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(CSCO) Slow Data Week Ahead – Earnings Preview
Earnings Preview 2/3/12 Earnings season will be in full swing next week, with 507 firms scheduled to report, and 69 of those will be members of the S&P 500. By the end of the week we will be almost three quarters done with earnings season. Many large and significant companies...
7Feb2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(KO) Consumer Staples Stock Outlook – December 2011 – Industry Outlook
Stocks in the Consumer Staples sector performed their traditional defensive role as the broader equity markets came under pressure over concerns about the prolonged weak U.S. economy and the debt crisis in Europe. Shares of consumer staples companies, accounting for a total of...
8Dec2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(KO) Coca Cola Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Ratings Outlook
The rating agency, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“S&P”) has upgraded its ratings outlook on The Coca Cola Company (KO) on the back of the company’s strong operations and credit quality. Despite the prevailing market turmoil, S&P has revised Coca...
6Nov2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(PLXS) Plexus Reports Mixed Fourth Quarter Earnings
Plexus Corp. (PLXS) reported fourth quarter 2011 diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 52 cents, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 50 cents and was in line with the higher end of management’s guidance range of 50 cents to 52 cents. However, EPS decreased 20.0% year over...
28Oct2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(DPS) Dr Pepper Snapple Group Earnings Preview
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (DPS) is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2011 financial results before the opening bell on October 26, 2011. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is 71 cents a share. This represents a year-over-year estimated growth of 18.3%. Second-Quarter...
26Oct2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) A Busy Week Ahead – Earnings Preview
Earnings Preview 10/14/11 While the earnings season kicked off this past week, only 38 firms reported. The game really gets under way next week, when we will get reports from 336 firms, including 99 members of the S&P 500. Thus, by the end of the week we will have a very...
17Oct2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(MCD) A Smart Play in Down Markets – Multinational Stocks
by Jason Jenkins, Investment U Research Thursday, October 6, 2011 What do you do in a bear market? Most people would tell you to run and get out. Thousands of investors are flocking to the perceived safety of Treasury bonds. But as Alexander Green writes, the Treasury bond market...
10Oct2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued(KO) Coca-Cola Analyst Maintains Neutral on Shares
We reaffirm our Neutral recommendation for The Coca-Cola Co. (KO) following the second quarter 2011 earnings of $1.17 per share, which exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny. It also exceeded the prior-year quarter earnings of $1.06 and were ahead of the company’s...
6Oct2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AA) Stock Market News for September 29, 2011 – Market News
Benchmarks snapped their three-day winning streak as investors grew anxious about Europe’s lingering debt crisis that is now threatening the global economy. Commodity shares dragged down indices as energy and raw materials lost their sheen after a steep drop in their prices. The...
29Sep2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(HPQ) Hewlett-Packard Company Plans Major Restructuring
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) is planning an extensive restructuring, as announced by its chief executive officer (CEO) Leo Apotheker. In order to focus more on the high-growth and high-margin business, the CEO now wants to spin off or sell H-P’s lower-margin PC business, wash...
22Aug2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(CAT) Stock Market News for August 8, 2011 – Market News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average see-sawed between positive and negative territory, while the markets finished mixed on Friday amid global economic concerns. Encouraging economic reports helped the markets prevent another heavy slide on the closing day of the week, but they were...
8Aug2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(CSCO) Stock Market News for August 4, 2011 – Market News
The volatile run of the markets ended with modest gains, which was also marked one of the busiest days of trading since mid-March. Uncertainty over economic growth kept investors jittery, though the benchmarks escaped recording their longest losing streak since Jimmy Carter’s...
4Aug2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(IBM) What We Can Learn From IBM and Nestle
by Carl Delfeld, Investment U Senior Analyst Thursday, July 28, 2011 IBM (NYSE: IBM) has long been respected as one of America’s highest-quality businesses representing all the best this country has to offer. It’s also successfully navigated from being a technology hardware...
3Aug2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Taking Advantage of Dollar Weakness
by Justin Dove, Investment U Research Thursday, July 28, 2011 There’s a negative connotation of the U.S. dollar losing value to foreign currencies. It makes some sense since it lowers the American consumer’s purchasing power. However, it’s not all bad. There is a positive...
31Jul2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Stock Market News for July 26, 2011 – Market News
The political deadlock in Washington weighed down the markets on the opening day of the week, as lawmakers struggled to find a solution to the impasse over the debt-ceiling issue. The day was also marked by disappointing corporate results, and the fear-gauge index posted its...
26Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) Stock Market News for July 25, 2011 – Market News
Stellar earnings results provided sufficient impetus to markets as they edged modestly higher on Friday, amidst lingering concerns about debt-ceiling negotiations. The week also closed with gains as earnings provided enough cushion for the benchmarks to settle in the green. The...
25Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(XLK) Stock Market News for July 20, 2011 – Market News
The Dow soared to record its best rally this year, while the broader markets enjoyed their best performance since March thanks to encouraging corporate results and President Obama’s comments about lifting the debt ceiling. IBM and Coke bolstered their respective sectors and...
20Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AIXG) Company News for July 20, 2011 – Corporate Summary
• Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) reported Q2 EPS of $1.20, ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.16 per share. Revenues for the quarter rose 47% year-over-year to $12.7 billion, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $12.364 billion • Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)...
20Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(BAC) July 19: Earnings Take the Spotlight – Economic Highlights
With the second quarter reporting season getting into high gear, we get a torrent of earnings reports today, with a focus on banks. Bank results are benefiting from improving credit quality, though top-line gains still remain a challenge. The overall positive tone of this morning’s...
19Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AAPL) 2011 Second Quarter Earnings Preview – Detailed
Earnings Preview 7/15/11 Second quarter earnings season is now under way, but things really start to move into high gear next week. There will be 348 firms reporting, and 108 of those are in the S&P 500. By next Friday we should have a very good handle on how the overall...
18Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(PEP) Pepsi Getting Popular in Russia
Pepsico Inc. (PEP) the global food and Drinks Corporation, announced that it will buy the remaining 23% of Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC (WBD), Russia’s leading branded food and beverage company. Wimm-Bill-Dann produces dairy products, juices, mineral water and baby food. The...
6Jul2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(PEP) Pepsi Launches New Ad Campaign
Pepsico Inc. (PEP) is determined to regain its lost position as the #2 US beverage in the world. Pepsi to meet this goal wants to go back to its roots and promote its flagship product Pepsi Cola once again. Keeping this in mind, Pepsi launches its new advertising campaign for...
30Jun2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(XLE) Stock Market News for June 23, 2011 – Market News
Markets ended their four-day winning streak, tumbling in the late session, as the Federal Reserve slashed its growth forecast and provided no indications of further economic stimulus. All the benchmarks dropped by around 0.7% during a thin trading session, and investors were...
23Jun2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(PEP) Pepsi Gets New Credit Facility
Going by Bloomberg, the leading global snack food and beverages company, PepsiCo Inc. (PEP), has entered into a new four-year unsecured revolving credit agreement with a consortium of world’s leading investment bankers for optimizing its capital structure. Citicorp (C),...
16Jun2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(ADP) Stock Market News for June 3, 2011 – Market News
A volatile day of trading came to a close with benchmarks ending in the red and as it stands there are now clear signs of markets heading into a fifth consecutive week of losses. Investors refrained from betting big ahead of the crucial jobs report from the Labor Department,...
3Jun2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(CL) Consumer Staples Stock Outlook – June 2011 – Industry Outlook
Stocks in the Consumer Staples sector have traditionally performed better than the stock market, and especially cyclical companies, during market declines. We are seeing evidence of this at present — consumer staple stocks have started shining again as concerns about the...
3Jun2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(DPS) Dr Pepper Snapple Group Beats on Revenues and Earnings
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (DPS) reported first-quarter 2011 earnings of 50 cents per share, compared with 40 cents in the year-ago period. Quarterly earnings also topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 46 cents. During the quarter, Dr Pepper’s net sales grew 7.0% year...
3May2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(DPS) Dr Pepper Snapple Group Earnings Preview
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (DPS) is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2011 financial results before the opening bell on April 27, 2011. The current Zacks Consensus Estimates for the quarter is earnings of 46 cents a share. For the quarter under review, revenue is $1,308.0...
3May2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(KO) Reviewing Earnings – Looking Toward The Federal Reserve
Earnings reports will be in focus today as we wait for the Fed Chief’s history-making news conference on Wednesday following the FOMC meeting that gets underway today. Keeping us busy will be a slew of positive reports from a fairly representative slice of corporate leaders,...
28Apr2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued(AMZN) Stock Market News for April 27, 2011 – Market News
Positive earnings reports and upbeat consumer data brought cheer to investors as benchmarks achieved three-year new highs on Tuesday. Stocks also displayed an uptrend ahead of the conclusion of the crucial Federal Open Market Committee’s meeting on Wednesday following which...
27Apr2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued