Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO faces investors concerned about its prospects. (Reuters) U.S. box office sales near records despite the slowdown. (Reuters) Lenovo posts strong earnings in spite of troubles with global…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of June 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down into…
Jon OggEach morning of the week we pull the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research reports. It turns out that some research calls were far more important or…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. AECOM Technology Corp. (NYSE: ACM) Reiterated Buy with $33 target at…
Jon OggYou already know about the S&P U.S. credit rating downgrade, but these are some of the top equity analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday…
Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) has been hurt by high commodities prices. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) damaged by drop in PC sales worldwide. The Flame Index started as a research tool…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Outperform and $500 target at Credit…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported better than expected earnings and its shares soared (Reuters) Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue fell (Reuters) A settlement of the debate over the U.S. debt pushed crude higher…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 19, 2011. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of June. That…
In the most comprehensive study of its type, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated the cost of obesity at $170 billion a year in 2008 dollars. Twenty five percent of…
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
Aluminum prices climbed by more than 10% from January through April this year, to rise above $1.22/pound before losing all it had gained and returning to about $1.10/pound. At today’s price of…
Our screen today is for companies with an attractive Returns on Equity (ROE) in the consumer goods sector. It is our view that ROE is one of the better quick indicators of…
