4 Best Performing Stocks You Should Buy Today (ADP, ACT, ACTG, ACI)

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/22/2013 -- Shares of Automatic Data Processing Incorporated (NYSE: ADP) traded down 1.33% during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $63.57. Automatic Data Processing Incorporated has a one year low of $50.89 and a one year high of $65.05. The stock’s 50-day moving average is currently $61.82. The company has a market cap of $30.833 billion and a P/E ratio of 22.47.

Automatic Data Processing Incorporated (NYSE: ADP) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 5th. The company reported $0.72 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.63 by $0.09. The company had revenue of $2.75 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.72 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.68 earnings per share. Automatic Data Processing Incorporated’s revenue was up 6.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Automatic Data Processing Incorporated has set its FY13 guidance at $2.86-2.91 EPS. On average, analysts predict that Automatic Data Processing Incorporated will post $2.90 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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Actavis, Inc. Com (NYSE:ACT) reported EPS in 0.76. For the Current Fiscal year, the company is expected to report EPS of 8.02. For the Next Quarter and Next Year, the company is expected to report EPS of 1.92 and 8.98 respectively. At Current Market Price, ACT is in the distance of +3.58% from its 50-day Moving Average price of $87.0039 and +4.40% from its 200-day Moving Average price of $86.3255.

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Acacia Research Corp. (NASDAQ:ACTG) on Thursday said its units Advanced Data Access LLC, Smart Memory Solutions LLC, and Semiconductor Technology LLC have entered into a settlement and license agreement with semiconductor devices manufacturer Micron Technology, Inc. (MU) and its units Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc., and Micron Technology Texas, LLC.

Acacia, which acquires, develops, licenses and enforces patented technologies, said the agreement resolves litigation that was pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

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Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE:ACI) climbed up 3.27% to $5.68 on a traded volume of 2.45 million shares. Nomura Securities upgraded Arch Coal Inc. from reduce to neutral and increased the price target to $6.00 from $5.00. Arch Coal, Inc. is a coal producer.

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