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Weak Market, Strong Stocks Again (AOL, ABCO, PPO, KO, KFT, MO, RAI)

Administrator — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:45:46 +0000

This morning we ran a list of stocks which actually closed up 2% or more yesterday during the sell-off waves. We looked through the list of about 20 stocks, and of those listed only three closed up today: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) closed up +2.6% Thursday and closed up 0.37% at $21.76 today after a late day recovery. The Advisory Board (NASDAQ: ABCO) rose by +11% Thursday, and rose 2% to $38.09 today. Polypore International Inc. (NYSE: PPO) +15% Thursday, rose another 1.44% to $19.68 today.

Off of our “Defensive Stocks” listed today, only four of our sixteen go-to stocks closed up: The Coca-Cola Company up 0.7% at $52.67; Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) up 2.9% at $30.07; Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) up a whopping penny at $20.76; and Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) up 1.2% at $52.17.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: Defensive Stocks, HI/LOW Tagged: ABCO, AOL, KFT, KO, MO, PPO, RAI

Despite Crash, Many Stocks Rose (ABVT, AOL, CBEY, CKP, CAAS, CI, CNK, CLWR, RDEN, HTRN, HNT, IO, ITMN, KERX, MED, PCS, PACR, PPO, TDC, TIE, ABCO)

Administrator — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:31:23 +0000

Yesterday was a Cluster-something or an outright debacle. The stock market was a sea of red, but outside of inverse-ETF products there were actually many winners. We tried to look for the active gainers and screen out most of the gainers from a merger because of the obvious and we also screened out the gold plays and other fund-related products. Here are the winners of 2% or more from Thursday despite a deadly stock market:

Abovenet Inc. (NASDAQ: ABVT) +5.2%
AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) +2.6%
Cbeyond Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) +3.6%
Checkpoint Systems Inc. (NYSE: CKP) +10.6%
China Automotive Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CAAS) +5%
CIGNA Corporation (NYSE: CI) +2.9%
Cinemark Hldgs Inc. (NYSE: CNK) +4.4%
Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) +5.7%
Elizabeth Arden Inc. (NASDAQ: RDEN) +5.7%
Healthtronics Inc. (NASDAQ: HTRN) +32%
Health Net Inc. (NYSE: HNT) +5.8%
Ion Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) +3.7%
Intermune Inc. (NASDAQ: ITMN)… although it imploded this week.
Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: KERX) +6.8%
Medifast Inc. (NYSE: MED) +7.8%
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) +4.1%
Pacer International (NASDAQ: PACR) +10%
Polypore International Inc. (NYSE: PPO) +15%
Teradata Corp. (NYSE: TDC) +3%
Titanium Metals Corp. (NYSE: TIE) +12%
The Advisory Board (NASDAQ: ABCO) +11%

Imagine how well some of these might have done had the market not been a blood-bath.

JON C. OGG

Filed under: HI/LOW, Trading Alert Tagged: ABCO, ABVT, AOL, CAAS, CI, CKP, CLWR, CNK, HNT, HTRN, IO, ITMN, KERX, MED, PACR, PCS, PPO, RDEN, TDC, TIE

Pre-Market Analyst Calls (June 15, 2007)

247wallst — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:26:48 +0000

ABCO started as Outperform at CIBC.
AXTI started as Buy at First Albany.
BKD started as Buy at Jefferies.
BOOM started as Buy at First Albany.
CQB started as Buy at Morgan Joseph.
EXBD started as Sector Perform at CIBC.
FCN started as Outperform at CIBC.
FRE raised to Outperform at FBR.
HCBK started as Underperform at Bear Stearns.
HNSN started as Buy at Oppenheimer.
HOMB started as Sector Perform RBC.
INTC raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs; stock up almost 2%.
IIVI started as Buy at First Albany.
KNDL raised to Buy at Jefferies.
LGCY started as Buy at Oppenheimer.
NFS raised to Buy at Citigroup.
NFLX raised to Buy at Soleil.
PNX cut to Hold at Citigroup.
PTRY raised to Buy at Jefferies.
SFG raised to Buy at Citigroup.
VLY started as Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.
WSO cut to Hold at BB&T.

Jon C. Ogg
June 15, 2007