Personal Products

• CIGNA (NYSE:CI) reported quarterly numbers of $1.03, versus Zacks estimates of 96 cents, and up from 49 cents a year ago on revenues of $4.64 billion. The company reaffirmed full year guidance of $3.75-$4.15 • Starwoods (NYSE:HOT) reported earnings of 51 cents a share, versus estimates of 22...

Stocks lost steam after a two-day advance as a weak report on service industries and a mixed report on labor market worried investors.  Lingering sovereign debt concerns and worries related to bank reforms kept traders off the buying table.   The blue-chip Dow average, which jumped 230 points in...

Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) reported today a fourth-quarter net income of $269.4 million, or $0.62 per share, as compared to $232.4 million, or $0.54 per share in the year-ago period. Revenue increased 13% to $3.15 billion for the quarter. Analysts expected Avon Products to report earnings of $...

Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL), the maker of beauty product lines such as M*A*C and Clinique, reported a 62% jump in 2nd fiscal quarter profit on Thursday. Estée Lauder's profit for the 2nd fiscal quarter ending on December 31 was $256.2 million, or $1.28 per share, up from $158 million, or...

CJS Securities has released an update on Elizabeth Arden Inc. (NASDAQ: RDEN). Elizabeth Arden posted strong results for the second quarter of FY2010. The company reported EPS of $0.80 which was ahead of CJS’s estimate of $0.70. The mass retail segment saw an increase in sales of 7%. The company...

Cosmetics group Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) said second-quarter profit surged 62% to $256 million, or $1.28 a share, as sales rose 10.5% to $2.26 billion. The results are way above the consensus expectations of profits of $1.21 per share on revenues of $2.24 billion. Excluding restructuring charges,...

Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) reported today a fourth-quarter net income of $827 million, or $2.17 a share, as compared to $823 million, or $2.05 a share, in the year ago period. Analysts had expected Lockheed Martin to report earnings per share of $1.99. Revenue totaled $12.5 billion, as...

Companies reporting before the bell: Motorola (NYSE: MOT): The company may report its earnings at $0.8 per share. Read more about this company here. AT&T (NYSE: T): The telecommunications company is expected to report its earnings at $0.51 a share, reflecting a $0.13 decline from its year-...

The Estee Lauder Co. (NYSE: EL) will announce its prior fiscal quarter’s results before the market opens on Thursday. The cosmetics company is expected to earn $1.28 per share, versus an EPS of $0.80 for the same quarter a year earlier. The Estee Lauder Co. has topped estimates in three of its last...

Analysts at Caris & Company reiterate their “buy” rating on Inter Parfums, Inc (NASDAQ: IPAR), while raising their estimates for the company. The target price for IPAR has been raised from $16 to $18. Inter Parfums has signed a 10.5 year license agreement with Montblanc to create, produce and...

Caris reiterated its “buy” rating for Inter Parfums (NASDAQ: IPAR), while raising its estimates for the company. Caris has raised its target price for IPAR from $16 to $18. According to Caris, IPAR’s licensing agreement with Montblanc is likely to be accretive to the company’s annual earnings by a...

Scheduled to announce results for the December quarter on February 4, Nu Skin Enterprises Inc (NYSE: NUS) is forecasted to post a marginal decline in earnings to $0.40 per share. The company had reported its earnings for the earlier quarter bang on the consensus expectations of $0.41, marking...

Analysts at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey reiterate their “buy” rating on Elizabeth Arden, Inc (NASDAQ: RDEN). The target price for RDEN is set to $20. Elizabeth Arden is scheduled to report its 2Q10 results on January 27, after the market closes. The analysts expect RDEN to post revenues of $386.0...

Estee Lauder Companies Inc (NYSE: EL) shares continued their upward move today, gaining 8.14% to $53.03. The shares had added 5% to $51.51 in after-hours trading. EL’s stock is trading higher since yesterday when the company raised its second-quarter earnings and sales on strong growth in Asia and...

Japanese cosmetic company, Shiseido has reached an agreement to acquire Bare Escentuals (NASDAQ: BARE). The agreement specifies that Shiseido will pay $1.7 billion, or $18.20 per share in order to acquire Bare Escentuals (BARE) in a cash deal. The deal represents a 43% premium to yesterday's...