Under Armour: GARP or Value Trap? (UA)
Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA) posted its earnings this morning, and some might be breathing a sigh of relief that the stock is only down marginally. The sporting apparel maker posted Q4-2007 EPS of…
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No one on Wall St. liked the Starbucks (SBUX) quarterly results and the shares moved down after they were announced. They still sit close to a 52-week low. The company reported revenues of $2.8…
Starbucks Earnings, Ammo For Bulls & Bears Alike (SBUX)
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is seeing shares trade slightly lower in after-hours trading after earnings. The coffee inflating retailer posted earnings of $0.28 EPS on revenues of $2.8 Billion, yet First Call estimates were $0.27…
Amazon.com Delivers, But Valuations Catching Up (AMZN)
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) posted earnings with net income at $0.48 EPS on net sales of $5.67 Billion. First Call had estimates pegged at $0.48 EPS and $5.37 billion in revenues. Interestingly enough, Amazon noted…
Starbucks Plan Acceptance Likely Outweighs Its Earnings (SBUX)
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is set to report earnings today after the close of trading. First Call has estimates pegged at $0.27 EPS and $2.77 billion in revenues. Next quarter’s estimates are $0.22 EPS…
Can Amazon.com Live Up To Growth Targets? (AMZN)
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is set to report earnings after the close today. First Call has estimates pegged at $0.48 EPS and $5.37 billion in revenues. Next quarter’s estimates are $0.35 EPS and $3.92 billion…
Hannah Montana Brand At Risk With Wal-Mart? (DIS, WMT)
A report from the USA Today last night put Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) in a partnership with Disney (NYSE: DIS) whereby Wal-Mart will sell more than 140 products based on Disney’s famed Hannah Montana…
Wal-Mart Pretends It’s The Holidays (WMT)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is doing something that hasn’t been seen in prior years: lowering prices considerably on thousands of items, but not during holiday season. These price cuts are as much as…
McDonald’s (MCD) Chinese Take-Out
McDonald’s (MCD) last quarter results were undermined by slow same-store sales growth in the US. It only took the world’s largest fast food chain a day to start to talk about China. China is…
McDonald’s (MCD): Blame It On The Weather
McDonald’s (MCD) was the greatest stock in the US until it wasn’t. Improvement in same-store sales in the US and overseas drove the stock from below $32 in June 2006 to over $63 just…
More Joy For McDonald’s (MCD) Shareholders
Revenue at McDonald’s (MCD) rose 6% in the fourth quarter to $5.754 billion. Operating income jumped 22% to $1.355 billion. Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa delivered quarterly results driven by an 11.4% comparable sales…
Sears (SHLD) Sacks Its CEO, Lampert Lays Off Blame
Sears (SHLD) controlling shareholder Eddie Lampert has no one but himself to blame for the disaster created by putting together two weak retailers, Sears and K-Mart, to try to make on strong one. Lampert…
Sears (SHLD) Tries To Push Up Online Business
Sears (SHLD) has begun to hire some heavy hitters to run its online operations. Since the company does not do a very good job of selling merchandise in its stores, perhaps it will have…
Harley-Davidson Not As Bad As One Might Guess (HOG)
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) posted its earnings results for the fourth quarter at $0.78 EPS, a drop of more than 19% compared to Q4-2006; revenues were $1.39 Billion, down almost 8% from Q4-2006. First…
The United States Of Wal-Mart (WMT)
It reads like something out of a presidential campaign stump speech. In a talk given to company management and quoted by Reuters, Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott said "We live in a time when people…