Market Currents

• Thursday, October 29, 2009

• 16:28 PM BMC Software (BMC): FQ2 EPS of $0.66 beats by $0.08. Revenue of $462M (-1%) vs. $463M. Raises full-year EPS guidance to $2.55-2.65 vs. $2.51. Shares +1.8% AH. (PR) Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable post-market earnings: AB, BMC, BYI, CLF, DTE, ELY, GNW, HTZ, IM, KLAC, LVS, MET, MFE, MHK, MTW, MXIM, PKI, POM, RGC, RNWK, SBAC, SPF, STAR, SWN, VAR Comment!

• Sunday, October 25, 2009

• 17:37 PM Ten names to drool over: Barron's cover story highlights 10 mid-sized tech companies likely to be consumed by bigger names: Networking - Riverbed (RVBD), Brocade (BRCD), Juniper (JNPR), F5 (FFIV); server side - BMC Software (BMC), Red Hat (RHT), Citrix (CTXS); storage - CommVault (CVLT), 3Par (PAR), NetApp (NTAP). Comment!

• Wednesday, October 7, 2009

• 08:24 AM Compuware (CPWR) to buy privately-held Gomez for $295M in cash, which it says will enable it to provide the industry's only unified APM (application performance management) solution, spanning the enterprise and internet. CPWR's main competitors: CA Inc. (CA), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), IBM (IBM) and BMC Software (BMC). (PR and slideshow) CPWR +1.7% premarket. Comment!

• Wednesday, August 5, 2009

• 09:00 AM Premarket gainers: INO +42%. RDN +37%. GRMN +20%. PMI +18%. WFMI +16%. USU +14%. BZ +11. TRA +11%. LYG +11%. FWLT +10%. OWW +10%. AIB +8%. RBS +7%. FIG +6%. BCS +5%. CNO +6%. HW +5%. SATC +5%. SAY +4%. ABAT +4%. DVN +4%.
  Losers: ACAS -21%. ISPH -9%. PWR -6%. AXL -6%. HCP -5%. BMC -5%. RIG -4%. Comment!

• Tuesday, August 4, 2009

• 16:35 PM BMC Software (BMC): FQ1 EPS of $0.59 beats by $0.10. Revenue of $450M (+3%) vs. $441M. Sees full-year EPS of $2.47-2.57 vs. $2.42. Shares +0.3% AH. (PR) Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Tuesday's close: ACAS, AUY, BID, BMC, BRE, CAR, CBL, CEDC, CEPH, CTRP, ERTS, FRT, HLS, JLL, KFT, PL, PXD, SOLR, TSRA, UDR, UNM, VCLK, WFMI, XCO 1 Comment

• Wednesday, May 13, 2009

• 09:02 AM Premarket gainers: QTM +7%. VNDA +5%. FTR +4%. SHPGY +4%. ETFC +3%. SNY +3%. AMD +2%.
  Losers: MDCO -44%. KRG -23%. SOLR -18%. CNB -18%. AIB -17%. BMR -14%. CTIC -14%. RBS -13%. MGM -12%. ODP -11%. NAT -11%. ING -11%. HBAN -10%. CLF -10%. AAAW -10%. BBT -9%. BCS -9%. LYG -9%. UBS -8%. AXA -8%. GNW -7%. BMC -7%. ACGY -7%. RAD -7%. DB -7%. HBC -7%. AXL -7%. ALU -7%. FIG -7%. FLEX -7%. RTP -7%. MBI -6%. HIG -6%. CNO -6%. VIP -6%. ABK -6%. RF -5%. FITB -5%. DPTR -5%. SI -5%. ABB -5%. Comment!

• Tuesday, May 12, 2009

• 16:27 PM BMC Software (BMC): FQ4 EPS of $0.64 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $479M (+2.6%) vs. $487M. Shares -5.8% AH. (PR) Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Tuesday's close: AMAT, BMC, PAAS, SOLR Comment!

• Wednesday, February 4, 2009

• 16:23 PM BMC Software (BMC): FQ3 EPS of $0.64 beats by $0.05. Revenue of $488M (+6.4%) in-line. Sees 2009 EPS of $2.20-2.30 vs. $2.19. Shares +3.7% AH. (PR) Comment!
• 15:10 PM Notable earnings after Wednesday's close: AIZ, AKAM, ATML, ATW, AVB, BMC, CBL, CNQR, CSCO, EFX, EOG, EQR, FMC, HAR, HRS, NDN, NVLS, ONNN, PHM, PRU, REG, SUN, THQI, TMK, V, XRAY Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Wednesday's close: AIZ, AKAM, ATML, ATW, AVB, BMC, CBL, CNQR, CSCO, EFX, EOG, EQR, FMC, HAR, HRS, NDN, NVLS, ONNN, PHM, PRU, REG, SUN, THQI, TMK, V, XRAY Comment!

• Thursday, October 30, 2008

• 16:39 PM BMC Software (BMC): FQ2 EPS of $0.56 beats by $0.05. Revenue of $467M (+11%) in-line. Shares -1.4%. (PR) Comment!
• 15:10 PM Notable earnings after Thursday's close: ACS, AKAM, AMCC, ARNA, BARE, BMC, BVN, CEM, CHK, CPT, CTV, DRC, ERTS, ESRX, FBN, GFIG, JAVA, KLAC, MCRS, MEE, MFE, MNST, O, OII, ONNN, PSYS, PWAV, QSFT, RSG, SBAC, SGMS, SPN, SQNM, SWN, THOR, UNM, VSEA, WRI, WYNN, XL Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Thursday's close: ACS, AKAM, AMCC, ARNA, BARE, BMC, BVN, CEM, CHK, CPT, CTV, DRC, ERTS, ESRX, FBN, GFIG, JAVA, KLAC, MCRS, MEE, MFE, MNST, O, OII, ONNN, PSYS, PWAV, QSFT, RSG, SBAC, SGMS, SPN, SQNM, SWN, THOR, UNM, VSEA, WRI, WYNN, XL Comment!