As the first quarter ended, analysts marveled at the best performing stocks in the S&P 500 -- Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Hewlett-Packard Co. ... Read Full Story »
Is it possible that J.C. Penney Co. (NYSE: JCP) is reaching a bottom as far as its stock price is concerned? It seems hard to believe, but something unusual has ... Read Full Story »
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is having more than a hard time turning around. The PC business is drying up according to many media reports and even Intel Corporation ... Read Full Story »
You have heard of all sorts of bubbles in the financial world. There are instances like the housing bubble, a bond bubble, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, the private equity ... Read Full Story »
Banks have been back as a flavor for investors for a while. After all, Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) was the best performing stock of all 30 Dow Jones ... Read Full Story »
If you hear word associations sometimes, what is the first competing company that would come to mind when you hear RadioShack? Most will say Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), ... Read Full Story »
When you are an industry leader and one of the largest companies in the country of Sweden, employing more than 100,000 workers, it seems almost impossible that a turnaround would ... Read Full Story »
Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) is trading higher today after earnings and after a restructuring direction has been set. Unfortunately for its investors, Boston Scientific remains a story of an ... Read Full Story »
The list of the best stocks of 2012 on the S&P 500 Index is one which makes sense in some cases and doesn't in other cases. Some of these are ... Read Full Story »
Some stocks become so badly beaten down that they become improbable bets for rebounds. Right now, in retail, several are so battered that modestly improved results in Black Friday weekend ... Read Full Story »
Chief executives who have no real plans to turn around troubled companies often offer generalities in the place of details. Put another way, they put vagueness in the place of ... Read Full Story »
Bloomberg TV has been running a special this morning about the poor turnaround that Ron Johnson has engineered at JCPenney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP). Our take is that this is ... Read Full Story »
Everyone loves a good turnaround story, particularly in down-and-out technology stocks. The problem is that many turnarounds can never turn around. Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) was touted over and ... Read Full Story »
Reports were out over the weekend that Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) was raising some $400 million in bailout and survival capital. The company confirmed this in an SEC ... Read Full Story »
Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) is trading higher today after some of yesterday's big trading losses, but a research note is likely going to weigh on the shares even if ... Read Full Story »