Hot Stocks in Focus: Chemtura Corporation, Teradyne, MFA Financial, VeriFone Systems

Lakeway, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/06/2013 -- Bestdamnpennystocks, 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:-

Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CHMT) shares climbed 2.71% and closed at $21.22. CHMT’s stock was downgraded by Oppenheimer from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note issued this week.

Additionally, the company released its earnings data on Monday, February 25th. The company reported $0.27 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $622.00 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $684.00 million.

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Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) shares gained 2.69% to $17.19. HP announced that Teradyne has selected HP FlexNetwork architecture to improve operational efficiency, reduce network downtime and boost design-phase efficiency for new products. Teradyne designs and manufactures automatic test equipment for the world’s leading electronics companies.

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MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:MFA) stock increased 2.68% to $9.18. Research analysts at Deutsche Bank increased their target price on shares of MFA from $9.25 to $9.50 in a report released yesterday. The firm currently has a “hold” rating on the stock.

The company also recently declared a special dividend, which is scheduled for Wednesday, April 10th. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share. This represents a yield of 8.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 13th.

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VeriFone Systems Inc (NYSE:PAY) shares climbed 2.67% and closed at $19.25 after the company yesterday reported first-quarter net income of $11.8 million or $0.11 per share, compared to a net loss of $3.1 million or $0.03 per share for the year-ago quarter. Adjusted earnings per share for the first quarter were $0.51, compared to $0.58 in the prior year quarter. Net revenue for the first quarter rose to $428.75 million from $419.52 million a year ago, while adjusted net revenue increased to $429.65 million from $425.20 million last year. Analysts expected the company to earn $0.48 per share on revenue of $426.17 million for the first quarter.

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