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Home Depot (HD) is down nearly 1.0% after posting a 30% drop in Q1 profits that missed expectations and guiding full-year earnings at the low end of prior forecasts. Shares of HD are trading…
Home Depot (HD): Stop Expanding Retail Operations
The Home Depot (HD) net income dropped in the first quarter, as it endured a weakened spring selling season and continued to weather the soft housing market. In the first quarter, Home Depot had…
Cramer Backs Mark Hurd at Hewlett-Packard
Cramer’s second CEO in his "Transformational CEO’s" list is Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ).He said you can slap a buy on him because he took over H-P in March of2005 after Carly Fiorina was…
Cramer’s Next Infrastructure Stock (ACM, FWLT)
The next big infrastructure play according to Cramer on Mad Money is AECOM Technology (ACM-NYSE). He called it the next Foster Wheeler (FWLT-NASDAQ). This just came public Friday and it should have had a…
Cramer Eats Crow Over Herbalife (HLF)
Tonight on CNBC’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer said he was ready to eat crow over Herbalife (HLF-NYSE) because it is a supplement company that he got wrong. It sells via Multi-level marketing and that…
Bill Gates & Cascade Holdings
These are the holdings of Cascade Investment Management, L.L.C. as of March 31, 2007. For those that do not recognize the name "Cascade," that is Bill Gates own private investment vehicle he uses for…
The 52-Week Low Club
Airline day. Delta (DAL) down to $18.15. Fuel costs rising. Only public recently. High $21.95. US Air (LCC) Down to $32.25 from $63.27. Good that Delta has not been public for a year. It…
Warren Buffett Rides More Railroads (BNI, NSC, UNP), Plus Other Holdings
This is an edited version of the first story to run an expanded list. Last month we all found out that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway decided to take a ride on the Reading by…
Applied Materials, Chip Cap-Ex Not Dead
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT-NASDAQ) posted $0.29 EPS on sales of $2.53 Billion versus First Call estimates are $0.28 EPS and $2.35 billion in revenues. On a non-GAAP EPS basis Applied posted an even more…
Cramer Spoke Too Soon on Limited
On today’s STOP TRADING on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that Limited (LTD-NYSE) will go up. The CEO doesn’t rest on his laurels and that could be a $30.00 play. He thinks there is value…
Crocs Inc. is trading over $70 a share, is it too much?
Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) has had an amazing run over the last year, since last May the stock has risen 160%. Last week (5/7) Wedbush Morgan upgraded Crocs from "buy" to "strong buy" and set…
A Ten Step Program For Wal-Mart
If you have read us before, you may have read something about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT-NYSE). There is probably an 80% chance that it was critical of the company but not for the entirely…
Starbucks (SBUX) At A 52-Week Low
Starbucks (SBUX) hit a 52-week low today, trading at $28.37. It was November of 2005 the last time is traded below that level. For those keeping score, boring old McDonald’s (MCD), which now pushes…
Wal-Mart (WMT): Inactivity Is The Reason Scott Has To Go
World’s biggest retailer Wal-Mart (WMT) said Tuesday quarterly profits rose 8% to $2.83 billion ($0.68/share) and revenue rose 8.5% to $86.41 billion — hitting analyst estimates exactly. Wal-Mart said Sam’s Club and international operations…
Are AMD shareholders 20% better off? no
Shares in Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) are up 20% in five days. That means its market cap is up about $1.5 billion. ThinkEquity did raise the shares to a "buy" because the research firm…
GE: Keeping NBC and No Interest in Dow Jones
General Electric’s (NYSE:GE) Jeff Immelt just made the inference during a CNBC interview that GE will not be showing any interest in Dow Jones (NYSE:DJ) and implied that they are not going to jettison…
SunTrust’s “Value Initiative” Falls Short
Usually when companies issue favorable "shareholder value initiatives" you tend to see value created in the shares almost instantly. That isn’t the case for SunTrust Banks (STI-NYSE) today. The company says it will focus…
Applied Materials Earnings Preview (May 15, 2007)
Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT-NASDAQ) reports its Q2 earnings after today’s close and First Call estimates are $0.28 EPS and $2.35 billion in revenues. As far as what to expect for Q3, the current estimates…
Dendreon, the Day That Could Have Been and What to Expect Now
At about 5:20 this morning after rolling the calendar a day over to see the notes, something stood out like a sore thumb: DENDREON DO OR DIE DATE! The truth is that the May…