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The Force: Star Wars Franchise Worth Over $30 Billion and Growing

Posted: February 10, 2012 at 4:17 pm

24/7 Wall St. has decided to calculate the total value of the Star Wars franchise ahead of the release of the 3D film "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" and while ...
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Ugly Shoes Empire Expanding: Crocs Goes Into New Merchandise Territory (CROX)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 9:46 am

Crocs Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) is going into many new horizons with its brand.  It almost sounds impossible if you are not a fan of the brand.  Many people love Crocs, ...
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Valuation Reality Check In Whole Foods (WFM, KR, SWY)

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 5:56 pm

Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) may have posted a 33% gain to earnings and it may still have a lot of growth ahead of it.  The reality is that ...
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Yum! Earnings Help To Challenge All-Time High (YUM)

Posted: February 6, 2012 at 4:26 pm

Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) is showing that not all international stories are cautious.  The owner of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC reported earnings for the fourth quarter.  For the ...
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Amazon.com Gets More Active in Sports Collectibles, Going After eBay (AMZN, EBAY, CLCT)

Posted: February 2, 2012 at 10:15 am

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is launching a new Sports Collectibles Store and it is claiming to offer more than 2 million unique collectibles from major sports leagues and sporting events.  ...
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360-Degree Earnings Preview For Amazon.com (AMZN)

Posted: January 31, 2012 at 1:14 pm

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be well down from its highs in 2011, but the online retail platform giant is expected to post its fourth quarter earnings after the close ...
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Consumer Confidence Heads The Wrong Way

Posted: January 31, 2012 at 10:12 am

Consumer Confidence is heading the wrong way.  The report is just on the heels of a weak Chicago Purchasing Managers reading, and this data from The Conference Board is going ...
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Who Is at Fault at Avon?

Posted: January 31, 2012 at 6:46 am

Avon’s (NYSE: AVP) vice chairman, Charles Cramb, was fired as the federal government examines whether the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He may have known about bribes Avon made ...
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RadioShack Margins Gutted By Sprint (RSH, S)

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 4:34 pm

RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) pre-announced results for its fourth quarter and the figures are just awful.  This is where a value stock becomes a value trap.  Sales rose about 6% ...
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Starbucks Valuation Catching Up To Share Price After Earnings (SBUX, GMCR)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 4:22 pm

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is out with earnings.  Some of the highlights are a record 11% earnings per share gain to $0.50 EPS on a 16% gain in sales to ...
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Ron Johnon’s Magic, When 20% Stock Gains May Be Enough (JCP, AAPL)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 3:05 pm

It was just on January 5 that we called the news on J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP)... Bad News Is Good News!  Our take was that the company big ...
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Full 360-Degree Starbucks Earnings Preview (SBUX, GMCR, CBOU, PEET)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 1:20 pm

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is set to report earnings after the close.  As this one hit all-time highs in recent trading days, it would seem as though the broader opinion ...
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An Awful Start for JCPenney’s New CEO

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 6:39 am

Former Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) retail chief Ron Johnson, hired to achieve a turnaround at JCPenney (NYSE: JCP), is off to a terrible start. The wobbly department store company may not ...
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Wal-Mart Makes Big Management Changes, Women Moving Up The Ranks (WMT)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 9:51 am

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today.  While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, "Current Sam's ...
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Taking Dividends to the Dollar Stores (FDO, DLTR, DG)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 3:53 pm

Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FDO) is showing just how a secular trend is still going to rule the roost in retail.  It was Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) hitting ...
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