Lapides Asset Management Lowered Exa (EXA) Position; Matria Healthcare (MATR) Sentiment Is 0.82

September 11, 2017 - By Vivian Park

Lapides Asset Management Llc decreased Exa Corp (EXA) stake by 31.31% reported in 2016Q4 SEC filing. Lapides Asset Management Llc sold 22,200 shares as Exa Corp (EXA)’s stock declined 19.65%. The Lapides Asset Management Llc holds 48,700 shares with $748,000 value, down from 70,900 last quarter. Exa Corp now has $208.88M valuation. The stock rose 1.09% or $0.15 reaching $13.91. About shares traded. Exa Corp (NASDAQ:EXA) has declined 1.23% since September 11, 2016 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 17.93% the S&P500.

Mattersight Corporation offers behavioral analytics and provides personality software products. The company has market cap of $81.87 million. The Firm uses various applications, including predictive behavioral routing, performance management, quality assurance and predictive analytics to analyze and predict customer behavior based on the language exchanged between agents and clients during brand interactions. It currently has negative earnings. The Firm operates through the Behavioral Analytics segment.

Lapides Asset Management Llc increased Pitney Bowes Inc (NYSE:PBI) stake by 380,000 shares to 850,300 valued at $12.92 million in 2016Q4. It also upped Hain Celestial Group Inc (NASDAQ:HAIN) stake by 7,700 shares and now owns 57,100 shares. Mattel Inc (NASDAQ:MAT) was raised too.

Investors sentiment decreased to 0.97 in Q4 2016. Its down 0.45, from 1.42 in 2016Q3. It dived, as 9 investors sold EXA shares while 15 reduced holdings. 11 funds opened positions while 37 raised stakes. 11.11 million shares or 0.76% less from 11.19 million shares in 2016Q3 were reported. Us Bankshares De holds 0% or 4,685 shares. State Bank Of America Corporation De invested in 0% or 1,905 shares. Martingale Asset Management LP has 0.01% invested in Exa Corp (NASDAQ:EXA) for 61,106 shares. One Trading Limited Partnership, a Illinois-based fund reported 200 shares. Ranger Investment Limited Partnership invested in 15,117 shares or 0.02% of the stock. Soros Fund Mgmt Ltd Co owns 0.49% invested in Exa Corp (NASDAQ:EXA) for 1.38M shares. Acadian Asset Management Ltd Com invested in 52,919 shares. 4,173 were reported by Legal & General Group Public Limited Liability Corporation. Tiaa Cref Ltd Limited Liability Company reported 45,647 shares or 0% of all its holdings. Fmr Ltd Liability has 905,642 shares for 0% of their portfolio. Next Century Growth Invsts holds 61,231 shares or 0.06% of its portfolio. Ameriprise Financial Inc holds 0% or 192,231 shares in its portfolio. Blackrock Fund Advsr has 448,233 shares. Susquehanna International Group Inc Ltd Liability Partnership holds 16,811 shares. Rhumbline Advisers has invested 0% in Exa Corp (NASDAQ:EXA).

Since April 3, 2017, it had 0 buys, and 3 selling transactions for $40,441 activity. Another trade for 1,000 shares valued at $12,800 was made by SHIELDS JOHN J on Monday, April 3.

Among 3 analysts covering Exa (NASDAQ:EXA), 2 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 1 Hold. Therefore 67% are positive. Exa had 8 analyst reports since September 2, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The company was maintained on Tuesday, August 30 by Needham. As per Tuesday, August 30, the company rating was maintained by Canaccord Genuity. Needham reinitiated the shares of EXA in report on Thursday, December 22 with “Buy” rating. Needham maintained Exa Corp (NASDAQ:EXA) on Thursday, December 1 with “Buy” rating. The rating was downgraded by Canaccord Genuity on Friday, March 17 to “Hold”. The stock of Exa Corp (NASDAQ:EXA) has “Buy” rating given on Wednesday, September 2 by Canaccord Genuity. The firm has “Buy” rating given on Monday, August 28 by Stifel Nicolaus. The firm has “Hold” rating by Canaccord Genuity given on Monday, August 28.

Goldman Capital Management Inc holds 5.19% of its portfolio in Mattersight Corp for 1.62 million shares. S Squared Technology Llc owns 467,927 shares or 1.88% of their US portfolio. Moreover, Investor Ab has 0.73% invested in the company for 2.72 million shares. The Massachusetts-based Ironwood Investment Management Llc has invested 0.33% in the stock. Penn Capital Management Co Inc, a Pennsylvania-based fund reported 1.08 million shares.