Losers in Focus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD), USG Corporation, Patterson Companies, Key Energy Services

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) shares fell 3.70% and closed at $2.60. The company this week announced the North American launch of its Gaming Evolved title "Crysis 3." Working closely with Crytek, elite AMD engineers optimized "Crysis 3" to enable incredible performance on AMD Radeon(TM) graphics cards, powered by the award-winning AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The AMD/Crytek alliance accelerates "Crysis 3" with the world's fastest(1) graphics processing unit (GPU), the AMD Radeon(TM) 7970 GHz Edition. This announcement comes just two weeks after the launch of the highly acclaimed "Never Settle: Reloaded" bundle from AMD.

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USG Corporation (NYSE:USG) shares dropped 3.70% to $27.09. The company, on Feb. 6, reported a significantly narrower fourth-quarter 2012 net loss of $13 million, or $0.11 per share, versus a $100 million, or $0.95 per share loss a year ago. Analysts expected loss per share of $0.27 for the quarter. Operating loss from continuing operations was $8 million this quarter, compared with a $43 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2011. Quarterly net sales from continuing operations of $815 million, were up 12 percent from last year's $726 million. Analysts estimated revenues of $789.97 million for the quarter.

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Patterson Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PDCO) shares dropped 3.67% and closed at $35.69 in the last trading session after the company yesterday reported a third quarter net income of $53.63 million or $0.52 per share, up from $53.11 million or $0.50 per share in the same period last year. Revenues totaled $915.86 million, up from $895.03 million last year. Analysts' expected revenues of $907.54 million.

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Key Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:KEG) shares fell 3.67% to $8.41. Dahlman Rose maintained KEG with a Hold and raised the price target from $8.00 to $10.00 on Feb. 19.
Additionally, the company, on Feb. 14, reported fourth quarter 2012 consolidated revenues of $466.5 million, generating income from continuing operations of $13.5 million, or $0.09 per share. Third quarter 2012 consolidated revenues were $490.9 million with income from continuing operations of $22.1 million, or $0.15 per share.

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