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Early Volume Plays Among Those Valued Below $10 (ABK, QADI, RSO, APPA)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 10:19am | 284Some of the stocks that are valued below $10 and have the potential to become one of the high volume movers in the early trading hours are: Ambac Financial (NYSE: ABK) lost 11% to $1.30 in the pre-market session after the bond insurer reported a wider Q1 net loss of $690 million, or $2.39 a share,...
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Mad Money Lightning Round OT: Cramer Is Bearish On AGNC And MWW, Bullish On AOSL
Monday, May 17, 2010 - 7:37pm | 130Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money Lightning Round OT that he wants to stay away from American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC). He sees its high dividend yield as a red flag. American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC) gained 1.17% today. Cramer is also bearish on Monster Worldwide, Inc. (...
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Benzinga’s Top Downgrades (MDC , TEVA, SHPGY, SMI, RAS)
Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 10:35am | 186MDC Holdings Inc (NYSE: MDC) was downgraded by Macquarie from “outperform” to “neutral.” MDC closed at $34.28 yesterday. MDC’s trailing-twelve-month operating margins are at -7.06%. Oppenheimer downgraded Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NASDAQ: TEVA) from “outperform” to “perform.” TEVA’s shares...
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Huge Put Buying in Annaly
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 2:31pm | 103Shares of Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) are mostly flat on the session at $16.00, but the options market thinks that the stock will fall over the next few months. The June $14 put is seeing huge volume with over 21,000 contracts traded, most have been purchases on the offer, which...
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Top 5 Mid-Cap NYSE Stocks In The Consumer Goods Sector With The Lowest PEG Ratio (FBR, TRW, HBI, OSK, IP)
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 5:58am | 179Below are the top 5 mid-cap consumer goods stocks on the NYSE in terms of the PEG ratio. The PEG ratio of Fibria Celulose SA (NYSE: FBR) is 0.24. FBR’s quarterly revenues grew by 115.20% y/y. The PEG ratio of TRW Automotive Holdings Corp (NYSE: TRW) is 0.25. Deutsche Bank upgraded TRW from “hold”...
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Arbor (ABR) Declares Q1 Results
Friday, May 7, 2010 - 3:43pm | 112Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE: ABR), an investment trust focused on real estate, declared its first quarter results. From the loss-making first quarter of 2009, the company has moved on to declare positive net earnings of $1.04 per diluted share, or $26.4 million, in first quarter of 2010. The balance...
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Options Action Heats Up In iStar
Friday, May 7, 2010 - 12:27pm | 114Shares of iStar Financial Inc.(NYSE: SFI) are falling hard this morning to $6.53, currently off 6.71%. Call volume, however, is exploding in the name. 5,000 June $5 calls have traded, as well as 14,000 June $7.50 calls. In July, the $5.00 call was sold 1,600 times and the $7.50 calls were sold 8,...
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Company News for May 3, 2010 - Corporate Summary
Monday, May 3, 2010 - 2:07pm | 164• UAL (NASDAQ:UAUA) and Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL) agreed to a merger which would form the world's largest carrier, for a total market value of $3.2 billion. The deal still has to pass regulators • The cleanup of still-stewing oil spill in the Gulf could cost as much as $14 billion • ...
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GDP Stronger Than It First Looks - Analyst Blog
Friday, April 30, 2010 - 12:51pm | 2954In the first quarter, the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 3.2%, which, while slower than the 5.6% growth in the fourth quarter, is actually stronger once you look at the composition of the growth. When analyzing GDP numbers, keep in mind that the various segments of GDP are of very different...
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1st Quarter GDP is Not a V-Shape
Friday, April 30, 2010 - 9:14am | 950The 1st quarter GDP figures were just released and registered a 3.2% gain. This statistic is slightly weaker than consensus expectations of 3.4%. What were the components? The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides insights: Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by...
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Cramer Likes ATLS And AMAT, Dislikes UNG And AGNC
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 8:33pm | 157Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money that Atlas Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATLS) is a better stock than United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (NYSE: UNG). UNG dropped 8.03% today and ATLS gained 1.34%. Cramer expects Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) to move up on Friday. KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ...
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FULT To Benefit From Wider Margins Later This Year
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 11:53am | 217Analysts at RBC Capital Markets maintain their "sector perform" rating on Fulton Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: FULT). The target price for FULT has been raised from $9 to $10. FULT has posted its 1Q10 core EPS was short of the estimates but was in-line with the consensus. “We are encouraged by...
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Earnings Surprise Stocks (and Low Priced, Pay Dividends)
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 12:28pm | 292So what is an earnings surprise stock, you might ask? It is a company that has exceeded its (or missed its) earnings estimate by a certain percentage. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has turned up a list of stocks that exceeded their estimates by more than 20%. In addition, all these stocks pay dividends...
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Top 5 Small-Cap NYSE Stocks With Highest Dividend Yield (RSO, DRH, TYG, VGR, FSC)
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 6:39am | 158Below are the top small-cap stocks in the NYSE in terms of dividend yield. Resource Capital Corp (NYSE: RSO) has a dividend yield of 14. The trailing-twelve-month operating margins for RSO are 274.25%. Diamondrock Hospitality Co (NYSE: DRH) has a dividend yield of 13.1. RBC Capital Mkts upgraded...
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High Yielding Stocks That Analysts Recommend
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 9:58am | 432According to an article in TheStreet, complacency could put an end to the growth in the stock market that has rallied in 2010. Traders can gain a margin of safety by buying dividend paying stocks. The three high-yielding stocks that are recommended by a majority of the analysts as "buy" are:...