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Honeywell Beats, Boost Outlook - Analyst Blog
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 1:00pm | 912Honeywell International Inc. (HON) released its third quarter 2010 earnings result before the opening bell today, reporting earnings from continuing operations of 64 cents, outperforming the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a cent. The company witnessed particularly strong growth in its short cycle...
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Puts Purchased on Exterran Holdings, Inc. (EXH)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:53am | 141Shares of Exterran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EXH) are higher on the session by 1.86%, currently trading at $25.14. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months, falling from a recent high near $30.00. Shares are struggling around the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options...
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Markets Mixed, Skewed To The Downside (SPY, QQQQ, DIA)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:04am | 86After initially opening higher, the broader markets are starting to dive a little bit here. The Dow and S&P 500 are showing weakness, and the NASDAQ is the lone winner this morning, but not by much. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE: SLB) reported earnings this morning that...
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Schlumberger Meets Zacks Estimate - Analyst Blog
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:00am | 586Schlumberger Limited (SLB) reported its third-quarter earnings of 70 cents per share, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate and ahead of the year-earlier profit of 65 cents per share. The year-over-year improvement was due to strong land drilling activity in the United States and Canada,...
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Company News for October 22, 2010 - Corporate Summary
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:00am | 644• American Express (NYSE: AXP) posted after-the-close interims of $0.90 for the third quarter, a 5 cents, on a 16.9% revenue jump to $7 billion, above Zacks estimates of $6.8 billion • Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) reported third quarter earnings of $0.46, a 4-cent beat on revenues of $337.2 million...
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Schlumberger Up Sharply In Pre-Market (SLB)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 9:16am | 81Shares of Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE: SLB) are up 2% in pre-market trading, after the oil services firm reported earnings that beat Wall Street estimates. Net income for the quarter that ended September 30 was $1.38 per share. This was up more than 100% from a year ago, when the company reported...
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Schlumberger Q3 Profit Surges
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 8:09am | 144Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB), the world's largest oil services provider, said its third-quarter profit more than doubled to to $1.73 billion, or $1.38 per share, from 787 million, or 65 cents per share, a year ago as revenue rose 26 percent to $6.85 billion from $5.43 billion a year earlier....
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US Stock Futures Mixed As Investors Await Weekend Group Of 20 Nations Meeting
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 7:11am | 228US stock futures were mixed, as investors are looking for a weekend G-20 nations meeting of finance ministers in South Korea. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 9 points to 11,074, while S&P 500 futures rose 0.60 points to 1,176.30. Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.50 points to 2,...
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Trading Plan for October 22, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 5:40am | 488Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): TICC (9.62), DTV (42.34), EOG (97.52), ESRX (46.42), AAPL (305.59), SHLD (72.95) Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): SDS (28.55) BIAS: 56% Long Economic Reports Due Out (Times are EST): No reports scheduled. My Observations and...
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Earnings Scheduled For October 22 (HON, TROW, VZ, KEY, PAG, IR, SLB)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 5:15am | 165Honeywell International (NYSE: HON) may post its Q3 earnings at $0.62 per share on revenue of $8.23 billion. T. Rowe Price Inc (NASDAQ: TROW) is projected to report its Q3 earnings at $0.60 per share. Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is expected to post its Q3 EPS at $0.54 on $26.35 billion in...
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Earnings Scorecard - Halliburton - Analyst Blog
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 4:30pm | 615Earlier this week, major oilfield services provider Halliburton Co. (HAL) announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Now that the analysts have had some time to digest the quarterly performance, they are weighing in with their estimate revisions. Below we cover...
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Schlumberger Declares Quarterly Dividend of $.21
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 1:00pm | 46The Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.21 per share of outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on January 7, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 1, 2010.
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Core Labs Tops by a Penny - Analyst Blog
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 9:33am | 624Core Laboratories N.V. (CLB) reported satisfactory third quarter 2010 results, driven by an impressive performance across all the three business units. Earnings per share came in at 79 cents, slightly above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 78 cents. On a year-over-year basis, the result increased...
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CPX: Making Strides And Seeing Improvement
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 7:10am | 138Complete Production Services (NYSE: CPX) reported EPS that were higher than estimated by Deutsche Bank ($0.42 vs. $0.29) as the company is continuing to take advantage of its red-hot market while all service lines improved throughout 3Q. In the research report, Deutsche Bank writes "CPX reported Q3...
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Top 4 Small-Cap Stocks In The Heavy Construction Industry With The Highest ROE (MTRX, PLPC, MTZ, ORN)
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 5:06am | 131Below are the top small-cap heavy construction stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Matrix Service Company (NASDAQ: MTRX) is 19.79%. MTRX's PEG ratio is 0.90. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Preformed Line...