Active Stocks in Focus: Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:ATK), National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV), Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI),

Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:ATK) released that its second quarter earnings of $3.00 a share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.06 improved than the Capital IQ Consensus anticipated of $2.94. The firm Orders for the quarter were $0.9B, dropped from $1.5B in the prior-year quarter. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:ATK) begun last trade with a price of $118.04 and throughout the trading session climbed at a high of $118.50. The day-trade ended with -9.19% to $110.19. The stock is going forward to its 52 week low with 3.17% and lagging behind from its 52 week high price with -29.96%. ATK last month stock price volatility remained 2.73%.National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV) released that its third quarter earnings of $1.61 a share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.07 improved than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $1.54. Ending backlog for the Q3 of 2014 was $14.34B for the firm's Rig Systems segment and $2.09B for the firm's Completion & Production Solutions segment. National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV) has the market capitalization of 30.444 Billion. Shares of firm plunged -2.71% to close at $70.76 with the total traded volume of 6.96 Million. The firm has current ratio of 2.30 for the most recent quarter.Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) declared that its third quarterearnings of $0.51 a share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.05 improved than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.46. The firm issues in-line outlook for FY14, sees EPS of $1.85-1.92, excluding non-recurring items, vs. $1.86 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate. Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) stock price closed at $24.57 with the total traded volume of 2.49 Million shares. Its price to sales ratio ended at 1.28. Its market capitalization is 4.983 Billion. The stock owned by the Financial Institutions was 83.30% while by insiders was 1.02%.