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AXP will Regain Its Normalized Earnings Level Faster than Its Peers
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 2:06pm | 147Analysts at Sandler O'Neil Partners maintained their "hold" rating for American Express Co (NYSE: AXP), while raising their estimates for the estimates. The target price for AXP has been raised from $37 to $43. AXP's charge-off rate for September had declined sharply, despite an additional...
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Top 5 Small-Cap Stocks with Lowest P/B Ratio (ADVNB, CTZN, FRGB, HRZB, AHR)
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 8:45am | 179Below are interesting small-cap stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ that have lowest price to book ratio. Advanta Corp (NASDAQ: ADVNB) has the price to book ratio of 0.034 and a market capitalization of $3.3 million. ADVNB shares have plummeted by 97.15% over the past 52 weeks. Citizens First Bancorp Inc...
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Top 5 Leading Stocks in Dow Jones Industrial Average (MCD, CAT, WMT, HD, AXP)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 11:45am | 155McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) shares have risen by 1.11% to 62.97 within 25 minutes of trade. According to the Chicago Tribune, MCD plans to take its breakfast dollar menu offerings, comprising of sausage McMuffin, sausage biscuit and two hotcakes, across the nation in January. Caterpillar...
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Stock Market News for November 11, 2009 - Market News
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 9:47am | 450A day after the triple-digit rally, Wall Street paused for a breather as investors decided to book profits on a light trading day. The markets opened lower and then swung between gains and losses amid prevailing caution after a series of disappointing results. The Dow, nevertheless, managed to...
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American Express Continues March Higher (AXP)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 6:33pm | 131American Express (NYSE: AXP) continues to surge higher, making another 52-week high today at $39.86 before closing at $39.80. The chart is simply a thing of beauty and options traders appear to be on top of the situation. More than 61,000 options contracts in American Express changed hands today,...
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Dow’s Closes To A Yearly High
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 12:01pm | 131The Los Angeles Times reports that with a 203 point upward rally, Dow closed at a yearly high. Unlike in the past, when rallies in smaller stocks pushed the Dow up, this time, it was the turn of the heavy weights. These include American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) , Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT)...
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Stock Market News for November 10, 2009 - Market News
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:27am | 421U.S. stocks surged Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average storming to its highest level in more than 13 months as finance ministers from the Group of 20 industrialized nations pledged to continue economic stimulus measures to help the global economy. The Dow Jones industrial average, which...
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New 52-Week LOW Stocks (ADVNA, APOL, BFNB, ECBE, PCBC)
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 11:33am | 139Advanta Corp. (NASDAQ: ADVNA) fell 70.40% to $0.0976. Today Advanta Corp. has made a new 52-low at $0.08. So far this year is down over 91%. Apollo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) was another stock which made a new 52 week low of $52.99 and now trades at $52.88, decreased by $3.10 or 5.54%. Beach First...
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You Might Be Spinning Your Wheels With This ETF (CSD)
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 4:06am | 160The ETF Professor never ceases to be amazed at what kinds of ETFs issuers will come up with. So the Professor wasn't surprised to learn about the Claymore/Beacon Spin-Off ETF (NYSE: CSD). CSD has been around for almost three years focusing on publicly traded spin-offs from a variety of companies....
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5 Large Cap Stocks with Lowest P/B ratio (KEP, STI, VLO)
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 2:36pm | 184Below are interesting large-cap stocks on the NASDAQ and NYSE with the lowest price to book ratio. Korea Electric Power Corp (NYSE: KEP) has a price to book ratio of 0.52 and a market capitalization of $17.97 billion. KEP shares are trading at a price significantly lower than their 52-week high of...
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Top NYSE Financial Stocks To Consider (JPM, BAC, BLK,AB, ITG, CSH, HUM, IVG, JNS, RJF, SF)
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 2:29pm | 336In the recent down turn of US stocks, the most affected were the Financial Stocks. Financial Components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) fell 2% on early trading contributing to losses to the index. Although, the drop in prices can be...
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New 52-Week High Stocks (SNE, KDN, CFN, CATM, NSR)
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 12:52pm | 170Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE: SNE) hit a new 52-week high at $30.50 in today’s morning trade. Currently the stock is trading at $30.49, up 6.74%. So far this SNE is up over 40%. Kaydon Corporation (NYSE: KDN) soared 13% to $35.02. Today KDN made a new 52-week at $37.18 after it reported Q3 adj-EPS...
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5 Stocks with Lowest P/B ratio and high growth estimates (CT, CIT, RAS)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 11:12am | 190Below are interesting stocks on the NASDAQ and NYSE with the lowest price to book ratio and high sales growth estimates. Capital Trust Inc (NYSE: CT) has a price to book ratio of 0.137. The sales growth estimate for this quarter is 83.7%. CT shares have slipped by 59.28% over the past 52 weeks. CIT...
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Stocks Expected To Pop (MU, SLM, MCO, CEPH, GNW, MI, CMCSA, WLP, GME, WFR, STT, NOVL, PTV, AMGN)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 2:34pm | 241According CNBC.com, their analysts looked at Analyst Price Targets for S&P500 companies in September and identified the top 20 companies. Among these companies, 6 of the top 10 are already showing promising results. On that list, Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) has the widest price range of $4.00...
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Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (MSFT, RVBD, AXP, GNTX)
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 12:12pm | 111Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) moved up 2.43% to $28.70 Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek today raised his rating to Buy from Hold following Friday’s better-than-expected results and raised his price target to $34 from $24. Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD) also rallied 3.73% to $21....