Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (NYSE: CHD) is trying to rectify its premium valuation with an acquisition. The consumer products company has traded at much higher valuations than its larger rivals like Procter…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings showing that there have been some significant changes in the positions of the Berkshire…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday morning. Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ARCO) started as Neutral at Credit…
Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: KCG) raises $400 million. (CNBC) HTC reports that sales of its smartphones fell 45% year-over-year. (Reuters) The New York State Department of Financial Services apparently is investigating…
P&GThe Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) has reported earnings, and the company managed to increase organic sales for the quarter by 3%. That was said to be due to price increases…
Jon C. Ogg Last week was a jam-packed week of earnings reports and this week has many key reports. We have provided earnings previews for 11 companies we expect to follow this week. Estimates are…
The week ahead is going to be a busy week. There are many traditional events to watch, but by now the market participants and investors have learned that they have to pay…
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) managed to beat earnings expectations with $1.30 per share versus estimates of $1.28 per share. Revenues were only up 0.2% year-over-year to $5.27 billion. We had estimates at…
What does it mean about the economy when people cannot afford hamburgers and beer? It is another sign that consumer spending is in trouble. A beer can cost as little as $1, and the…
A new consumer agency fines Capital One (NYSE: COF) $210 million for aggressive marketing activity.(Reuters) New IMF policies will examine whether individual national economies might hurt global growth. (Reuters) IBM (NYSE: IBM) raises…
Jon OggThe turnaround and potential activist investor situation surrounding DJIA component Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) just became a bit more interesting. There have been reports that the company’s board of directors…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggNews that activist investor Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is going after Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has certainly rekindled interest in what was growing (or declining) into nothing more than just…
Subject: How New Yahoo! CEO Could Double Stock Price Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) new CEO, Marissa Mayer, worked at Google. So did AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong, who took up the reins…
Stuart Stelzer Subject: America’s Biggest Advertisers The 10 largest advertisers in the United States spent $26.2 billion in 2011, according to Advertising Age, an advertising trade publication. While the number is huge, it looks…
If Bloomberg’s reporters are correct, Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) CEO James McNerney, who is also chairman of the Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) board of directors compensation and leadership development committee, has pressed to oust Robert McDonald, the consumer…
