Feb 11 Wednesday Morning Notes

GNW is out with earnings this AM. The embattled stock's IV was off the charts going into the report, at 225% for the weeklys, pricing a move of 1.41 or 18.1%. The stock closed at 7.81 and hit an ETH low of 6.05, then recovered back to 8. It traded as high as 9.16 and is currently trading around 8.44. It makes an avg earnings move of 8.46% and a max move of 14% and min of -38%. I don't have post earnings move data for it.

Any commentary that looks professional is from www.marketwatch.com:

Rite Aid’s RAD, +7.52%   stock rallies 4% in premarket trade after quarterly results. The pharmacy chain said it has agreed to buy TPG’s EnvisionRx in deal valued at about $2 billion.

PepsiCo PEP, +2.15% PEP, +2.15% shares rose after the company beat earnings expectations and announced share repurchases and dividend increases.
Avg/Max/Min post earnings moves:

PEP

2.0

4.05

0.75

AKAM is out with earnings and is trading up 4% in the pre-mkt at 64.75.

AKAM

4.8

7.27

1.77

PXD is out with earnings and is getting knocked 5.8% in the pre-mkt, trading at 144 after closing at 153.

PXD

4.7

9.2

1.66

ZTS is out with earnings as well and is trading 1.8% higher on 6300 shares traded.

ZTS

2.8

5.16

1.82

Shares of First Solar Inc. FSLR, +1.38%   are up 3% in premarket, after the company said late Tuesday that Apple has committed $848 million in a power-purchase agreement.

Pier 1 Imports Inc. PIR, -32.82%  plummeted 32%, after the company cut its earnings-per-share outlook for fiscal 2015 on Tuesday evening.