InfoBlox Files For IPO (BLOX)
INFOBLOX INC. has just filed its paperwork with the SEC for an initial public offering. The stock will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BLOX” and the filing is for…
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Jon C. Ogg
More Value Left in Krispy Kreme (KKD)
It is always interesting when you see a sharp rise in the shares of companies making unhealthy products during the start of any year. Fried flour coated with sugar and all sorts of unhealthy…
Wells Fargo For CIT? Crazy or Genius? (WFC, CIT, BAC)
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is almost hard to fathom as a takeover stock, regardless of a report that SunTrust Robinson Humphrey thinks it would be a good takeover target for Wells Fargo &…
Looking For Family Dollar Chart Support (FDO, DG)
Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) managed to beat earnings last night, but the in-line outlook has investors worried that perhaps the great secular trends of the dollar stores and sub-$10 stores may have…
Vical Secondary, More Than Meets The Eye (VICL)
Vical Incorporated (NASDAQ: VICL) may have reversed the order of a capital raise and good news, or maybe there is nothing more to the story than meets the eye. The company’s announcement last night that…
The 17 Most Important IPOs To Watch In 2012
The initial public offering market in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this year may see some…
RF Micro, From Bad To Worse (RFMD)
RF Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: RFMD) was down a lot last night but shares are getting spanked even harder now. In fact, you better brace for a 52-week low for the radio frequency components…
Apple’s $560 Price Target (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been reiterated as BUY with a $560 price target objective this morning by Canaccord Genuity. The firms channel checks indicate record iPhone December quarter sales and showed that the…
When 8.5% Unemployment Sounds Good
The U.S. Labor Department is out with the Decemberber unemployment and non-Farm payrolls data. After a huge upside surprise from this week’s ADP payrolls data being almost double expectations, the expectations for payrolls has…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AGCO, APOL, BSX, CECO, DNDN, FDX, GS, HUN, ITW, INTC, KSS, SNDK, AMTD, TRV, UPS, URBN, VOD, HOGS)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO) Maintained Outperform as Bull of the Day…
More Pain At Imperial (IPSU)
Imperial Sugar Company (NASDAQ: IPSU) was named as one of the 13 worst big equity stories of 2011 recently. Things are not getting better if the earnings report is a tell. The maker of…
Kodak: Options Exercising & Surrender, Fake Insider Buying (EK)
Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) has a bunch of insider filings out from the SEC this evening after yet another 10% drop today that appear to be insider buying. On each, they appear to…
The 24/7 Wall St. 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio (AEP, AWK, T, GE, GOV, KMB, SNH, WMT, JNK, AMJ, AMLP, PGF, MO, DLR, EPD, KMP)
It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the 30-Year Treasury…
Bank of America Running On Own Merits (BAC, FAS, C)
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was recently named as one of the Top DJIA Stocks With Upside for 2012. The problem is that the target price from the consensus analyst reading from Thomson…
Moody’s… Kodak As Alive as Kojak (EK)
Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) was just lowered again by Moody’s with about $1 billion in debt securities affected by the downgrade. The ratings agency cut Kodak’s corporate credit rating down to Caa3 from Caa2 with…
Netflix To Maintain Irreverent Earnings Release Method (NFLX)
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has announced that its earnings release and business outlook will be released on its investor relations website at http://ir.netflix.com on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 after the close of trading. The…
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Deliveries Still Just A Drop In The Bucket (BA)
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is out with its fourth quarter deliveries and all of the great forecasts for the 787 Dreamliner super-sized jumbo jet are going to still be quite a ways out into…
How Dendreon’s Good News Could Spread Around Biotech (DNDN, HGSI, IBB, FBT)
Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is living up to something we showed late in December. It was one of the Top Biotech Upside Stocks for 2012 by Wall Street Analysts. Now, the question is whether…
Why The J.C. Penney Flop Is Good For Investors (JCP, M, SKS, KSS, AAPL, MSO)
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is getting hit pretty hard this morning. While current investors will not appreciate the drop, this is actually great news for those investors who wanted to get…
Marvell Powers Google TV Ahead Of CES (MRVL, GOOG)
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) is trading up on news this morning that it and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) are in a pact called “a major breakthrough in the convergence of TV, gaming,…