ThinkstockOne company’s sales are huge. Those of the other are not. Despite AT&T’s (NYSE: T) substantial lead in revenue, its market cap is now below Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB). The story is almost…
Douglas A. McIntyre thinkstockAugust 1, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday after a weakish report on jobs pretty much guaranteed that the Fed will be in no hurry to raise interest rates. The bounce the…
thinkstockJuly 31, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday following a nearly flat close on Wednesday. Markets opened lower and slipped even more throughout the day, but it’s difficult to blame Argentina for…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Wednesday, July 30. 2014. They include Enbridge, NOV, Freescale, Twitter, Verizon and Windstream.
Imagine if telecom giants such as AT&T and Verizon could break up into an operating company and into a real estate investment trust (REIT). This sounds crazy, but now there is a…
The short interest data for the July 15 settlement date is out and we have compared the defensive dividend stocks, aside of utilities, to what has happened since the June 30 settlement…
AT&T believes that once its customers migrate to the company's new plans, equipment upgrades and data usage revenues will rise. That belief will be tested over the next several quarters.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Thursday, July 24, 2014. They include Boeing, Facebook, F5 Networks, Markit, Qualcomm, Verizon and Unisys.
Analysts now expect that AT&T will report earnings per share of $0.63 after markets close Wednesday. That is a penny less than the consensus estimate just two days ago.
ThinkstockWhen customers get slow, intermittent or no service at all from their wireless service provider, the initial reaction is that the company has lousy service and there is just nothing to be…
Paul Ausick Verizon Communications reported better-than-expected second-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning.
Paul Ausick Before U.S. markets open Tuesday, telecom giant Verizon Communications is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings per share that are nearly 24% higher than in the same period a year ago.
Netflix has been, according to its management, the champion of an open and free Internet. Without a fast Internet connection for everyone, its streaming movies will freeze and buffer until they are…
thinkstockJuly 11, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Friday as the blue chips lagged on lower crude prices and a weakish report from the first major financial institution reported second-quarter earnings this morning.…
The short interest data for the June 30 settlement date is out, and there were selectively an increasing number of shares short in our go-to list of defensive high-yield stocks that are…
