4 – SunPower Corporation – NASDAQ:SPWR
3 – Hoku Scientific – NASDAQ:HOKU
2 – VMware – NYSE:VMW
1 – BIDZ.com – NASDAQ:BIDZ
* Last Wednesday, mortgage insurers MGIC Investment and Radian Group said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has requested information about their failed $5 billion merger and a related subprime venture on the brink of collapse. The venture named Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization, better known as C-BASS, has agreed to distribute its assets to creditors in a restructuring that would enable C-BASS to avoid bankruptcy. Shares of Radian fell 81 cents or 7.66% to $9.76 Monday.
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of solar electric power products primarily in the
Hoku Scientific, Inc., (NASDAQ:HOKU) a materials science company, focuses on clean energy technologies. The company designs, develops, and manufactures membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) and membranes for proton exchange membrane.
* Shares of Hoku Scientific rose 38.85% as the provider of clean energy products inked a $306 million, eight-year supply deal with Solarfun. Hoku will deliver polysilicon to Solarfun, which produces photovoltaic cells and modules in
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) and its subsidiaries provide virtualization solutions worldwide. Its virtualization solutions separate the operating system and application software from the underlying hardware to achieve improvements in efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability.
* VMware fell $7.40 or 9.39% to $71.44 on Monday after a report by Cowen & Co. suggesting that the stock was overvalued. The report noted VMware could see upside potential in the fourth quarter but the underlying trend in numbers shows that growth is likely to decelerate by mid-2008. EMC holds an 86% stake in VMware. Cowen kicked off its coverage of EMC with a neutral rating.
BIDZ.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDZ) operates as an online retailer of jewelry primarily in the
* The chief operating officer of online jewelry auctioneer Bidz.com exercised options for 55,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last Tuesday. In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, Claudia Liu reported exercising the options on Friday and Monday for $3.75 apiece and then selling the same number of shares on the same days for $16.79 to $17.82 apiece. Bidz.com is a roughly $400 million company whose stock has risen 125% since its May initial public offering. Shares of BIDZ soared Friday, gaining 14%, and lost $3.38 or 16.95% to $16.56 Monday on extremely heavy trading.
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