ThinkstockUnited Natural Foods Inc. (NASDAQ: UNFI) is relatively unknown to most investors. That needs to change. The company is known for distributing natural, organic, and specialty foods, as well as non-food products. On the…
courtesy of Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have a bit of controversy over privacy issues under PRISM and under the company still apparently trying to create a watered down share class. But now…
ThinkstockThe Men’s Wearhouse Inc. (NYSE: MW) really is not down as much in the price of its stock as one might have been braced for. The men’s apparel retailer terminated George Zimmer from his…
courtesy of NBN at German WikipediaThe same domestic trend has been in place for years, with declining cigarette case volumes yet higher and higher dividends from the big tobacco companies. The latest Centers for…
Jon OggInvestors frequently get to see the analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street firms. What they often miss out on are the instances where analysts downgrade these stocks, particularly when it is…
With 2013 at almost the halfway point, we find this a good time to review the top current stocks to buy at various firms around Wall Street. The Bank of America/Merrill Lynch US 1…
ThinkstockOver 100 leading financial services companies participated in the third annual Deutsche Bank Global Financial Services Conference. After listening to their presentations, talking to executives in the industry and then crunching the data, Deutsche…
Investors and traders are often on the hunt for fresh research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits in this choppy stock and volatile market. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh…
We now have the Congressional Budget Office’s projection for what the cost, benefit, and impacts would be for the current immigration bill under proposal. The Senate bill S. 744 is the “Border Security, Economic…
Jon OggThe DJIA ended up 138 points to 15,318 on day. What is interesting is not just that this marked the third day of triple-digit gains in just four trading days, but that the…
Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia CommonsSears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) has been on a long and slow turnaround path but seems unable to be turned around. We have questioned this company’s long-term viability if it…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsBDO USA has released its 2013 BDO IPO Halftime Report, signaling that the market for initial public offerings should remain strong. Some 64% of the 100 capital markets executives surveyed at…
ThinkstockShip Finance International Ltd. (NYSE: SFL) is seeing shares take it on the chin on Tuesday morning after news that the company is planning to sell some 8 million shares in a secondary offering.…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department already released its reading for wholesale prices via the Producer Price Index for May, and now we have the retail inflation data coming via the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Headline…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. They include Intuitive Surgical, Palo Alto Networks and T-Mobile US.
ThinkstockLike many firms on Wall Street, technology is a major theme for the balance of the year. Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) launched its “tech enduring eight” basket of stocks to buy earlier this year,…
The research team at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) has released what Wall Street calls a Q-GARP list, which is simply “quality growth at a reasonable price.” Most investors will know this by GARP, growth at…
ThinkstockIt seems that investors suddenly have grown to dislike dividend-paying stocks, if you have been watching many of the riskier, high-dividend and high-payout sectors while interest rates have been on the rise. The notion…
ThinkstockQuintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. (NYSE: Q) has seen its so-called analyst quiet period come to an end. The company’s IPO was close to $950 million, which had been an upsized offering at $40.00 per…
ChannelAdvisor Corporation (NYSE: ECOM) is rising after the so-called analyst quiet period after its initial public offering has ended. It turns out that most of the analysts were very positive in their ratings as…