Drug Retail

Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) had October sales of $5.85 billion, an increase of 3.7 percent from $5.64 billion for the same month in 2009. Duane Reade stores, acquired in April 2010, contributed 2.8 percentage points to the total sales increase for the month. Sales in comparable stores (those open at...

Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) is likely to report its Q4 EPS at $0.28. Qualcomm Inc (NASDAQ: QCOM) is expected to report its Q4 earnings at $0.59 per share. Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is estimated to post its Q3 EPS at $0.53. MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) may post Q3 loss at $0.23 per share. News...

Stocks had a flat day on Friday but closed out October on a solid footing as investors braced themselves for this week's Federal Reserve meeting and the mid-term elections. Upward revision to second-quarter GDP also helped send indexes higher. The Dow average edged up slightly more than 4 points,...

Rite Aid Corp. (RAD), one of the nation's leading drugstore chains, reported yet another month of poor same-store sales. After falling 0.9% in September 2010, same-store sales dropped further by 1.7% in October. This marks the 17th consecutive month of decline, since May 2009, when it had...

Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) will host its Analyst Day in Chicago on November 4. Deutsche Bank expects the company to discuss progress on the initiatives outlined at the 2008 Analyst Day, like slowing store growth, Rewiring for Growth cost savings, and Specialty Pharmacy, in addition to new initiatives....

Deutsche Bank has published a research report on CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) in anticipation of the company's 3Q earnings results. In the report, Deutsche Bank writes "CVS reports Q3 results Wednesday, and on the heels of the Oct. 8 analyst meeting, we do not expect major surprises. We...

On CNBC's Fast Money, Karen Finerman said that she will be watching closely Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) earnings next week. She said that she is interested to hear what Kraft (KFT) has to say about its input costs. Kraft (KFT) still has a tail wind from Cadbury acquisition, but now there are some...

Here are more notes from Coinstar's (NASDAQ: CSTR) conference call: -has relationship with CVS (NYSE: CVS) for DVD kiosk -partnering with Amazon and Gap on marketing promotions -Revenue grew 42% year-over-year -repurchased 1.1 million shares for $49.2 million

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) today announced sales results for October. For the four weeks ended October 23, 2010, same store sales decreased 1.7 percent over the prior-year period. October front-end same store sales decreased 1.3 percent while pharmacy same store sales, which included an...

CNBC Fast Money's Tim Seymour said on the show that he wants to buy Empresas ICA SA (ADR) (NYSE: ICA) tomorrow. Empresas ICA SA (ADR) (ICA) gained 1.11% on Monday. Karen Finerman thinks that CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) should be bought on Tuesday. CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS) fell 0.41...

Cusick's Corner After watching the markets today, unless there is a major headline or blow out after the close, this grind is probably weighing on traders' psyches. Keep an eye on the Euro, FXE -- this currency has been highly correlated with the move in the S&Ps, plus the FXE was not able to...

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...

About three years ago to the day, I wrote an article about the penny stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. At that time, there were only four. Now there are eight stocks trading for less than a dollar a share on the NYSE. The stocks are as follows, along with the current price. W...

To say that the shares of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), first written about here on February 16, 2009, at a price of $27.30, underperformed this summer would be an understatement. CVS shares formed a bear hug during a walk-down from about $38 to $27. There, however, the shares appeared to gain...