Stock Updates - TIF, TMO, TPX, UIL, VDC

Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF)  moved up 0.19%, to close at $70.26 and its overall traded volume was 1.38M shares in the last trading session. TIF opened at $70.45 and is trading within the range of $69.35-$70.45. The stock has a 52 week low of $35.81 and 52 week high of $70.45. The market capitalization of the company stands at $8.96B and it has 127.48M outstanding shares.

Tiffany & Co. is a holding company and conducts all business through its subsidiary companies. The Company, through its subsidiaries, including Tiffany and Company (Tiffany), sells fine jewelry and other items that it manufactures or has been made by others. Its segments include Americas, Asia-Pacific, Japan and Europe. Its Asia-Pacific and Europe segments are included in the Other. The TIFFANY & CO. brand (the Brand) is a primary asset of Tiffany and, indirectly, of the Company. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011 (fiscal 2011), the Company’s principal product category was jewelry, which represented 91%, its net sales. Its Retail Service Center (RSC) is located in Parsippany, New Jersey. Tiffany offers a range of selection of TIFFANY & CO. brand jewelry at a range of prices. The Company also sells timepieces, sterling silver goods (other than jewelry), china, crystal, stationery, fragrances, personal accessories and leather goods.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO)  gained 4.21%, to close at $65.38 and its overall traded volume was 6.89M shares in the last trading session. TMO opened the day at $65.00, it made an intraday low of $64.95 and an intraday high of $65.82. The 52-week range of the stock is $41.74 – $65.82. The market capitalization of the company stands at $25.05B and it has 383.18M outstanding shares.Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher) is engaged in serving science. It provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, manufacturing, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. It operates through two segments: analytical technologies and laboratory products and services. Analytical technologies segment includes pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government and other research and industrial markets. Laboratory products and services segment offers combination of products and services that allows its customers to engage in their core business functions of research, development, manufacturing, clinical diagnosis and drug discovery. In April 2010, the Company acquired Proxeon A/S, a supplier of products for proteomics analysis. In December 2010, the Company acquired Lomb Scientific. In April 2011, the Company sold two laboratory testing services businesses, Athena Diagnostics and Lancaster Laboratories.

Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (NYSE:TPX)  percentage change surged 0.97%, to close at $65.35 and its overall traded volume was 1.21M shares in the last trading session. TPX opened the day at $65.20, it made an intraday low of $64.74 and an intraday high of $66.33. The stock has a 52 week low of $25.56 and 52 week high of $66.33. The market capitalization of the company stands at $4.47B and it has 68.45M outstanding shares.Tempur-Pedic International Inc. is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of mattresses and pillows, which it sells in approximately 80 countries under the TEMPUR and Tempur-Pedic brands. The Company has two segments: North America and International. The North American operating segment consists of two United States manufacturing facilities and its North American distribution subsidiaries. The International segment consists of its manufacturing facility in Denmark, whose customers include all of its distribution subsidiaries and third party distributors outside the North American operating segment. It sells its mattresses and pillows through four distribution channels: Retail (furniture and bedding, specialty and department stores); Direct (direct response and Internet); Healthcare (hospitals, nursing homes, healthcare professionals and medical retailers); and Third party distributors in countries where it does not sell directly through its own subsidiaries.

UIL Holdings Corporation (NYSE:UIL)  percentage change dropped -0.21%, to close at $34.03 and its overall traded volume was 348,992.00 shares in the last trading session. UIL shares were trading within the range of $33.82-$34.34 while its opening price was $34.31. The 52-week range of the stock is $23.79 – $34.34. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $1.72B and it has 50.53M outstanding shares.UIL Holdings Corporation (UIL Holdings) is ownership of its operating regulated utilities. The utility businesses consist of the electric distribution and transmission operations of The United Illuminating Company (UI) and the natural gas transportation, distribution and sales operations of The Southern Connecticut Gas Company (SCG), a subsidiary of Connecticut Energy Corporation (CEC), Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation (CNG), a subsidiary of CTG Resources, Inc. (CTG), and The Berkshire Gas Company (Berkshire), a subsidiary of Berkshire Energy Resources (BER, and together with SCG, CNG, Berkshire, CEC and CTG, the Gas Companies). CEC, CTG and BER are holding companies whose sole business is ownership of their respective operating regulated gas utility. UI is also a 50-50 joint venturer with NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) in GCE Holding LLC, whose wholly owned subsidiary, GenConn Energy LLC. On November 16, 2010, SCG, CNG and Berkshire were acquired by UIL Holdings.

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (NYSE:VDC)  went up 0.44%, to close at $81.85 and its overall traded volume was 55,429.00 shares in the last trading session. VDC shares were trading within the range of $81.40-$81.88 while its opening price was $81.73. The 52-week range of the stock is $63.38 – $81.88. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $671.30M and it has 8.20M outstanding shares.Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Staples Index (the Index), an index of stocks of large, medium, and small United States-based companies in the consumer staples sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The GICS includes manufacturers and distributors of food, beverages, and tobacco, as well as producers of nondurable household goods and personal products. It also includes food and drug retailing companies, as well as hypermarkets and consumer supercenters. The Vanguard Group, Inc., through Quantitative Equity Group serves as investment advisor of the Fund.