Huge 52-Week High Surprise: Garmin (GRMN, GOOG, AAPL, TRMB)
If you took the developments of the last couple of years with the explosion of smartphones, Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) might have been easy to consider road kill. Yet here we are at the…
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Jon C. Ogg
Did Potash & Fertilizer Stocks Just Become Value Stocks? (MOS, POT, IPI)
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings may have given agriculture, potash, and fertilizer investors an early, yet so far unnoticed, Christmas gift. The Singapore fund has taken roughly a 6.5% stake in Mosaic Co. (NYSE:…
Investors Risk Chasing Yield Too Much In Tobacco Dividends (MO, T, RAI, LO, PM)
The continued rise in tobacco stocks is certainly cheered by tobacco stock investors who own the stocks for the high dividends. The problem is that there seems to be a phantom premium now being built…
Eight Countries With Credit Ratings Set to Rise Next Year
It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized “AAA” rating, the threat of downgrades hangs over all of…
Oracle Fears and Risks Flow Downstream (ORCL, CSCO, IBM, EMC, VMW, RHT, SYMC, INTC, MSFT, IGV)
What happens when the industry leader who never misses earnings manages a huge disappointment? This is the question regarding Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL). The company has a near-decade of history being very positive with…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BWA, CTL, CHKR, CTRN, EXXI, F, HON, ITMN, JEF, JPM, ORCL, RIMM, TDC, WPI)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) Started as Buy at Stern Agee. CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL)…
At Least Someone Still Loves Solar (GOOG, KKR, BRK-A, FSLR, TAN, KWT)
If you have been watching the share prices of the solar stocks, you will understand the joke (and perhaps not even laugh) that investing in these has turned many 401-K retirement funds into 201-K…
Stocking Stuffer: Starbucks Hit All-Time High (SBUX, GMCR, CBOU, PEET)
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) has given its shareholders the ultimate gift of all this holiday season. This stock did not just hit a new 52-week high today. Starbucks shares hit an all-time high of…
Full 360-Degree Oracle Earnings Preview (ORCL, INTC, CSCO, SAP)
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is going to be an important earnings report for after the close. The company now has some hardware component sales after the Sun Microsystems bailout, something which may be more…
MLP 2012 Sector Breakout? Outlook, Charts, Income (EPD, KMP, MWE, PAA, WPZ, MMP, BPL, EPB, KYN, AMJ, AMLP)
This is an interesting point in time for the sector of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). The oil and gas business could greatly unlock much of the domestic unemployment woes (and the trade balance) if…
General Growth Joins Special Situation Club with Rouse Spin-Off (GGP)
General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP) has joined the club of special situation investing after it approved the spin-off of Rouse Properties, Inc. via a “pro rata taxable dividend of voting common stock” of…
Brightpoint Named a Winner After AT&T Drops T-Mobile Bid (CELL, T)
Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) is being called a winner now that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has dropped its planned acquisition of T-Mobile. Canaccord Genuity is reiterating its “Buy” rating and its $14.00 price target…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMGN, T, BAX, BHP, FFIV, AWAY, M, MAA, NVLS, OPEN, SFD, URBN, WWWW)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage research calls this Tuesday morning. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Added to Strong Buy List at Zacks Investment Research.…
Vindication for Jefferies After Earnings (JEF)
Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) should finally get some vindication showing that it is truly not the next MF Global like so many rumors and short seller attacks may were suggesting. The investment banking…
Even More DJIA Dividend Hikes Coming Soon (BA, GE, DIS, T, PFE, CSCO, KO, XOM, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)
Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come true and others are…
Red Hat Earnings: Great Outfit, Valuation Still Too High (RHT)
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) is the old king of Linux but is now more of a virtualization and cloud solutions open source player for enterprises. The company is almost always trading at a…
Why Gold Traders Are So Concerned (GLD, GDX, AU, GOLD, ABX)
Asking a technician or chartist about directional movement is often mind-numbing for fundamental investors. Basing future price movement prediction solely on the past without a care about the underlying fundamentals and without a care about…
Top 2012 Consumer Stock Picks: Under Armour & Foot Locker (UA, FL)
Canaccord Genuity and other brokerage firms have been publishing their best ideas lists in 2012 for equity investors. The picks from consumer analyst Camilo Lyon show that the top picks for 2012 are Under…
Busted Zynga IPO Weighs Further On Social Media Shares (ZNGA, GRPN, LNKD, SINA, SOCL, GSVC)
Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is an initial public offering in trouble. Whether you call it a busted IPO, a broken IPO, or something else is up to you, but the sell-off from the start…
Bankrate Survey Showing More End of Year Financial Confidence
Bankrate.com has shown today in its December Financial Security Index that Americans are feeling more financial security now compared to any point in the last six months. This reported index has risen by 3.3…