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CMS Energy Falls Short by a Penny - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 6:04pm | 635Energy utility CMS Energy Corporation (CMS) announced its operating earnings for the second-quarter 2010 of 26 cents per share, compared with 28 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. The results of the company were lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 27 cents by a penny. GAAP earnings of...
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Calls Purchased on Chico’s FAS (CHS)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 1:25pm | 122Shares of Chico’s FAS Inc. (NYSE: CHS) are higher on the session by 0.43%, currently trading at $9.44. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months, off from recent highs near $16.50. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. The August $10.00 call was purchased 3,...
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Calls Purchased on Foot Locker (FL)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 1:16pm | 113Shares of Foot Locker Inc. (NYSE: FL) are higher on the session by 1.34%, currently trading at $14.36. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months, off from recent highs near $16.75. Options traders are buying calls on the name today, betting that the stock can rally from...
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Calls Purchased on Guess Inc. (GES)
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 3:08pm | 165Shares of Guess Inc. (NYSE: GES) are lower on the session by 5.64%, currently trading at $36.36. The stock has been moving largely sideways for the past three months, following a sharp sell off in early May. Options traders are buying calls on the day today, betting that the stock can rally from...
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Summertime Markets 07-26-2010
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 7:06pm | 787Cusick’s Corner The market is holding key levels of 111 in the SPY. However, we cannot forget that this current trend is happening in July & August, months that have been notoriously slow and have never really been months that signaled a major trend change. At this stage these are trading...
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Puts Sold on American Eagle (AEO)
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 2:47pm | 135Shares of American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) are lower on the session by 0.23%, currently trading at $12.84. The stock has been moving primarily lower over the past three months, but appears to have found support at $12.00. Options traders are selling puts on the name today. The November $12.50...
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Goldman Sachs Adds Chico’s to Conviction Sell List (CHS)
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 9:25am | 249Goldman Sachs is out with a research report this morning, where it adds Chico’s FAS Inc. (NYSE: CHS) to its Conviction Sell list; it has an $8.00 price target on the stock. The GS analysts said, “We are adding CHS to the Conviction Sell list as we skew our exposure towards defensive/late cycle and...
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The Biggest Companies You’ve Never Heard Of…And What They Do
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 7:24am | 425The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names match one or more of their most important brands. McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) in the fast food business. It is its own largest brand. The same is true for Ford (NYSE: F),...
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15 COMPANIES WITH NO DEBT
Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 7:35pm | 3699For fun, I’ve taken Pragcap’s list of 15 companies with no debt and reproduced tables of Sabrient’s stock reports on these companies for further research. Click on the stock tickers in the tables for the pdf files. - Ilene 15 COMPANIES WITH NO DEBT Courtesy of The Pragmatic Capitalist In these...
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Finish Line Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 4:59pm | 123The Board of Directors of The Finish Line, Inc. (Nasdaq: FINL) today announced that it has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share of outstanding Class A and Class B common stock. The quarterly cash dividend will be payable September 13, 2010 to shareholders of record as of August 27...
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Benzinga’s Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Losers (MLNX, NFLX, ISRG, BEBE)
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 8:44am | 141Mellanox Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: MLNX) dipped 16.39% to $19.18 in the pre-market session. MLNX had reported better-than-expected Q2 results. Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) lost 8.74% to $109.19 in the pre-market session. While NFLX posted a 34% rise in its Q2 earnings, it failed to meet the revenue...
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Mid-Cap Stocks Set for Second-Half Surge
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 7:38am | 143MILWAUKEE (TheStreet) -- Medium-sized companies such as Mattel (NYSE: MAT), Noble Corp. (NYSE: NE), Western Union (NYSE: WU) and Limited Brands (NYSE: LTD) will be second-half stars if the economy continues to grow, says Matt Fahey, manager of the Marshall Mid-Cap Value Fund (MVEAX). The $236...
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15 COMPANIES WITH NO DEBT
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 2:00am | 169In these times of high debt and deleveraging it’s unusual to come across companies that aren’t in over their head. CNBC recently ran a piece listing some of the largest firms in the world who have immaculate balance sheets – NO DEBT. The list follows: 1. Novell (NOVL) 2. Expeditors...
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Calls Purchased on Foot Locker (FL)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 1:06pm | 112Shares of Foot Locker (NYSE: FL) are flat on the session, currently trading at $13.60. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months, but appears to be in a bottoming pattern. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. The August $15.00 call was purchased 2,000 times...
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Piper Jaffray Reiterates Overweight Rating on Limited Brands (LTD)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 9:24am | 337Piper Jaffray is out with a research report this morning, where it reiterates its Overweight rating on Limited Brands Inc. (NYSE: LTD); it has a $30.00 price target on the stock. The PJ analysts said, “Following our meeting with Stuart Burgdoerfer, CFO of Limited Brands, we are incrementally...