Hot Stocks Now: Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE: REI), Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOX)
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Shares of Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE: REI) declined -7.36% to $12.47 on Tuesday. Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE MKT: REI) (the “Company”) declared recently that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 4,500,000 shares of its common stock to the public at $12.50 per share. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 675,000 shares of common stock from the Company at the offering price (less the underwriting discounts and commissions). The Company anticipates to close the sale of the shares of common stock on July 21, 2017, subject to customary closing conditions. Net proceeds to the Company from the sale of 4,500,000 shares will be about $53.5 million, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund its 2017 capital expenditure program and for other general corporate purposes.
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and Seaport Global Securities LLC are acting as joint book-running managers in the offering. Capital One Securities, Inc., Euro Pacific Capital Inc., IBERIA Capital Partners L.L.C., Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Northland Securities, Inc., and Roth Capital Partners are acting as co-managers.
The stock settled at $12.47 per share, after floating in a range of $12.20 to $12.91. The stock moved on high volume, traded at a volume of 3.10 million shares, as compared to its average daily volume of 478,117 shares. The market capitalization for the company is reported at $613.109 Million.
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOX) opened at $27.26. It reached an intraday trading high of $27.27 and closed at $27.20. The stock price declined -0.03 points or -0.11% at the market. The total volume traded for the day is 2.18 lower as compared to its average daily volume of 2.46 shares. Trading volume, or volume, is the number of shares or contracts that point towards the overall activity of a security or market for a given period. Trading volume is a key technical indicator an investor uses to identify momentum in a stock and confirm a trend or trend reversal. Volume gives an investor an idea of the price action of a security and whether he should buy or sell the security.
Trading volume can also signal when an investor should take profits and sell a security because of low activity. If there is no relationship between the trading volume and the price of a security, this signals weakness in the current trend and a possible reversal.
The current EPS for the company has been recorded at $1.64 and the beta value recorded by the company stands at 1.29 points.