Rising commodity prices didn’t hurt fourth quarter earnings or revenues at Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW). The company posted EPS of $0.37 from profits of $511 million on revenue of $13.77 billion. Excluding items…
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) is looking like another conglomerate winner. The company beat earnings estimates, gave positive commentary, and reiterated guidance. The news, though, was mostly priced into the stock. As far as…
We have already issued many sector calls for 2011 with our outlooks and we have even given a 2011 DJIA target of 13,042 based upon the same methodology that got us within about 1%…
Slow retail sales and the high unemployment rate this year might make people believe that this is one of the more economically difficult holiday seasons in memory. That is not true because the recession…
2010 has been a positive year for the markets. IPOs and secondary offerings have been plentiful, debt offerings have been plentiful, and restructurings continue. Many spin-offs have been announced and will occur as we…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is setting its 2011 goals in an analyst and investor meeting today in his presentation called the “GE Annual Outlook Investor Meeting.” GE just recently hiked its dividend and…
There had been a rumor that General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) was going to hike its dividend again, and that rumor turned out to be true. GE just announced that it has raised its…
Baldor Electric Co. (NYSE: BEZ) is a company most investors have either never heard of or that they decided to not care about. Many might even guess it is even in a different sector…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on September 30, 2010. The changes were big on the first two lists but more static on the Third…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on September 30, 2010 and the changes continue be much more extreme than in prior quarters. These…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2010. This list appears to have many more changes than what we…
24/7 Wall St. maintains a proprietary list of stocks, The 24/7 Wall St. Real-Time 500. This is more representative than the S&P 500 based on free-float market caps each year and updates much more…
Earnings season is well under way. The floodgates are open wide and we still have 6 more of the 30 DJIA components left to report this week. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:…
GE showed the world that it has been unable to transform itself from an unwieldy conglomerate to a company that is worth more than the sum of its parts. The firm says it will…
Conglomerates have enjoyed solid performance in 2010 and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning. A market concern and a sector concern so far is that many companies…