UniFirst Corp (NYSE:UNF) registered narrower operating margins for the quarter as a result of high costs related to its plant operations. High energy prices continue to be a niggling topic not only to UniFirst, but also to all other players in the industry. Depreciation levels for the quarter also rose to unprecedented levels greatly affecting the company’s operating margins with bad debt expenses making the situation even worse. UniFirst Corp (NYSE:UNF) shares after opening at $109.00 moved to $109.00 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $101.95. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 1.49 and price to cash ratio as 14.41. UniFirst Corp (NYSE:UNF) showed a negative weekly performance of -4.88%.
TheStreet Ratings rates NetEase, Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:NTES) as a buy. The company’s strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.NetEase, Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:NTES) shares fell -5.14% in last trading session and ended the day on $66.23. NTES return on equity ratio is recorded as 24.10% and its return on assets is 19.70%. NetEase, Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:NTES) yearly performance is 24.38%.
Criteo SA (ADR) (NASDAQ:CRTO) has announced the closing of the public offering of its American Depository Shares (ADS). A total of 5.25 million ADS were offered, each representing a single ordinary share of. The shares were priced at $45 per ADS. In the just closed offering, CRTO offered $525,000 shares of its ordinary stock in the form of ADS, while some of its existing stockholders sold about 4.7 million shares. There were no proceeds which came to CRTO following the offering. It is noteworthy to mention that the offering was done by way of prospectus only. A number of institutions were involved in the offer. Deutsche Bank Securities, JPMorgan Securities, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and Jefferies acted as book-running managers in the ADS offering. The co-managers in the transaction were William Blair and Company, Pacific Crest Securities, Stifel, SG Americas Securities and Nicolaus. Criteo SA (ADR) (NASDAQ:CRTO) shares moved down -7.62% in last trading session and was closed at $37.96, while trading in range of $37.83-$41.04.Criteo SA (ADR) (NASDAQ:CRTO) year to date performance is 10.99%.
Nimble Storage Inc (NYSE:NMBL) on Mar 10, 2014 announced new performance analytics capabilities within Nimble Storage InfoSight. These forensic capabilities are key enhancements to the predictive analytics InfoSight has offered providing real-time monitoring, reporting, forecasting and planning capabilities to customers. With this deeper level of intelligence, InfoSight eliminates the time-consuming, manual process of determining how and where performance bottlenecks originate by providing automatic diagnosis and correlation of leading factors impacting performance or latency. As a result, customers are better positioned to implement specific tasks in real-time to keep their storage infrastructure running at peak health. Nimble Storage Inc (NYSE:NMBL) weekly performance is 11.23%. On last trading day company shares ended up $38.04. Nimble Storage Inc (NYSE:NMBL) distance from 50-day simple moving average is -16.43%. Analysts mean target price for the company is $55.56.