Stocks With Major Declaration: Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CCK), Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS), Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB), Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM)

Applied Materials, Inc.(NASDAQ:AMAT) declared Q4 net income of $290 million or $0.23 per share, in contrast to $183 million or $0.15 apiece, last year. Revised earnings per share came in $0.27, for the quarter. On average, 19 experts surveyed by Thomson Reuters predicted the firm to declare profit per share of $0.27 for the quarter. Experts’ targets normally omit special items.Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CCK) hits new labor deal with International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers. The company recently declared that it has hit a new multi-year labor deal with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers Local 450 surrounding the firm’s beverage can manufacturing plant in Kankakee, Illinois.Total System Services, Inc.(NYSE:TSS) declared a new licensing deal with FICO (FICO), the predictive analytics and decision management software firm. The deal would provide a revolutionary, analytics-powered marketing product for card issuers named TSYS Targeted MessagingSM powered by FICO. This is an element of a wider analytics solution suite from TSYS scheduled for launch in 2015 that would authorize financial institutions to make more precise marketing decisions for involving cardholders and driving growth.Kimberly Clark Corp(NYSE:KMB) approves new 40 million shares of common stock or $5 billion share buyback program and announces $0.84/share quarterly dividend. The company approved a new share buyback plan for almost 40 million shares of common stock or $5 billion. The authorization boosts the present 50 million share authorization from January 2011 that is predicted to be finalized in the initial quarter of 2015.Akamai Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ:AKAM)the major supplier of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, declared on Thursday that it would be taking part in the Wells Fargo Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in New York, NY. CFO Jim Benson would present an update on Akamai's service offerings.