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Morning Movers 04/17: (NEWL) (SRSL) (DNN) (PESI) Higher

April 17, 2012 11:15 AM EDT
NewLead Holdings (Nasdaq: NEWL) 56.1% HIGHER; stock pushing back over the $3 level following a parabolic move which started in early April. From April 9th to April 11th, the stock surged more than 170 percent, only to give up a large chunk of the gains over the next three sessions. Volume is very heavy today.

SRS Labs (Nasdaq: SRSL) 37.5% HIGHER; DTS (Nasdaq: DTSI) to acquire SRS Labs for $9.50/share in cash and stock.

Denison Mines Corp. (Amex: DNN) 14.7% HIGHER; Energy Fuels Inc. and Denison Mines yesterday announced that they have entered into a Letter Agreement to complete a transaction whereby EFR will acquire all of Denison's mining assets and operations located in the United States from Denison in exchange for 425,441,494 common shares of EFR.

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PESI) 11.3% HIGHER; announces that, as part of a team lead by Portage, Inc., an Engineering and Environmental Services company based out of Idaho Falls, Idaho, it was selected for two major Master Task Order Agreement clean-up contracts at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory. DOE's prime contractor at Los Alamos, Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) selected the Portage/Perma-Fix team, along with several other teams, to retrieve, manage, process and disposition a variety of low-level radioactive, mixed, hazardous, and transuranic wastes that have been generated over decades as part of the DOE's nuclear weapons mission. The first Master Task Order Agreement has a $250 million value and a three year duration.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST) 10.1% HIGHER; expects first-quarter Adjusted Diluted EPS to be $0.83, compared to $0.60 in the first quarter of 2011, on sales growth of approximately 7% (9% excluding currency effects). The Street sees EPS of 65 cents. The Company attributed the improvement primarily to broad-based increases in pharmaceutical packaging sales. The Company increased its guidance for Adjusted Diluted EPS for the year 2012 to between $2.50 and $2.67 per share, including between $0.07 and $0.10 of first quarter growth that is not expected to reoccur. The Company's prior guidance for 2012 was for Adjusted Diluted EPS of between $2.37 and $2.55. The Street is currently looking for EPS of $2.47

Hyperdynamics (NYSE: HDY) 10% HIGHER; the stock bounced off the 200-day SMA after gapping higher this morning. Shares fell more than 35 percent over the last eight trading sessions.


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