A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota…
Earnings season has mostly wound down, but as always at least some major companies are reporting earnings. Some are actually market-movers as well and it is a short week with earnings out…
There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7…
It is the weekend, albeit a long three-day weekend for Labor Day. Earnings season is done, gone, bye-bye, but this coming week there are going to be some key events and key…
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA? And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers. Maybe it is…
These are the ten top Wall Street analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have this Wednesday morning: Aflac (AFL) Cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup. Campbell Soup (CPB) Raised…
It has begun to dawn on more and more large companies that high-priced goods are costing them sales during the recession. Maybe the only way for them to hold onto customers is…
Investors flock to defensive stocks in times of trouble and and when they worry, assuming they look to stay in the market when they are worried. But if the trend here continues,…
After perusing the list of 52-week lows this afternoon, there was a surprising name: Campbell Soup Co, (NYSE: CPB). Shares are trading down over 3% and south of $25.00 late today, and…
Douglas A. McIntyre It’s another rough trading day in the stock market. It is bad enough that the DJIA is down over 3% to decade lows and under 7,000… But even almost all of the…
The 52-week lows are full and full of stocks each day lately. In a bear market it gets harder and harder to find stocks which are on their 52-week highs. The non-perishable…
You know it’s a rough day in the market when even defensive stocks are weak or mixed. We are at least seeing a mixed bag from some of these. But the trend…
It used to be that DEFENSIVE STOCKS were the way to go during periods of uncertainty and during times of market sell-offs. But now that isn’t even working out. After we looked…
There are other calls out there, but these are ten of the early morning analyst calls that we are focused on this Friday 13th: Aflac (NYSE: AFL) Started as Buy at SunTrust…
