D-Day at First Solar as CEO Out! (FSLR, HON, GE)
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) must be in real trouble, even worse than what we have all been fearing. Rob Gillette is out as CEO. The circumstances behind the news were not telegraphed well…
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Full 360-Degree Preview of Amazon.com Earnings (AMZN, BBY, AAPL, NFLX)
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Tuesday. What makes Amazon so different from many peers in technology, internet and virtual companies is that it is…
3M, No Indicator of Conglomerate Business & Upside (MMM, GE, HON, UTX)
3M Co. (NYSE: (NYSE: MMM) is standing apart from its competing conglomerate peers. Not for the better. United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) have…
Case-Shiller Housing Price Gains Actually Losses
There is already a debate over whether or not the underwater mortgage bailout plan can do any good at all. Now we have data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices that some are trying to represent…
Healthways: The Implosion of the Day (HWAY, CI)
Healthways Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) could be named “The Implosion Stock of the Day.” Revenues rose 3.3% from a year earlier to $176.2 million, but that sequential earnings gain is actually more than a 6% annual…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (T, BK, CELL, FDO, FRX, HWAY, JASO, LVLT, LOW, NFLX, RGLD, VECO)
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. The Bank of…
“How to Kill a Brand”: the Reed Hastings Biography (NFLX)
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has managed to do what many thought was impossible. The leadership’s changes have managed to kill the growth and direction of the brand, and it has happened in only a…
Full 360-Degree Netflix Earnings Preview (NFLX)
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. First and foremost, the former high-flying video rental subscription service has done even worse than falling from grace. It…
Endless Mergers… More to Come! (CBST, ADLR, HS, CI, CVH, MAT, RNOW, ORCL, SLE, SJM, ANDS, NYX)
Monday is called “Merger Monday” for a reason and this morning is a classic example of its namesake. We have seen multiple deals and news outstanding on pending deals. We recently noted that far…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, A, DECK, GPN, TV, HMIN, ITC, IVN, ERIC, MMC, MCD, PAL, RGLD, TEVA, TLAB, TCBI)
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) added to Strong Buy List at Zacks. Agilent Technologies Inc.…
24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades of the Prior Week (ALU, BIDU, CHTR, FSLR, F, NUE, STX, WMT, WFM, ZLC, WDC, AAPL)
Each morning 24/7 Wall St. issued a list of some of the key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. At the end of the week we review these calls…
The Love of Dividends: LyondellBasell (LYB, DOW, EMN)
Investors love dividends and that is being proven yet again when you look at LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE: LYB) today. The chemical company is far from its days of bankruptcy reorganization and now on top…
S&P Upgrade of Ford Signals Dividend Is Closer (F, GM)
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) may not yet quite be investment grade, but the company is getting closer and closer. Friday morning brought the news that Standard & Poor’s has raised the debt and credit ratings of…
Groupon IPO Terms… Its Own Groupon at Half-Off (GRPN)
Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) has set its initial IPO terms and the valuation is still astronomical yet far less than what had been expected before. The social couponing website plans to sell some 30,000,000…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHP, BP, CIM, DRYS, FITB, GFA, HBAN, JCOM, JBHT, ERIC, MS, PLL, PETM, STX, STM, SYNA)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale; Cut to Neutral…
Full 360-Degree GE Earnings Preview (GE, BRK-A, MMM, UTX, HON)
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is due to report earnings early on Friday morning in the pre-market hours. Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component and conglomerate of $0.32 EPS and $34.86 billion…
Full Microsoft Earnings Preview Expectations (MSFT)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is due to report after the close of trading today and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.68 EPS and $17.25 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates…
(Over)Valuing Groupon IPO (GRPN, GOOG, LOCM)
Groupon is fighting a serious headwind to come public. We have raised flags of caution on this numerous times and the calls against the company are only seeming to become more vocal in the…
Riverbed… Back From The Dead (RVBD)
Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD) lost its way for a while. After a huge disappointment in July, Riverbed shares tanked from $40 to $30. Then it from $30 to $25 and then ultimately under…
Weekly Jobless Claims Show That Misery Persists
The Labor Department has released its tally on the weekly jobless claims and the net post-revision data does not show much. The prior week’s reading was revised from 404,000 to 409,000 and the new…