For the most part, and in conjunction with the Fed deferring to raise rates, the overall market sentiment this earnings season has been fairly positive, with most companies meeting or beating their…
Argus reiterated a Buy rating on Duke, but lowered its target price, based on a lower 2015 earnings per share forecast.
Chris Lange These five defensive stocks should be able to avoid any serious market carnage, for the most part.
Some investors are looking at value stocks, and others are going defensive. The stocks that have limited business cycles are a great focus for investors in a time of worry.
Looking at the share price data for the past 12 months, an investor could be forgiven for thinking that the solar energy business is in a downward spiral that still has a…
Duke Energy reported disappointing second-quarter financial results Thursday before the markets opened.
Chris Lange Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia Commons24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of some of the major companies reporting their quarterly results this week. We have included the consensus earnings estimates from…
Merrill Lynch believes the Federal Reserve rate hike could potentially act as the removal of an overhang on utilities rather than as a negative catalyst.
Since the start of July, there have been five key U.S. dividend hikes that were simply too large or too important to ignore.
Duke Energy has announced that it will increase its dividend 3.8% to a quarterly payout of $0.825.
Chris Lange A new research note from Deutsche Bank says that utilities are cheap, and all of the quality companies yielding 4% or more make very good sense for the last half of 2015.
It is clear that investors have been exiting the utilities sector for a solid part of the 2015 year in order to be out ahead of the coming Federal Reserve interest rate…
Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations Include Ambev, CTI BioPharma, Duke, Humana, Occidental Petroleum and Yelp.
Back in November of 2010, 24/7 Wall St. first issued a list of stocks to own for the next decade. Even long-term investors need to assess their portfolios from time to time.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Atmel, BlackBerry, Cisco Systems, Ctrip.com International, CarMax and AOL.
