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Piper Jaffray has an Overweight rating and a $68 price target on shares of Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) after it reported earnings last week. In a note to investors, Piper Jaffray writes, "Our analysis shows solid box office revenue of DVDs released to Redbox in Q2, up 12% y/y (if Avatar is...

Cusick's Corner Some of you might have caught the subject line Married Put(z), this should not be confused with a Royal Put(z). That's enough of the Royals and wedding humor. At this stage the market it is getting a little harder to play the upside, at least buying outright stock with the market...

Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. What's Hot On TheStreet 5 Worst-Performing S&P 500 Stocks of 2011 TThe S&P 500 Index is rising for the third year in a row, increasing 7% so far in 2011. The best performers are National Semiconductor(NSM), Biogen Idec(BIIB) and...

SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWRB) added 40.68% to $22.20 in the pre-market session. Total SA (NYSE: TOT) announced its plans to offer $23.25 for around 60% of the shares of SunPower Corp. Sino Clean Energy Inc (NASDAQ: SCEI) rose 14.98% to $2.84 in the pre-market session. SCEI reported its Q1...

J.P. Morgan has an Underweight rating and a $42 price target on shares of Coinstar (NYSE: CSTR) In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, “We are raising estimates. Longer term, we are concerned that the U.S. DVD kiosk growth opportunity might peak in 2011 -2012 owing to rapid adoption of online...

JP Morgan has raised the price target on Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) from $42 to $50 and maintains its Underweight rating.

Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) Reports EPS of $0.26 vs. $0.22 Estimate; Revenues $424.1M vs. $409.4M Estimate

StoneMor Partners L.P. (Nasdaq: STON) announced today that it has entered into letters of intent to acquire nine cemeteries and ten funeral homes for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $10.5 million. During 2010, on an aggregate basis, it was reported that the cemeteries had approximately...

Cusick's Corner The bulls got what they wanted and the market made a run to the upside. If you are not long, you are wrong. We can debate the issue of policies and how they are affecting the future of inflation and growth, but the rally is real and the market breadth is large. To gauge this...

Service Corp International (NYSE: SCI) Reports EPS of $0.17 vs. $0.16 Estimate; Revenues $579.7M vs. $568.22M Estimate

Cusick's Corner Not much changed in the Fed statement except that they acknowledged there's inflation (specifically commodity inflation) and the market handled that observation better than I expected. What will be interesting about this unprecedented press conference is if the right or important...

Regis Corp (NYSE: RGS) Reports EPS of $0.25 vs. $0.31 Estimate; Revenues $581.3M vs. $581.22M Estimate

Regis Corporation (NYSE: RGS) today reported a third quarter net loss of $0.45 per share. These results include non-operational after-tax charges of $40.1 million primarily related to goodwill impairment in the Company's Promenade salon division. Absent non-operational items, third quarter...

H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) today announced that William C. Cobb has been appointed president and CEO, effective May 16. Cobb will replace Alan Bennett, who was appointed CEO in July 2010. Bennett will remain on the company's board of directors through September.

Google Inc. (GOOG) Android operating system for the tablets, Kunimasa Suzuki, Sony's head of personal computers, said in Tokyo today. The models, whose prices weren't disclosed, would go on sale in autumn, the company said in a statement. Coinstar Inc. (CSTR) : SAC Capital Advisors LP reported a...