More Analyst Woes For RIM (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG, MSFT)
Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is facing more and more analyst scrutiny. One report last week noted that RIM was at a great chance of issuing an earnings warning. Now a report from…
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Jon C. Ogg
ISM: Services Economy Growing More Than Expected
The report for Non-Manufacturing data from the Institute of Supply Management, the ISM, is showing a hotter than expected reading. The full index came in 57.3 rather than the drop expected. Bloomberg and Dow…
Rare Earths Coming Back in Favor (MCP, REE, REMX)
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is getting a second look this morning. Morgan Stanley is noting that rare earth minerals may have now bottomed out in price after a 25% drop. The belief is that…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALL, GWRE, KMT, LVS, LEAP, LO, PCS, MWW, P, PIR, TM, ZNGA)
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Raised to Buy and $36 target at Argus. Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE:…
IKEA & Pre-Fab Homes… Not!!!
IKEA is not public, but this could have been some really big news in the housing sector. Imagine how cheap a house could become in affordability of IKEA got in the game of building…
Credibility Issues Mounting at Overstock… Are Viability Issues Next? (OSTK)
What matters more… A CEO who adequately predicted a very deep recession or a CEO who investors and analysts think may be a self-imposed victim of conspiracy theory? Just go ask Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Weatherford Options Traders Bet ‘All’s Well’ (WFT)
Weatherford International, Ltd. (NYSE: WFT) originally looked like it was going to be in serious trouble after its earnings debacle when the company said that investors could not rely on certain aspects of its…
Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (FMCN, TEA, URBN, PAY, P, AEO, PLCE, HRB, HOV, AONE, ALTR, BUD, RENN, SFD, WSM)
Earnings season is over for the most part, but we still have many companies that are widely held stocks due to release their earnings for the week ahead. We are tracking earnings due in…
Are Investors Turning Away From Dividends?
Jon OggInvestors love dividends, and they should in good times and in bad times. What is interesting is that dividend investors have actually lagged so far in 2012 as far as the S&P 500…
Yelp IPO Volume Off The Charts (YELP)
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) may be up 63% around $24.50 in a strong IPO. What is even more impressive than the price gain is that the trading volume has been stellar. More than stellar…The…
Yelp IPO Makes Angie’s List Look Like A Bargain (YELP, ANGI)
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) is now open after pricing at $15.00 and the unofficial opening bell price we saw was $22.01 per CNBC and now shares are up around $24.10 or so. You can…
Is a PIMCO Bond Hedge Fund ETF For You? (TRXT)
Bill Gross and PIMCO may have missed the mark on the bond trends in 2011, but PIMCO is still perhaps the biggest global axe in the world when it comes to bonds. Now the…
Amicus Raises $50 Million In Capital (FOLD)
Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOLD) has raised more than $50 million in a secondary offering of common stock. The company sold 10 million shares at a price of $5.70 per share, down from the…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, AWK, BLK, CMA, DPZ, KBH, LOW, PCS, MWW, MSI, RF, TAL, TCBI, TRV, UNM)
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. American Water Works Company, Inc.…
Yelp IPO Comes At Premium (YELP)
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) has priced its initial public offering of 7.15 million shares at $15.00 per share. This pricing is a premium price above the range and it values Yelp at roughly $900…
GNC Shareholders Unloading Millions Of Shares (GNC)
GNC Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GNC) is seeing a very large share sale coming to market. The company filed after the close of trading on Thursday to sell up to 17 million shares of common stock…
Surprise Winners Of Great Auto Sales (SIRI, FM, F, P, GNTX)
If you tally up U.S. car sales, the rate would be “blistering” according to the reports that came out throughout the day. February sales did have that extra day, but all in all this…
Active Power Still Has ‘Going Concern’ in Annual Report (ACPW)
Active Power, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW) has another “going concern” in its annual report filed with the SEC. You have to go all the way to page 61 and look in the “Summary of Significant…
Shutterfly Gets To Pick Off the Kodak Digital Carcass (SFLY, EKDKQ)
Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) has entered into an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company (EKDKQ) over the proposed sale of certain assets of the KODAK Gallery on-line photo services business for $23.8 million. Effectively, Shutterfly is…
DCP Midstream Partners Raising Capital (DPM)
DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM) has announced that it is selling some 4,750,000 of its common units representing limited partner interests in an underwritten public offering. As far as the use of proceeds,…