Cramer Goes To War (LMT, ATK, RTN)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that he thinks defense and aerospace is becoming the seventh bull market. He thinks that the recent huge contract to Saudi Arabia for military orders…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Analysts Close To Assigning Blackstone Ratings (BX)
If you have followed the Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) units on a post-IPO basis, then you will know it is almost impossible to cover without noting how the listed unit has traded lower and…
SiRF Technology Goes Its Own Way (SIRF, NVT)
SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRF), a Global Positioning Systems chip maker, isn’t following quite the same lead of NAVTEQ (NYSE:NVT) in after-hours trading. It is possible that the street read the GAAP EPS headline…
MySpace And Facebook: No Traffic In Asia
comScore came out with a little study on the geographic spread of the users of social networking sites. Perhaps the most striking point is that the two largest properties, MySpace (NWS) and Facebook, have…
NAVTEQ Guides Itself Up Wall Street
Earnings per share were $0.41 diluted, compared to $0.25 in the second quarter of 2006; Revenue in the quarter rose 49% over the second quarter of 2006 to $202.3 million. First Call estimates were…
Whole Foods Posts Whole Earnings (WFMI, OATS)
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Nasdaq:WFMI) has posted $0.35 EPS diluted on sales of $1.51 billion. The organic food grocer saw 14% ending square footage growth and a 7.0% increase in comparable store sales on…
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Will Host A Party All Night
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) quarterly revenue increased 33.9% to $274.3 million on comparable restaurant sales increased 11.6%. Net income rose 85.1% to $20.0 million and diluted earnings per share increased 81.8% to $0.60. The…
American Home Mortgage Reopens For Trading, Under $2.00 (AHM)
American Home Mortgage (NYSE:AHM) has finally repoened after being closed for a day and a half. Indications were going around the street have been noted as lows as an implied $1.00 to $2.50, but…
Cramer Calls Under Armour & Crocs (UA, CROX, NKE)
On today’s TheStreet.com video, Jim Cramer again pushed Under Armour (NYSE:UA). The stock is up big after earnings from this morning. He noted how he was critical at its last earnings report, but this…
Is Online News Faltering? (CBS)(NWS)(NYT)(WPO)(TWX)(DJ)
A look at traffic patterns for online news sites indicates that there is a decline in consumers using the internet as a source of mainstream news. Using information from website tracking service Alexa, most…
Global Positioning Earnings Onslaught (GRMN, NVT, SIRF, TRMB)
It is rare that one sub-sector has all of the key components reporting earnings within the same 24 hour period, but that is the case with the "GPS" or global positioning stocks. Tonight we…
Chipotle Ready To Serve Earnings (CMG)
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) posts earnings after the close today. The analysts that follow the stock are looking for EPS of $0.45 on revenues of $262.9 million according to First Call. The estimates for…
Downgrade Makes RadioShack Sound Like AbacusShack (RSH)
RadioShack Corp. (NYSE:RSH) is down again pre-market, this time on an analyst downgrade. Citigroup has slashed its rating from what was already a cautious "Hold" down to the ugly "SELL" rating. Part of the…
Whole Foods Ready For Earnings As FTC Hearing Begins (WFMI, OATS)
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFMI) and Wild Oats Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:OATS) today are in a preliminary injunction hearing to begin today that will end tomorrow to decide whether to approve the U.S. Federal Trade…
Pre-Market Stock News (July 31, 2007)
(ADP) Automatic Data Processing $0.35 EPS vs. $0.36 est.(AEP) American Electric Power $0.64 EPS vs $0.58 est.(APC) Anadarko Petroleum $1.08 EPS vs $0.80 est.(BEAV) BE Aerospace $0.39 EPS vs $0.37 est.; raised guidance.(CAM) Cameron…
Pre-Market Analyst Calls (July 31, 2007)
ABM raised to Overweight at Lehman.ARP cut to Neutral at Sun Trust Robinson Humphrey.BLDR cut to Mkt Perform at Pip
IAC Interactive (IACI): Bad News All Around
IACI (IACI) released second quarter 2007 results , reporting $1.5 billion in revenue, a 6% rate of growth over the prior year, and $136 million in Operating Income Before Amortization, compared to $165 million…
CBS (CBS): No Good News
CBS (CBS) revenues of $3.4 billion for the second quarter of 2007 decreased 3% from $3.5 billion for the same quarter last year. Operating income before depreciation and amortization ("OIBDA") of $859.4 million and…
GM (GM): The General Fights Back
GM (GM) announced net income of $891 million, or $1.56 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007, an improvement of $4.3 billion compared with a reported net loss of $3.4 billion, or…
Sirius (SIRI): Getting Subscribers Is Getting Harder
Sirius (SIRI) reported second quarter results, including a 51% increase in revenue from the year ago quarter to $226.4 million, and strong subscriber growth of 561,493 new subscribers during the quarter driving ending subscribers…