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APH: Amphenol Beats, But By Less Than We Would Have Thought
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MOT: More of the Same Expected for Motorola
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CSX Moves Up Again – Will Pricing Power Increase Buyout Talk?
The U.S. rails are all to the upside today even as weaker-than-expected earnings were released yesterday by CSX Corp (CSX). As of 11:30 EST, CSX is up 4.2% to $45.15, Burlington Northern (BNI) is…
24/7 Wall St. Starbucks Store Evaluation Tour Heads to Texas
Peter Lynch encourages investors to look at what they use and what they know for investing, and Starbucks (SBUX-NASDAQ) has become one of the largest household names out there. 24/7 Wall St. is reviewing…
Clearwire: Citigroup Isn’t As Bullish As Others
Clearwire (CLWR-NASDAQ) isn’t getting the same rosy call from Citigroup this morning after most of the analysts unsuccessfully went out with positive calls yesterday. The analyst cites the substantial funding risks required to deploy…
TMK – Torchmark Corp: Insurance with a Flair for Flare
By Saul Sterman 04/17/2007 A quick search through the New York Times archives reveals that TMK has not been mentioned in the news since 2004. Is this good or bad? Overview In the 90’s,…
Full Research Summary (APR 18, 2007)
ADS started as Outperform at Baird.AMTD cut to Mkt Perform at KBW.CAM cut to Hold at Citigroup.CAT raised to Outperform at Wachovia.DRC cut to Hold at Citigroup.DVSA started as Hold at Jefferies.EMKR started as…
Pre-Market Stock News (APR 18, 2007)
(ABT) Abbot Labs $0.55 EPS vs $0.52e.(AMZN) Amazon.com opening its “Go Indie” music store.(ASML) ASML Holdings N.V. trading up 4% after 53% sales increase and commitment to return cash to holders.(BGC) General Cable formed…
Netflix Outlook Shows a Maturing Company
Netflix (NFLX-NASDAQ) stock is indicated down in initial trading after the company’s earnings. The online and mail in video rental leader posted non-GAAP EPS at $0.16 vs $0.16 estimates and posted revenues of $305.3…
Research-in-Motion: BlackoutBerry
If you are one of the nearly 5 million addicted owners of a Research-in-Motion (RIMM-NASDAQ) BlackBerry, you might be unable to read this from us so far this morning. If you can read it,…
JP Morgan Up Almost 3% In Pre-Market
JP Morgan’s (JPM) results impressed. The stock is up to $51.52, or close to 3%, in pre-market trading, an indication that it could pass its 52-week high today. Net income at the big bank…
Motorola’s Nightmare
It was as bad as expected. Motorola (MOT) lost money in the last quarter. Revenue fell to $9.43 billion from $9.61 billion in the quarter a year ago. The company lost $181 million. Fortunately,…
Yahoo!’s Sucker Rally
Terry Semel is back is schmuck-ville. He telegraphed that things were going well at Yahoo! Over the last three months, Yahoo!’s (YHOO) shares rallied 15% to over $32. After yesterday’s earnings disaster, the stock…
Europe Markets 4/18/2007
Stocks: (BCS)(BT)(BP)(GSK)(RTRSY)(VOD)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM) Markets in Europe were lower in early trading at 5.25 New York time. The FTSE was off .5% to 6,467.
Ahead of the Earnings: Merck Gaining Respectability Again?
We can see the sweat on their brow, but all in all Merck (MRK) is running a pretty good race these days going into Thursday’s earnings. With the recent pop from news that the…