Big Gainers: StemCells, Inc., ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc., Michael Kors Holdings Ltd, Masco Corporation, Avon Products, Inc.

Lakeway, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/12/2013 -- 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:-

StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) jumped up 25.83% to $2.07 on a traded volume of 710k shares. The Company announced that the twelve-month data from the first patient cohort in the Company's Phase I/II clinical trial of its proprietary HuCNS-SC product candidate for chronic spinal cord injury continued to demonstrate a favorable safety profile and showed that the considerable gains in sensory function observed in two of the three patients at the six-month assessment have persisted. The third patient remains stable.

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ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. (NASDAQ:ZIOP) increased 12.78% to $4.50. The Company announced that the Phase 3 trial of palifosfamide in first-line metastatic soft tissue sarcoma has reached its target number of progression-free survival events. PICASSO 3 is an international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial whose primary endpoint is PFS. The Company will announce topline results from this trial during the last week of March 2013.

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Michael Kors Holdings Ltd (NYSE:KORS) surged up 12.39% to $64.05 on a traded volume of 1.99 million shares. The Company announced third quarter results. Total revenue increased 70.4% to $636.8 million. Gross profit increased 72.8% to $383.5 million. Income from operations was $204.8 million and as a percentage of total revenue was 32.2%. Net income was $130.0 million or $0.64 per diluted share compared to net income of $39.0 million or $0.20 per diluted share in the third quarter of fiscal 2012.

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Masco Corporation (NYSE:MAS) went up 8.09% to $19.23. The company announced fourth quarter results. Net sales from continuing operations increased 9% to $1.9 billion. North American sales increased 12% and international sales decreased 1%. Gross profit margins were 25.0% compared to 21.9%. Income from continuing operations was $0.04 per common share compared to $(0.09) per common share.

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Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE:AVP) augmented 11.40% to $19.24. The Company reported fourth quarter loss of $162.2 million or 37 cents per share compared to loss of $400,000 or nil per share in the prior year period. The revenue fell 1% to $3 billion. On an adjusted basis, Avon had a profit from continuing operations of 37 cents per share, beating Wall Street analyst estimates by 10 cents.

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