Emerald Oil (EOX) Drops 6.48% on October 10

Emerald Oil (EOX) was one of the Russell 2000's biggest losers for October 10 as the stock slid 6.48% to $4.33, a loss of $0.3 per share. Starting at an opening price of $4.46 a share, the stock traded between $3.98 and $4.70 over the course of the trading day. Volume was 4,349,690 shares over 19,445 trades, against an average daily volume of 1,548,355 shares and a total float of 66,477,468.

The losses send Emerald Oil down to a market cap of $287,847,436. In the last year, Emerald Oil has traded between $9.20 and $4.41, and its 50-day SMA is currently $7.32 and 200-day SMA is $7.20.

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Entegris Inc is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of products and materials used in processing and manufacturing in the semiconductor and other technology industries.

Emerald Oil, led by CEO Gideon Argov / Bertrand Loy, has 3200 employees and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

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