Oh boy… A share buyback plan and a “cost optimization plan.” Can you just feel the excitement? Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has reported its earnings at $1.33 EPS on $4.91 billion in…
Something is happening at Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). Something bad. That is what its chart is saying. Google’s stock has today broke down under the $500.00 mark for the first time since September 20,…
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is one of the “Too Big To Fail” banks. Now it is going to be known as the “Too Big To Reverse Mortgage” bank. Today came the announcement…
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is about to come clean on its earnings report. Needless to say, expectations are low and our take is that anyone who thinks that guidance won’t be “tempered”…
Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square could soon become a much more formidable activist when it comes to dealing with companies. Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) might have not been one of Ackman’s greatest success…
Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) finds itself as the latest rumored acquisition candidate for private equity. The company is worth about twice as much as when it came public in 2004 and its education-theme in…
Gabelli & Co. has a unique research report out this morning and we took a look at this to see where the opportunity is. Imagine that television stocks should still be winners after all…
courtesy of Pandora MediaPandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) is one which we were skeptical on and we warned investors that it was a value hat trick, but not just because of its business model. …
Solar PV makers had a good first quarter in the US. A report from GTM Research for the Solar Energy Industry Association concludes the US solar PV installation grew by 66% over the first…
An investor looking for value could do worse than to start with a large, well-established fund with substantial assets and a long track record. Today we’ll look at four funds with about $15 billion…
Deals are aplenty when it comes to the natural gas sector. It is as if the future has been seen and natural gas is going to be in it even if the energy policy…
The Labor Department has shown a slight improvement in the weekly jobless claims. The weekly reading fell by 16,000 to 414,000 and that 430,000 from the prior week was revised from the preliminary figure…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Outperform at FBR. The Home…
Many drug companies face a what is called a patent cliff ahead, where the Big Pharma players will have key drugs go off-patent and there will be new generic competition. While this is a…
It looks like at least some of the investors who were screwed by Stanford may get to recover some assets. This is not meant to be a catch-all recovery nor for all investors, at…
99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) has launched nothing short of a funny nearly free advertising campaign that is local to the Texas market. The company has a “Go Texan” version of bashing LeBron…
Carbonite, Inc. is closer to coming public. The online subscription service for data storage backup for consumers and businesses has just filed its first amendment to its prospectus filing and we care because we…
The failure of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund to reach an agreement on a second bailout package for Greece, combined with a variety of other poor economic news, has sent…
The ratings agencies get bashed a lot, including by us, for being extremely late to the downgrade party. The fault of one area is still not the fault of all. It has been nearly…
The U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally committed another $2 billion in loan guarantees for construction of two concentrated solar power (CSP) projects in southern California. With all of the buzz around austerity measures…