Notable Gainers: Proto Labs Inc, Pioneer Energy Services Corp, Pharmacyclics, Inc., MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.

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Proto Labs Inc (NYSE:PRLB) stock gained 25.76% to $52.82. The company yesterday posted fourth-quarter profit of $7.4 million or $0.29 per share, compared with $1.50 million or $0.11 per share in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted net income was $7.9 million, or $0.31 per share, for the quarter. Revenue for the fourth quarter rose 31 percent to $33.6 million from $25.6 million in the year-ago quarter.

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Pioneer Energy Services Corp (NYSE:PES) shares increased 13.33% and closed at $8.50 in yesterday’s session after the company yesterday posted net income for the fourth quarter of $3.6 million, or $0.06 per share, compared to $6.8 million, or $0.11 per share in the year-earlier quarter. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 were $227.9 million, a 12% increase over $203.7 million of revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011. Analysts expected the company to report a loss of $0.03 per share on revenues of $224.85 million for the quarter.

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Pharmacyclics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCYC) shares gained 9.46% to $77.03 after the company day before yesterday announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the investigational oral agent ibrutinib monotherapy for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and to ibrutinib monotherapy for the treatment of patients with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM), both of which are B-cell malignancies.

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MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE:WFR) shares climbed 7.11% to $4.82. The company, this week, reported a fourth-quarter GAAP net loss of $11.8 million, or $0.05 per share, versus last year's loss of $1.48 billion, or $6.44 per share. Adjusted quarterly earnings per share stood at $0.08, as against a loss of $0.21 per share a year ago. Revenue, on a GAAP basis, totaled $600.7 million, down from last year's $717.8 million, with non-GAAP revenue amounting to $704.3 million. Analysts expected loss per share of $0.01, on $661.46 million revenue for the quarter.

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