Market Maker Surveillance Report. AEZS, REVU, MU, KERX, AONE, GFA, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Mon
April 2, 2012 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. 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 Monday there were 3582 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3870 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2113 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with the highest net sell volume on Monday and lowest negative price Friction (bearish). This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices dropped faster with less Friction. AETERNA ZENTARIS INC (NASDAQ:AEZS), PRINCETON REVIEW INC (NASDAQ:REVU), MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), KERYX BIOPHARMACEUTICALS (NASDAQ:KERX), A123 SYSTEMS, INCORPORATION (NASDAQ:AONE), GAFISA SA-ADR (NYSE:GFA). 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 AEZS $-1.410 -65.89% 10,709,125 43.53% 13,836,952 56.25% -3,127,827 -22,183 REVU $-0.020 -35.48% 1,289,486 31.68% 2,780,747 68.32% -1,491,261 -745,631 MU $-0.050 -0.56% 12,885,204 47.37% 14,214,310 52.25% -1,329,106 -265,821 KERX $-3.240 -65.06% 16,612,925 46.61% 18,102,712 50.79% -1,489,787 -4,598 AONE $-0.100 -8.93% 3,837,857 41.72% 5,360,095 58.27% -1,522,238 -152,224 GFA $-0.250 -5.30% 2,198,157 27.91% 3,522,974 44.74% -1,324,817 -52,993Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have low price friction combined with more selling than buying (negative Net Volume) 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 AEZS down $-1.41000 with a Friction Factor of -22,183 and a Net Volume of -3,127,827. That means that it takes 22,183 more shares of selling than buying to drop AEZS by one penny. On Monday the Market Makers allowed the stock to move down on heavier selling than buying (low negative friction).
AETERNA ZENTARIS INC (NASDAQ:AEZS) - terna Zentaris Inc. operates as a late-stage drug development company specialized in oncology and endocrinology. Its lead oncology compounds include perifosine, an orally active PI3K/Akt pathway inhibitor that is in Phase III registration trial for multiple myeloma; and AEZS-108, a doxorubicin-targeted conjugate in Phase II for the treatment of advanced ovarian and endometrial cancer. The companys lead endocrinology compound, AEZS-130, is an oral ghrelin antagonist in Phase III trial as a diagnostic test for Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency. Its pipeline also includes earlier-stage compounds, such as AEZS-112 that is in a Phase I trial in advanced solid tumors and lymphoma, as well as AEZS-120, an anti-cancer vaccine in pre-clinical development. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Quebec City, Canada.
PRINCETON REVIEW INC (NASDAQ:REVU) - The Princeton Review, Inc. provides integrated classroom-based, print, and online products and services to the high school and post-secondary markets in the United States and internationally. Its Test Preparation Services division provides live and online test preparation courses, as well as individual and small group tutoring in test preparation and academic subjects. This division also offers test preparation courses through its independent international franchisees, and sells 165 print and software titles on test preparation, academic admissions, and related topics under the Princeton Review brand. As of December 31, 2009, the company had 20 franchises operating in 21 countries internationally. The companys Supplemental Educational Services division provides tutoring and supplemental educational services under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to students in schools and school districts in the United States. Its Penn Foster division provides online job-training and career accreditation programs. This division offers career-focused online degree and vocational programs primarily through its Penn Foster College, Penn Foster Career School, and Penn Foster High School to approximately 200,000 students worldwide. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
KERYX BIOPHARMACEUTICALS (NASDAQ:KERX) - Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including cancer and renal disease. The companys products under development include KRX-0401 (perifosine), a phase III clinical stage product, which is an oral anti-cancer agent that inhibits Akt activation in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway, and also affects other pathways associated with programmed cell death, cell growth, cell differentiation, and cell survival; and Zerenex (ferric citrate), an oral iron-based compound, which completed phase II clinical stage for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in patients with end-stage renal disease. It has strategic alliances with AEterna Zentaris Inc.; Panion & BF Biotech, Inc.; Japan Tobacco Inc.; and Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the manufacture and commercialization of its products. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York.
A123 SYSTEMS, INCORPORATION (NASDAQ:AONE) - A123 Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and battery systems primarily in the United States. Its batteries and battery systems are based on its Nanophosphate technology for application development in the transportation, electric grid services, and consumer markets. The company also offers its products worldwide. It has a joint venture with SAIC Motor Co. Ltd. to develop, manufacture, and sell complete vehicle traction battery systems for use in hybrid electric vehicles, and electric vehicles in China. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.
GAFISA SA-ADR (NYSE:GFA) - Gafisa S.A. operates as a homebuilder in Brazil. It engages in the development of residential buildings, including luxury buildings comprising swimming pools, gyms, visitor parking, and other amenities for upper-income customers; buildings for middle-income customers; and entry-level housing for lower-income customers. The companys brands include Tenda, which serves the entry-level housing segments; Gafisa that offers various residential options to the mid to higher income segments; and Alphaville, which focuses on the identification, development, and sale of residential communities. It also develops land subdivisions and commercial buildings; and provides construction services, such as residential and commercial projects building services to third parties. The company serves development and construction service clients. Gafisa S.A. is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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