Stocks to Watch: Metlife, Riverbed, SM Energy, Hertz Global

Lakeway, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/08/2013 -- 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:-

Metlife Inc. (NYSE:MET) went up 1.83% and the last traded price was $37.21. Governor Pat McCrory announced that MetLife, Inc. intends to create 2,600 jobs in Charlotte and Cary, North Carolina by the end of 2015. The Company expects to invest or cause to be invested, $125.5 million into its new Mecklenburg and Wake Countycampuses.

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Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RVBD) increased 1.82% and the last traded price was $15.63. The Company announced that, in accordance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5635 (c)(4), it has granted inducement stock options covering an aggregate of 53,000 shares of common stock and inducement restricted stock unit awards covering an aggregate of 451,950 shares of common stock to 533 non-officer employees. Certain of the recipients are former employees of OPNET Technologies, which was acquired by Riverbed in December 2012.

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SM Energy Co. (NYSE:SM) soared 3.86% and the last traded price was $59.26. BMO Capital Markets downgraded the rating on SM Energy Co. from outperform to market perform and reiterated its $65.00 price target.

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Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HTZ) was up 1.72% and the last traded price was $20.69. The Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Hertz Global Holdings, Elyse Douglas to speak at the 2013 Credit Suisse Global Services Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on March 11, 2013.

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