Jupitermedia (NASDAQ:JUPM) reports earnings after the close. The stock is actually up 11% today and it hasn’t yet reported. First Call estimates are $0.04 EPS on revenues of just over $36.2 million,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Cablevision (CVC) announced earnings today. The most notable piece of news was that Verizon’s (VZ) FiOS fiber-to-the-home business is affecting cable subscriptions at about the rate that Cablevision has been projecting for…
Ford’s (F) Alan Mulally told an industry conference that the company should be profitable again in 2009. At about the same moment, GM (GM) was saying the its was revising its 2007…
Fiserv’s (NASDAQ:FISV) proposed cash buyout of CheckFree (NASDAQ:CKFR) for some $4.2 Billion, did at least make some CheckFree shareholders whole again. The $48.00 cash buyout price is actually a ‘takeunder’ if you…
Douglas A. McIntyre If private equity is really dead, then why did a $21.7 Billion private equity fund just get closed upon. The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) has sent out notice that today was the final…
Douglas A. McIntyre If you have watched the infrastructure stock news this week, you will know most of these companies have beat earnings expectations and the industry isn’t seeing any major weakness ahead. Fluor (NYSE:FLR)…
There has been a lot of press about Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine. The magazine publishing giant wants something to compete with Fortune and Forbes. A lot of the early reaction has been…
Douglas A. McIntyre Hansen Natural Corp. (NASDAQ:HANS) is gapping up pre-market after the company exceeded earnings estimates. The company was expected to post $0.36 EPS on $217.65 million in revenues, but the 54% revenies gain…
Douglas A. McIntyre (ABTL) Autobytel -$0.12 EPS vs -$0.16 est.(AGU) Agrium $1.70 EPS vs $1.58 est.(ALLT) Allot -$0.01 EPS vs $0.01 est.(BNI) Burlington got an additional 1.6 million shares purchased by Berkshire Hathaway, about a…
Douglas A. McIntyre Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is apparently boosting PC offerings with Linux and is going after more virtualization. The company released some data that it will have PC’s that run multiple versions of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT)…
Starbucks (SBUX) must feel like someone is walking over its grave. McDonald’s (MCD) same-store sales rose 6.5% in July. The company said the the improvement in the US was due to the…
ACLS raised to Equal Weitght at Lehman.AEG cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.ALXN cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.CSC raised to Hold at Jefferies.CSCO raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.DKS cut…
Sprint’s (S) net operating revenues of $10.2 billion in the second quarter were 2% above the year-ago period For the second quarter, diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations was 1…
Douglas A. McIntyre Markets in Europe were broadly higher at 6.40 AM New York time. The FTSE rose 8% to 6,349. BHP Billiton (BHP) was up 1.8% to 1388. Vodafone (VOD) rose .3% to 158.8.…
In a recent survey reported on at GigaOm, thirty-four towns were tracked for TV and broadband customer activity in the initial 90 days that Verizon’s (VZ) fiber optics product was available. Verizon…