Industry Insights

Two blank-check companies, backed by billionaire Paul Singer’s hedge fund Elliott International Ltd, have filed for initial public offerings of up to $1.5 billion, their regulatory filings showed on Friday. Source: Industry Insights

The NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator is down -8.53 to 13,765.24. The total After hours volume is currently 99,680,073 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the after hours session: Energy Transfer L.P. (ET) is +0.07 at $7.03, with 5,955,018 shares traded.ET Source: Industry Insights

A deep freeze across Texas took a toll on the energy industry in the largest U.S. crude-producing state, shutting oil refineries and forcing restrictions from natural gas pipeline operators. Source: Industry Insights

The following are the top rated Energy stocks according to Validea’s Book/Market Investor model based on the published strategy of Joseph Piotroski. This value-quant strategy screens for high book-to-market stocks, and then separates out financially sound firms by looking at a ho Source: Industry Insights

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Triton International Ltd (Symbol: TRTN), where a total of 4,059 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 405,900 underlying shares. That amounts to abou Source: Industry Insights

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 2/16/21, Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Symbol: MPC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.58, payable on 3/10/21. As a percentage of MPC’s recent stock price of $49.84, this dividend works out to Source: Industry Insights

Investors in Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Symbol: MPC) saw new options become available today, for the March 26th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the MPC options chain for the new March 26th contracts and identified one put and Source: Industry Insights

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF (Symbol: RDIV) where we have detected an approximate $137.2 million dollar inflow — that’s a 22.4% incre Source: Industry Insights

The following are today’s upgrades for Validea’s Contrarian Investor model based on the published strategy of David Dreman. This contrarian strategy finds the most unpopular mid- and large-cap stocks in the market and looks for improving fundamentals.ALLSTATE CORP (ALL) is a larg Source: Industry Insights

Following a year of grim losses amid pandemic lockdowns that dented demand for fuel as people stuck close to home, the largest U.S. independent refiners are promoting plans to boost production of renewable fuels. Source: Industry Insights