Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and full fiscal year earnings before markets opened this morning. The headline numbers look pretty good, but the fine print might be telling a different…
Back in the day, a layaway plan made sense for many consumers who did not have the full purchase price of an item but could pay regular small installments until the item was fully…
The world of daily deals and online coupons is changing so fast and the distribution model is changing so fast that it is hard to keep up with. Our biggest concern is that there…
In tough times, value investors look for stocks that they feel are valued in a manner which already discount much of the trouble and pitfalls ahead. Defensive stocks are often the winners during hard…
lululemonAthletic apparel maker Lululemon-Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) reported earnings this morning for its second quarter ending on July 31st. The company posted diluted EPS of $0.26, compared with EPS of $0.15 in the same…
OmniVision Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI) is supposed to be a great company. It makes all of the chipsets for the cameras inside your smartphones and digital cameras. Today is not great and it is…
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) has made good on a dividend hike we have been expecting. The domestic tobacco giant has now increased its regular dividend by almost 8% to $0.41 per common share…
AngieslistAngie’s List is one of those companies that you might think never needs to be public. Guess who just filed for an initial public offering? Angie’s List, Inc. just formally filed to sell up…
Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) is just a drugstore… Right? Maybe not any longer in entirety. As of last year, the company operated 7,650 drugstores and it owned 37 strip shopping malls. It turns out…
Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) posted a 52-week low on the first trading day after the downgrade of US debt. That low point might not last too long given the company’s second quarter earnings…
The next round of smartphone patent buying may focus on Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK), the 130-year old photography giant that missed the digital bus. The $12.5 billion acquisition by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
Groupon, Inc. has filed its second amendment to its initial public offering and the data contains some updates on the financials. The company will trade under the “GRPN” ticker. This remains one of our…
This week marks the release of the waves of same-store sales for the month of July and at least one research outfit is calling for strength to remain high enough that the U.S. will…
TeavanaTeavana Holdings, Inc. has now set the terms for its pending initial public offering. The retailer of high-end tea’s and the peripheral market around teas has projected that it will sell 7,142,858 shares of…
Food is one of the defensive sectors for equity investors if there ever was one. Now, step back for a minute and consider a company like Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB). Canned soup and…