Household Products

Below are the top cleaning products stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Church & Dwight Company Inc (NYSE: CHD) is 17.22%. CHD's ROE for the same period is 15.12%. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Darling...

Cusick's Corner It is hard to see a market top with the shift in retail sentiment from bullish to hedge happening so quickly. The market is moving to the upside with some decent breadth. The Dollar has been weak, a definite catalyst for equities, and the Euro currency found its bid this midday,...

Cusick's Corner Equities and commodities bounced into the afternoon but I'm skeptical of this move with the Buck firming and the Euro unable to break out with the market. Now the crude run is more of a fearful response to the wildfires in Canada that may cause a potential slowdown in oil sands-...

Shares of The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) are lower on the session by 0.92%, currently trading at $70.08. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past four months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A...

This afternoon the Dow Jones Industrial Average(DJIA) is the weakest stock index in the market. It is important to note, that while this index is the most highly followed index by the public the index consists of just 30 large cap blue chip stocks. The index is also a price cap weighted index and...

Shares of defensive names like Altria (NYSE: MO), The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) and Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) are higher today, as the broader equity market appears to be in a correction. When the equity markets correct, defensive names, like the aforementioned, tend to...

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ENR) announced today the pricing of its offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.70% Senior Notes due 2021 in a private placement. The offering is expected to close on May 19, 2011 subject to customary closing conditions. Energizer estimates...

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ENR) announced today that, subject to market and other conditions, it intends to offer up to $600 million in senior notes to certain qualified institutional buyers. The Company expects to commence the offering immediately and plans to use the net proceeds to...

Cognex (CGNX) is trading at a price of $34.86, a dramatic change of -0.97. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 1.45B. Cognex is giving up its quarterly distributions by 13% to $0.09 a share. This is the third time over...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that he is a “backer of Heckmann (NYSE: HEK).” He believes that it is a “terrific speculative stock." He believes that OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI) is “still a buy. This is connected with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). It's a good...

Alright, so this is the environment that we're looking at: Rising inflation concerns, falling commodities prices, diminishing risk appetite and several other factors that indicate paring back a portfolio's beta in the near- to medium-term may is probably a fine idea. Sounds like a good time to...

Invesco PowerShares brought out two new and unique ETFs last Thursday (5/5/11).  PowerShares S&P 500 High Beta Portfolio (SPHB) and PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (SPLV) are innovative products that employ quantitative beta-weighting and volatility-weighting as part of the...

Colgate (NYSE: CL) says, "gross margins under-pressure on commodity costs... emerging-markets one of its growth drivers... planning to increasing advertising spending in '11."

Cusick's Corner Today's headlines: Dollar up, China potentially slowing down, Inflation Concern in the UK, and Offensive Sectors getting hit, XLF/XLK/XLE, most notably Energy. While the dollar might be perceived as a catalyst for the pullback, the real drivers are the Inventories number (released...

Oppenheimer is out with its report today on WD-40 Company (NYSE: WDFC), maintaining Perform. In a note to clients, Oppenheimer writes, "Our recent meeting with WDFC senior management provided an encouraging update on business trends in the wake of the F2Q sales weakness, which appears to be a blip...