5 of Last Week's Biggest Losers
There's never a shortage of losers in the stock market.
Let's take a closer look at five of this past week's biggest sinkers.
Company | Nov. 2 | Weekly Loss | My Watchlist |
|---|---|---|---|
Active Network (NYS: ACTV) | $5.42 | (40%) | |
Western Union (NYS: WU) | $11.95 | (33%) | |
Vringo (ASE: VRNG) | $2.77 | (31%) | |
Glu Mobile (NAS: GLUU) | $2.56 | (21%) | |
VIVUS (NAS: VVUS) | $14.33 | (18%) |
Source: Barron's.
The Big Board's biggest sinker last week was Active Network. The leading provider of online registrations for marathons, triathlons, and other organized events was running the wrong way after a poorly received quarterly report.
Active Network's eyeing a larger-than-expected sequential dip in revenue for the fourth quarter, and targeting another net loss on top-line growth of 12% to 14% in 2013 was shy of what the market was expecting.
Western Union bounced like a bad check after the money-transfer giant offered up unimpressive guidance. Western Union is lowering prices in key markets in a move to combat competitive pressures, and that obviously won't help results in the near term.
Vringo stumbled after a judge moved to narrow the window of prior damages that the company can go after in its patent infringement suit against several dot-com bellwethers.
Several analysts moved to downgrade Glu Mobile on Friday after the app maker posted troublesome guidance. It sees a widening deficit for the period, expecting revenue to come in as much as 27% below Wall Street's top-line target.
VIVUS shed some weight after health-care research firm IMS Health reported that physicians have been writing far fewer prescriptions for VIVUS' anti-obesity drug, Qsymia, than Wall Street was expecting this quarter.
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