Texas Instruments saw its shares rise in the after-hours on Thursday on word of a dividend hike and a monster share buyback plan. Frankly this may be the wrong path for the…
Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies. The amount of share buybacks announced in August…
$100 billion… That is roughly the combined tally of August share buyback announcements and merger announcements. This may not be a record, but it has to be one of the most active…
Active traders and day traders have many movers this Friday morning to choose from. The top alerts were seen in Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), Blue Coat Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI),…
Earlier this year was the trend of hiking dividends, but now that so many companies have raised their quarterly payouts we are seeing the ‘other’ shareholder-friendly action taking place. Buybacks are still…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst research calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE: AU) Cut to Underperform at Credit Suisse. Chimera Investment Corp. (NYSE: CIM) Started…
There are actually fewer pre-market movers than many may have guessed considering how volatile the markets are. Today’s top day trader and active trader alerts are in Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:…
We have many movers in the after-hours session. Stocks on the move are Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD), Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE:…
Earnings season is already winding down, but don’t think it is over yet. Next week we still have much in retail and we still have DJIA components and major tech companies reporting…
Wintegra Inc. is among the latest of companies filing for an initial public offering. The Austin-based access processing semiconductor fabless designer makes highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and…
Many tech stocks have doubled or tripled from the March market lows. Short sellers are in many cases willing to bet that ride is not over. The short interest in Micron (MU)…
These are this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Ann Taylor (NYSE:…
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) is off its highs but still higher on the day after the company raised its dividend and announced a share buyback plan. The company’s board of directors…
These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Hold at Jefferies. AT&T…
These are this morning’s top analyst research calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analysts this Thursday: A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE) Started as Equal-Weight at Barclays. Big Lots (NYSE:…
