By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH) – Price $71.28; Break-up Value $73.50 Cardinal Health is currently in the midst of a large-scale business model transition. Their core business…
Cisco (CSCO) would seem, at first blush, to be the last company that would get on the social networking bandwagon. Cisco is a router company. It sell to big telecom and big cable. Social…
Saturn has been at the proverbial dog track with a note pinned to its shirt. "I am lost, please put me on a bus to this address" Although the car unit is owned by…
Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(CT)(GSK)(RTRSY)(PUK)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM)(V) Markets in Euope were higher at 6.00 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .6% to 6,383. Barclays was up 1.8% to 780. BP was up .8% to 539.5. BT was down…
TechCrunch reports that search firm Powerset is after Google’s (GOOG) market by offering natural language search. The tech site points out that many critics see flaws in the new company’s plans. TechCruch tested the…
According to Reuters, British firm FirstGroup will buy the parent of Greyhound Bus, Laidlaw (LI). Reuters writes that Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) will cut 12,000 jobs as it struggles with its merger and huge Q4 losses.…
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(SNE)(TM)(CHU)(CHL)(CN)(HBC)(PCW) Asian markets were mixed with the Nikkei rising. The Nikkei was up 1.2% to 17,504. Bridgestone rose 1.6% to 2470. Canon rose 3.6% to 6390. Fuji Film rose 3.9% to 5350. Hitachi…
From Ticker Sense For our next Charts and Tables post, we highlight the historical dividend yields of key US equity indices. We also point out the historical spread between the 10-Year Treasury Note and…
From Ticker Sense As small caps have outperformed large caps over the last several years, the valuations of large cap stocks relative to smaller ones have declined. One way to illustrate this is by…
From Value Discipline We are in the midst of one of the most well-established rituals of Wall Street , earnings season. This is an incredibly intense time for analysts on both sides of the…
By Chad Brand of The Peridot Capitalist It’s amazing how many people have been quoted saying the Altria (MO) spin-off of its 89% ownership of Kraft Foods (KFT) will send the shares of MO…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat According to today’s press release: Silicon Laboratories Inc. (SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), today announced a definitive agreement with NXP, formerly…
By Yaser Anwar CSC, of Equity Investment Ideas Yesterday I laid out MS’s first theme and my take, today we move on to the second one. Theme #2- US Financials with Exposure to International…
From AAO Weblog Winter freeze or not, the options backdating investigations are heating up. On Tuesday, the SEC announced the filing of civil suits against both the former CFO Gary C. Gerhardt, and former…
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology AURIGA LABORATORIES +22.32% ACCENTIA BIOPHARMACE +12.09% XENOPORT +11.09% CADENCE PHARM. INC. +10.07% BIODELIVERY SCI INTL +8.59% Diagnostic Substances ICAGEN, INC. +15.00% ISTA PHARMACTLS +14.15% GENE LOGIC INC +5.36% GENELABS TECH…
From Contrarian Edge By Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA I wrote this article last year, on the risk that high corporate margins present to investors. Here is updated excerpt from that article: Today’s stock market…
By David Polonitza Yesterday I sent a letter to Itex‘s management regarding a possible share buyback. Due to the fact that I do not own greater that 5% of the outstanding shares in the…
tSteve Jobs appears to have been treated with kid gloves by his board at Apple (AAPL).They found that he had made no gain from backdated options but was aware of the practice. This was…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer had his SELL BLOCK calls. This is where he reviews names that can usually be sold that are based on his recent picks. Avon (AVP-NYSE) is one…
Cramer came back out on Mad Money on CNBC noting that Investors Financial Trust (IFIN) was acquired by State Street (STT) for a 38% premium. As soon as the market opened Cramer thought DST…