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Hot Stocks: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT), LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD), Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS), Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S)

Hot Stocks: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT), LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD), Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS), Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S)
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Blake Magnuson
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October 13, 2014
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT), a bellwether of the retail industry, warned in August that heavy discounting would likely continue into the holiday shopping season as consumers were still concerned about the cost of living and employment. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) in last trading activity increased 0.55% to close at $78.29. Company weekly performance is 1.25% while its quarterly performance stands at 2.27%. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is -2.57% away from its 52 week high.LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD) SVP James Kevin Scott unloaded 6,250 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, October 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $206.41, for a total value of $1,290,062.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 58,364 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $12,046,913. On last trading day LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) fell -3.84% to close at $194.23. Its volatility for the week is 4.36% while volatility for the month is 3.48%. LNKD's sales growth for past 5 years was 80.90% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 45.90%. LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) monthly performance is -14.29%.According to reports, Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS) has announced the introduction of the new facility for all of its commercial cardholders. A new announcement has been made as a part of its multi-staged transformation program to improve the user experience and functionality to administrators and issuing banks. On last trading day Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS) fell -1.42% to close at $29.18. Its volatility for the week is 1.87% while volatility for the month is 1.40%. TSS's sales growth for past 5 years was 3.80% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 0.20%. Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS) monthly performance is -7.66%.Sprint Corp. (NYSE:S) this week finally announced a death date for its defunct WiMAX network. While it hasn't sold WiMAX devices to subscribers since about mid-2012, the news may come as a bit of a shock for the handful of holdouts that are clinging to older devices. They will now be forced to either live with 3G data speeds, or accept Sprint's offer of a free LTE upgrade. Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) in last trading activity fell -3.01% to close at $5.80. Company weekly performance is -7.20% while its quarterly performance stands at -31.28%. Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) is -49.43% away from its 52 week high.Lakeland and Alpha Pro Tech Ltd. (NYSEMKT:APT) have a variety of protective suits depending on the environment, but Lakeland does not make a ventilation and filtration system like Alpha Pro’s N95 particulate face mask, Bremer said. On Friday shares of Alpha Pro Tech Ltd. (NYSEMKT:APT) closed at $7.43. Company's sales growth for last 5 years was 4.10% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 15.00%.

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