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Top 4 Stocks In The Home Improvement Stores Industry With The Highest Profit Margin
Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 4:11am | 123Below are the top home improvement stores stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of profit margin. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Lumber Liquidators Holdings (NYSE: LL) is 9.00%. Lumber Liquidators' EPS for the same period is $2.69. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at The...
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Lumber Liquidators Responds To Lawsuit Allegations
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 4:23pm | 224Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL), the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in North America, today issued the following statement in response to a lawsuit filed in California state court by the Global Community Monitor organization and Sunshine Park LLC: "The allegations in this lawsuit...
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Collateralize Loan Market Showing Signs Of Exhaustion
Monday, July 14, 2014 - 10:16am | 1052The S&P 500 is up 7.40% YTD and nearly all of the major investment banks have issued research reports making the case that equity market returns have been based more on metrics (lower P/E thanks to share buybacks fueled by low rates thanks to the FED) than what they should be based on, which...
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Stocks Hitting 52-Week Lows
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 9:20am | 154Lumber Liquidators Holdings (NYSE: LL) shares tumbled 22.32% to reach a new 52-week low of $54.70 after the company lowered its earnings forecast for the year. Jefferies downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold and cut the price target from $115.00 to $57.00. CGG (NYSE: CGG) shares touched a new 52-...
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Morning Market Losers
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 8:51am | 379Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT) fell 25.03% to $19.41 after the company offered long-term outcomes through 144 weeks from Phase IIb study of eteplirsen in DMD. Potbelly (NASDAQ: PBPB) dropped 20.74% to $11.61 after the company warned it will miss Q2 expectations by a wide margin. Lumber...
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Benzinga's Top #PreMarket Losers
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 7:20am | 150Lumber Liquidators Holdings (NYSE: LL) dropped 20.49% to $55.99 in pre-market trading after the company lowered its earnings forecast for the year. Jefferies downgraded the stock from Buy to Hold and cut the price target from $115.00 to $57.00. Potbelly (NASDAQ: PBPB) shares declined 16.72% to $12....
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Lumber Liquidators Slashes Outlook, Cites 'Significantly Lower' Traffic
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 4:50pm | 187Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL) shares have been hit hard in the post-trading session Wednesday as disappointing revised second-quarter guidance and weak comparable store-sales are weighing. Net sales in the second quarter of 2014 increased 2.3 percent from $257.1 million in the same quarter last...
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Lumber Liquidators Tanks On Weak Guidance
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 3:59pm | 146Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL) has been continuing the selling it saw all day today. Currently, in after-hours trading, the stock is down 16 percent after cutting guidance. The news leaked into Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Loews (NYSE: LOW) causing a sympathy play to the downside. ...
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UPDATE: Lumber Liquidators Cuts 2Q Guidance
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 3:23pm | 855Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL), the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in North America, today provided a business update for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014, and revised its outlook for 2014. Lumber Liquidators. Net sales in the second quarter of 2014 increased 2.3% to $263.1...
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Benzinga's M&A Chatter for Tuesday July 8, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 6:38pm | 453The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Tuesday July 8, 2014: Northstar Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Griffin-American for Approximately $4B The Rumor:Shares of Northstar Realty Finance (NYSE: NRF) and recent spinoff, NorthStar Asset Management (NYSE...
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Top 4 Stocks In The Home Improvement Stores Industry With The Highest ROA
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 3:50am | 129Below are the top home improvement stores stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on assets. The trailing-twelve-month return on assets at Lumber Liquidators Holdings (NYSE: LL) is 21.80%. Lumber Liquidators' revenue for the same period is $1.02 billion. The trailing-twelve-month...
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Benzinga's Top Downgrades
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 6:59am | 141Analysts at Deutsche Bank downgraded Dollar General (NYSE: DG) from “buy” to “hold.” The target price for Dollar General has been lowered from $65 to $60. Dollar General's shares closed at $56.30 yesterday. BMO Capital downgraded Hillshire Brands Company (NYSE: HSH) from “outperform” to “market...
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Stocks Must Go Down To Go Up
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 9:51am | 924On Tuesday the S&P 500 futures [CME:SPM14] closed down 14.2 handles lower or -1%. The day started out on a good note with the S&P making an early high at 1880.70. The overall tone of the selloff was mainly index arbitrage sell programs and sell stops. Tuesday’s decline saw U.S. stocks...
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US Stock Futures Up; All Eyes On FOMC Minutes
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 6:44am | 435Pre-open movers US stock futures traded higher in early pre-market trade. The Federal Open Market Committee will release minutes of its latest meeting at 2:00 p.m. ET. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 34 points to 16,371.00, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose...
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UPDATE: Lowe's Posts Rise In Q1 Profit, Lifts Full-Year Earnings Forecast
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 6:06am | 203Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW) reported a 16% rise in its fiscal first-quarter net income and lifted its full-year earnings guidance. Lowe's same-store sales rose 0.9% in the period ended May 2. Lowe's reported its quarterly earnings of $624 million, or $0.61 per share, versus $540 million, or $0....