPH) received a complete response letter from the FDA following its review of the arimoclomol application [more]
  • Athira Pharma (ATHA) CEO Leen Kawas was placed on temporary leave pending a review of actions stemming from research conducted while at Washington State University [more]
  • Fox Corp. (FOXA) announced a $2B incremental stock repurchase plan [more]
  • Sykes Enterprises (SYKE) agreed to be acquired by Sitel Group for $54 per share [more]


2. WALL STREET CALLS: 

  • Biogen (BIIB) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper Sandler [more]
  • CuriosityStream (CURI) double-downgraded to Underperform at BofA on valuation [more]
  • Wolfe Research upgrades Delta (DAL), Alaska Air (ALK) and United Airlines (UAL) on "pent-up demand scenario" [more]
  • BofA ups Nvidia (NVDA) target to $900, sees data center sales tripling by 2025 [more]
  • New Oriental Education (EDU) downgraded to Hold from Buy at HSBC [more]


3. AROUND THE WEB: 

  • eBay (EBAY) is set to sell its South Korea business to a local consortium for $3.1B, FT reports [more]
  • A toy shortage is threatening the U.S. holiday sales season amid China shipping woes, NY Post says [more]
  • Shell (RDS.A) is backing a roughly $56M project to create Europe's largest battery, NY Times says [more]
  • The New York Times (NYT) and sports site The Athletic have ended their merger talks, The Information reports [more]
  • Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) COVID-19 vaccine is not turning out to be the game changer officials had hoped, NY Times reports [more]


4. MOVERS: 

  • Geron (GERN) rises after publishing data from the IMbark Phase 2 clinical trial [more]
  • The GEO Group (GEO) gains after disclosing CEO George Zooley bought 166,600 shares of its common stock [more]
  • DocuSign (DOCU) higher after Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives raised the firm’s price target on the stock to $290 and kept an Outperform rating on the shares [more]
  • Ares Commercial (ACRE) lower after announcing a 6.5M share offering priced at $15.82 [more]
  • Micron (MU) dips after Cleveland Research analyst Chandler Converse downgraded the stock to Neutral from Buy [more]


5. EARNINGS: 

  • Adobe (ADBE) gains after reporting better than expected Q2 results [more]
  • Smith & Wesson Brands (SWBI) rises after upbeat quarterly report [more]
  • Codexis (CDXS) higher after raising its FY21 revenue guidance [more]
  • U.S. Steel (X) falls after guiding Q2 earnings [more]
  • Dynagas LNG (DLNG) lower after reporting better than expected Q1 results [more]


INDEXES: 

Near midday, the Dow was down 388.06, or 1.15%, to 33,435.39, the Nasdaq was down 110.58, or 0.78%, to 14,050.78, and the S&P 500 was down 39.21, or 0.93%, to 4,182.65.

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