The 52-Week Low Club
Greenbrier Cos (GBX) Freight car manufacturer gives weak outlook. Drops to $22.11. The 52-week high was $46.63. Hovanian (HOV) Home builder stock just keeps dropping. Down to $23.92 from $45.30. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)…
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Rackable Goes to the Torture Chamber
Rackable Systems (RACK) just dropped the ball, again (again, not an echo). Revenues are still expected to be $70 to $75 million, but non-GAAP margin will be 30% LESS than previously communicated. It blames…
Initial Reactions to Micron (MU)
Micron Tech (MU-NYSE): -$0.07 EPS and $1.42 Billion revenues vs. -$0.01 $ $1.465 Billion estimates.
Circuit City: What Is the Implied Floor For Shareholders?
After Circuit City (CC-NYSE) disappointed the street with earnings (again), this one started to get interesting. Back on December 19, 2006 we added this one to a "watch list" for the BAIT SHOP, and…
Cramer’s MAD MONEY in Indiana
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Cramer was on the road at the Indiana University where he will be hosting his MAD MONEY tonight (with a guest appearance later from Mark Cuban). He…
Sirius Merger Odds: Stifel Nicolaus Goes To Vegas
Barron’s quotes investment research operation Stifel Nicolaus as saying that the odds of a successful Sirius (SIRI) merger with rival XM Satellite (XMSR) are 55% to 60%. Now, how do they know that? Even…
Market Comments From TheStockMasters
One of our favorite ridiculous companies RedEnvelope Inc. (REDE) had its CEO throw in the towel. Yesterday Chief Executive Ken Constable resigned to "pursue other business opportunities", translating to bailing before the company goes…
Yahoo! To Facebook: Still Too High A Price
Peter Thiel, a shareholder in social network site Facebook, claims that the property is worth $8 billion. In his wildest dreams. Barron’s points out that investment bank Needham is beating on Yahoo! (YHOO) for…
Valero’s Value in Crosshairs of Oil Markets
This morning has put opposing forces on the oil sector, and Valero Energy (VLO-NYSE) is right there. Iran’a announcement that it would free the 15 British Navy prisoners immediately had oil futures dropping, with…
AMD: Old News, But Not Good News
Several analysts have already weighed in on the cash need at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Today, Merrill Lynch joined that chorus. The comment from Merrill as quoted in Barron’s: “the market may still not…
Tobacco Stock Strength
From Ticker Sense MO and UST top our list of stocks that have been up the most consecutive days. Interestingly, MO has been up 6 days in a row 7 times in the last…
Earnings Growth Falls Below 10%
From Ticker Sense Fourth quarter S&P 500 earnings numbers were finalized at $21.99 per share by Standard & Poor’s. This brings to an end the 18 consecutive quarter streak of double digit year over…
Mamma.com Up on Rumors (MAMA, GOOG, YHOO)
Mamma.com, is getting lots of trading interest because of re-rumors that it may be a takeover candidate. Google (GOOG) is the rumored suitor this time around, although that has been noted previously as Yahoo!…
Monster Saw Itself in the Mirror (MNST)
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (MNST-NASDAQ) is down more than 11% after the open on new internal forecasts of Q1 revenue in the range of $328 to $329 million, below the revenue outlook of $330-$338 million…
Nanogen Jumps on GSA Contract
Nanogen, Inc. (NGEN-NASDAQ) is seeing shares up 25% pre-market after it announced this morning that it has obtained a United States Government Service Administration (GSA) Schedule contract for its NanoChip 400 microarray instrument and…
Medarex Stock Options Activity Resembles Dendreon’s Trading
Stock Tickers: MEDX, DNDN When traders made bets and saw a move of more than 200% at one point onFriday in Dendreon (DNDN), this is the sort of news that can getbiotechs with upcoming…
Pre-Market Stock News (APR 4, 2007)
(BBY) Best Buy $1.55 EPS vs $1.52 estimate; Revenues $12.9B vs $12.75B (e); guides fiscal EPS $3.10-3.25 vs $3.18 estimate; stock up marginally.(CC) Circuit City trading down almost 4% after posting poor results.(DCX) DaimlerChrysler…
Circuit City Strike Wall St. As Bad
Circuit City (CC) lost money last quarter. The company closed stores, and, at those open a year, sales were poor. Revenue for the quarter ending Feb 28 were flat at $3.9 billion. Earnings from…
Full Research Notes (APR 4, 2007)
ALV started as overweight at Prudential.AMLN started as Outperform at CIBC.AN started as Neutral at Prudential.BCS cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.CDCY cut to Mkt Perform at FBR.COCO raised to Buy at Citigroup.CWTR…
Best Buy Sales Slow
Best Buy (BBY) announced earnings. Revenue for the fiscal quarter ending March 3 rose to $12.9 billion from $10.7 billion last year. But, comparable store sales, which rose 7,3% in the quater last year,…