Active Stocks in Focus: Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POM), Aviv REIT, Inc. (NYSE:AVIV), Exelis Inc. (NYSE:XLS)

Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POM) announced its Q3 revenues dropped 2.3% year/year to $1.31B as compared the $1.72B consensus. Shares of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POM) opened at $27.33 with 251.52 million outstanding shares and hit to its highest price of $27.36 during the day and finally closed at $27.34 by scoring 0.15%. In the whole session, it traded on volume of 1.6 Million shares, which turned higher than its average volume.Aviv REIT, Inc. (NYSE:AVIV) announced that its third quarter funds from operations of $0.47 as compared to $0.48 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate. AVIV is trading higher on news that Omega (OHI) to purchased all of the outstanding shares of Aviv in a stock-for-stock merger for consideration equivalent to $34.97 a share, or a transaction value of $3B. Aviv REIT, Inc. (NYSE:AVIV) stock hit highest price at $34.71, beginning with a price of $34.22 to the closed at 33.73 by a gain of 12.06% with a day range of $30.10-$34.71. The total market capitalization remained 1.594 Billion, total volume of 5.11 Million shares held in the session was surprisingly higher than its average volume of 285.60 shares.Exelis Inc. (NYSE:XLS) declared that its third quarter earnings of $0.32 a share, $0.02 lower than the Capital IQ Consensus anticipates of $0.34. The firm earned $1.5B in funded orders during the third quarter of 2014, including new business in its strategic growth platforms. On the other consideration, Exelis Inc. (NYSE:XLS) begun last trade with a price of $17.24 and throughout the trading session climbed at $17.91. The day-trade ended with an increase of 4.26% to closed at $17.85.