5 Stocks You Need To Know About For Today

Abercrombie & Fitch
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missed by 0.06. Quarterly earnings, however, rose 34%. SG Cowan
advises buying the stock on weakness.

Applied Materials
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beat  by 0.09, but net income fell 16% in Q3. The company said
orders this quarter will rise 5-10% sequentially.

Rockwood Holdings
(ROC) debuts its IPO today–20 million shares at $23. This is below the initial
range of  $23 – $26.

Q3 earnings at Hewlett Packard
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fell sharply, but profits topped estimates by 0.05. The stock was upgraded at
Bank of America, Bear Stearns and First Albany.

Photronics
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beat by by 0.05.

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