Largest $ Movers of Note – StreetInsider.com – 03/21/2007

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UPWARD MOVERS:
Advanced Magnetics Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAG) +$3.90; Deutsche Bank Starts at Buy; $100 price target.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) +$3.23; Reports Q1 EPS of $2.40, versus the consensus of $1.88. Revenues came in at $11 billion versus the consensus of $9.42 billion.

ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) +$2.94; Reports Q4 EPS of $0.65 vs. consensus of $0.30. Fourth quarter 2006 revenue of $113.9 million was up 5.7% sequentially from the $107.8 million reported for the 2006 third quarter. In the 2005 fourth quarter, ICF generated revenue of $51.8 million. Based on currently available information, the Company expects to report revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 2007, in the range of $125 million to $135 million and for the full year 2007 in the range of $480 million to $520 million. For both the quarter and the year, the Company seeks to earn net income equal to approximately 5% of revenues. (No consensus available)

GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC) +$2.44; Goldman Sachs raised from Neutral to a Buy with 25% upside to new $24.00 target (this was Jim Cramer’s e-commerce stealth play too).

MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE: WFR) +$2.43; Stock has moved up approx. 40% since the beginning of 2007. No specific news releases tied to today’s gains.

DOWNWARD MOVERS:
U.S. Auto Parts Network (Nasdaq: PRTS) -$4.84; Net sales for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2006 were $36.8 million, 134% from $15.7 million in the prior year period. Net loss was $(0.02) million, or $(0.00) per diluted share compared to net income of $2.1 million, or $0.16 per diluted share.

Cintas (Nasdaq: CTAS) -$3.92; Reports Q3 EPS of $0.48, 4 cents worse than estimates.(0.52) Revenues were $905.4 million vs. $925.10 million consensus. Sees FY revenues between $3.65-3.725 billion vs. $3.76 billion consensus. Sees FY EPS between $2.03-2.08 vs. $2.16.

SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) -$3.00; announced it has priced and up-sized its private offering to qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of exchangeable senior notes, from $500 million to $750 million. Also, SLG announces real estate swap transaction with Mack-Cali Realty (NYSE: CLI).

Buffalo Wild Wings (Nasdaq: BWLD) -$2.65; Jefferies & Co downgrades Buffalo Wild Wings from Buy to Hold. Price target $67.

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) -$2.38; Reports Q3 EPS of $1.35 (with 6c cut from storms, 8c tax gain), versus the consensus of $1.33. Revenues came in a $8.59 billion versus the consensus of $8.7 billion. Sees Q4 EPS of $1.93-$2.08, versus the consensus of $2.03. Sees FY07 EPS ex-new pilot pact cost of $6.70-$6.85 versus the consensus of $6.78.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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