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Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers 4/26: FTBK, ASFN, TWPG, GRAN, HMPR Higher; CBC, PCBC, BANR, CSR Lower

April 26, 2010 12:48 PM EDT
Frontier Financial (Nasdaq: FTBK) 92.6% HIGHER; continuing higher following's last week's crazy momentum. The stock jumped almost 30% on Friday. Volume is extremely heavy today.

Atlantic Southern Financial (Nasdaq: ASFN) 72.7% HIGHER; regional banking stocks have been all the rage lately.

Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG) 64.9% HIGHER; Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Thomas Weisel in a deal valued at $300 million.

Bank of Granite (Nasdaq: GRAN) 42.2% HIGHER; no news; moving sharply with the majority of the regional banking sector.

Hamton Roads Bankshares (Nasdaq: HMPR) 42% HIGHER; regional banker.

Digirad Corporation (Nasdaq: DRAD) 26.4% HIGHER; today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. FDA, enabling the Company to market and distribute its ergo large field-of-view, general-purpose portable imaging system.

Capitol Bancorp (NYSE: CBC) 17.5% LOWER; to offer 2.5 million shares at $3/share.

Pacific Capital Bancorp (Nasdaq: PCBC) 16.6% LOWER; traders are likely taking profits today; shares of the stock have not closed in negative territory since April 9. Last week alone, shares of PCBC rose more than 50%.

Banner Corp. (Nasdaq: BANR) 16.2% LOWER; KBW Research downgrades Banner Corp. to Underperform. PT lowered to $3. Click here for the full report.

China Security and Surveillance (NYSE: CSR) 14.9% LOWER; reports Q1 EPS of $0.05, versus the analyst estimate of $0.10, and $0.04 reported for Q109. Revenue for the quarter was $120.19+ million, which compares to the estimate of $132.41 million.

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) 14.4% LOWER; reports Q1 EPS of $0.45, versus the analyst estimate of $0.47. Revenue for the quarter was $297.3 million, which compares to the estimate of $296.79 million. Also announced that it will be acquiring WuXi Pharma. The stock was downgraded to Market Perform at Raymond James.

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