The Street Ratings upgraded Bio-Rad from hold to buy. The company’s strengths are: its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels, reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins and increase in stock price during the past year. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:BIO) shares after opening at $121.23 moved to $121.97 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $120.08. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 1.62 and price to cash ratio as 5.69. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:BIO) showed a negative weekly performance of -5.08%.
The new company created following the sale of The Washington Post, Graham Holdings Co (NYSE:GHC), has sold its Miami television station, to WPLG-TV, to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The sale was previously announced last month, but the signed agreement has just occurred. Graham Holdings Co (NYSE:GHC) shares fell -1.62% in last trading session and ended the day on $681.37. GHC return on equity ratio is recorded as 8.30% and its return on assets is 4.60%. Graham Holdings Co (NYSE:GHC) yearly performance is 53.91%.
TheStreet Ratings team rates InterCloud Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ICLD) as a Sell with a ratings score of D. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:We rate INTERCLOUD SYSTEMS INC (ICLD) a SELL. This is driven by a few notable weaknesses, which we believe should have a greater impact than any strengths, and could make it more difficult for investors to achieve positive results compared to most of the stocks we cover. InterCloud Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ICLD) shares moved up 2.57% in last trading session and was closed at $5.99, while trading in range of $5.81-$6.27. InterCloud Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ICLD) year to date performance is -67.37%.
SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) is not having a good time in the market from last one week as investors get wary before the initial public offering of its social blogging unit Weibo. The initial public offering will shrink SINA’s valuation. Weibo is expected to go public by offering 20 million shares for $17 to $19. The valuation can exceed to as much as $3.9 billion. It intends to use a part of the proceeds for repaying the loans to Sina. The social blogging is more of Twitter-like service offering the users with both social and media functionality.SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) weekly performance is -6.92%. On last trading day company shares ended up $52.46. SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA) distance from 50-day simple moving average is -20.38%. Analysts mean target price for the company is $91.33.