Posts for Ticker ‘HST’

Media Digest 1/15/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   China says there are ways to resolve problems with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), but the US is uncertain.

Reuters:   Oil fell to $79 over concerns about the US economy.

Reuters:   Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) earnings beat expectations.

Reuters:   Citigroup (NYSE:C) bonuses were similar to 2008 Read More »

Posted on: January 15, 2010 – 3:53 am in Press Digest, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Hershey (HSY) May Be Too Small To Win Cadbury (CBY)

Hershey (HSY) is once again mentioned frequently as a buyer of Cadbury (CBY). To win a competition it would have to top the $16.6 billion offer from Kraft (KFT) Cadbury shares already trade above the Kraft offer in the anticipation of a second bidder or a higher offer from Kraft.

Hershey has a problem in completing a takeover of Cadbury. It is smaller than both the UK company and Kraft by both sales and market cap. Read More »

Posted on: January 14, 2010 – 5:27 am in Mergers and Buy Outs, , ,

Host Joins REITs Raising Cash (HST)

money-stack-image46Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: HST) has completed a secondary offering that raised some needed cash for the company.  The hotel-REIT priced a secondary offering of 66,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $6.60 per share.  This is actually a substantial discount to the $7.10 close on Thursday, but it will also raise some $435 million before accounting for fees and commissions.
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Posted on: April 24, 2009 – 8:34 am in REIT, Secondary Offering,

The 52-Week Low Club (SIRI)(MOD)(GXP)(HST)(DVN)

sad_clown3Modine Manufacturing (MOD) Losing money and problems with debt covenants. Drops to $.93 from 52-week high of $19.60.

Great Plains Energy (GXP) Bad quarterly results. Very bad. Shares plunge to $14.53 from 52-week high of $27.50.

Devon Energy (DVN) Rise in crude stockpiles. Down to $51.53 from 52-week high of $127.43.

Host Hotels & Resorts (HST) Wall St. starting to cut estimates on hotel earnings. Sells off to $4.37 from 52-week high of $18.81.

Sirius Xm Radio (SIRI) Chapter 11 rumors. Drops to $.052 from 52-week high of $3.89.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted on: February 11, 2009 – 4:13 pm in HI/LOW, , , , ,

Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (AUTH, DD, HST, RNWK, RLH)

These are some of the top individual analyst downgrades we are seeing very early this Wednesday morning:

  • AuthenTec (AUTH) Cut To Neutral at JPMorgan
  • DuPont (DD) Cut to Hold at BB&T Capital
  • Host Hotels (HST) Cut To Market Perform at KBW
  • RealNetworks (RNWK) Cut to Sell at Piper Jaffray
  • Red Lions Hotels (RLH) Cut to Neutral at Baird

Jon C. Ogg
October 8, 2008

Posted on: October 8, 2008 – 6:34 am in Analyst Calls, , , , ,

52-Week Low Club (WTR, BMY, CELL, DDS, EK, EXPE, GCI, GE, HST, NOK, PFE, Q, VLO, WY, WGO)

If you thought this was a bad day for the market with the DJIA trading well under that 12,000 psychological level, there were some 400 stocks that hit 52-week lows today when you include the closed end funds, preferred stocks, and ETF’s.  Today was ugly enough that we won’t even add our little personal prodding on these.  Here is just a partial list of fifteen active stocks on this list today that aren’t airlines, autos, or financials:

  • AQUA AMERICA INC (NYSE: WTR)
  • BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB (NYSE: BMY)
  • BRIGHTPOINT INC (NASDAQ: CELL)
  • DILLARD’S INC (NYSE: DDS)
  • EASTMAN KODAK CO (NYSE: EK)
  • EXPEDIA INC. (NASDAQ: EXPE)
  • GANNETT CO INC (NYSE: GCI)
  • GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE: GE)
  • HOST HOTELS & RESORT (NYSE: HST)
  • NOKIA (NYSE: NOK)
  • PFIZER INC. (NYSE: PFE)
  • QWEST COMMUNICATIONS (NYSE: Q)
  • VALERO ENERGY (NYSE: VLO)
  • WEYERHAEUSER CO (NYSE: WY)
  • WINNEBAGO IND INC (NYSE: WGO)

Jon C. Ogg
June 21, 2008

Posted on: June 20, 2008 – 2:21 pm in HI/LOW, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADS, GRMN, HST, JEF, MHS, NCC, RHT, CRM, BRLC, VLTR)

These are some of the top analyst calls that we are focusing on this Tuesday morning in pre-market trading hours:

  • Alliance Data (NYSE: ADS) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
  • Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) started as Neutral at JPMorgan.
  • Host Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HST) Cut To Hold From Buy By Deutsche Bank.
  • Jefferies Group (NYSE: JEF) Cut to Neutral at Banc of America.
  • Medco Health Solutions (NYSE: MHS) raised to Buy at Jefferies.
  • National City (NYSE: NCC) raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank; Downgraded to Underperform at Bear Stearns.
  • Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) started as Buy at Piper Jaffray.
  • Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) started as Buy at Piper Jaffray.
  • Syntax-Brillian (NASDAQ: BRLC) raised to Outperform at Robert W. Baird.
  • Volterra Semi (NASDAQ: VLTR) raised to Buy at Piper Jaffray.

