Worst Year to Date Performers in Nasdaq; Quick Roundup of Top Five Stocks – GRPN, CTIC, NIHD, OCZ, ZNGA

Year to Date is a financial or statistical report, the cumulative value of a quantity, aggregated from the first day of the present calendar or fiscal year through the effective date.

The year to date period shows the performance from January 1st of the current year up until effective date. Year to date indicates the return so far this year. Like if the year to date return is 5%. These values are used to evaluate the returns an investment has produced during the current year.

In this article we will discuss worst year to date performers of NASDAQ with average market volume over two million.

Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) is the worst YTD performer among Nasdaq with -77.80% value. The company has the market capitalization of 3.00 billion while its P/B ratio was 3.75. Institutional ownership of the world’s biggest daily deal company was 53% while ATR value was 0.36. Company’s net profit margin was -1.40% while its gross profit margin was 75.66%.

Second worst YTD performer among Nasdaq with market volume over 2 million is Cell Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CTIC). The YTD performance was booked as -76.72% while its market capitalization was 130.94 million. The institutional ownership of the company was 10% while its current ratio was 0.74%. Return on equity was -3199.13% while return on assets was recorded as -185.85%.

NII Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:NIHD) has market capitalization of 920.06 million. Company’s current ratio was 2.18 while its shares were moving ahead of SMA 20 with -17.44%. The company offered earning per share of -0.99 while its 171.65 million shares were outstanding. YTD performance of the company was booked as -74.84%.

Another stock from the same group is OCZ Technology Group Inc (NASDAQ:OCZ), which has the market capitalization of 119.07 million. The company EPS was -0.24 while its 67.65 million shares were outstanding. Its institutional ownership was 51%. Shares of the company were moving ahead of SMA 20 with 16.17% while its YTD performance was 0.58%.

Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) has market capitalization of 2.06 billion while its P/S ratio was 1.61. Net profit margin of ZNGA was -46.51% while its gross profit margin was 67.13%. Shares of the company were moving ahead of SMA 20 with 11.82% and 50 days simple moving average with 10.21% while YTD performance was -72.10%.

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