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Daily Archives: July 23, 2007

Can Pepsi Earnings Win the Pepsi-Coke Investor Taste Test? (PEP, KO)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Pepsico (NYSE:PEP) will grace us with the presence of its earnings Tuesday morning.  Analysts, according to First Call, are looking for EPS to come in at $0.89 on revenues of ...
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AT&T Earnings Tuesday, First Look at Formal iPhone Sales? (T, VZ, AAPL)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 3:46 pm

Dow Jones Industiral Average component and reconstituted "Bells" telecom player AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is set to report earnings Tuesday morning.  Shares initially did quite well this year after a a ...
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Texas Instruments (TXN): Wall St. Is Not Impressed

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Texas Instruments (TXN) was expected to report a 10% decline in earnings to 42 cents a share on a 7% fall in sales to $3.45 billion for the second quarter, ...
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American Express (AXP): Nothing Going On

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 3:19 pm

American Express (AXP) was expected to report earnings of 86 cents a share on sales of $7.49 million for the second quarter The company reported second quarter EPS of  $.88 ...
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NetFlix (NFLX) Comes Back, A Little

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 3:12 pm

NetFlix (NFLX) lost 12% of it market value today and fell as low as $17.17. That was until Wall St. saw the company's earnings. Revenue for the second quarter of ...
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Internet Ideas: IPOs For Dummies

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 2:47 pm

Internet Ideas, a web content company controlled by Idealab, plans to raise $100 million in an IPO. Idealab has 77% voting control of the firm. The question about the IPO ...
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Starbucks (SBUX) Rising A Week Before Earnings

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Starbucks (SBUX) has moved up 8% in the last week, coming off 52-week lows. Earnings are scheduled for August 1.According to Reuters, the company will delay opening stores in India. ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT): How About A $300 PC?

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 11:42 am

Word is that Wal-Mart (WMT) will offer a sub-$300 back-to-school PC. Early versions may have Microsoft (MSFT) Windows but DeskTopLinux says that it will ship with Ubuntu Linux soon.Having a ...
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Vonage New All-Time Lows, Again (VG)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 11:30 am

Vonage Holdings Inc. (NYSE:VG) is trading as though it should be named Vonage Slippings.  The company has put in 52-week and all-time lows for what looks like may end up ...
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Texas Instruments: Earnings Half Full or Half Empty? (TXN, BRCM, QCOM, SMH)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 10:55 am

Texas Instruments,Inc. (NYSE:TXN) will post earnings after the close, and First Call estimates are $0.42 EPS and $3.45 billion in revenues.  We usually get guidance of out of Texas Instruments, ...
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SIRIUS/XM Offering Programming A La Carte in FCC Filing (SIRI, XMSR)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 9:49 am

This may or may not make a difference in the approval process of the merger between SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:XMSR).  The companies have said they ...
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Verizon’s (VZ) Big Headache

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 9:06 am

Fiber was supposed to be Verizon's (VZ) panacea. Spend $23 billion and lay down 80,000 miles of wire to 18 million homes.But, as Fortune points out fiber has one very ...
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A Sneaky Deal For Cumulus (CMLS)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 8:33 am

Cumulus Media (CMLS) is up 38% on news that the company's CEO and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity will pay $11.75 a share for the company. It closed Friday at ...
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Credit Market Woes Killing Expedia’s Buyback Ambitions (EXPE, OWW, TZOO, PCLN)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 7:58 am

Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) is showing that credit market woes (and probably online travel stock weakness) aren't limited to its competitors.  The company came clean this morning by saying it is decreasing ...
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Despite Massive Share Sales Plan, Ellison Still Rules Oracle (ORCL)

Posted: July 23, 2007 at 7:29 am

There was interesting story this weekend, and that is a massive planned share sale out of chief Oracle Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL).  The numbers look massive with ...
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