Jon OggThese are this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) cut to Outperform at CLSA and maintained Outperform and target raised…
ThinkstockWe have written at great length about the resurgence of homebuilding in the United States. Like any other sector, if you go long enough without production, demand catches up with supply. Doomsday…
ThinkstockLast month we wrote about the huge rally in the homebuilding stocks since the lows of the stock market in March of 2009. Stocks that were written off for dead like Lennar…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following an announcement from Germany that its economy had contracted by 0.5% in the fourth quarter (more coverage here). U.S. data was released on producer…
ThinkstockLennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) reported fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The homebuilder reported quarterly diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.56 on revenues of $1.35 billion.…
Paul Ausick U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both getting pushed lower on a report that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has cut iPhone component orders…
Flickr, Images of MoneyThe resolution for the fiscal cliff remains elusive. The politicians hate each other too much to be rational. If one sector has a lot to lose as the country…
ThinkstockThe bad timing of Wall St. analysts is legendary. As the implosion of the subprime mortgage credit market mirrored the collapse in residential and commercial market real estate values in late 2008…
The list of the best stocks of 2012 on the S&P 500 Index is one which makes sense in some cases and doesn’t in other cases. Some of these are simply recovery…
Like all bubbles that have burst, the housing crisis left an extremely scarred landscape. What used to be a fairly routine mortgage process for a qualified home buyer has turned into a…
ThinkstockA disappointing report for new home sales in October sure took a bite out of the homebuilder stocks today. The Census Bureau showed a 0.3% decline to 368,000 on an annualized basis. This…
Virtually every publicly traded homebuilder stock has posted a new 52-week high in the last month and many now trade above their consensus target prices even though they have come off those…
As the market reaches its most choppy period in the past few months, it is worth a look at which stocks have done the best so far in 2012 and which have…
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo housing market index rose 1 point in October, to 41, the highest index reading since June 2006. An index reading below 50 indicates that more…
The housing market recovery has been one of the U.S. economy’s brighter stories this year. Now, Fitch Ratings says that the recovery is even better than we thought. In its latest research…
