More Bad News For Boston Scientific (BSX)
Boston Scientific is acting like its business is OK again after a string of bad news. The company is boasting that sales will rise 11% to 21% in 2007. For investors to believe this,…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Motorola Chases Cisco (MOT)(CSCO)(JNPR)(NT)
Who can stop the Cisco express? In the recent quarter, the company produced a sales increase of 25% year-over-year and EPS was up 30%. With its purchase of Scientific Atlanta, that company now has…
Sprint Gets Dropped (S)(INTC)(MOT)
AG Edwards thinks that Sprint’s stock has gone as far at it can, at least for now.Could be. The bank cut the phone company from a “buy” to a “hold” with a price target…
Analyzing Home Depot (HD)
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasYesterday morning HD reported disappointing 3Q results. The stock was up over 4% in a strong market which has me thinking that1) Possible rumors about an M&A…
Icahn Shifts Positions, Adds CYBX, HLT and WCI
From 13D TrackerActivist investors Carl Ichan made the following changes in a 13F filing from his Icahn Management LP unit:New stakes: Cyberonics Inc. (Nasdaq: CYBX) 607K shares, Hilton (NYSE: HLT) 4.06 million shares, WCI…
Cramer Says Hertz IPO Will Hurt You!
Cramer said the IPO to avoid this week is Hertz (HTZ). He thinks this can burn you. This is where the sellers of the IPo make a lot of money, but the new buyers…
Cramer Very Positive on NYMEX IPO
We already saw Cramer endorese the KBR (KBR) IPO and even that he said Halliburton (HAL) was a cheaper and safer way to go.The huge IPO of the week that Cramer then reviewed was…
Cramer Discusses Upcoming IPO’s: KBR from Halliburton
Last night on Cramer’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer went over upcoming IPO’s on what to look for and what to avoid. He also said he doesn’t want to get caught short this market.KBR…
Market Wrap (Nov. 14, 2006)
DJIA 12,216.97; Up 85.09 (0.70%)NASDAQ 2,430.18; Up 23.80 (0.99%)S&P500 1,393.14; Up 8.72 (0.63%)10YR-Bond 4.568%; Down 0.037NYSE Volume 2,931,884,000NASD Volume 1,881,414,000Wholesale Inflation measured by the October PPI fell 1.6% because of falling energy prices. Core…
Which Group of Analysts Will Be Right About Earnings?
By Chad Brand of Peridot CapitalistGlancing over earnings estimates for the duration of this year and 2007, I noticed a very interesting dichotomy. Bottom-up analysts are still quite bullish on corporate profits, forecasting year-over-year…
Buybacks…Some Terrific Insight from Information Arbitrage
From Value DisciplineGretchen Morgenson of the NY Times recently wrote an article on, “Why Buybacks Aren’t Always Good News.” Buybacks, per se, will only create value if the stock is purchased at prices below…
Major eCom (ECMV) Holders Nussdorfs Propose Acquisition of Model Reorg, A Company They Control
From 13D TrackerIn an amended 13D filing on eCom Ventures, Inc. (Nasdaq: ECMV), large holder Glenn Nussdorf with his brother Stephen Nussdorf, who together beneficially owned 45.34% of the stock, disclosed a proposal for…
Sedna Capital Discloses 5.65% Stake in Selectica (SLTC)
From 13D TrackerIn a 13D filing after the close on Selectica, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLTC), Sedna Capital disclosed a 5.65% (1.73 million shares) stake in the company.Sedna said it currently does not have any plan…
Cramer
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer reviewed a couple of ideas to make money.On Graco (GGG), Cramer said the CEO is a great a tell. He said if it wasn’t for…
Big 3 Auto CEO’s Meet With President Bush
Stock Tickers: GM, F, DCXThe heads of each of the Big 3 Auto producers held general and prelininary discussions with President Bush today, but said this was very general and the start of what…
Most Actives Review: As Directionless as the Market
As the market has hit some resistance and having a hard time going higher for the last couple of weeks, the trading volume has stayed with the Horsemen tech stocks and has dried up…
Salary.com Files for IPO
There was a somewhat interesting IPO filing yesterday, although I am not that convinced that it is a GOOD interesting at this point. Salary.com has made its initial filing for an initial public offering…
Microsoft One Step Further on Interoperability (Updated Version)
Please be advised we have deleted the first version of this story of Microsoft releasing a any updates on Mozilla’s Firefox. We have not been able to confirm this and there are still some…
Microsoft One Step Further on Interoperability
Please be advised that we wanted to update this story at NOON EST. We have not been able to find any confirmation of any browser updates from Microsoft for the Mozilla Firefox browser and…
Wal-Mart Reacting Better Than Target on Retailer Earnings
This morning we got to see competing earnings reports from retail giants Wal-mart (WMT) and Target (TGT). In short, WMT is trying to hang on, and TGT is still growing. The same-store-sales (s-s-s) are…