13 Unusual After-Hours Stocks on the Move (AKAM, FTNT, LVS, STX, WDC, OVTI, SYNC, TEX, TSCO, WFM, TFM, ZNGA, FB)

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These are the 24/7 Wall St. unusual after-hours stocks on the move. Most of the movers are on earnings news.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) loved its earnings report as shares are up over 16% at $32.80 on more than 725,000 shares since the closing bell.

Fortinet, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTNT) is up over 10% at $24.73 on well over 200,000 shares. The company beat expectations on its earnings report.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) is down 6% at $35.25 on more than 2.4 million shares after a big earnings disappointment.

Great news in disk drive earnings…. Seagate Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: STX) is up 8.3% at $28.51 on more than 600,000 shares since the close of trading. Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is up almost 18% at $38.28 on more than 1 million shares since the closing bell.

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI) is up big with a 9% gain to $13.67 but only on 23,000 shares since the closing bell.

Synacor, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNC) is down almost 19% at $10.50 on about 70,000 shares since the closing bell. The company known for TV everywhere missed its earnings expectations.

Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX) is up 16% at $16.36 after earnings and more than 73,000 shares have traded hands.

Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) is up 6% at $83.70 on nearly 500,000 shares after posting a 17% gain in earnings and managing to lift its guidance.

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) is soaring after beating earnings and raising guidance. The margins are now 3-times that of some rivals in the grocery business. Shares are up close to 11% at $93.67 on over 1.2 million shares since the closing bell. Its smaller and fairly new rival called The Fresh Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: TFM) is up 7% at $55.06 as a secondary trade with only about 20,000 shares having traded hands.

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is getting crushed after cutting its earnings outlook for the year in half after a truly poor earnings report with only $0.01 EPS. As of 5:55 PM EST we had shares down 36.4% at $3.23 on more than 18 million shares. The news is also bashing Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) as the two are tied for better or worse ahead of the social networking giant’s own earnings report Thursday. Facebook shares are down 7.6% at $27.10 on more than 2.5 million shares after the close of trading.

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JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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