Hot Stocks in Focus: Avis Budget Group Inc., Vringo, Inc., Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation, Oi SA

Lakeway, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/25/2013 -- ThePennyStockProfiler.com, an investment community with a special focus on updating investors with recent news on the U.S. stock market, issues news alert on the following stocks:-

Avis Budget Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CAR) shares gained 4.74% and closed at $23.64. CAR and Zipcar, Inc, the world’s leading car sharing network, last week announced that the waiting period under the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, expired on February 11, 2013 in connection with Avis Budget’s previously announced agreement to acquire Zipcar. The closing of the transaction remains subject to other customary conditions, including approval by Zipcar shareholders and review by UK competition authorities.

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Vringo, Inc. (NYSE:VRNG) shares jumped 4.58% and closed at $3.20 in the last trading session. The company, on Feb. 21, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vringo Germany GmbH, extended its patent infringement lawsuit against the ZTE Corp. China, and its German subsidiary, ZTE Deutschland GmbH (ZTE). The pleading, filed in the District Court of Mannheim, alleges infringement of the German part of European Patent 1,186,119.

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Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:SWHC) shares gained 4.56% to $9.18. Anne Simpson, a senior portfolio manager at The California Public Employees' Retirement System, talks about the vote by Calpers' board to divest its $5 million in shares of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. and Sturm Ruger & Co. because the companies make weapons banned in the state.

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Oi SA (ADR) (NYSE:OIBR) shares climbed 4.55% to $3.68. Telemar Participacoes SA announced that on January 22, 2012 it approved the election of Mr. Jose Mauro Mettrau Carneiro da Cunha to hold a post of Chief Executive Officer of Oi SA in replacement of Mr. Francisco Tosta Valim Filho. Simultaneously, Mr. Jose Mauro Mettrau Carneiro da Cunha resigned from his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oi SA and indicated his alternate, Mr. Jose Augusto da Gama Figueira, to be a new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oi SA.

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