Stocks Getting Investor’s Focus: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP), Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU)

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has lost an attempt to dismiss lawsuits by state attorneys general accusing it of conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares after opening at $520.27 moved to $521.64 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $517.96. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 2.66 and price to cash ratio as 11.35. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) showed a negative weekly performance of -1.05%.

Yelp (NASDAQ:YELP) COO Geoffrey Donaker sold 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $69.79, for a total transaction of $1,744,750.00. Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP) shares advanced 1.81% in last trading session and ended the day on $63.06. YELP return on equity ratio is recorded as -3.90% and its return on assets is -3.60%. Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP) yearly performance is 145.27%.

Ericsson (ADR) (NASDAQ:ERIC) announced on Monday that its strategy head, who completed five years in the company, has resigned and is due to exit it in August. Ericsson (ADR) (NASDAQ:ERIC) shares moved down -0.31% in last trading session and was closed at $12.69, while trading in range of $12.56 – $12.78. Ericsson (ADR) (NASDAQ:ERIC) year to date (YTD) performance is 7.45%.

Baidu Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) said Tuesday that the company has formally launched its own mobile payment service ‘Baidu Wallet. Baidu Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) weekly performance is 2.99%. On last trading day company shares ended up $155.47. Baidu Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -4.75%.