Most Active Stock In Pre-market: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA)

Posted by on Apr 24, 2014

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 23rd, American Banking & Market News reports. Investors of record on Monday, May 12th will be given a dividend of 3.29 per share on Thursday, May 15th. This represents a $13.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.51%. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), stock opened today at $568.21 and is currently trading at $561.71. The stock showed a positive weekly performance of 1.31%.

Equities researchers at Jefferies Group raised their price target on shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), from $80.00 to $85.00 in a research report issued on Thursday, Analyst Ratings Network reports. The firm currently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Jefferies Group’s price objective suggests a potential upside of 38.53% from the company’s current price. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), stock opened at $63.60, in current trading session and currently is at $60.18, by losing -1.92%. The 52 week range of $22.67 – $72.59. Company’s market capitalization is $153.50 billion.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 9th, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. Investors of record on Monday, April 21st will be paid a dividend of 0.60 per share on Tuesday, May 20th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.34%. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), stock is currently trading at $104.97 and currently trading at $107.40. The EPS of the stock is 5.75. Company’s market capitalization is $67.59 billion.

SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Stifel Nicolaus in a report released on Thursday, AmericanBankingNews.com reports. They currently have a $80.00 price objective on the stock, down from their previous price objective of $100.00. Stifel Nicolaus’ price objective would indicate a potential upside of 50.97% from the company’s current price. SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA), stock opened the session at $51.00, and now is at $49.27. The 52 week range of the SINA stock remained $47.37 – $92.83 and the day range was $48.88- $51.06.

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