Recap for Traders: Empire State Realty Trust, (NYSE:ESRT), Energy Transfer Partners, (NYSE:ETP), Star Gas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:SGU), Sprague Resources (NYSE:SRLP), Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX)

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ESRT) shares fell -2.01% in last trading session and ended the day at $16.07. ESRT Gross Margin is 54.90% and its has a return on assets of 0.80%. Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ESRT) quarterly performance is -9.34%.

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world’s most famous building.

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ESRT) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $0.085 per share/unit for the third quarter 2015, payable to holders of the Company’s Class A common stock and Class B common stock and to holders of Empire State Realty OP, L.P.’s (“ESRO”) Series ES, Series 250 and Series 60 operating partnership units (NYSE Arca: ESBA, FISK and OGCP, respectively) and Series PR operating partnership units. The dividends will be payable in cash on September 30, 2015 to stockholders and unitholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2015.

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE:ETP) ended the last trading day at $47.71. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 2.59% and price to cash ratio as 14.80. Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE:ETP) showed a weekly performance of -3.73%.

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. is a master limited partnership. The Company’s operating segments include Intrastate Transportation and Storage segment; Interstate Transportation and Storage segment; Midstream segment; Liquids Transportation and Services segment; Investment in Sunoco Logistics segment; Retail Marketing segment and All Other segment.

On August 21, 2015, Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE:ETP) completed the previously reported transaction in which it sold, assigned, transferred and conveyed to Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (“ETE”) 100% of the incentive distribution rights (the “SUN IDRs”) of Sunoco LP (“SUN”) and all of the issued and outstanding membership interests (the “SUN GP Interests”) in Sunoco GP LLC, the general partner of SUN (“SUN General Partner”), and in exchange ETE transferred to ETP 21.0 million common units representing limited partner interests (“ETP Common Units”) in ETP (the “Exchange Transaction”), pursuant to an Exchange and Repurchase Agreement (the “Exchange and Repurchase Agreement”) by and among ETE, ETP and Energy Transfer Partners GP, L.P., the general partner of ETP (“ETP GP”).

On 04 September, Star Gas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:SGU) shares advanced 0.11% and was closed at $9.44. SGU EPS growth in last 5 year was -15.40%. Star Gas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:SGU) year to date (YTD) performance is 60.52%.

Star Gas Partners, L.P. (Star Gas Partners) is a home heating oil distributor and services provider that principally provides services to residential and commercial customers to heat their homes and buildings. The Company sold home heating oil to approximately 404,000 full services residential and commercial home heating oil customers and propane to approximately 10,000 propane customers.

Sprague Resources LP (NYSE:SRLP) shares advanced 2.51% in last trading session and ended the day at $21.65. SRLP Gross Margin is 7.10% and its has a return on assets of 9.40%. Sprague Resources LP (NYSE:SRLP) quarterly performance is -19.44%.

Sprague Resources LP (Sprague Resources) is engaged in the purchase, storage, distribution and sale of refined products and natural gas, and provides storage and handling services for a range of materials. The Company operates through four segments: refined products, natural gas, materials handling and other operations. The Company’s refined products segment purchases a range of refined products, such as heating oil, diesel fuel, residual fuel oil, asphalt, kerosene, jet fuel and gasoline and sells them to its customers.

Sprague Resources (NASDAQ:SRLP) had its price target trimmed by Barclays from $29.00 to $27.00 in a research note issued to investors on Monday, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports. The brokerage currently has an equal weight rating on the stock.

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) caters to the Healthcare space. Its weekly performance is -11.70%. On the last day of trading company shares ended up $10.26. Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -13.18%.

Novavax, Inc. (Novavax) is a clinical-stage vaccine company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of recombinant nanoparticle vaccines and adjuvants. The Company through its recombinant nanoparticle vaccine technology produces vaccine candidates to respond to both known and newly emerging diseases.

Novavax, Inc., (NASDAQ:NVAX) announced that it will host its 3rd annual Analyst and Investor Meeting on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. ET in New York, NY.