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…
There are many new characters in this week’s installment of “The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead.” We have tracked news and added color on each where applicable. The cast of characters…
S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (07 JAN-13 JAN) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 13Jan11 Close Price 07Jan11 Market Cap($Mil) SUPERVALU INC. SVU -13.4 7.50 8.66 1591.3 Merck & Co Inc.…
Lost in the fog about the record 0.5% growth in December and 6.6% gain in 2010 retail sales was the reason behind it: discounts. Retailers — both large and small — learned…
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) is seeing a mild gain this Thursday after the retailer announced its move into Canada. Target buying a $1.8+ billion interest in leaseholds of Zellers. It might not…
Death in America is a $15 billion a year industry. That includes funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, but excludes related costs such as headstones and crypts. It is expensive to die in…
