These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Friday, April 26, 2013. They include Amazon, Boeing, eBay, SunPower and Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Investors love dividends. This one investing component has comprised a major portion of total returns through time. The trend in recent years has been for companies to pay dividends and keep raising…
Wikimedia CommonsWall St. was mildly upset that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) did not make more money than hoped for in the first quarter of the year. Add that to slowing sales, and…
courtesy of AOL, IncFirst-quarter gross domestic product probably will run about 3%, but the momentum likely has fallen off since. (Reuters) The Bank of Japan believes it can reach its inflation targets by…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported first quarter 2013 results after markets closed today. The online retailer posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.18 and revenues of $16.07 billion. In the…
Paul Ausick U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a report on U.S. unemployment that was better than analysts expected (more coverage here). There were literally hundreds of U.S. companies reporting earnings between…
courtesy of YouTubeVarious sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew nearly 154 million unique viewers in March. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) clocked in with nearly 64 million unique viewers…
Wikimedia CommonsIf several media reports are true, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) will release a set-top box through which consumers can stream premier video content. Even with its huge customer base and tremendous…
ThinkstockVerizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) will make a $100 billion offer to Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) for the part of Verizon Wireless that it does not own. (Reuters) Spanish financial firm…
courtesy of AOL, IncApple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new dividend will allow management a period to recover earnings growth while offering investors a return. (Reuters) Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may use its consumer…
ThinkstockRackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has been an incredible story of growth from remote storage. Now that the share price of Rackspace has come back down to earth, we wanted to take…
Wikimedia CommonsAs promised, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has posted at its website the pilot episodes for 14 new programs the company is considering producing for its Amazon Prime subscribers. The 14 programs…
ThinkstockOverstock.com Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) had much of the same growth opportunities ahead of it as the now much larger Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). The companies even both had very colorful chief executives…
Jon C. Ogg The great mystery and puzzlement behind Bitcoin may already be fading or disappearing. We recently questioned what the value would be for the price of gold or the price silver, based on…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), often seen as the most progressive tech company in America, will expand its Appstore so “that developers can now submit their apps for distribution in nearly 200 countries.”…
