Piper Jaffray Cuts Price Target on Brocade Communications (BRCD) to $8 Following 2Q

UBS Cuts Price Target on Brocade Communications (BRCD) to $7.50; Reiterates Sell

UBS maintained a Sell rating on Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD), and cut the price target to $7.50 (from $8.50), following the company's 2Q earnings report. BRCD reported non-GAAP EPS of $0.22 on sales of $523mn, in the middle of the company's preannounced range. Management also... More

RBC Capital Cuts Price Target on Brocade Communications (BRCD) as Soft Demand Drives Revenue Miss

RBC Capital maintained a Sector Perform rating on Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD), and cut the price target to $9.00 (from $10.00), following the company's 2Q earnings report. Brocade reported results at the midpoint of the preannouncement, with revenues/EPS of $523M/ $0.22 vs. Street at $529M/ $0.22. The revenue miss was driven by the... More

Brocade (BRCD) Weak Across All Business Lines - BMO

BMO Capital analyst, Tim Long, noted that Brocade's (NASDAQ: BRCD) weakness was broad-based across the SAN and IP Networking segments. FYQ3 guidance was weak as well. FY2016 goes to $0.95 from $1.01 and FY2017 EPS goes to $0.92 from $1.03. Including Ruckus, the combined model yields EPS of... More

Baird Cuts Price Target on Brocade Communications (BRCD) Following 2Q Report

Baird maintained a Neutral rating on Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD), and cut the price target to $9.00 (from $10.00), following the company's 2Q earnings report. Brocade reported revenue/non-GAAP EPS of $523 million/$0.22 which is consistent with the companys negative preliminary announcement earlier this month.... More

After-Hours Stock Movers 05/19: (ORIG) (AMAT) (MENT) Higher; (DRYS) (AXAS) (SCVL) Lower (more...)

Today's After-Hours Movers:

Ocean Rig UDW (NASDAQ: ORIG) 34.3% HIGHER; reported Q1 EPS of $1.17, $0.45 better than the analyst estimate of $0.72. Revenue for the quarter came in at $508 million versus the consensus estimate of $424.66 million.

DryShips (NASDAQ: DRYS) 12% LOWER; reported Q1 EPS of $2.05, versus ($2.23) reported last year. Revenue for the quarter came in at $11.86 million, versus $492.1 million reported last year. For the first quarter of 2016, the Company reported a net income of $55.4 million, or $2.05 basic and diluted... More

Brocade Communications (BRCD) Raises Quarterly Dividend 22.2% to $0.055; 2.8% Yield

Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.055 per share, or $0.22 annualized. This is a 22.2% increase from the prior dividend of $0.045.

The dividend will be payable on July 5, 2016, to stockholders of record on June 10, 2016, with an ex-dividend date of June 8,... More

Brocade Communications (BRCD) Reports In-Line Q2 EPS; Raises Dividend

Brocade Communications (NASDAQ: BRCD) reported Q2 EPS of $0.22, in-line with the analyst estimate of $0.22. Revenue for the quarter came in at $523 million versus the consensus estimate of $530.53 million.

Despite the challenging environment for both SAN and IP networking, Brocade had a productive second fiscal quarter, said Lloyd Carney, CEO of Brocade. We were... More

Brocade (BRCD) May call volatility elevated into Q1

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) May call option implied volatility is at 100, June is at 41; compared to its 52-week range of 24 to 55, into the expected release of Q1 results on May 19.

BofA/Merrill Lynch Starts Brocade (BRCD) at Buy

BofA/Merrill Lynch initiated coverage on Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) with a Buy rating and a price target of $10.00.

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Shares of Brocade closed at $8.01 yesterday.