UCSB, Cal Poly, CLU all make top 10 in U.S. News rankings
UC Santa Barbara placed No. 30 on U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of national universities and sixth among public universities, one of three Central Coast colleges in the top 10 in its category. U.S. News released its annual “Best Colleges” lists for 2021 on Sept. 14, with the six colleges in the Tri-Counties Read More →
AeroVironment’s revenue up, profit down
AeroVironment, the Simi Valley-based drone maker, said revenue in its first quarter grew slightly to $87.4 million as the company’s profit fell to 42 cents per share from 71 cents a year earlier. “We are on track to achieve our fiscal year 2021 plans and deliver another year of profitable top line growth, despite the Read More →
Amgen to join exclusive Dow Jones club
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Unemployment rate drops in Tri-Counties, still in double digits
Unemployment rates in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties continued to inch downward in July, though all three remained at historically high levels in the fourth month of the coronavirus pandemic. The combined civilian unemployment rate for the tri-county area was 10.7 percent in July, according to a Business Times analysis of data Read More →
PennyMac’s quarter to remember
With mortgage rates at record lows and the homebuying and refinancing markets booming, PennyMac Financial Services, a Westlake Village mortgage lender, and its real estate investment trust both reported strong financial results on Aug. 6. PennyMac Financial Services announced a net income of $352.7 million for the second quarter of 2020, or $4.39 per share, Read More →
Amgen teams up with competitors in COVID treatment trial
Amgen has joined two of its competitors in launching a trial for drugs to treat patients with COVID-19. Together with Chicago-based AbbVie and Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical, the Thousand Oaks biotech giant said Aug. 3 it had enrolled the first patients into a clinical trial for the anti-inflammatory drugs Otezla, cenicriviroc and Firazyr. Otezla is Read More →
LTC sees big revenue drop after rent losses
LTC Properties’ net income dropped more than 90 percent from the second quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2020, as the Westlake Village-based senior-housing property investment trust wrote off $17.7 million in rent. LTC’s stock dropped after the July 31 earnings announcement. It opened at $38.38 on Aug. 1 and was at $36.78 Read More →
