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Daily Archives: May 15, 2007

Home Depot (HD): Stop Expanding Retail Operations

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 7:25 pm

The Home Depot (HD) net income dropped in the first quarter, as it endured a weakened spring selling season and continued to weather the soft housing market. In the first ...
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Cramer Backs Mark Hurd at Hewlett-Packard

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 5:58 pm

Cramer's second CEO in his "Transformational CEO's" list is Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ).He said you can slap a buy on him because he took over H-P in March of2005 ...
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Cramer’s Next Infrastructure Stock (ACM, FWLT)

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 5:23 pm

The next big infrastructure play according to Cramer on Mad Money is AECOM Technology (ACM-NYSE).  He called it the next Foster Wheeler (FWLT-NASDAQ).  This just came public Friday and it ...
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Cramer Eats Crow Over Herbalife (HLF)

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 5:09 pm

Tonight on CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said he was ready to eat crow over Herbalife (HLF-NYSE) because it is a supplement company that he got wrong.  It sells via ...
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Bill Gates & Cascade Holdings

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 4:42 pm

These are the holdings of Cascade Investment Management, L.L.C. as of March 31, 2007.  For those that do not recognize the name "Cascade," that is Bill Gates own private investment ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Airline day. Delta (DAL) down to $18.15. Fuel costs rising. Only public recently. High $21.95.US Air (LCC) Down to $32.25 from $63.27. Good that Delta has not been public for ...
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Warren Buffett Rides More Railroads (BNI, NSC, UNP), Plus Other Holdings

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 3:49 pm

This is an edited version of the first story to run an expanded list.  Last month we all found out that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway decided to take a ride ...
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Applied Materials, Chip Cap-Ex Not Dead

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT-NASDAQ) posted $0.29 EPS on sales of $2.53 Billion versus First Call estimates are $0.28 EPS and $2.35 billion in revenues.  On a non-GAAP EPS basis Applied ...
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Cramer Spoke Too Soon on Limited

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 2:43 pm

On today's STOP TRADING on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that Limited (LTD-NYSE) will go up.  The CEO doesn't rest on his laurels and that could be a $30.00 play.  He ...
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Croc's Sandal

Crocs Inc. is trading over $70 a share, is it too much?

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 2:03 pm

Crocs, Inc.  (NASDAQ:CROX) has had an amazing run over the last year, since last May the stock has risen 160%. Last week (5/7) Wedbush Morgan upgraded Crocs from "buy" to ...
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A Ten Step Program For Wal-Mart

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 1:44 pm

If you have read us before, you may have read something about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT-NYSE).  There is probably an 80% chance that it was critical of the company but ...
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Starbucks (SBUX) At A 52-Week Low

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 12:44 pm

Starbucks (SBUX) hit a 52-week low today, trading at $28.37. It was November of 2005 the last time is traded below that level. For those keeping score, boring old McDonald's ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT): Inactivity Is The Reason Scott Has To Go

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 12:24 pm

World's biggest retailer Wal-Mart (WMT) said Tuesday quarterly profits rose 8% to $2.83 billion ($0.68/share) and revenue rose 8.5% to $86.41 billion -- hitting analyst estimates exactly. Wal-Mart said Sam's ...
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Are AMD shareholders 20% better off? no

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 11:11 am

Shares in Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) are up 20% in five days. That means its market cap is up about $1.5 billion.ThinkEquity did raise the shares to a "buy" because ...
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GE: Keeping NBC and No Interest in Dow Jones

Posted: May 15, 2007 at 9:31 am

General Electric's (NYSE:GE) Jeff Immelt just made the inference during a CNBC interview that GE will not be showing any interest in Dow Jones (NYSE:DJ) and implied that they are ...
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