Jon C. Ogg
April 22, 2008

Jon Ogg is a producer of and editor for both the Special Situations newsletter and the "10 Stocks Under $10" weekly newsletter for 247WallSt.com; he can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com and he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

Posted on: April 22, 2008 – 7:01 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,

52-Week Low Club (December 28, 2007)

Some of these stocks hit 52-week lows and recovered off of lows so they won’t have a low close.  But these did all touch or breach the 52-week lows.  At the end we also broke out retail stocks, financial stocks, airlines & transports, and hotels.  A separate report could have been compiled for REIT’s as well, but many of those were left off because of room or volume. There were enough 52-week lows today that you might even wonder if there had been a mini-crash in the markets.  Here are the 52-week lows for December 28, 2007:

  • Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD)… imagine if the company got Hector Ruiz to leave.
  • American Greetings (NYSE: AM)…again.
  • AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN)… new entrant.
  • Carmike Cinemas (NASDAQ:CKEC)
  • ChipMOS (NASDAQ:IMOS)
  • Corp. Office Property (NYSE: OFC)
  • Cryptologic (NASDAQ: CRYP)
  • Diebold (NYSE:DBD)
  • Fortune Brands (NYSE:FO)
  • Group 1 Auto (NYSE: GPI)
  • Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ: INFN)
  • Introgen (NASDAQ:INGN)
  • Japan Smaller Cap Fund (NYSE: JOF)
  • Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR)
  • Legget & Platt (NYSE: LEG)
  • Martha Stewart (NYSE: MSO)
  • Marvell Tech (NASDAQ:MRVL)
  • Mattel (NYSE:MAT)
  • McClatchy (NYSE:MNI)
  • Micron Tech (NYSE:MU)
  • NGAS Resources (NASDAQ:NGAS)
  • Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT)
  • Owens Corning (NYSE:OC)
  • Omnicare (NYSE:OCR)
  • Prestige Brand (NYSE: PBH)
  • PC-Tel (NASDAQ:PCTI)
  • Ruth’s Chris (NASDAQ:RUTH)
  • SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK)
  • Theravance (NASDAQ:THRX)
  • Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO)
  • Wendy’s (NYSE: WEN)
  • World Fuel Services (NYSE:INT)
  • U-Store-It (NYSE:YSI)

Retail Stocks on 52-week lows: Ann Taylor (NYSE:ANN), Big Lots (NYSE:BIG), Borders Group (NYSE:BGP), Bon Ton Stores (NASDAQ:BONT), Chico’s FAS (NYSE:CHS), Finish Line (NASDAQ:FINL), Liz Claiborne (NYSE: LIZ), Macy’s (NYSE: M), Office Max (NYSE:OMX), Petsmart (NASDAQ:PETM), Stage Stores (NYSE:SSI)

Financial stocks on 52-week lows: Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Canseco (NYSE: CNO), Discover Financial (NYSE: DFS), Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB), Fortress Investment (NYSE: FIG), MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI), Washington Mutual (NYSE:WM)… urgh!  When does it stop?

Airlines/Transports on 52-week lows:  Airtran Holdings (NYSE: AAI)…again.  Did they launch a Friends Die Free rewards plan?  Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL), Fedex (NYSE:FDX), Mesa Air (NASDAQ:MESA), Northwest Airlines (NYSE: NWA)… near $100 oil is a real pain.

Hotels Hitting 52-week lows: Host Hotels (NYSE: HST), Lasalle Hotel (NYSE: LHO), Starwood Hotels (NYSE:HOT), Sunstone Hotel (NYSE: SHO), Wydham Worldwide (NYSE:WYN).  Maybe these all wish they could get the private equity buyers back in the sector.  If only they could still borrow.

These CEO’s new year’s resolutions are all the same: "In 2008 I want to keep my stock off the 52-week low lists."

Jon C. Ogg
December 28, 2007

Posted on: December 28, 2007 – 3:01 pm in HI/LOW, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,