Here are several analyst calls reported before markets opened Tuesday morning.
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have said often that the future of passenger air travel lies in smaller jets flying to smaller cities. The hub and spoke model is outmoded, and large...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Olin Corporation (OLN) reported earnings tonight, and the report was a doozy. Joseph D. Rupp, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer said, “I am...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Intel (INTC) shares dropped after market hours when the company reported strong revenue but weak margins, and guided for more of the same. Intel profit...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Given our concerns over some of the leading tech markets, we have tended to favor names like Rockwell Automation (ROK). By helping make factories more...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Large-cap Watch List member Sallie Mae, which has long benefited from government benevolence, fell 9% yesterday when investors realized that political...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat When it comes to running semiconductor companies, we’re nothing but armchair quarterbacks.  But sometimes armchair quarterbacks, with the benefit of...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Stock Market Beat Small Cap Watch List and Mid Cap Watch List member Tempur-Pedic (TPX) issued the following news release this morning: Tempur-Pedic...
Source: By Tkgd2007 at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsFollowing Oppenheimer’s well-attended 8th Annual Industrial Growth Summit, the firm is incrementally optimistic on rental...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Not long ago we wrote that the Verizon’s (VZ) spinoff of its directory business seemed to be fortuitously timed to get $9 billion of debt off of the...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Unfortunately we didn’t reverse our bullish position when we noticed the odd Oracle/Plantronics lovefest.  It nailed Oracle’s (ORCL) miss, and we...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat HP Reports First Quarter 2007 Results: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance HP (HPQ) today announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Despite plummeting prices for oil in recent weeks, we still don’t buy the bear case, which calls for a slower economy to rein in prices. The problem is,...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have done about as well this year betting that Ceradyne (CRDN) would not go down as we could have betting it would go up (click on the link for the...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat TI sees 2007 global cellphone unit sales up 20 pct | Technology | Technology | Reuters.co.uk Global sales of mobile phones are expected to grow to between...