Here are some of the more prominent movers on Tuesday:
Stock gainers:
Lowe’s Companies Inc.’s stock
LOW,
+1.72%
jumped 1.7% in afternoon trading, after the home improvement retailer beat fiscal first-quarter profit expectations. While same-store sales fell more than forecast, they outperformed rival Home Depot Inc.
HD,
+1.47%,
and the lowered full-year profit guidance range still bracketed Wall Street projections.
PacWest Bancorp shares
PACW,
+7.74%
rose 7%, a day after a 20% rally from selling a discounted portfolio of real estate loans. The extended gains, with the stock up 60% in five days, helped fuel a broad rally in the regional bank sector. The SPDR Regional Banking exchange-traded fund
KRE,
+0.99%
climbed 2.0% with 134 of its 143 equity components gaining ground.
Yelp Inc. shares
YELP,
+5.72%
surged about 6% after the Wall Street Journal reported an activist investor is calling on the company to consider selling to boost its value.
Shares of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.
WH,
+5.12%
rallied nearly 7% after The Wall Street Journal reported that fellow hotel chain Choice Hotels International Inc.
CHH,
-4.56%
was looking to buy the company. Choice Hotels shares slumped 4.6%.
American International Group Inc. shares
AIG,
+3.35%
hiked up 4.2%, after the insurer announced an agreement to sell its treaty reinsurance business to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. for $2.74 billion in cash and $250 million worth of RenaissanceRe shares. That helped lift RenaissanceRe’s stock
RNR,
+3.89%
by 4.1%.
Tegna Inc.’s stock
TGNA,
+2.61%
tacked on nearly 3% after the TV-station operator announced a $300 million “accelerated” stock buyback and raised its quarterly dividend by 20% following the termination of a merger deal with the hedge fund Standard General.
Stock decliners:
Shares of BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.
BJ,
-7.26%
dropped nearly 8% after the membership-based warehouse retailer reported fiscal first-quarter profit that matched expectations but revenue that missed.
Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s stock
ZM,
-8.07%
took a 7.5% hit, reversing an initial 5% jump after hours Monday, as the videoconferencing company topped Wall Street expectations across the board on results and forecasts.
U.S. Foods Holdings Corp.’s stock
USFD,
-3.69%
sank nearly 4% after the foodservice distributor said shareholder KKR Fresh Holdings LP was offering 17.4 million shares for sale.
Lordstown Motors Corp. shares
RIDE,
-5.30%
slumped more than 5% after the electric vehicle maker declared a 1-for-15 reverse stock split, that will be effective May 24.
Shutterstock Inc. shares
SSTK,
-1.46%
fell 1.4% after the the digital media and marketing company announced an agreement to buy GIF and stickers company Giphy Inc. from Meta Platforms Inc. for $53 million in cash. Meta’s stock
META,
-0.64%
eased 0.4%.
Achieve Life Sciences Inc.’s stock
ACHV,
-23.80%
plunged 26%, as investors expressed disappointing in the data that came from a second confirmatory late-stage trial of its cytisinicline for quitting smoking and nicotine dependence.
Guardant Health
GH,
-3.28%
shares fell 2.2% after the cancer testing company announced a secondary offering of its stock.
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