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Stocks That Missed the Rally (ABT, MO, AWK, BKC, ENER, GENZ, KR, ORB, WMT, LEAP, PCS)

Here we are going into yet another earnings season.  We saw Monday how the market has rallied significantly from the March lows and the major indexes are even up in positive territory for the 2009 calendar.  The DJIA is up 51% from its absolute lows of March, and the S&P 500 has rallied more than 61% from its absolute lows in March.  If you look at the December 31, 2008 closing bell levels, the DJIA is now up about 12.75% and the S&P 500 is now up more than 19% year-to-date.

But almost as always, there are still some key very large and/or very active stocks which have not recovered anywhere close to the same amounts with the overall stock markets.  Some of these lagging stocks are Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT), Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BKC), Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENER), Genzyme Corp. (NASDAQ: GENZ), Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), Orbital Sciences Corp. (NYSE: ORB) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT).  Two similar situation stocks that are Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) and MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS).  We wanted to explore the forward values and relative performance, and the consensus estimates based upon Thomson Reuters data.  Only two of these stocks have market capitalization rates under $1 billion, and almost all are very actively traded and well known in their sectors.
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Posted on: October 12, 2009 – 5:03 pm in Biotech, Charts, Consumer Goods, Defensive Stocks, Dividend, Editor's Picks, Retail, Utilities, Value Investing, Water, , , , , , , , , , ,

Host Of Companies Win In Strong DigitalGlobe IPO (DGI, MS, OZM, ORB, GEOY)

DigitalGlobe ImageDigitalGlobe is set to  open for trading this morning in another highly anticipated initial public offering.  The satellite imagery company will trade on the NYSE with the ticker “DGI.”  The IPO was priced at $19.00 for some 14.7 million shares.  Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Och-Ziff Capital Management (NYSE: OZM), Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) are among the public companies which are all listed as shareholders of DigitalGlobe.
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Posted on: May 14, 2009 – 7:23 am in IPOs, Satellite, , , , ,

Public Companies To Benefit From DigitalGlobe IPO (DGI, MS, OZM, ORB)

money-stack-image57DigitalGlobe, Inc. may be the next high tech initial public offering, and it looks like several public companies will stand to benefit from it.  This is a high-resolution satellite image operation that will trade under the “DGI” ticker on the New York Stock Exchange.  We have a tentative launch indication of mid-May.  Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Och-Ziff Capital Management (NYSE: OZM), Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) are the public companies which are all listed as shareholders of DigitalGlobe, although these are just a few among the lot of other listed owners and insiders.
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Posted on: April 30, 2009 – 12:05 pm in IPOs, Satellite, , , ,

Pre-Market Stock News (July 18, 2007)

(ABT) Abbott Labs $0.69 EPS vs $0.68 estimate; guidance looks soft.
(ASD) American Standard $0.84 EPS net, but $1.05 before items; estimates were $1.08. Spin-off/sale remains on track.
(BLK) Blackrock $1.80 EPS vs $1.67 estimate.
(BSC) Bear Stearns said two of its funds are virtually worthless.
(CLDA) Clinical Data priced a 3 million share secondary at $22.00 per share.
(DAL) Delta Air $0.70 EPS; generated $1.1 Billion in free cash flow.
(DJ) Dow Jones board has approved a deal with Rupert Murdoch and will meet with Bancroft family.
(INTC) Intel trading down 5% after earnings last night.
(ISPH) Inspire Pharma announced a $75 million convertible preferred financing pact with Warburg Pincus.
(ITWO) i2 Technologies lowered guidance.
(JCI) Johnson Controls $1.98 EPS vs $1.98 estimate.
(JPM) JP Morgan Chase & Co $1.20 EPS vs $1.09 estimate.
(JUPM) JupiterMedia announced a $20 million acquisition of MediaBistro.com.
(LUV) Southwest Airlines $0.25 EPS vs $0.23 estimate; revenue performance looks better than expected so far for Q3.
(MO) Altria $1.05 EPS vs $1.13 estimate.
(NITE) Knight Trading $0.24 EPS vs $0.26 estimate; announced a $500 million share buyback plan..
(ORB) Orbital $0.23 EPS vs $0.21 estimate.
(PFE) Pfizer $0.42 EPS before items vs $0.50 estimates; reaffirmed 2007-2008 targets.
(STJ) St. Jude Medical$0.45 EPS vs $0.43 estimate.
(UTX) United Technologies $1.16 EPS vs. $1.15 estimates; reaffirmed targets.
(WFMI) Whole Foods’ board of directors started an investigation into CEO John Mackey Yahoo Message Boards postings.
(YHOO) Yahoo! trading down over 5% after earnings last night. YHOO target lowered at many firms: Goldman Sachs, Piper Jaffray, Credit Suisse, Bernstein, ThinkEquity and probably more.

Jon C. Ogg
July 18, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

Posted on: July 18, 2007 – 7:15 am in Pre-Market Activity, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Pre-Market Analyst Calls (July 17, 2007)

AMR raised to Neutral at UBS.
BEAS raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.
BHP cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.
BTU cut to Neutral at HSBC.
COGN raised to Strong Buy at JMP Securities.
CPA raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.
CRZO cut to Hold at Jefferies.
DAL raised to Neutral at UBS.
DK started as Hold at Deutsche Bank.
EME started as Buy at KeyBanc/McDonald.
GFIG cut to Hold at Citigroup.
GSIC started as Hold at Jefferies.
IACI started as Neutral at B of A.
JEC started as Buy at KeyBanc/McDonald.
NLS cut to Sector Perform at RBC.
ORB raised to Outperform at Wachovia.
PWR started as Buy at KeyBanc/McDonald.
RCI started as Overweight at JPMorgan.
ROH raised to Buy at Citigroup.
SAPE raised to Outperform at FBR.
TWB raised to Outperform at FBR.
UAUA raised to Neutral at UBS.
VSCN cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.
WAT started as Hold at Deutsche Bank.
WTSLA started as Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.

Jon C. Ogg
July 17, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

Posted on: July 17, 2007 – 6:43 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,