Motorcycle Manufacturers

At 11:22 am, the Dow lost 0.50% to 10,103.99, the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index moved down 0.27% to 1,068.33 and the NASDAQ composite index fell 0.63% to 2,184.36. The industries that are driving the market today are: Recreational Vehicles: This industry jumped 6.90% by 11:22 am. The top...

Mackinac Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: MFNC) jumped 26.36% to $6.95 at 10:15 am. MFNC’s quarterly earnings soared 4,023.30% y/y. FPB Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ: FPBI) climbed 18.60% to $1.25. FPBI’s shares have plunged 58% over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index gained 12.63% in the same...

I closed out the position in Polaris Industries (PII) at the beginning of July when it crashed through technical support, but have kept an eye on it since.  Unlike many stocks which never recovered from the swoon a few weeks back, this stock has roared back and topped it off with a stellar earnings...

• State Street(NYSE:STT) posted in-line second quarter earnings of 93 cents on in-line revenues of $2.3 billion, up 8.6% from a year ago • Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB) reported estimate-topping earnings of $1.31, above Zacks estimates of $1.08, on an 11% increase in revenues to $1.2 billion, up from...

US stock futures fell today after results of IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) fell short of expectations. While futures on the Down Jones industrial average fell 70 points to 9990, those on the S&P 500 lost 8.3 points to 1055.5. Meanwhile, Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 14.75...

Some of the stocks that may grab investor focus today are: Wall Street expects Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO) to post its Q2 EPS at $0.14 on $1.16 billion of revenue. YHOO’s shares lost 0.60% to $15.01 in after-hours trading. Analysts are expecting Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) to have earned $3.07 per share...

With the S&P 500 grasping at 1070, and yet another "90% day" as the student body has run back to the left ("risk off" stampede), let's take a look ahead at the key reports next week; both for the greater market and what we have our eyes on.  The next 3 weeks are the heart of the earnings season...

Below are the top recreational vehicles stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of PEG ratio. Thor Industries Inc (NYSE: THO) has a PEG ratio of 0.93. Analysts at Argus upgraded THO from “hold” to “buy.” Harley-Davidson Inc (NYSE: HOG) has a PEG ratio of 1.09. HOG’s trailing-twelve-month...

Shares of Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) are in full rally mode today, up $1.20, or 5.27%, to $23.86. Harley could be called the ultimate consumer discretionary stock. People definitely need to be secure in their jobs and economic outlook in order to purchase a motorcycle. Not surprisingly, when the...

1. All Options are Extremely Risky Even though options are becoming more and more mainstream, there is still a large faction of the investing crowd that believes all options are extremely risky.  In fact, there are many options strategies that are less risky than the underlying stocks they derive...

Hitting the top of today’s Options Hotlist is Motorola (NYSE:MOT), which is seeing a rush of put buying at the October 8 put strike. This put volume has been trickling in through the session and currently stands at more than 21,000 contracts.  The in-the-money puts are currently up 11 cents on the...

The earnings season volatility has increased. In its report on options, Goldman Sachs has said that Harley Davidson (NYSE: HOG), Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (NYSE: HOT) and JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) are good trading stocks. The research report has suggested a strangle play on the Harley...

Tuesday morning, Mattel (NYSE:MAT) was upgraded at Caris & Company to a “buy” rating from an “above average” designation. The firm also adjusted its 12-month price target to $32 from $29 (representing a change of 46% from current levels) and lifted 2010 earnings estimates by nine cents to $1.75...