STLD: Steel Dynamics Raises Earnings Guidance
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Steel Dynamics (STLD) is just the right size to be one of the companies that qualifies for inclusion on our Small Cap Watch List, Mid Cap…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
The 52-Week Low Club
New Century Financial (NEW) Sub-prime lender my fill for Chapter 11. Dropped to $1.65 down from 52-week high of $51.97. Conseco (CNO) Still taking a pounding for weak numbers in last reported quarter. Dropped…
Texas Instruments Mid-Quarter Update
Texas Instruments’ (TXN-NYSE) mid-quarter update: TXN expects EPS between $0.29 and $0.33, compared with the previous range of $0.28 to $0.34 on total revenue of between $3.07 billion and $3.22 billion, compared with the…
Earnings Preview: Goldman Sachs (GS)
Goldman Sachs (GS-NYSE) reports tomorrow morning on its earnings numbers for the quarter. Estimates are for 3.5% revenue growth to $10.7 billion and EPS of $4.90, which compares to $5.09/share in the same quarter…
Cramer Changes His Mind
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer changed his mind about a stock. Morgans Hotels (MHGC) has gone up after Cramer thought it wouldn’t. The CIBC analyst on the show that came…
Schering’s Buy of Organon Should be a Win-Win for SGP, Akzo Nobel
Schering-Plough made a move that looks to shore up their pharmaceutical business with one broad stroke, agreeing to acquire Dutch firm Akzo Nobel’s (ADR; AKZOY) Organon BioSciences drug segment for roughly 11b euro, or…
RadioShack Cut to Junk at Moody’s
Moody’s has downgraded the Debt Rating of RadioShck from Baa3 to Ba1 and taken its short-term rating to "NOT PRIME" from a "PRIME3" rating. Debt rating downgrades do not often impact equity holders per…
The Humiliation Of Raymond James
Barron’s rated the research efforts of some of the large national and regional brokerages. "As we do every six months, Barron’s rates the stock-picking abilities of brokers that issue focus lists, or rosters of…
How The UAW Sent The Big Three’s Jobs Overseas
Very few businesses that are inflexible survive. And, the UAW may be called a union, but it is a business. And, for years it did well. The Reuther years. The UAW got its members…
HealthShares Launches 9 New ETF’s
This morning HealthShares(TM) ETF’s, from XShares Advisors LLC, is launching 9 new ETF’s dedicated to various aspects of healthcare. This is in addtion to the 5 launched in January, so there are now 14…
Ask.com Should Surrender To The Competition
Barry Diller and the folks over at IAC Interactive (IACI) should throw in the towel on Ask.com, their search engine, and sell the rights for search across their other sites to Google (GOOG), Microsoft…
Global ETF Overbought Oversold
From Ticker Sense Below we once again look at the global equity market landscape through our overbought/oversold program. ETFs highlighted in green are currently oversold while EWJ, the ETF representing the Japanese market, is…
UST: Review of UST’s 10K – Company Looks Solid But Not Cheap
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Large Cap Watch List member UST (UST) is a leading provider of smokeless tobacco products, which it markets under the Copenhagen, Skoal and other brand names.…
Yahoo! May Catch a Break
Yahoo! (YHOO) fell sharply Friday because of the news that AT&T (T) is considering either dropping or renegotiating the DSL pact that SBC had with Yahoo. There was an estimated $230 to $325 million…
Goldman Sachs Research Summary (MAR 12, 2007)
Goldman Sach has raised RealNetworks (RNWK) from a Sell to a Neutral rating. Amdocs Limited (DOX) was raised from a Neutral to a Buy. Secure Computing (SCUR) was downgraded from a Neutral at Sell,…
Dollar General Acquired by KKR; Are Other Dollar Stores Next?
Dollar General (DG) is being acquired by KKR in a $7.3 Billion combined offer after the stock and debt that valued the dollar store at $22.00 per share. This is above the one-year highs…
Pre-Market Stock Notes (MAR 12, 2007)
(BIIB) Biogen-Idec primary endpoint met in Phase 2 trial of Daclizumab in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis with PDL BioPharma.(CCOI) Cogent Communications -$0.21 EPS vs -$0.24e.(CLMS) Calamos reported $42.9B assets under management; compared with…
Earlybird Analyst Calls (MAR 12, 2007)
AHII strated as Outperform at Piper Jaffray; started as Overweight at JPMorgan; started as Outperform at Baird.AIV raised to Neutral at B of A.AIZ raised to Buy at Citigroup.AMD cut to Mkt Weight at…
Intel: The Dog Ate My E-Mails
One piece of news that has come out of the antitrust court proceedings of AMD (AMD) against Intel (INTC) is that key executives from the larger chip company did not save e-mails that might…
Hollywood: Who Needs Theaters?
The Journal of Marketing will publish a study that shows films would get a 16% lift in overall revenue if they were released on DVD, in theaters, and on VOD at the same time.…