By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Ceradyne, Inc. Reports 2006 Fourth-Quarter and 12-Month Results Ceradyne, Inc. (CRDN) today reported results for the fourth quarter and twelve months ended December 31, 2006.Sales for…
Cramer on today’s WALL STREET CONFIDENTIAL video on TheStreet.com has said that this TXU (TXU) buyout is going to run-up the other power companies. It was $5.00 4-years ago and it would have been…
Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) – Price $32.65; Break-up Value $42.31 Nvidia is the last stand-alone graphics chip maker after ATI was bought out by AMD last year. NVDA and ATI were (and will still be)…
A British tabloid called the Daily Express was the one yesterday that reported private equity firms KKR, Blackstone, and Carlyle are considering a $60.00 buyout offer for Dow Chemical (DOW-NYSE). The market cap as…
Infinera has filed to come public via an IPO this morning. It lists $150 million as the amount to be raised, but that is solely for filing purposes. It has taken the proposed ticker…
Vonage (VG-NYSE) is coming out in defense of itself after last week’s patent case. Here is how they start the release: In the last week, several media reports have inaccurately speculated on the outcome…
Yahoo! (YHOO-NASDAQ) shares are up 2% at $32.80 this morning because independent comScore has released the results of a study on Project Panama. comScore analyzed the changes in Yahoo!’s (YHOO-NASDAQ) click-through rates for sponsored…
(AXP) American Express’ CFO leaving to be CFO of Citigroup.(BSTE) Biosite noted as a good speculative stock according to Cramer on Friday’s MAD MONEY.(C-NYSE) Citigroup named Gary Crittenden as CFO to replace Krawchek, who…
AVR raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.BDN raised to Buy at B of A.CELL raised to Buy at Jefferies.CMVT raised to Outperform at Baird.CTV raised to overweight at Lehman.CY cut to Neutral from Buy at…
TXU Corp. (TXU-NYSE) has confirmed the approval of a merger reported late Friday with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (‘KKR’) and Texas Pacific Group. Goldman Sachs is also participating in the buyout, and that…
XM (XMSR) lost another $255 million in Q4 2006 on revenue of $257 million up 45% from last year. But, this was a considerable slowing from the full-year growth of 67%. The company said…
Most investors assume that competition for Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) will come in the search sector. But, maybe not. The other critical portion of the search business is the sale of contextual advertising,…
By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Sears Holding Corp. (SHLD) – Price $ 187.65; Break-up Value $205(1), $325(2) Sears Holding has a few things going for it, and a few things going…
Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM)(V) Markets in Europe were up at 5.35 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .6% to 6,437. Barclays was down .1% to 789.5. BP was up 2.1% to 546. BT was up…
By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Boston Scientific Corp (BSX) – Price $17.12; Break-up Value $18.11 Boston Scientific has seen its stock pummeled under the dual weights of an industry with a…
According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) named a new CFO, the current chief financial officer of American Express. Reuters writes that GlaxoSmithKiine (GSK) plans to revitalize its cancer drug research beginning with the launch of…
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(CN)(HBC)(PCW) Asia markets were mixed with the Hang Seng down sharply. The Nikkei rose .2% to 18,216. Bridgestone was down 2% to 2505. Canon was down .5% to 6630. Fuji Film was up…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat The Economic Calendar gets busy. We have durable goods (consensus = -3.0%) on Tuesday, preliminary GDP (consensus = 2.3%) on Wednesday, and ISM Manufacturing (consensus =…
From The Average Joe Investor Kansas City Shuffle – a deception move characterised by causing the victim to look right as you attack on the left. Right up front I’m going to say that…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas Subprime Effects Over the past two weeks subprime lenders have taken a turn for the worse, giving the bears the chance to argue once again that…