$2.48
7.6%
Littelfuse Inc. stock surged to $35.28. The Des Plaines-based company, which makes fuses and circuit protectors for electronics, said it expects to earn as much as 37 cents a share in the first quarter. Analysts are expecting 33 cents a share.
$3.38
9.8%
Shares of Avon Products Inc. climbed to $38.00. The world’s largest door-to-door seller of cosmetics posted its first profit increase in six quarters. Fourth-quarter revenue increased 9.4 percent, to $2.6 billion.
$5.69
14.7%
Bankrate Inc. stock jumped to $44.47. The advertising-based provider of personal finance services said that, excluding some items, it earned 27 cents a share in the fourth quarter. Analysts had expected 23 cents a share.
$1.01
4.7%
Corning Inc. stock rose to $22.37. Shares of the biggest maker of glass for liquid-crystal displays are “remarkably undervalued,” a Lehman Brothers analyst wrote in a note to investors.
$1.15
3.5%
Nvidia Corp. stock gained to $33.52. The third-largest maker of graphics chips for computers was upgraded to “overweight” from “neutral” at JPMorgan.
-$1.71
13.5%
Shares of Prestige Brands Holdings Inc. tumbled to $10.99. The maker of Chloraseptic sore-throat medicines reported $80.1 million in fourth-quarter revenue, missing estimates of $86.4 million.
