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Bearish MACD for Flowers Foods - Tale of the Tape
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 6:54pm | 110Flowers Foods, Inc.'s (FLO) MACD indicator has entered into bearish territory with a reading of -0.0988. The Zacks #4 Rank (“Sell”) stock decreased slightly to $24.59 in morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the year ending 2010 has decreased by 2 cents over the past month to $1.55 per...
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Bearish MACD for Synutra Intl - Tale of the Tape
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 6:54pm | 112Synutra International, Inc.'s (SYUT) MACD indicator has entered into bearish territory with a reading of -0.0655. The Zacks #4 Rank (“Sell”) stock decreased slightly to $10.54 in morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the year ending March 2011 has decreased by 32 cents over the past week...
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Earnings Preview: Hershey - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 6:54pm | 545The Hershey Company (HSY), one of the leading U.S. producers of confectionery products, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2010 financial results on Thursday, October 21, 2010. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is 79 cents a share. Second-Quarter 2010, a Synopsis...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Likes Citigroup (C, HSY, MKC, GIS, ISRG, WFT, SLB, CHK, CTL, KMP, ETP, FRT, KIM, PBR)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 5:52am | 340On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that he considers Citigroup (NYSE: C) as one of his “favorite speculative stock. The government is going to be done selling soon. I think there's 15% to 20% in this stock in the next three months." For Hershey Foods (NYSE: HSY), he...
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B&G Foods Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend of $.17
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 4:44pm | 89B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share of common stock. The dividend will be payable on January 31, 2011 to shareholders of record as of December 31, 2010. At the closing market price of the...
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Zacks Earnings Trend: KMB,KFT,LMT - Press Releases
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 4:09pm | 1382For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – October 19, 2010 – Zacks Research Equity Strategist, Dirk Van Dijk says that S&P 500 earnings are continuing to show red ink. He tracks companies on the Zacks.com web site, naming names, while forecasting trends for the months ahead. Off to a Strong...
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Tuesday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders (CPB, CAVM, AMCC, TLAB, FNSR)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 1:35pm | 91Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB) 3,944 puts, 26 calls 2. Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) 3,621 puts, 67 calls 3. Applied Micro (NASDAQ: AMCC) 2,508 puts, 50 calls 4. Tellabs Inc. (NASDAQ...
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Off to a Strong Start - Earnings Trends
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 9:06am | 5064Key Points: Only 48 firms have reported 3Q earnings. The numbers are thus not particularly meaningful, but we present them anyway. Your focus should be on the “expected” tables, which cover the other 452 firms. We are off to a strong start with a median surprise of 6.72%, and a 7.60 surprise ratio...
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Top Performing Industries For October 18 (HAS, WBD, UVV, BGCP)
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 10:32am | 180At 10:16 am, the Dow gained 0.59% to 11,128.33, the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index moved up 0.47% to 1,181.70 and the NASDAQ composite index rose 0.35% to 2,477.34. The industries that are driving the market today are: Toys & Games: This industry jumped 3.06% by 10:16 am. The top stock...
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Unconfirmed Rumor that Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) will be taken private at $27.00
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 9:54am | 33Unconfirmed Rumor that Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) will be taken private at $27.00..(SFD)could not be reached for comment...
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Sunday Morning Coffee
Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 8:10am | 575Barron's had this to say about Farmland courtesy of TIAA CREF; "From a historic perspective, it has delivered a fairly stable 8% to 12% return" annually, said Jose Minaya, managing director for natural resources. Soybean, corn and wheat prices can be volatile, but farmland is a finite resource and...
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Estimates Tweaked On HAIN For FY2011
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 8:27am | 183JP Morgan has published a research report on Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ: HAIN) and is increasing estimates for the company in response to trends from June through September. In the report, Oppenheimer writes "We are modestly increasing our annual 2011 estimate for Hain Celestial to $1.25, from...
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Handling Risk Around General Electric's (NYSE:GE) Earnings Report
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 2:27pm | 2617General Electric (NYSE:GE) reports earnings tomorrow before the open. GE has been a leader in the recent rally and has been a major influence on the price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) to the upside along with Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT). GE does not tend to be a volatile stock when...
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Puts Purchased on ConAgra Foods, Inc. (CAG)
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 1:55pm | 202Shares of ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) are higher on the session by 0.35%, currently trading at $22.66. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months, though has been basing sideways around the $21.50-22.00 level for the past two months. Options traders are buying puts on the...
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UBS Reiterates Coverage On (VFC, SBUX, PLX, KED, HAIN, GEL, KO, AFL, CSX)
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 11:35am | 148UBS reiterates its coverage on the following stocks: VF Corp (NYSE: VFC); Buy with a $98 PT Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX); Buy with a $31 PT Protalix BioTheraputics (NYSE: PLX); BUY with a $10.75 PT Kayne Anderson Energy (NYSE: KED); Neutral with a $17 PT Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN); Neutral with a $...