This week's biggest % winners & losers : Oct. 16 - 20, 2017 (wk 42)

The following are this week's top 20 percentage gainers and top 20 percentage losers, categorized by sectors (over $300 mln market cap and 100K average daily volume).

This week's top 20 % gainers

• Healthcare: SPPI (19.32 +44.61%), CRBP (7.75 +13.97%), CYH (6.44 +11.61%), THC (14.66 +11.48%), TXMD (5.11 +11.46%)
• Materials: VHI (3.36 +14.68%)
• Industrials: GWW (207.81 +14.78%), SALT (8.2 +13.1%),
• Consumer Discretionary: SKX (33.99 +39.59%), ASNA (2 +12.36%), EXPR (6.62 +12.2%), BOOT (8.3 +11.71%), SCSS (33.99 +10.97%)
• Information Technology: TEAM (50.01 +26.16%), SYNT (24.22 +24.88%), NPTN (5.46 +15.43%), CREE (33.82 +15.17%), ADBE (175.46 +13.99%)
• Energy: CLD (4.58 +25.14%)
• Utilities: TERP (13.56 +13%)

This week's top 20 % losers

• Healthcare: ARDX (5.55 -23.71%), MNKD (4.13 -21.85%), TRVN (1.76 -19.63%), CELG (121.4 -11.04%)
• Materials: KLDX (3.22 -16.15%), HMY (1.66 -11.7%)
• Industrials: UAL (59.9 -11.35%)
• Consumer Discretionary: TACO (12.65 -16.61%), CTRP (48.43 -12.25%)
• Information Technology: SNCR (11.43 -19.22%), BMI (43.8 -14.79%), BHE (30.5 -14.08%), NCR (33.05 -11.96%), AAOI (41.41 -11.91%), MTSI (36.99 -11.06%)
• Financials: VIRT (14.3 -16.13%)
• Energy: KEG (10.58 -14.75%), FMSA (3.88 -14.73%), SPN (8.85 -12.98%)
• Consumer Staples: SVU (15.03 -25.59%)

Syntel (SYNT) reported earnings on Tue 17 Oct 2017 (b/o)

Sector: Technology > Industry: IT Services & Consulting

• Headquarters: Troy, MI
• Founded: 1980
• syntelinc.com

** charts after earnings **

Syntel beats by $0.16, beats on revs; guides FY17 EPS above consensus, revs above consensus

• Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $0.58 per share, $0.16 better than the Capital IQ Consensus of $0.42; revenues fell 4.1% year/year to $231.3 mln vs the $217.37 mln Capital IQ Consensus.
  • Q3 cash & short term investments of $109 mln. 
  • The Company's gross margin was 38.1% in the third quarter, compared to 39.2% in the prior-year period and 35.9% in the second quarter of 2017. Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expenses were 11.7% of revenue in the third quarter, compared to 12.2% in the prior-year period and 12.7% in the previous quarter.
• Co issues upside guidance for FY17, sees EPS of $1.81-1.88 vs. $1.72 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate; sees FY17 revs of $890-902 mln vs. $883.41 mln Capital IQ Consensus Estimate.
• "We continued to deepen our strategic relationships during the third quarter," said Syntel CEO and President Rakesh Khanna. "In particular, contribution from the 4 to 50 client segment grew faster than the overall company."

Description

Syntel, Inc. (Syntel) is a global provider of digital transformation, information technology (IT) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services. The Company operates through five segments: Banking and Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Retail, Logistics and Telecom. Syntel provides a range of services to its customers through its IT services, including Managed Services, Digital One and through its KPO services. Through its Managed Services offering, the Company provides software applications development, maintenance, testing, IT infrastructure, cloud and migration services. Through its SyntBots platform, the Company delivers internally developed automation capabilities that improve the productivity and quality of its Managed Services offerings. The Company's Digital One service line centralizes the delivery of digital architecture, Web and mobile applications, user experience, Big Data, analytics, social and Internet of Things services.

Key stats and ratios

	Q2 (Jun '17)	2016
Net profit margin	16.16%	-5.94%
Operating margin	23.26%	27.14%
EBITD margin	-	28.68%
Return on average assets	33.50%	-6.11%
Return on average equity	-	-11.77%
Employees	17,632