Wal-Mart Outlines 2010-2011 Growth Plans (WMT)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has been having its analyst meeting this week and we now have a release from the company showing its growth plan next year. This also updates the cap-ex fiscal…
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We have just gotten the Labor Department’s measure of retail inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index. The September reading still has inflation running tame, and many will be watching for more of the…
Is Clorox Really Buyout Bait? (CLX, PG)
Clorox Corporation (NYSE: CLX) gave us a volume alert earlier today which was later summarized over for Volume Spike. This generally slow-moving consumer products company is trading up with elevated stock volume and with…
Major Earnings on Deck This Coming Week (ADBE, BBY, KR, ORCL, DFS, FDX, PALM, PIR, JAVA)
We have a little flurry of key earnings coming this week. We have provided detailed earnings estimates with Thomson Reuters consensus figures, with our own color for the recent performance, the charts, options, and…
Wal-Mart’s Duke Outlines New Normal and Late Christmas (WMT)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) presented today at the Goldman Sachs retail conference. This was one of the new CEO Mike Duke’s first presentations since taking the top position at the world’s largest retailer. …
Walmart.com Can’t Dupe Amazon or eBay (WMT, AMZN, EBAY)
The recent news about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) increasing third party item selling via the Walmart.com shopping portal is getting some increased traction…. But the question is really, “Should it?”… The real fear…
Can Altria Raise Dividend Indefinitely? (MO, PM, RAI, LO)
Some companies are unmatched on the rate at which they pay out their dividends. Former DJIA component Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) definitely falls into that category, as do many tobacco sector peers. Today…
Durable Goods Hit 2-Year High
Durable Goods is always one of the most volatile of all big economic numbers, and the report this morning for July is proving that to be the case. The headline durable goods reading came…
Vitacost.com Sets IPO Terms (VITC)
Vitacost.com, Inc. has set the terms for its upcoming IPO. The online and catalog seller of vitamins, supplements, and other personal care products is selling 11 million shares, with 4,495,987 shares being sold by…
Starbucks & Higher Prices, Sort Of (SBUX)
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has come back from the sub-$10.00 category with a vengeance. In fact, if it rallies another $2.00 then it will have recovered a sharp 200% from lows. With shares are…
The Taming of the Inflation Shrew
This morning’s data from the Labor Department on the Consumer Price Index was released for July, and the inflation hawks out there are going to have to keep saying “It’s coming” rather than “See,…
Wal-Mart At Critical Chart Levels Into Earnings (WMT, RTH)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) was supposed to be the big winner of the Great Recession as the giant trade-down retail play for America. Interestingly enough, the peak of the stock was almost 9-months…
Is There Value Left In Eastman Kodak? (EK)
This morning we started seeing increased trading activity in shares of the long-troubled photo giant Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK). Then came the option alerts along with the doubling volume alert from VSInvestor.com. Technically,…
CPI Indicates Inflation Is Elusive
The June reading for the Consumer Price Index, the measure for retail inflation, is a bit different than the Producer Price Index hike seen yesterday. The headline CPI came in at +0.7% and the…
Can A New Marketing Head Revive NutriSystem? (NTRI)
NutriSystem, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRI) is well known as the weight management and weight loss company that delivers specially designed food in bulk. You have seen its commercials on TV. Now the company is naming…