Watch List: HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY), Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN), Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), SouFun Holdings Ltd (NYSE:SFUN)

Posted by on Jul 01, 2014

On June 25, 2014, HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY), is a U.S. based vacation rental service that lets users rent out their second homes. The company has now hit 1 million listings. HomeAway hit 500,000 listings in the second half of 2010, which is more than 5 years after launching, but it took less than a year to double that number. HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY), net profit margin is 4.60% and weekly performance is 4.78%. On last trading day company shares ended up $34.82. Analysts mean target price for the company is $42.23. HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWAY), distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 9.52%.

Wells Fargo downgraded its rating on shares of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), Friday morning to “Market Perform” from “Outperform.” Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), advanced 0.10% in last trading session and ended the day on $48.81. VRSN, Gross Margin is 80.80% and its return on assets is 25.20%. Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), quarterly performance is -9.46%.

On June 16, 2014, Shares of Yelp Inc. (NYSE:YELP) Closed trading session at a high of $74.92 having moved up by 13.79% after news broke out that Priceline.Com had shown intention to acquire OpenTable (NASDAQ:OPEN) for $2.6 billion. The surge in the market can be attributed to the fact that Yelp and OpenTable have complimentary business models. Yelp on its part can help users find, assess and rate local business with OpenTable mainly focused on booking dining reservations for users.Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), shares moved down 0.78% in last trading session and was closed at $76.68, while trading in range of $76.20 – 78.10. Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), year to date (YTD) performance is 11.21%.

Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), has earned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the twenty-two analysts that are covering the company, StockRatingsNetwork reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, eight have issued a hold recommendation and eight have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $9.76. Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), ended the last trading day at $6.62. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 5.17% and price to cash ratio as 4.35. Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), showed a positive weekly performance of 2.00%.

Shares of SouFun Holdings Ltd traded between $9.55 and $9.84 before ending the session 0.31% higher at $9.72. SouFun Holdings Ltd’s stock reported a trading volume of 4.37 million shares, below its three months average volume of 7.04 million shares. Shares of the company traded at a PE ratio of 13.14. Although, SouFun Holdings Ltd’s shares have advanced 5.19% in the previous three trading sessions, it has declined 24.71% in the last one month and 41.03% on YTD basis. SouFun Holdings Ltd (NYSE:SFUN), net profit margin is 46.70% and weekly performance is 8.06%. On last trading day company shares ended up $9.79. Analysts mean target price for the company is $14.98. SouFun Holdings Ltd (NYSE:SFUN), distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -13.22%.

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