The Hillshire Brands Company (NYSE: HSH) saw its trading halted today and it did not appear to be due to the trading issues affecting so many NYSE-listed shares. This is not the sort of…
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) this morning reported net sales of $7.25 billion for the month of July, an increase of 8% from $6.74 billion during the similar period of last year. The Issaquah,…
Chuy’s Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHUY) is on a mission. Since its initial public offering last week for this Mexican restaurant chain, the stock has risen every single trading day since the IPO. What is…
Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, LLC (NASDAQ: DFRG) is regaining its IPO price today and is no longer trading as a busted IPO. After hitting as low as $12.00 on Friday after a $13.00 initial…
The latest research from Strategy Analytics indicates that smartphone shipments in the United States fell 5% annually to reach less than 24 million units during the second quarter of 2012. Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
Retail sales might not exactly be setting any blistering pace of growth, but Retail Metrics has a report out that shows a traffic boost at the end of July should offer a boost to…
OK, so if you are trying to use traditional valuation analysis on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) you are probably pulling your hair out. After all, isn’t 189-times this year’s expected earnings a bit high…
Shares of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) fell sharply after hours after reporting third-quarter earnings that missed analyst expectations. Shares are down 9.36% to $47.50 in the first 20 minutes of after-hours trading. The stock rose 3.96%…
RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) this morning reported second-quarter results of a net loss of $0.21 on $953.2 million in revenue. Earnings per share (EPS) dropped from $0.24 in the same period a year ago,…
PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) this morning reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.12 per share on $16.46 in revenue. Earning per share (EPS) dropped from $1.21 in the same period a year ago, while revenue…
A stronger U.S. dollar bit into both the top and bottom lines at McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) in this morning’s second-quarter earnings report. The company reported earnings per share (EPS) of $1.32 on revenue…
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) CEO Mike Duke are scheduled to meet for two days along with senior aides. Presumably the gathering aims to increase the use of Facebook by…
CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) was down more than 2% in premarket trading Thursday, and its was down more than 5%, or less than $46 a share, in early trading. This after the stock reached…
The former CEO of McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD), James Skinner, has been named the new non-executive chairman of the board of Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG). Skinner replaces Al McNally who has been the non-executive…
Shares of grocer Supervalu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) have lost more than -30% since the company announced quarterly results after the markets closed last night. We covered the gruesome details after the company reported its…