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Douglas A. McIntyre

Southwest’s Fuel Hedges Keep Earnings Up, For Now (LUV)

Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) is managing to keep its earnings going and expects revenues in the coming quarter to exceed year ago levels.  The company posted $0.22 EPS and revenues of $2.59 Billion compared to…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Virgin Mobile’s First Analyst Call…A Sell (VM, S)

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE:), Richard Branson’s recent pay as you go cellular carrier IPO, managed to pick up its first analyst coverage today.  Stanford Group Company was not in the underwriting syndicate, but the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Hershey…. Going The Wrong Direction (HSY)

Hershey (NYSE:HSY) posted a dismal earnings report.  If lower sales didn’t make it bad, higher material costs and higher marketing costs made it worse.  The candy maker posted EPS of $0.27 after items and…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

September Financial Website Analysis

In September, Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance lost almost all of its pageview lead over its closest competitor, AOL Finance. For the month, Yahoo! Finance had 286 million pageviews and AOL Finance had 282 million according…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

BAC: Another Bank Cash Crash

Bank of America (BAC) put out earnings and the stock started selling off. BAC reported third quarter net income declined 32 percent to $3.70 billion from $5.42 billion a year earlier. Diluted earnings per…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Another Tough One For Pfizer (PFE)

Pfizer (PFE) posted third-quarter 2007 revenues of $12.0 billion, a 2% decline from the same period last year. The Company’s reported net income was $761 million in the third quarter of 2007, a decrease…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Europe Markets 10/18/2007

Markets in Europe were mixed at 6.25 AM New York time. The FTSE fell .3% to 6,660. HSBC (HBC) was down 1.1% to 953. Northern Rock was down 2.2% to 203 The DAXX rose…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Dell (DELL) Gets Crushed

The new Gartner research and IDC numbers for PC sales in Q3 are out. You read it hear first. Dell (DELL)will have disappointing numbers when it reports earnings. Reuters writes that "HP shipped 19.6…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Sony (SNE) Playtation: Too Little, Too Late

The story is now as old as the hills. Sony (SNE) took a huge lead in the gaming business almost a decade ago and built it up with its PS2. It was so far…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Asia Markets 10/18/2007

Shares in Asia were mixed with the Shanghai Composite off 3.5% to 5,825. The Nikkei rose .9% to 17,106. Sony (SNE) rose .6% to 5,430. Toyota (TM) rose 1.1% to 6350. The Hang Seng…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Fox Business News Covers 24/7 Wall St.

Fox Business News just launched this Monday and many are referring to it as Rupert Murdoch’s answer to both CNBC and to Bloomberg TV. This just got sent to us and appears to be…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Sprint (S) To Sell iPhone Knock-Off

If you can’t beat them, copy them. Sprint (S) will begin to offer a touch-screen phone that looks great deal like the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. It should be available for the holiday sales season.…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

What Quality Problem? Toyota (TM) Recalls 470,000 Vehicles

Recently, the signs on the road have looked bad for Toyota (TM). The last Consumer Reports survey of vehicle reliability dropped the biggest Japanese car company to third place after it had the front…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

SEC To Probe Countrywide (CFC) CEO

Did he or didn’t he? That is the question being asked about Countrywide (CFC) CEO Angelo Mozilo and his 10b5-1 stock sales plan. Normally these programs are set up to cover regular stock sales…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Washington Mutual Earnings Slaughterhouse (WM)

Washington Mutual Inc. (NYSE:WM) posted earnings after today’s close, and as you’d expect there was a severe drop compared to 2006.  The lender posted earnings per share of $0.23, down from a whopping $0.77…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

24/7 Wall St. On Water (WTR, INSU, PIO, KO, SMWIX)

We have partnered with Water.ca in Canada for a weekly Internet radio discussion about Water as an investing strategy for U.S. and Canadian investors.  The focus here is a discussion about the overall investing…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Citrix Takes A Breather After Earnings (CTXS, VMW)

Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) posted earnings of $0.41 non-GAAP EPS on revenues $350 million.  First Call had estimates at $0.38 EPS and revenues at $339.7 million.  GUIDANCE: next quarter guidance is $0.42 to $0.43…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago