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Thu, August 11, 2011
Wed, August 10, 2011
Market Maker Surveillance Report. SMTX, EPOC, QUAD, MOTR, CNIT, PRMW, Losing Stocks With Lowest Price Friction For Wednesday,
August 10, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Wednesday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Wednesday there were 4454 companies with "abnormal" market making, 2128 companies with positive Friction Factors and 4406 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest percentage loss per share Wednesday and low price friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. SMTC CORPORATION (NASDAQ:SMTX), EPOCRATES INC (NASDAQ:EPOC), QUAD GRAPHICS INC (NYSE:QUAD), MOTRICITY INC (NASDAQ:MOTR), China Information Tech Incorporated (NASDAQ:CNIT), PRIMO WATER CORP (NASDAQ:PRMW). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .
Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:
Symbol Change Percent Buy Volume Buy %% Sell Volume Sell %% Net Volume Friction
SMTX $-0.550 -27.36% 135,542 43.96% 172,701 56.01% -37,159 -676
EPOC $-6.800 -40.74% 696,148 44.94% 844,331 54.50% -148,183 -218
QUAD $-6.750 -25.94% 153,522 23.17% 253,424 38.24% -99,902 -148
MOTR $-2.720 -59.78% 6,848,544 47.62% 7,517,382 52.27% -668,838 -2,459
CNIT $-0.430 -23.24% 391,225 30.66% 881,832 69.11% -490,607 -11,409
PRMW $-8.550 -61.42% 2,293,772 47.74% 2,405,204 50.06% -111,432 -130
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar losses (Change) and extremely low price friction in their stocks. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.
For example, the chart above shows SMTX with a dollar loss Wednesday of $-0.55000 and a Friction Factor of -676 shares. That means that it only took 676 more shares of selling than buying to move SMTX lower by one penny. This means the Market Makers are allowing the stock to drop quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and negative market direction can drive prices lower faster than normal.
SMTC CORPORATION (NASDAQ:SMTX) - SMTC Corporation provides advanced electronics manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide. The companys services include product design and engineering services, printed circuit board assembly production, enclosure fabrication, systems integration, testing, and configuration services. It also provides enclosure and precision metal fabrication, cable assembly, interconnect, and engineering design services. The company offers its integrated contract manufacturing services to OEMs and technology companies primarily in the industrial, computing and networking, communications, consumer, and medical market segments. SMTC Corporation was founded in 1985 and is based in Markham, Canada.
EPOCRATES INC (NASDAQ:EPOC) - Epocrates, Inc. develops clinical information and decision support tools that enables healthcare professionals to find answers at the point of care. It offers Epocrates Essentials, an integrated drug, disease, and diagnostic suite for mobile devices; Epocrates Rx Pro, a mobile drug reference with ID treatment guide; Epocrates Coder, a mobile guide to ICD-9 and CPT codes; Epocrates Medical Dictionary, a mobile guide to various medical terms; Epocrates Rx Free, a free mobile drug and formulary reference; Epocrates MobileCME Free, a free on-the-go learning center; and Epocrates MedTools Free, a free add-on applications for Epocrates software. The company also provides market research, formulary hosting, and medical education services. Its solutions enable communication between users and healthcare organizations, such as government agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and market research firms. Epocrates, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in San Mateo, California.
QUAD GRAPHICS INC (NYSE:QUAD) - Quad/Graphics, Inc. provides print and related services primarily in the United States, Europe, and South America. The company produces and delivers products and services designed to provide customers various solutions for communicating their messages to target audiences. Its print products primarily include catalogs, consumer magazines, special interest publications, direct marketing materials, and retail inserts. The company's print-related services comprise digital photography, digital imaging, binding, mailing and distribution, and data optimization and analytics services. It also engages in the design, development, manufacture, and service of printing-related auxiliary equipment for original equipment manufacturers and printing companies worldwide. Quad/Graphics, Inc. has a strategic partnership with HGI Company, LLC. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Sussex, Wisconsin.
MOTRICITY INC (NASDAQ:MOTR) - Motricity, Inc. provides mobile data solutions that enable wireless carriers to deliver mobile data services to their subscribers in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore. It offers a suite of hosted, managed service offerings, including mobile Web portal, storefront, messaging, and billing support and settlement, which enable wireless carriers to deliver customized, carrier-branded mobile data services. The companys mCore service delivery platform provides the tools for mobile subscribers to locate and access personally relevant and location-based content and services, engage in social networking, and download content and applications. Its mCore platform provides mobile subscribers with access to approximately 30 million pieces of third-party content or applications that the company optimizes and delivers to approximately 2,000 various mobile phone models, ranging from entry level feature phones to smart phones. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
China Information Tech Incorporated (NASDAQ:CNIT) -
PRIMO WATER CORP (NASDAQ:PRMW) - Primo Water Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides three- and five-gallon purified bottled water and water dispensers in the United States. It operates through two segments, Primo Bottled Water Exchange and Primo Products. The Primo Bottled Water Exchange segment sells three- and five-gallon purified bottled water through retailers. This segment services the retail locations through its national network of independent bottlers and distributors. The Primo Products segment sells water dispensers that are designed to dispense Primo and other dispenser-compatible bottled water through the retailers. As of December 31, 2009, the companys water bottle exchange service and water dispensers were offered in approximately 7,000 and 5,500 retail locations respectively. Primo Water Corporation was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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