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Daily Archives: August 2, 2007

Weyerhaeuser Earnings On Deck (WY, IP)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 6:44 pm

Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE:WY) has been hit exceptionally hard in this last market slide.  The paper conglomerate reports earnings Friday, and First Call estimates are looking for $0.39 EPS and $4.24 ...
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Cramer Sticking With DJIA Targets & The CME (CME, NYX)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 5:50 pm

On tonight's Mad Money on CNBC, Jim Cramer talked up his DJIA target and DJIA components (there is another batch here as well) but he also said he's backing the ...
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Earnings Preview: Brookfield Asset Management (BAM, BRK-A)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 5:21 pm

Friday morning will be the earnings report for Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) (and TSX:BAM). The problem with this 'earnings' for U.S. investors is that the company is based in Canada ...
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Grand Theft Auto Delay Bad For Take-Two, Good For Other Game Publishers (TTWO, MSFT, ERTS, THQI, ATVI, GME)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 4:51 pm

Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TWO) is showing how its woes are far from over.  The company is lowering guidance because it delayed the launch date for its upcoming blockbuster game Grand Theft ...
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Did The Genpact IPO Price Too Low? (G, GE)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 4:17 pm

There is one thing companies coming public hate to see, and that is a discounted pricing to their indicated trading range from the original prospectus terms.  Genpact Ltd. (NYSE:G) did ...
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Openwave Posts Earnings & Names New CFO (OPWV)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 3:45 pm

Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OPWV) has posted its quarterly earnings.  On a non-GAAP basis the company posted -$0.13 EPS and GAAP EPS was listed as -$1.11.  Revenues are listed as $68.1 ...
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Openwave Systems Bracing For Earnings (OPWV)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OPQV) is one of the companies reporting earnings after the close today, and this will be the year-end for 2007 as well.  Unfortunately the company has buried ...
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Beazer Homes (BZH): Sick Of Being Bankrupt

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Big hedge-fund Citadel says it upped its stake in home-builder Beazer (BZH) to 5.7%. Just in time.Investors who go a piece of Beazer after it was pulverized on bankruptcy rumors ...
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Charter (CHTR) Can’t Beat The Devil

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 12:05 pm

Charter (CHTR) just kept going up and up. At one point in July it was up over 275% from where it had traded a year earlier.The premise was simple. The ...
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Pozen (POZN): Another Microcap Biotech Falls Apart

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 8:42 am

Pozen (POZN) got the bad news that the FDA has "delayed approval of an experimental two-in-one migraine drug from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)", according to Reuters.  The drug, Trexima combines Glaxo's popular ...
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Accredited Home Lenders, Maybe Not So Accredited (LEND, AHM)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 8:40 am

Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. (NASDAQ:LEND) is in trouble this morning.  Shares were down 30% in pre-market activity after an SEC Filing from the company warned of solvency issues, although ...
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IPO PRICING: Genpact (G, GE)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 8:04 am

Genpact Ltd. has priced its IPO under the ticker "G" on the New York Stock Exchange of 35.294 milllion shares at a price of $14.00 per share.  Unfortunately, the estimates ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (August 2, 2007)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 7:24 am

(AIV) Apartment Investment & Management $0.88 EPS vs $0.80 est.(AIZ) Assurant $1.36 EPS vs $1.26 est,(ANSS) ANSYS $0.30 EPS vs $0.27 esy.(ATK) Alliant Techsystems $1.50 EPS vs $1.35 est.(CBB) Cincinnati ...
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Germany Saves A Bank, Would The US?

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 7:19 am

IKB, a specialist lender based in Düsseldorf, was bailed out by the German government. According to the Financial Times, Jochen Sanio, head of Germany’s financial regulator, is said to have ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (August 2, 2007)

Posted: August 2, 2007 at 7:02 am

AAPL started as Buy at B of A.ALVR raised to Buy at First Albany.BARE cut to Sector Perform at CIBC.BRCM raised to Outperform at CIBC.COCO raised to equal weight at ...
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