These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH) Raised to Buy with $52 target at…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Charles River Labs (NYSE:…
All that snow in January didn’t keep shoppers at home, apparently, as retailers posted a 4.2% increase in same-store sales for the month. That topped estimates that had started at 3.1% growth…
Several industry groups and weather and securities analysts say that the cold and snowy first month of the year will hurt retail sales and airline traffic. That is almost certainly true. But,…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Cut to Neutral at BofA/ML. Anadarko Petroleum…
It is widely assumed that cable companies make money by allowing their customers to have access to content in real-time or recorded on DVRs. The same can be said of the satellite…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
Updated throughout the day. The head of Barai Capital may be a target of the insider trading probe (WSJ) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has begun to offer sharp discounts to clear holiday inventory…
Douglas A. McIntyre Corporation are now sitting on billions and billions of dollars in their corporate treasuries. They are keeping their share prices higher by returning capital to shareholders. Most are certainly not hiring large…
There was nothing wrong with Amazon.com’s (NYSE: AMZN) quarterly results when they are viewed through the lens of the e-commerce company’s battle with the bricks-and-mortar sector. America’s largest retailers have begun to…
The IMF “Fiscal Monitor” and ratings agencies have both warned Japan and the US on their growing debt loads (Reuters) Ford Motor’s (NYSE: F) annual profit may be its largest since 2000…
Last week we began a series of companies which we expect will raise their dividends in 2011. It was the first piece of a series and there are many other companies which…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) results will be helped by holiday spending (Reuters) Ebay’s (NYSE: EBAY) turnaround helped increase earnings (Reuters) Nintendo said the negative reports about its 3D products were out of proportion…
We examined nine companies whose plans to revive their fortunes have not succeeded and found several common themes. Managements often fail to appreciate the size of the challenges they face. Competition is…
