Why CoreCivic Stock Popped 10% This Morning
Shares of CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns jail and halfway-house properties tied to the criminal justice system, jumped more than 10% in early trading Wednesday and remained up 7.3% at 11:15 a.m. EDT today.
This morning, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that tiny CoreCivic will replace even tinier offshore driller Valaris (NYSE: VAL) on the S&P SmallCap 600.
Source Fool.com