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Best Buy, Netflix, HP Advance Sends Wrong Signals

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 6:34 am

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. ...
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Analysts and Short Sellers, a Sentiment Climax on J.C. Penney?

Posted: March 27, 2013 at 9:25 am

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 ...
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Dear Analyst, Can AMD Really Double?

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 3:46 pm

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 ...
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Beware of the Coming Activist Bubble

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 6:31 am

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 ...
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Catalysts Leading Major Financials Back to 52-Week and Multiyear Highs

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 1:04 pm

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 ...
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New CEO Watch: Will RadioShack Start Selling Prescription Drugs and Root Beer Floats?

Posted: February 8, 2013 at 12:00 pm

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), ...
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The Long Awaited Turnaround at Ericsson Appears to Be Underway (ERIC, GS, CS, C, DB, STM, NOK, ALU)

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 11:25 am

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 ...
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Boston Scientific Turnaround Finally Begins to Take Shape

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 11:25 am

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 ...
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The 10 Best S&P 500 Stocks of 2012 (PHM, S, WHR, EXPE, LEN, MPC, GILD, BAC, TSO, STZ)

Posted: December 5, 2012 at 1:07 pm

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 ...
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Black Friday’s Improbable Winners

Posted: November 20, 2012 at 6:49 am

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 ...
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More Awful Plans for Best Buy

Posted: November 14, 2012 at 6:26 am

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 ...
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Media Feature: The Beginning of the End for Ron Johnson at JCPenney

Posted: August 22, 2012 at 10:14 am

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 ...
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If CSC Can Stage a Turnaround, Can Seven Other Lingering Dead Techs? (AMD, ALU, BRCD, DELL, RIMM, SYMC, UIS)

Posted: August 9, 2012 at 8:20 am

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 ...
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Knight Capital Survives the Weekend, with Exponential Dilution (KCG, BX, SF, AMTD, JEF)

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 7:54 am

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 ...
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Navistar Snags Another Downgrade Despite Pop in Shares

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 10:59 am

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 ...
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