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The following is Sizemore Capital Management LLC's Third Quarter 2010 Letter to Investors, reproduced with permission. To Our Investors, The third quarter of 2010 ended on a high note with the S&P 500 posting its strongest September in 71 years.  Against this backdrop, our actively-managed...

Below are the top cleaning product stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of gross margin. The trailing-twelve-month gross margin at Zep Inc (NYSE: ZEP) is 51.18%. ZEP's PEG ratio is 0.56. The trailing-twelve-month gross margin at Ecolab Inc (NYSE: ECL) is 50.40%. ECL's quarterly earnings...

Billionaire Warren Buffett is the second richest American. As most investors know, he is the head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), the highest priced stock and one of the most successful companies during the last half-century. The company also has Class B shares (BRK-B), currently trading around 83....

The Board of Directors of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) declared a quarterly dividend of forty-eight point eighteen cents ($0.4818) per share.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America (NYSE: ODC) today announced net sales of $219,050,000 for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2010, a 7% decrease compared with net sales of $236,245,000 for the previous fiscal year. Net income for the fiscal year was $9,458,000, or $1.30 per diluted share, a 2% decrease...

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) made substantial progress in fiscal 2010 as its Purpose-inspired Growth Strategy accelerated business performance, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bob McDonald, told the Company's shareholders at its annual meeting today. Organic sales grew 3%, core...

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...

The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) recognized its top performing external business partners during an awards ceremony last night as the conclusion of the P&G Supplier and Agency Summit. The objective of the annual summit is to recognize and celebrate those key contributors who have...

Jefferies downgraded Ceragon Networks Ltd (NASDAQ: CRNT) from "buy" to "hold." CRNT's shares closed at $9.79 yesterday. Ceragon's earnings are likely to drop by 84.93% this year. Deutsche Bank downgraded ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) from "buy" to "hold." MT's shares closed at $32.12 yesterday....

Investors generally remain nervous about the competitive environment in HPC, but Energizer (NYSE: ENR) is proving very resilient. As the brand continues to grow in the US, and potentially Europe and Japan, J.P. Morgan thinks topline for wet shave should be solid. Add in benefits from the battery...

Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. Chelsea Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CHTP) 5,205 puts, 151 calls 2. Digital River (NASDAQ: DRIV) 21,669 puts, 1,094 calls 3. Colgate Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) 2,859 puts, 175 calls 4....

There are some bearish divergences out there indicating that this market could reverse course and allow for us to see a pullback of sorts in the very near future. While I don't rule that out, I think the odds are we move higher, and I have positioned my portfolio accordingly. Below you will find...

Universum releases the global talent attraction index: "The World's Most Attractive Employers 2010", based on close to 130,000 career seekers, with a business or engineering background. Following the unprecedented world release in 2009, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) still manages to keep the no. one...