Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) Reiterated Hold at Argus. Cabela’s, Inc. (NYSE: CAB) named…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) has reported earnings, but it is the restructuring efforts which are likely to get the most attention today. The basics were adjusted earnings of $0.54 EPS on $12.5 billion in…
CRYOLIFE, INC. (NYSE: CRY) has just filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in a mixed securities offering. The filing will allow the company to sell any combination of the following…
VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is going to likely have a huge day on Thursday. The FDA panel reviewing its Qnexa drug to treat obesity has voted overwhelmingly to offer FDA panel backing in favor of recommending…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with its quarterly earnings report and earnings were $0.92 EPS on $30 billion in sales. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $0.87 EPS on $30.71 billion in sales. Of…
Trading gold has been a wild trip for investors and speculators over the recent years, but now gold is magically back to nearly $1,800.00 per ounce. In fact, gold is reaching a key area…
Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE) is getting off to a good start for new IPO investors. While the $13.00 price for 5 million shares was under the $16.00 to $17.00 range targeted just yesterday in…
Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) has been on a stock on fire. After managing to pull a rabbit out of the hat with its earnings report, shares have continued to recover. Its stock chart was…
FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) is trading higher on exponential trading volume this Wednesday after reaching a memorandum of understanding to form a German-based joint venture with the Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems to…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has now charged two China-based executives with defrauding investors. The charge is that these investors believed that they believed they were investing in a Chinese coal business “when in…
Dividend investors potentially have a lot to lose in the 2012 Presidential election. While the real crux of the matter may boil down to which party rules the House and/or Senate in 2013 and…
Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) is softening after its net loss rather than a small gain expected. There is more to this than just an earnings story. What is really the driving force is…
We are seeing some surprise moves for all-time high stocks this Wednesday. Some are even moving without the benefit of fresh news. Core Laboratories NV (NYSE: CLB) almost made it to $125.00 today and shares are…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday. After the disappointing report from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), the bar may have even ratcheted a tad lower…
Existing home sales in the United States posted a jump of 4.3% for December in new data from the National Association of Realtors. The seasonally adjusted and annualized rate was 4.57 million houses. Where…
Some large REITs have ambitions to grow even larger. News is out that Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE: HCN) sold some 18,000,000 shares of its common stock at $53.50 per share to raise gross proceeds…
Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an energy crop company, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $13.00 per share. All of the 5…
Gabelli & Co. is issuing a very loose defense of Weatherford International, Ltd. (NYSE: WFT) after Tuesday’s earnings blunder. This can be a dangerous game any time there is a withdrawal of financial expectations…
It was just yesterday that we wrote about a question concerning the endless run-up in shares of Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: WPRT). It turns out that the company itself decided shares had risen so…
Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI) is holding up better than one might expect if analysts still have any power. The good news is that they all got caught the wrong way being bullish…