Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
These are the some of the top research call summaries for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analyst calls this Thursday morning: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Started as Buy…
We are getting more and more dividend hikes in 2010. Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) finally declared its first dividend. ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is hiking its payout. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY)…
Since the end of 2009, we have moved far beyond the waves of cost cuts and dividend cuts. Since then we have shown that many companies would actually raise their dividends or…
Jon C. Ogg The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
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…
These are this Tuesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours. It is more skewed to downgrades, something we have not seen…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning. We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close to 70…
The Apple (AAPL) App Store has about 150,000 applications which have been downloaded more than 3 billion times. Most of the apps are free, but some cost $50 or more. 24/7 Wall…
Average: “an estimation of or approximation to an arithmetic mean”–Webster Burger King (BKC) is the perennial also-ran in the fast food market in which its runs well behind McDonald’s (MCD). Burger King’s shares have…
2010 is becoming the year of the dividend… either raised dividends or it is new dividends. Over the weekend, we reviewed the restaurant and food service sector when we were evaluating McDonald’s…
Douglas A. McIntyre McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has enjoyed the status of being the greatest restaurant story in history. In our lifetime, or in any for that matter, the company grew from a start-up to…
The problem with customer satisfaction surveys is that, by their nature, they look back in time and not forward. Bloomberg BusinessWeek announced the results of its customer service poll recently. The project…
Burger King (NYSE:BKS) will begin to sell Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) Seattle’s Best Coffee at its US restaurants. That would seem to be an admission that the coffee that the fast food has served up until…
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…