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Thursday May 17, 2007 — TraderBlog.com
Thursday, May 17--Jim Wyckoff's Morning Web Log
OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING DEVELOPMENTS
The feature in quieter overnight/early morning trading today is higher crude oil prices.
* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *
FOREX and currency futures traders: The U.S. dollar index is near some major longer...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
World's biggest retailer Wal-Mart (WMT) said Tuesday quarterly profits rose 8% to $2.83 billion ($0.68/share) and revenue rose 8.5% to $86.41 billion -- hitting analyst estimates exactly. Wal-Mart said Sam's Club and international operations were its strongest areas, while food and generic drug sa...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
With earnings season nearly over, we can revisit an earlier question. Namely, what’s going on with Microsoft’s (MSFT - Annual Report) Vista rollout. It was supposed to usher in a tech renaissance, but sort of sputtered coming out of the gate. Is is building up speed or looking like a d...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
An old adage for screenwriters is to leave the audience wanting more. The idea is that if a good story gets padded too much the audience will start to find it dull.
Which brings me to BEA Systems, Inc., (BEAS) which announced certain financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended April 30, 2...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Even after a rather drastic pullback in stock price for Cache, Inc. (CACH) earlier this year, Zacks senior retail analyst Rob Plaza, CFA insists the company still trades at a fair valuation. Here's what his latest research report on the company had to say:
Cache reported first quar...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Even with a steady price appreciation over the past few years, Zacks senior energy analyst Sheraz Mian believes Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) still has room to grow. The following has been excerpted from his most recent report on the company:
Williams reported strong first-quarter...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Shares of Microsemi Corporation (MSCC) continue to warrant a Hold recommendation from senior semiconductors analyst Ken Nagy, CFA. For details, we looked into his latest report:
Microsemi is an OEM [original equipment manufacturer] of semiconductor analog and mixed signal ICs [inte...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Zacks senior technology analyst Steve Biggs, CFA is keeping his Sell recommendation on shares of Solectron Corp. (SLR) today. We wanted to find out why, so we looked into his recently updated report on the company:
While Solectron's Lean manufacturing initiatives should help keep ...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — The Shadunsky Method
Pre-Paid Legal Services is a company that sells exactly what its name states, they sell pre-paid legal services. This is how it works, a customer signs up and agrees to pay $20 per month. The customer receives a certain amount of legal services from local lawyers that are part of Pre-Paid’s prov...
Thursday May 17, 2007 — The Shadunsky Method
Pre-Paid Legal Services is a company that sells exactly what its name states, they sell pre-paid legal services. This is how it works, a customer signs up and agrees to pay $20 per month. The customer receives a certain amount of legal services from local lawyers that are part of Pre-Paid’s prov...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — callme
Donald Tang who gained $73K on Mindray Medical. He's closely followed by Serge Amelyan with the same Mindray Medical trade. However, Serge used his remaining cash to buy 2 shares of CMGI at $2.44, which fell -2.46% Tuesday -- resulting in the $0.12 difference between him and Donald, and costing hi...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
This mornings release of the housing starts and permits data was a bit of a mixed bag. Starts came in at 1.528 million (seasonally adjusted annual rate, or SAAR), up 2.5% and much better than expected. Most of the strength was in the Northeast where starts jumped 31.3%. The West als...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — AnalystWatch
BEA Systems is reporting, though they haven't given an actual time. Analysts expected 13 cents a share for the third quarter. There had been a lot of news on this one after an analyst gave out a possible buyout from Hewlett-Packard. There shares are trader higher in anticipation on the news. Any p...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
While its lead product continues to perform well, clouds over the future for biotech firm Trimeris, Inc. (TRMS) leads senior analyst Grant Zeng, CFA to rate the stock a Hold at this time. Here's what his latest research report had to say:
Trimeris, Inc. develops a new class of ther...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Zacks senior consumer goods analyst Steven Ralston, CFA recently upgraded his rating on shares of Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) from Hold to Buy. To find out the reasons behind this, we looked into his latest report:
The Pepsi Bottling Group continues to execute well in a difficult sof...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
In early March I wrote "I expect Dow (DOW) to make a major announcement by the end of April and, no, it will not be a sale of the company." OK, so I was off by 10 days. When Dow and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. announced their joint venture this past weekend, it marked a major coup for both the compa...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — pencils2
On May 9, Rubio's reported 1Q 2007 results. ** Revenue up 16.8% to $41.0 million from $35.1 million in 1Q 2006** Cost of sales $11,761,000 from ** SSS up 8.3% (this is the largest increase for Rubio's since the company went public in 1999)** Transactions up 0.5% from 1Q 2006** Guest count ...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Just when you thought consumer home equity induced spending was dead due to a slowing market and tightened credit standards, a new product promises to put some juice into it. REX & Co, backed by a subsidiary of AIG (AIG) has a new product that lets homeowners tap the value of their homes without...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — callme
A quick recap and a summary of the top ten weekly winners for the CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge:Mar. 12 - First week's winner was Nancy Beaumont of Walnut Creek, California.Mar. 19 - Second week's winner was Chuck Chow of Chicago, Illinois.Mar. 26 - Third week's winner was Ryan Stackman ...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
One year and thirteen days ago, I said:
You see, PLT spent $11 million in its 2006 fiscal year (which ended April 2) on these ads. Without them, the company would have had an additional $8 million in net income, which in turn translates to $0.17 per share, or nearly 10 per cent of the total EPS ge...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
Even though there were conflicting signals yesterday about the state of the semi equipment market, I was on the side of those expecting a slowdown. I was warning about pending overcapacity issues for the better part of the last year. The chart of memory prices is not the sort of pattern that inspi...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — TraderBlog.com
Wednesday, May 16--Jim Wyckoff's Morning Web Log
OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING DEVELOPMENTS
The feature in quieter overnight/early morning trading today is higher U.S. Treasuries.
* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *
If the U.S. stock indexes do see a significant downside "correction" in the near fu...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
So, I noticed something very odd the other day. Folks take their "apple-holism" very seriously. I wrote a rather benign (I though at least) piece while having coffee the other morning about my observations on the new iPhone coming out June 11th. You can read it here. If you do not care to read i...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Since "Woodstock For Capitalist's" weekend in Omaha is now over, a bit about Berkshire and it's leader. No one will will argue or dispute his past success and what he has done for shareholders. Nor will anyone attempt to belittle the atmosphere and honesty in which he runs the organization and t...
Wednesday May 16, 2007 — Stock Market Beat
In a perennially popular posts I wrote almost exactly one year ago, I compared the growth plans for Starbucks (SBUX) to the actual accomplishments of McDonald’s (MCD - Annual Report). I wrote then:
To round off, we will assume the company can open 2,000 new stores annually in order to reach ...