From The Stock Masters Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (NYSE:BUD) has been getting plenty of good attention lately including upgrades and being added to Warren Buffett’s portfolio just before the start of the year. You know…
Cramer on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, actually came out and reviewed Wal-Mart (WMT) as one of his segment stocks. He is taking a contrarian view on it to see the other side after having…
Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) may find itself with little choice, although there are ways it can accomplish the same end-result without the negative publicity that would come from a headline of “Layoffs!”. In fact, it can…
The company’s slogan used to be "Call for Phillip Morris". Well, tobacco mergers and acquisitions are heating up and the world’s largest company is silent. Imperial Tobacco (ITY) has already bought US cigarette company…
There is a new service for digital music called SLACKER that is taking aim at many music formats. They are treading right into the space of Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Zune, Napster (NAPS),…
One merger that seems very peculiar this morning is that of Topps (TOPP-NASDAQ). This is the baseball card and sports and non-sports card and memorabilia producer that almost all males in the US have…
Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) just snuck further into China with an investment that will either to lead to further control or an outright acquisition of locally operated Trust-Mart. As of December 2006 Wal-Mart already had 73…
Majesco Entertainment (COOL-NASDAQ) may have a very hard time surviving if it can’t find a way to recapitalize. It recently added Gui Karyo, former president of Marvel (MVL) publishing, as VP of Operations. Unfortunately…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Stock Market Beat Small Cap Watch List and Mid Cap Watch List member Tempur-Pedic (TPX) issued the following news release this morning: Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (NYSE:…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Its a good thing Mid Cap Watch List and Large Cap Watch List member Abercrombie & Fitch’s (ANF) management won’t have to worry about claims they…
From Ticker Sense Nike (NKE) has been up 10 days in a row, and as shown below, this hasn’t occurred any other time in the past 3 years. AOC follows NKE at 7 days,…
Spanish paper El Economista has a report that Altria (MO) may be trying to buy Imperial Tobacco (ITY). Altria is about to spin-off it Kraft food division, and it would make sense for the…
The details of Kevin Rollins exit package are out from Dell (DELL-NASDAQ), and while it is low there is really no reason to say the package was too low. Rollings will receive a total…
Herb Greenberg over a MarketWatch has an interesting theory. The XM (XMSR) merger with Sirius (SIRI) may be a move of desperation given the large number of competitors in the market. He quotes this…
Coke had a good quarter. Revenue rose 7% to $5.93 billion. The WSJ said that investors expected $5.78 billion. The really impressive growth came from overseas Unit case volume was up 6% outside the…