Stocks Gaining Momentum (MCP, NXY, HCA, URBN, FDO, TRIP)

Los Angelas, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/11/2012 -- Molycorp Inc. (NYSE:MCP) shares rose nearly 20 percent in heavy trading to outperform all other Colorado stocks Monday.

Shares of MCP were up 19.69 percent, or $1.76, to end at $10.70. The stock, which normally trades about 7 million shares daily, saw more than 22.3 million shares change hands.

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Nexen Inc. (USA) (NYSE:NXY) held volume of 77.16 million shares with 530.03 million shares outstanding and 529.48 million shares floated in market. P/E ratio of the company was 37.18 and in the past twelve months company scored revenue of $6.79 billion and had $380.49 million in earnings. The stock gave a gross margin of +70.71% whereas operating margin was +24.74%.

Nexen kicked off the trading session at $26.96 and during the session edged up 13.82% and finally settled at $26.77. The latest dividend per share paid to stockholders in recent quarter, also known as div/yield was 0.75% for the firm. Beta value, the measure of stock’s risk in relation to its market or alternative benchmark was 1.51.

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HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HCA) has announced an ex-dividend date of December 13, 2012 and a cash dividend payment of $2 per share scheduled for December 21, 2012. Shareholders who purchased HCA stock prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. At the current stock price of $33.87, the dividend yield is 23.62%.

The previous trading day's last sale of HCA was $33.87, representing a -1.31% decrease from the 52 week high of $34.32 and a 70.54% increase over the 52 week low of $19.86.

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Urban Outfitters, Inc. (NASDAQ:URBN) is +2.4 at $39.40, with 138,292 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 7 up revisions for the earnings forecast, for the fiscal quarter ending Jan 2013. The consensus EPS forecast is $0.52. URBN's current last sale is 93.81% of the target price of $42.

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Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FDO) has announced an ex-dividend date of December 12, 2012 and a cash dividend payment of $0.21 per share scheduled for December 27, 2012. Shareholders who purchased FDO stock prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. This marks the 4th quarter that FDO has paid the same dividend. At the current stock price of $71, the dividend yield is 1.18%.

The previous trading day's last sale of FDO was $71, representing a -4.99% decrease from the 52 week high of $74.73 and a 33.89% increase over the 52 week low of $53.03.

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TripAdvisor Inc. (NASDAQ:TRIP) shares climbed more than 7% Tuesday, to $41.05 after Liberty Interactive said it has acquired voting control of the online travel information company. Liberty said it bought 4.8 million shares of Trip Advisor stock, for $62.50 a share, in a deal valued at $300 million.

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