Personal Products

Caris & Company has downgraded the Alberto-Culver Company (NYSE: ACV) from Above Average to Average. The Alberto-Culver Company clsoed yesterday at $37.64.

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Below are the top healthcare stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Trinity Biotech Plc (NASDAQ: TRIB) is 58.74%. TRIB's quarterly earnings surged 1,586.60% y/y. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc (...

Elizabeth Arden (RDEN) analysts keep raising estimates and are now expecting earnings to nearly double over the next 2 years. Company Description Elizabeth Arden makes beauty products and fragrances on a global scale. The company's products are sold under the PREVAGE as well as a variety of...

Cusick's Corner The market sold off into the close, realigning the Bond and Equity markets today. In previous months this situation held true, “as Bond yields go, so does the market” only to be decoupled this month up until today. The 10 year pulled back hard today, and into the last half hour of...

Cusick's Corner This has been a whippy session and the market is now off the lows of the day. Heading into the end of the month, September has had quite an impressive rally with the S&Ps up 9% so far in September. Watch for some potential profit taking, some money managers may be looking to...

Gold futures fluctuated today to settle at $1,298.70 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), after hitting an intraday high of $1,301.30 an ounce. However, Silver kept its 30-year high as its December contract gained 0.2% to $21.45 an ounce. Analysts at...

Jefferies & Co. has a research report on the consumer products sector, and in particular Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP). In the research report, Jefferies writes, "Commentary and Analysis this week shows that while the March quarter represented this year's high water mark for most currency...

Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant Unilever (NYSE: UN) said it has agreed to purchase Illinois-based Alberto Culver (NYSE: ACV) for $3.7 billion to bolster its lineup of personal care products. Alberto Culver makes brands such as Nexxus, St. Ives and Static Gard. Alberto-Culver is the world's...

Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant Unilever Plc (NYSE: UN) is reportedly close to acquiring Alberto-Culver (NYSE: ACV), the consumer products company that is behind such popular brands as Noxzema, St. Ives and Static Gard. Illinois-based Alberto-Culver had a market value of $3.11 billion as of...

NBTY, Inc. (NYSE: NTY) today announced that its stockholders have approved the proposal to adopt the merger agreement providing for NBTY's acquisition by an affiliate of The Carlyle Group. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of NBTY was...

Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Has Year of Growth Herbalife Ltd (HLF) headquartered in the Grand Cayman is a network marketing company. Those two facts should cause everyone to wonder how it has performed so well over the past 12 months, but that is exactly what it has done. The company sells weight...

Cusick's Corner This market appears to be trying to get the pendulum swing to the upside -- key S&P levels to watch are 1126 support and 1147 resistance. If the market breaks the 1126 level, this could signal a deeper pullback. But if the market can accelerate to 1147 on the SPX, this would be...