Hot Specialty Chemicals Companies - Ferro (FOE), Williams Partners (WPZ), LyondellBasell (LYB)

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Ferro Corporation(NYSE:FOE) declined -3.38% and closed at $6.57 in the last trading session with the total traded volume of 5.66 million shares. That’s more than the average volume of 2.30 million. The decline on Tuesday was seen after it reported loss of $374 million for the last year, a day after Akron's A. Schulman offered $855 million to take over the Mayfield Heights company.

For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the specialty chemicals maker lost $63.9 million, or 74 cents per share, higher versus a loss of $61 million or 71 cents per share, in the corresponding period last year. Excluding certain items, Ferro said its loss was 7 cents per share.

Revenue for the quarter declined 8 percent to $405.9 million from $442.7 million, as precious metals sales moved down 29 percent, pulling down sales at all of the company's businesses. Analysts were predicting the company to report a loss of 4 cents per share on $392.5 million in revenue, according to FactSet.

FOE is now trading above its 50 day moving average of +35.69% and 200 day moving average of +68.72%. It has outstanding shares of 86.54 million with the total market cap of $568.57million and its beta value stands at 3.31 times which shows that stock is more volatile.

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Williams Partners L.P.(NYSE:WPZ) lost -48.86% to close at $48.86 and its overall volume in the last trading session was 13.34 million shares, beating the average volume of 839,959. The stock declined after the pricing of a public offering of 11,250,000 of its common units representing limited-partner interests at $49.14 per unit.

The company has decided to sell 3,000,000 of its common units to Williams (WMB) in a private placement at a price per common unit equal to the public offering price in the offering, not including the underwriting discount and commissions.

The offering is projected to end on March 8, 2013. The company intends to use the net proceeds from the public offering and the private placement to pay back amounts outstanding under the partnership’s credit facility.

WPZ hit the day high price of $49.03 and day low of $48.74. The stock is trading with negative year-to-date performance of -16.55%. It has current ratio of 0.97 and its debt-to-equity ratio is 0.93. The company has total market cap of $19.44billion.

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LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) moved up +0.55% with the closing price of $60.77 after TheStreet Ratings reiterated its buy rating on the stock. The overall volume in the last trading session was 4.69 million shares. Its fifty two week range was $35.97-$64.20. The total market capitalization remained $34.95 billion.

The stock is ahead its 52 week low with 83.25% and its last month price volatility remained 2.56%with a target price of $69.50. In its share capital, the company has 575.30 million outstanding shares while 493.95 million shares have been floated in market.

It has insider ownership of 0.44% with its institutional ownership remained 80.79%. Its current year earnings per share grew with 14.90% while the five year EPS growth rate was 33.54%.

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