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Top 5 Stocks In The Healthcare Sector With Highest ROE (VRX, TLCR, HLF, USNA, PTN)
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 6:30am | 165Read More...Below are the top 5 healthcare stocks in the NASDAQ and the NYSE in terms of return on equity. The return on equity for Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (NYSE: VRX) is 82.72%. VRX has a PEG ratio of 0.83. The return on equity for Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: TLCR) is 81.86...
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Avon Takes Action Against Four Executives (AVP)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:13pm | 140Read More...Beauty products seller Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) said that it has put four of its executives on administrative leave. This action has been taken pursuant to an investigation of bribery allegations in China. According to The Wall Street Journal, the four executives are S.K. Kao, general...
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Avon Products (AVP) Conducts Internal Bribery Investigation
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:20am | 97Read More...Shares of Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) were down more than 7% during Tuesday morning trading. The shares dropped this morning after Avon Products announced that it had suspended three executives in its China business unit and a senior executive in New York who are under investigation for bribery...
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ACV Upgrade At BMO Capital Markets
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 7:35am | 49Read More...Analysts at BMO Capital Markets upgrade Alberto-Culver (NYSE: ACV) from “market perform” to “outperform.” The price target for ACV is set to $31. Shares of ACV closed at $27.12 on Friday. More Analyst Ratings here.
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Fast Money Picks For April 6th (TOT, EL, BBY, LOW)
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 5:22pm | 158Read More...CNBC Fast Money's Tim Seymour thinks that investors should buy TOTAL S.A. (ADR) (NYSE: TOT) on Tuesday. Total (TOT) added 0.91% today and closed at $59.89. Joe Terranova is bearish on The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL). He thinks you should take a short position in this stock tomorrow. The...
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Patty Edwards Believes In HLF
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 7:00pm | 137Read More...Patty Edwards said on CNBC's Fast Money that Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) is a buy. She added that Herbalife (HLF) is trading at 12.5 multiple and has a growth rate of 15%, which gives you a really nice P/E to growth ratio of 0.8. Patty Edwards continued by saying that only 20% of its revenue comes...
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Reduce Your Risk In The Initial Public Offering Market With This IPO ETF
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 6:56pm | 2056Read More...“Everybody loves the romance of an IPO — a company going public with the potential to deliver huge profits to those investors on the ground floor. But the reality of initial public offerings are very different than the storybook version some traders believe. Trying to research these tiny upstarts...
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Cramer's Lightning Round OT Picks (GSH, LVS, WYNN, HELE, EL)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:28pm | 192Read More...Jim Cramer said on CNBC Mad Money's Lightning Round OT that he doesn't like Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd (ADR) (NYSE: GSH) one bit. This is a typical Chinese stock and we know very little about it, says Cramer. Guangshen (GSH) fell 0.59% today and closed at $20.16. Cramer prefers Wynn Resorts, Limited...
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Merger Arbitrage Mondays – March 22, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:57am | 3921Read More...Last week was very active with new mergers and acquisitions announced, rumors of deals for some very well know names like Harley-Davidson (HOG) and Polycom (PLCM) and the successful completion of two acquisitions. Polycom, widely recognized for its Klingon starship shaped conference phones, had an...
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How Will Obama-Care Play Into The Markets And ETFs?
Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 8:50pm | 4460Read More...“It is our opinion, along with that of many other market professionals, that this current market is overbought. An overbought market often searches for a place, or more to the point, a reason to pull back. This Sunday’s possible vote on Health Care Reform could very well be that catalyst. This...
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Benzinga’s Top Downgrades (ASTI , WAB, ARIA, WNS, WNI)
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 9:32am | 251Read More...Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: ASTI) was downgraded by Ardour Capital from “hold” to “reduce.” ASTI closed at $3.78 yesterday. ASTI has a 52-week trading range of $2.90-$8.83. Read more about this company here. Soleil downgraded Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (NYSE: WAB)...
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Benzinga’s Top Pre-Market Losers (CSKI, ERIC, HGSI, EROC)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 7:35am | 221Read More...China Sky One Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSKI) tumbled 7.81% to $15.81 in the pre-market session. China Sky One Medical, Inc. announced that for fiscal 2010, it expects net revenue growth of approximately 20% or $156 million and net income is anticipated to approximate $39 million. CSKI closed at $17....
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Fast Money Lightening Round: Jim Trounces VIP, VMC, AVP; Favors CL, PL Instead
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 7:17am | 202Read More...In his “Mad Money Lightening Round,” Jim Cramer warned investors to not buy Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC). VMC gained 2.22% yesterday. Jim also thinks that it is time to get out of VimpelCom (NYSE: VIP). VIP added 1.36% in yesterday’s trading. According to Jim, Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) does not...
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Top 5 NYSE Stocks In The Consumer Goods Sector With The Highest Gross Margins (MLP, NUS, EL, COH, ABV)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 9:00am | 238Read More...Below are the top consumer goods stocks on the NYSE in terms of gross margins. The trailing-twelve-month gross margins at Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc (NYSE: MLP) stand at 100%. MLP’s shares have lost 15.51% over the past 52 -weeks, while the S&P 500 index has jumped 52.61%. Read...
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Simple Quantitative View of Goldman's VIP List Generates Some Other Long Ideas
Monday, March 8, 2010 - 9:01am | 1063Read More...For a pdf of this report, follow this link: Simple Quantitative Overview of Goldman Sach's VIP List. An article by the contributor "Market Folly" on Goldman Sach's "VIP List" caught our attention on Seeking Alpha. What better way to test our simple quantitative model against a list of 50 stocks...
