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U.S. Silica

5/18/2013, 9:32 AM ET

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Friday, May 3, 11:58 AM The bigger the better when it comes to oil services providers, Jefferies believes, making the case that the big sector players are best positioned to fix inefficiencies of operations and thus ultimately will see the largest benefit from the surge in U.S. production. The firm's favorites: SPN, SLCA, PES, HP, ESV, NOV, CAM, HAL, SLB. Comment! [Energy, Quick Ideas]
Tuesday, April 30, 3:50 PM Today's plunge in U.S. Silica (SLCA -3.3%) following Q1 earnings is slowed after Morgan Stanley upgrades shares to Overweight from Equal Weight with a $25 price target; the firm cites valuation, favorable fundamentals and the announcement of a regular dividend. Shares had slumped as much as 14.5% in morning trading. Comment! [Commodities, Quick Ideas, On the Move]
Tuesday, April 30, 10:13 AM U.S. Silica Holdings (SLCA) initiates quarterly dividend of $0.125/share, payable on July 03 to shareholders on record of June 19. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Tuesday, April 30, 8:53 AM U.S. Silica (SLCA): Q1 EPS of $0.35 misses by $0.01. Revenue of $122.3M beats by $0.6M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Wednesday, April 17, 5:45 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:15 p.m.: CONE +9%. SLCA +4%. MXIM +4%. LNC +4%. MHR +3%.
After-hours top losers: SCSS -7%. CCK -4%. SNDK -3%. NAVB -3%. EBAY -2%. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, March 12, 12:50 PM Midday top 10 gainers: BOSC +23%. EMITF +19%. OCZ +18%. CLIR +17%. XNY +16%. CIS +14%. GLUU +13%. TLF +12%. ENPH +12%. CAB +12%.
Midday top 10 losers: RVP -15%. FREE -14%. EMAN -13%. LAKE -13%. CBMX -13%. SHOS -12%. CALI -11%. AVG -11%. SLCA -10%. HIMX -10%. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, March 12, 8:45 AM U.S. Silica (SLCA) -5.8% premarket on news GGC USS Holdings, an affiliate of top shareholder Golden Gate Capital, will sell 8.5M shares of SLCA’s common stock in an underwritten offering. SLCA will not receive any proceeds from the offering. Comment! [Commodities, On the Move]
Monday, March 11, 6:06 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:30 p.m.: HEK +10%. IRBT +10%. PAY +8%. YUM +6%. HTZ +6%.
After-hours top losers: PWRD -9%. DMND -6%. GOV -5%. [PCRX -5%. SLCA -3%. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, February 26, 2:18 PM U.S. Silica (SLCA +18.7%) soars after its Q4 earnings beat was driven by higher than expected revenues and operating income from its oil and gas segment. Overall sales volumes increased to 1.8M tons, up 10% Y/Y. Contribution margin of $50.5M was up 32% Y/Y. Expects Q1 revenues of $115M-123M vs. $114.2M consensus. Comment! [Commodities, Earnings, On the Move]
Tuesday, February 26, 12:45 PM Midday top 10 gainers: MNOV +54%. RNIN +45%. CWH +31%. SLCA +22%. ALC +22%. NOAH +16%. GMXR +14%. PRPH +13%. EMITF +13%. FLML +12%.
Midday top 10 losers: FSGI -25%. HSII -20%. VRTB -19%. VSI -18%. TWI -16%. SSP -13%. ENMD -12%. VVUS -12%. VIPS -10%. CHMT -10%. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, February 26, 9:27 AM U.S. Silica Holdings (SLCA): Q4 EPS of $0.41. Revenue of $118.8M (+42% Y/Y) beats by $10M. Updated 9:25 a.m. Shares now +12.3% premarket. (PR) 1 Comment [Earnings, Breaking News, On the Move]
Thursday, January 10, 10:26 AM U.S. Silica (SLCA -5%) is downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies on valuation, as shares have jumped 40% since Sept. 30. While the firm remains supportive of SLCA's business fundamentals, it is not willing to get more aggressive with assumptions for capacity growth and SLCA's ability to retain 50%-plus gross segment margins over the long term. 2 Comments [Commodities, Quick Ideas, On the Move]
Monday, December 10, 2012, 4:45 PM U.S. Silica (SLCA) declares special dividend of $0.50/share. For shareholders of record Dec. 20. Payable Dec. 28. Ex-div date Dec. 18. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Friday, December 7, 2012, 12:31 PM U.S. Silica (SLCA +7.3%) initiated at Outperform with a $19 price target by Howard Weil, which believes SLCA enjoys favorable demand trends in business segments and has put into place an expansionary path to more fully address its more robust end markets. SLCA is the best investment in capturing the trend of increased volume and intensity of sand usage in the oil and gas industry. Comment! [Energy, Quick Ideas, On the Move]
Monday, October 1, 2012, 4:08 PM U.S. Silica (SLCA +6.4%) finishes higher after announcing a few management changes. William White, the company's CFO, will retire at the end of the year. Donald Merril, who was appointed vice president of Finance, will assume the CFO position upon White's retirement. The company also says that Brian Slobodow, it's chief administrative officer, will resign as an executive officer, effective October 7, 2012, but will continue to serve on the board of directors. Comment! [On the Move]
Friday, September 21, 2012, 5:24 PM U.S. Silica (SLCA) CEO Bryan Shinn says the no. 2 U.S. provider of hydraulic fracturing sand may buy additional mines as it faces increasing demand from energy producers. But that's easier said than done, since the best sand for fracking is found mostly in just three states. SLCA has sold out of its fracking sand for the rest of the year and expects demand to increase as much as 20%/year. Comment! [Energy]