Stocks to Watch: vTv Therapeutics, BJ's Restaurants, Warner Bros. Discovery

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By Connor Hart

 

The Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on vTv Therapeutics' program studying a treatment for Type 1 diabetes. The diabetes-focused biopharmaceutical company on Friday said the decision came after the discovery of a chromatographic signal in a recent human study of how the treatment was absorbed, distributed, metabolized and excreted couldn't be resolved by standard mass spectroscopy. Shares tumble 39%, to $12.90, in after-hours trading.

BJ's Restaurants posted a dip in same-store sales in the second quarter. Despite a 0.6% drop in comparable sales, the company's recent earnings beat analysts' expectations. The casual-dining company on Thursday after the bell posted per-share earnings of 72 cents, beating the 54 cents expected by analysts polled by FactSet. Shares fell more than 15% during market trading Friday, to $31.51, before rebounding slightly in postmarket trading.

Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday filed a breach of contract suit against the National Basketball Association after the league this week passed over its last-minute bid to keep basketball games on its TNT network. Warner, which sought to exercise a clause in its contract allowing it to match rival bids, alleged the league violated a media-rights agreement by striking a deal with Amazon.com's Prime Video.

 

Write to Connor Hart at connor.hart@wsj.com

 

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July 26, 2024 19:00 ET (23:00 GMT)

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