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Altria Doesn’t Light it Up (MO, RAI, LO, PM)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 7:43 am

Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and other products, reported earnings this morning that did not match expectations. The consensus estimate for EPS was $0.49 and ...
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Reynolds American: Not Smokin’ (RAI, MO, PM, LO, BTI)

Posted: April 24, 2012 at 9:04 am

Tobacco merchant Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) reported first quarter earnings this morning, and posted a clear miss. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.63, lower than the consensus estimate of ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALL, GWRE, KMT, LVS, LEAP, LO, PCS, MWW, P, PIR, TM, ZNGA)

Posted: March 5, 2012 at 8:11 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Raised to Buy and $36 target at Argus. ...
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Unusual Stocks At All-Time Highs (CLB, CLH, CVLT, INTU, LGF, LO, MA, MJN, FIRE)

Posted: February 22, 2012 at 11:30 am

We are seeing some surprise moves for all-time high stocks this Wednesday.  Some are even moving without the benefit of fresh news. Core Laboratories NV (NYSE: CLB) almost made it to $125.00 ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AMZN, DE, NVDA, LO, WFR, AAP, APA, ABX, DTV, DUK, GM, TAP, STRA, PFCB, JNGW, AEA, HDY, PMFG, CAR)

Posted: February 16, 2012 at 4:05 pm

Stocks opened higher this morning following upbeat reports on unemployment claims and new housing starts. With a little more than a half hour left in today’s session, all three indexes ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (MO, AMZN, UHAL, AMLN, ACI, CAJ, CMCSA, DE, DLR, ENS, EQIX, INCY, LO, WFR, NWL, NVDA, PM, RENN)

Posted: February 16, 2012 at 8:11 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) Started as Hold ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AONE, EXPE, RIMM, AMGN, MMM, AAPL, CSCO, AMSC, BG, DNKN, LO, PEP, PM, SIRI, TDC, IPSU, TSL, DMND, GRPN, TLEO, CZR)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 4:07 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened a bit higher this morning, and after some volatility have managed to get to the final half hour of trading with a modest ...
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Investors Quit Smoking As 2012 New Year Resolution (MO, LO, RAI, PM)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 8:59 am

It was not that long ago that Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) was removed from our 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio.  Our take was that the metrics of the domestic tobacco ...
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Investors Risk Chasing Yield Too Much In Tobacco Dividends (MO, T, RAI, LO, PM)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 2:01 pm

The continued rise in tobacco stocks is certainly cheered by tobacco stock investors who own the stocks for the high dividends.  The problem is that there seems to be a phantom ...
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Are Tobacco Dividends Still Safe Beyond 2012 and 2013? (MO, RAI, LO, PM)

Posted: December 9, 2011 at 2:21 pm

24/7 Wall St. has just released its 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio for investors.  While we have many names we have featured as buys in our income and defensive stock sectors, ...
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Media Digest (12/2/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 6:22 am

Auto sales reach a two-year high. (Reuters) Tom Glocer, the head of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), resigns and will be replaced by the COO. (Reuters) The intellectual property battle between ...
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24/7 Closing Bell (ORCL, RNOW, CAT, MCD, IVN, PAL, RGLD, MAT, SJM, SLE, CI, HS, ETN, LO, METR, NFLX, TXN, ADLR, MOBI, ASYS, SXCI, DRAM)

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Stocks opened higher this morning, helped along by a host of merger announcements. Techs got boost when Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) said it would pay $1.5 billion for cloud-based customer ...
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Tobacco Company Dividends Hold Investors in Line (LO, MO, RAI, PM, VGR)

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 10:45 am

Some of the highest dividend yields from any sector come from tobacco stocks. That’s why a relatively weak report from one of the cigarette makers gives pause to investors looking ...
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America’s Recession-Proof Companies

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 7:27 pm

With fears of a new economic downturn, investors have become concerned about sales and profits of large companies. But there are companies that have already proven themselves in the recent ...
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Share Buyback Announcements Continue In Droves (PFG, BIN, CLF, LTM, ACM, FRX, IPG, MYGN, RSG, LO, NWL, TIVO)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 1:18 pm

It was just last week that we had identified literally 25 big share buyback announcements from companies in the preceding two weeks.  These companies were actually buying back the stock ...
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