A British Columbia judge on Friday certified a class action accusing Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) of using members’ names and likenesses in advertisements without their consent, rejecting the social media giant’s argument that its terms of service stripped the Canadian court of jurisdiction over the dispute. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) net profit margin is 21.40% and weekly performance is 4.59%. On last trading day company shares ended up $63.30. Analysts mean target price for the company is $77.91. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 4.69%.
3M Company (NYSE:MMM) note issuance of up to $1.1 billion of unsecured debt was assigned an Aa2 rating by Moody’s along with a stable outlook. Moody’s also assigned an Aa2 rating to the company’s refreshed medium-term note (MTN) program. The unsecured notes are split between maturities of 5 and 30 years. 3M Co (NYSE:MMM) shares advanced 0.11% in last trading session and ended the day on $142.55. MMM gross Margin is 48.20% and its return on assets is 14.10%.3M Co (NYSE:MMM) quarterly performance is 6.45%.
E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:DD) is involved in a wide range of operations, such as agriculture (where it’s a player in seeds and genetically modified organisms), industrial biosciences, nutrition and health, performance materials, and pharmaceuticals. The company’s revenue growth has been slowing, so it has been restructuring itself, in part via spin-offs and investment in advanced biofuels, among other things. It has been shifting its focus from chemicals to agriculture, and it has been looking to unload its performance chemicals business. DuPont missed first-quarter expectations, blaming bad weather. The company’s stock yields 2.6%. E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:DD) shares moved up 0.49% in last trading session and was closed at $69.31, while trading in range of $68.63 – $69.38. E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:DD) year to date (YTD) performance is 8.14%.
Days before billionaire investor Carl Icahn launched a $12.6 billion bid to buy Clorox Co (NYSE:CLX) in 2011, one or more investors placed some very large and well-timed bets in the options market. These massive trades, which returned 600 percent in four days, attracted a bit of attention at the time. Now, three years later, the FBI and SEC have launched an insider trading investigation to determine whether Icahn tipped off gambler William Walters who, in turn, told golfer Phil Mickelson, according to multiple published reports. The Clorox Co (NYSE:CLX) ended the last trading day at $89.62. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 0.75% and price to cash ratio as 31.66.The Clorox Co (NYSE:CLX) showed a positive weekly performance of 1.77%.
Japan-based UNICHARM CORP/S ADR (OTCMKTS:UNICY) a major manufacturer of baby diapers under the well-known “MamyPoko” brand, is aiming to be the leader in all the Asian markets it competes in. On last trading day company shares ended up $12.19.