In Focus Stocks: Nuance Communications, Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE:CXW), Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA), Athersys (NASDAQ:ATHX)

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Adecoagro S.A. (NYSE:AGRO) shares fell -9.39% in last trading session and ended the day at $11.39. AGRO Gross Margin is 27.90% and its has a return on assets of 0.20%. Adecoagro S.A. (NYSE:AGRO) quarterly performance is -5.71%.

Adecoagro S.A. (NYSE: AGRO) announced that it has commenced a public offering of 12,000,000 of its common shares to be sold by certain selling shareholders, subject to market and other conditions. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC will act as sole bookrunner for the offering. The selling shareholders have granted the underwriter the right to purchase up to 1,800,000 additional common shares. The underwriter can exercise this right once at any time within 30 days after March 21, 2016. Adecoagro will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale by the selling shareholders of the common shares in this offering.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) ended the last trading day at $19.15. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 2.39% and price to cash ratio as 10.29. Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) showed a weekly performance of -4.25%.

ON 17 March, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN) announced that TalkTalk has chosen Nuance’s voice biometrics technology to improve the customer experience in their automated phone system. This innovative authentication solution is being integrated with TalkTalk’s intuitive interactive voice response (IVR) system, which uses Nuance’s natural language understanding (NLU) technology to allow customers to speak naturally instead of navigating through a phone menu. Customers at TalkTalk can now use the sound of their voice to easily and securely confirm their identity when calling in for service.

On 22 March, Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE:CXW) shares advanced 1.08% and was closed at $31.73. CXW EPS growth in last 5 year was 6.10%. Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE:CXW) year to date (YTD) performance is 19.78%.

Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE:CXW) announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.54 per share to be paid on April 15, 2016 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 1, 2016.

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (NASDAQ:FOXA) shares fell -0.04% in last trading session and ended the day at $27.96. FOXA Gross Margin is 37.50% and its has a return on assets of 4.90%. Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (NASDAQ:FOXA) quarterly performance is 3.69%.

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (NASDAQ:FOXA) declared a dividend of $0.15 per Class A and Class B share. The dividend declared is payable on April 13, 2016 with a record date for determining dividend entitlements of March 9, 2016.

Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHX) caters to the Healthcare space. Its weekly performance is 13.52%. On the last day of trading company shares ended up at $2.64.

On 10 March, Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHX) reported total revenues were $10.6 million compared to $0.2 million in the same period in 2014, reflecting the recognition of the full $10 million license fee that we received in 2015 from Chugai upon the termination of the collaboration in October 2015 and an increase in grant revenue. Research and development expenses decreased to $5.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 from $5.6 million in the 2014 fourth quarter, primarily due to reduced clinical and preclinical development costs, which vary based on trials underway and clinical manufacturing campaigns.

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