18 days ago, on December 13th, 2012, VeriFone (NYSE:PAY) reported its earnings. Analysts, on average, expected earnings of $0.76 per share on sales of $496.1 million. The company actually reported EPS of $0.76 on sales of $485.4 million, beating EPS estimates by $0.00 and missing revenue estimates by $10.7 million. Since the company's report, shares of VeriFone have fallen from $33.23 to $28.70, representing a loss of 13.6% in the past 18 days.

VeriFone share prices have moved between a 52-week high of $55.89 and a 52-week low of $27.33 and are now trading 5% above that low price at $28.70 per share. Over the last five market days, the 200-day moving average (MA) has gone down 1.2% while the 50-day MA has declined 0.6%.

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