Google Stays Strong In January Search Engine Ranks
Comscore came out with its monthly search engine rankings and Google (GOOG) cemented it place as a huge front-runner again. From December, the big search company moved up in share .2% to 47.5% of…
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Analog Devices Sees Orders Strengthening
Analog Devices (ADI-NYSE) Revenue $692 million, including $35 million technology license fee; Q1 Diluted EPS: $0.44 GAAP and $0.40 non-GAAP. Estimates were $0.41 EPS & $652 million revenues. Gross margin for the first quarter…
Whole Foods Gobbles Up Wild Oats (WFMI, OATS)
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI-NASDAQ) reported the company signed a definitive merger agreement with Wild Oats Markets, Inc. (OATS-NASDAQ) under which Whole Foods Market will acquire the outstanding common stock of Wild Oats Markets…
Semis and Semi Equipment Overcapacity Not a Short Term Issue
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have been warning repeatedly that semiconductor makers were ordering too much equipment, a recipe for a capacity glut that is now taking hold, according to…
Growth Rates
From Ticker Sense Below we highlight the 25 S&P 500 stocks with the highest forecasted long-term growth rates. The long-term growth forecast is an expected annual increase in operating earnings over the company’s next…
Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
From The Stock Masters Great article about how solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia within 5 years. In a decade, the cost…
Apple Gets Its Mojo Back
Apple has been a name that is harder and harder to catch big moves in, but today that isn’t the case. Pre-market Prudential lifted its earnings per share from $0.64 to $0.68. The main…
Cramer Says to Own Sirius and XM (XMSR, SIRI)
Today on the STOP TRADING segment on CNBC around 2:45PM EST, Cramer said he prefers SIRIUS (SIRI), but he says you can buy both SIRI & XMSR. He said the same that the FCC…
Cross Check
From Ticker Sense On January 29, we highlighted lists of stocks exhibiting golden and iron crosses. According to technical analysts, stock which have a golden cross will continue to rise, while stocks with iron…
NKE Up 10 Days in a Row
From Ticker Sense Nike (NKE) has been up 10 days in a row, and as shown below, this hasn’t occurred any other time in the past 3 years. AOC follows NKE at 7 days,…
15 Companies That Management Can’t Fix: McClatchy
There are certain companies that probably cannot be turned around no matter who runs them. They tend to be in industries where macro-economic trends are against them, like the buggy whip business 150 years…
Hot Chinese IPO Alert: Xinhua Finance Media Limited (XFML, XHFNY)
This morning there was a well-known and well-established Chinese media company that filed for an IPO. Xinhua Finance Media Limited has filed for an IPO to raise up to $371 million representing 23 million…
15 Companies That Management Can’t Fix: Home Depot
There are certain companies that probably cannot be turned around no matter who runs them. They tend to be in industries where macro-economic trends are against them, like the buggy whip business 150 years…
Cramer Thinks XM-Sirius Gets Approved
Jim Cramer has stated on today’s Wall Street Confidential on TheStreet.com that regulators won’t block the XM (XMSR) & Sirius (SIRI) merger, plus EMI/WMG, plus an assault on Trump. Warner (WMG) & EMI: Cramer…
Who Could Acquire ABN AMRO? (ABN)
Who would acquire ABN AMRO (ABN-NYSE/ADR)? First, let’s review the metrics about the company. This morning shares are up 5% in the US listed ADR’s on reports that TCI Fund Management ‘believes’ that a…
Taser Not Stunned on Earnings
Taser (TASR-NASDAQ) has posted EPS of $0.04 on revenues of $19.3 million; estimates were $0.04 and $19.2 million. That marks roughly a 53% rise in revenues. The year was actually a net loss of…
Analyzing Skype
From Internet Outsider eBay has now owned Skype for more than four full quarters. How’s that little $4 billion flyer doing? Answer: Pretty well, actually. Not amazing, not terrible. Pretty well. eBay doesn’t release…
Pharmacyclics: A Biotech Meltdown
Pharmacyclics, Inc. (PCYC-NASDAQ) is trading down over 40% pre-market after receiving a ‘refuse to file’ letter from the FDA for its new drug application for Xcytrin® Injection for the treatment of non-small cell lung…
Citi Releases Buy-Out Target List
Citigrooup’s research arm has put out a list of companies that it thinks are attractive buy-out targets. Included are: Plantronics (PLT) Cypress Semi (CY) Check Point (CHKP) KLA Tencor (KLAC) Analog Devices (ADI) Bearingpoint…
Is Altria Buying Imperial Tobacco?
Spanish paper El Economista has a report that Altria (MO) may be trying to buy Imperial Tobacco (ITY). Altria is about to spin-off it Kraft food division, and it would make sense for the…