4 For-Profit Education Stocks That Could Be in Trouble
Here are four education stocks that Piper Jaffray feels could experience above-average regulatory and/or operating risk. The analysts believe it is appropriate to remain Underweight the group.
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Newest first · Page 103Expensive Secondary Ticket Prices Indicate Preseason Not Entirely Pointless
thinkstockFollowing an improbable World Cup run, America has caught “Football Fever.” But as the tournament draws to an end, the country prepares to turn its attention toward a different type of football. Just twenty-five…
Railcar Maker Greenbrier Flourishes on Demand for Tank Cars
Greenbrier Companies reported better-than-expected third-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Wednesday morning.
McDonald’s Burgers Rate Last in Survey
ThinkstockWhen it comes to fast food, Americans eat a lot of it, and they are getting more demanding about the quality of the food they are eating. And the biggest names are faring the…
ServiceMaster IPO Goes Out Below Expected Range
ServiceMaster Global Holdings sold 35.9 million shares of common stock Thursday morning at an initial public offering price of $17, below the proposed range of $18 to $21.
Iron Mountain Finally Becomes a REIT, Finally
Records storage and information management firm Iron Mountain has received authorization from the IRS to convert itself to a real estate investment trust for the tax year beginning January 1, 2014.
Carnival Shares Sink After Disappointing Guidance
Carnival reported better-than-expected second-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning, but disappointing guidance sank shares.
Prices Rising for Starbucks Coffee
courtesy of StarbucksIn March Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz said that the company had no plans to raise its prices. This morning the company announced that a grande or venti coffee would…
Poor Wages Given as Reason for Poor McDonald’s Service Rating
Wikimedia CommonsFor the past 20 years, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has been rating what it calls limited-service restaurants and the rest of us call fast-food restaurants. In every one of those 20…
Dumping Red Lobster Did Not Help Darden’s Results
Darden Restaurants reported disappointing fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning. Red Lobster's results are included in as discontinued operations.
Markit IPO Goes Out Big
London-based financial information and research firm Markit got off to a roaring start with its Thursday morning initial public offering.
FedEx Buybacks Lift Earnings
FedEx reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Wednesday morning. The package FedEx delivered today is shiny, but what's inside could be very different.
How OpenTable Will Grow Even More Owned by Priceline
Online travel company Priceline Group announced Friday morning that it has entered a definitive agreement with OpenTable to acquire all the outstanding shares of OpenTable for $103 per share in an all cash deal…
Hot May Numbers Make These Five Top Restaurant Stocks Solid Summer Buys
ThinkstockMany of the consumer discretionary stocks that make up that sector have suffered this year. As of the end of last week, it is the only sector that was down so far in 2014,…
McDonald’s, Darden Restaurants Could Be Testing New Lows Soon
Even though the weather has finally warmed, don't expect fast food restaurants like McDonald's or casual dining chains such as Darden Restaurants Red Lobster and Olive Garden to report demonstrably better results anytime soon.