Bloomberg, picking up on heavy options trading, reports that takeover rumors are once again swirling around MEMC Electronic Materials. The story notes that current-month call options, giving investors the right to buy MEMC shares for $13 on or before Nov. 20,…

Jon Najarian, writing on TheStreet.com, includes MEMC Electronic Materials on a list of companies that were mentioned in takeover rumors last week. He argues that a surge in such talk is “an encouraging sign that capitalistic optimism is returning to…

Ahmad R. Chatila, the new chief executive of MEMC Electronic Materials, will get a base salary of $750,000 plus a  minimum bonus this year of $500,000 and a signing bonus of $600,000. The former Cypress Semiconductor executive, who became CEO on…

A year-end rally meant that six St. Louis companies saw their stock prices rise in 2008, up from the four I highlighted in a previous post. Commerce Bancshares and Esco Technologies eked out gains to join the four solid performers…

With five trading days left in 2008, it looks like only a handful of St. Louis companies will make money for their investors. At the moment, only four have share prices that are up for the year: Panera Bread, up 40%;…

Nabeel Gareeb, chief executive of MEMC Electronic Materials, got a 38 percent increase last year in his salary and bonus, MEMC discloses in a proxy statement filed with the SEC. His salary of $850,000 and bonus of $931,600 compared with…

Four St. Louis companies saw their stocks double in value during 2007, and three of them have to give some  credit to the alternative-energy craze. MEMC Electronic Materials, up 126 percent, is considered a solar-energy play because its silicon wafers…

Last Friday’s 21 percent surge in MEMC Electronics shares caught the attention of MarketWatch blogger Herb Greenberg, who isn’t convinced that the buying frenzy was justified.  Traders were reacting ton an earnings report that included word of two big deals with…

MEMC Electronic Materials beat analysts’ earnings estimates yesterday by 2 cents a share, but its shares are  nearly 13 percent  lower in early trading this morning.

The Seeking Alpha blog says the company’s second-quarter guidance was “spot on with the current consensus estimates.”…

Shares of MEMC Electronic Materials are up 60 percent in the past year, largely because investors see the company’s silicon wafers as a key component for the booming solar-energy market. But over at the stock market blog Seeking Alpha, William Trent…