These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Tuesday morning. Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) Reiterated Buy and raised price…
24/7 Wall St. has been conducting reviews looking for value stocks now that the market has softened. Looking solely for “cheap stocks” on book value is very incomplete, so we have taken…
The process of brand valuation is more an art than a science, or at least that is the conclusion of research done by 24/7 Wall St. The most well-regarded “brand evaluators” rarely…
“We will encourage the best firms to acquire or build up overseas operations and to license or acquire famous global brands in order to obtain international recognition and improve the image and…
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…
This Monday has many stocks on the move for active traders and day traders. Stocks on the move are A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE), Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI), Arc Sight,…
There are many key stocks to watch for The Unusual Suspects for the week ahead. Barron’s was rather influential, we have several carry-over issues from last week that are unresolved, there are…
This has been a year to forget for Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). Unfortunately for shareholders, the company’s board appears ill-equipped to handle two serious problems that may tarnish the company’s reputation.…
Reuters: Calm water is helping manage the Gulf oil spill. Reuters: April retail sales should be up in a sign of consumer recovery. Reuters: The US is questioning Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:…
In the late 1990s, shares of Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX) topped $60. When the high-tech industry imploded in 2001, Xerox shares fell to below $5. Since then the shares have risen to about…
Reuters: The Chinese hinted they were ready to let the yuan rise. Reuters: Asian stocks are near a 22 month high. Reuters: Regulators plan to track fast frequency trading. Reuters: FTC may…
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…
On the tenth anniversary of the tech bubble of 2000, short sellers aggressively dropped their bets against hardware, software and internet companies. Figures are from February 28. The short interest in Apple…
Challenger, Gray & Christmas announced that layoffs disclosed by major US firms last month hit 71,482 in January up from 49,094 in December. Downsizing at ten companies made up a third of the…
Layoffs in unrelated industries, even when close together in time, are just that—unrelated. That is until they begin to grow rapidly in number. Three of America’s largest firm announced firings or signaled…
