The 52-Week Low Club
Irwin Financial (IFC) Banking company has poor quarter based on mortgages. In Michigan no less. The worst place in the world to loan money. Join the club. Drops to $16.42. The 52-week high was…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Cisco Dribbles Out Some More Good Comments
Cisco Systems (CSCO-NASDAQ) is trading up on comments made by Charlie Giancarlo, Cisco’s Chief Development Officer, in a Bloomberg interview today (link here to the website) based on comments that the company is at…
Cramer Loves Cable Companies
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he was wrong yesterday about Gap Inc (GPS) and said that it was Banana Republic, not Old Navy that was doing well. In cable,…
Rumor Friday (APR 13, 2007)
Stock Tickers: SLM, NNI, FMD, MEDI, HAL, WHT, MEH, AAI, COT, IPS, PALM, DELL, NFI, BCE, AA, DOW, WYN, NDAQ, GFI, KR, ABN, BNI, DCX What preceeds "Merger Monday"? The answer isn’t really Sunday. …
INFY: Employee Growth Getting Tougher
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Infosys Technologies (INFY) Announced Results for the Quarter and Year Ended March 31, 2007, and what struck us was not sales or earnings, but employees: Gross…
DRAM Pricing Debacle Hits Samsung
Samsung posts weak Q1 on chips, outlook tough – Yahoo! News Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS), the world’s top memory chip maker, posted a slightly bigger-than-expected 15 percent drop in first-quarter earnings as margins…
Market Comment From TheStockMasters
Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. (NYSE: BFT), how here is a stock we have made fun of, time and time again.
Can MathStar Inc. sell their FPOA technology or will they disappear?
From TheStockMasters For all you 52-week low bargain shoppers
Mauboussin: Why the Market is Smarter Than You Are
From Investment Intelligencer
McDonald’s – A Defensive Stock Goes On Offense
McDonald’s (MCD) continues to impress everyone with their same-store sales figures, and the stock continues to hit multi-year highs. Worldwide comps were up 8.2% in March, highlighted by European sales up 11.2%, Asia-Pacific regions…
Vertex Options Active Ahead of Data Presentation
Vertex (VRTX-NASDAQ) is seeing quite a bit of trading today ahead of a data presentation tomorrow. This one may have been very active all on its own, but since Dendreon (DNDN-NASDAQ) made its exponential…
Critiquing Smart Money’s “Ten Stocks for the Next Ten Years”
Stock Tickers: AAWW, CELL, HPOL, OSIS, PWAV, SIRO, TTEK, UNFI, VAS, WTS The new cover story for the May 2007 Smart Money Magazine is an interesting one as "The Ten Stocks For The Next…
McDonald’s Kicks A–
McDonald’s (MCD) global same store sales rose 8.2% and US same store figures were up 6.2%. That can’t be good news for Yum (YUM), Burger King (BKC), and Starbucks (SBUX). People can only eat…
IPO Pricing: Comverge, Inc. (COMV)
Comverge, Inc. (COMV-NASDAQ priced its IPO of 5.3 million shares at $18.00 per share. The company used Citigroup as the lead underwriter; and co-managers include Cowen & Co., RBC Capital, and Pacific Growth. Comverge…
Pre-Market Stock News (APR 13, 2007)
(AAPL) Apple is delaying its new Leopard OS by 3 months due to pulling programmers to work on iPhones.(ANDS) Anadys Pharma showed positive data in hepatitis B studies.(AYR) Air Castle names new CFO.(CBS) CBS…
Full Analyst Summary (APR 13, 2007)
AOG started as Buy at Jefferies.ATMI started as Neutral at First Albany.BAC started as Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.BBX raised to Outperform at FBR.BEC started as Neutral at B of A.BUCY started as Buy at…
Sony’s Five Year High
Sony‘s (SNE) shares hit a five year high overnight in Tokyo. Odd for a company that appears to be struggling selling its new flagship game platform. A Deutsche Securities analyst thinks that Sony will…
GE Meets Expectations, But That’s All
GE (GE) announced earnings this morning. Revenue rose rose 5.7%. Results were hurt by the company’s industrial division, especially its plastics unit. Earnings rose to $4.51 billion from $4.44 billion in the same quarter…
Fight With Qualcomm: Nokia’s Turn
Some observers think that now that the deadline has passed for Nokia (NOK) to renew its license with Qualcomm (QCOM) for using its IP and hardware in NOK handsets, that both companies would begin…
Europe Markets 4/13/2007 SAP, BP Up
Stocks: (BCS)(BT)(BP)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DT)(DB)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM) Markets in Europe were up slightly at 6.25 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .1%.