Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass Exxon Mobil…
It takes a recession to slow what has normally been runaway U.S. health care costs. The trend may be part of a road map to keep costs down. These costs have risen at close…
Douglas A. McIntyre It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the…
Big box retailer Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) posted a same-store sales gain of 1.6% for December, well short of the consensus estimate of 3.1%. This compares with a 7% same-store sales gain…
After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name. A report from…
The long slow death march at Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is turning into a case study of what not do. Putting a hedge fund manager in charge of a huge retailer, and…
Jon OggMost investors are likely glad that 2012 is here to have 2011 behind them. This is an election year and many investors are wondering whether the U.S. and its large companies…
The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture…
As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up…
Customer service surveys cannot entirely distinguish between true, direct customer service on the one hand and brand perception and reputation of the company providing the service on the other. A look at…
What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a merger of…
The numbers do not add up. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has over 4,000 full-line and specialty stores. Same-store sales for the eight weeks that ended December 25 were down 5.2%. That figure…
Retailers were hoping to put a solid close to the holiday shopping season with plentiful day-after-Christmas sales aimed at wringing out shoppers’ last dollar. That was probably wishful thinking at Sears Holdings…
Investors walked away from several retail stocks late this year. Those companies probably will continue to falter in 2012 and 2013. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:…
The death of an infant in Missouri has led Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to recall Enfamil baby formula manufactured by Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. (NYSE: MJN) from more than 3,000 US…
