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Wells Fargo Initiates NHI Coverage With An Outperform Rating
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:44am | 139Wells Fargo is initiating coverage of National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI) with an Outperform rating. “We are initiating coverage of National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI) with an Outperform rating and a 12-month valuation range of $46-48 per share,” Wells Fargo writes. “Our thesis is...
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Sterne Agee Reiterates Buy Rating on DRI
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 10:26am | 93Sterne Agee Reiterates Buy Rating on Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI). After the close on December 20th, DRI announced FY2Q results that were in-line with consensus expectations but a penny below their projection, Sterne Agee reports. On a same-store sales (SSS) basis, blended comps were +1.4...
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HCP Completes Share Offer - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:33am | 532HCP Inc. (HCP), the largest medical real estate investment trust (REIT) in the U.S., has recently completed its secondary offering of 46 million common shares at $32.00 per share, including 6.0 million shares sold to the underwriters to cover the over-allotment options. The company had earlier...
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HCP Completes Share Offer - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:33am | 532HCP Inc. (HCP), the largest medical real estate investment trust (REIT) in the U.S., has recently completed its secondary offering of 46 million common shares at $32.00 per share, including 6.0 million shares sold to the underwriters to cover the over-allotment options. The company had earlier...
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HCP Completes Share Offer - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:00am | 532HCP Inc. (HCP), the largest medical real estate investment trust (REIT) in the U.S., has recently completed its secondary offering of 46 million common shares at $32.00 per share, including 6.0 million shares sold to the underwriters to cover the over-allotment options. The company had earlier...
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HCP Completes Share Offer - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 9:00am | 532HCP Inc. (HCP), the largest medical real estate investment trust (REIT) in the U.S., has recently completed its secondary offering of 46 million common shares at $32.00 per share, including 6.0 million shares sold to the underwriters to cover the over-allotment options. The company had earlier...
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FelCor Sells Asset - Analyst Blog
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 11:09am | 414FelCor Lodging Trust Inc. (FCH), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns upper-upscale hotels, has recently sold the Sheraton Premiere Hotel at Tysons Corner in Vienna, Virginia, to The JBG Companies for $84.5 million in cash. The property, however, will continue to be operated under the...
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Robert W. Baird Downgrades (FISV, SHO)
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 10:37am | 38Robert W. Baird downgrades the following companies: Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV) from Outperform to Neutral. Sunstone Hotel (NYSE: SHO) from Outperform to Neutral.
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FelCor Sells Asset - Analyst Blog
Monday, December 20, 2010 - 10:30am | 414FelCor Lodging Trust Inc. (FCH), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns upper-upscale hotels, has recently sold the Sheraton Premiere Hotel at Tysons Corner in Vienna, Virginia, to The JBG Companies for $84.5 million in cash. The property, however, will continue to be operated under the...
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Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fifth Week of December
Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 1:37pm | 757Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...
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Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Announces Dividend of $0.01
Friday, December 17, 2010 - 10:07am | 46Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: HST) announced that its board of directors authorized a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on the Company's common stock. The dividend is payable on January 18, 2011 to stockholders of record on December 31, 2010.
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Strategic Hotels & Resorts Closes Sale of InterContinental Prague for 108M EUR
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 3:40pm | 101Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: BEE) today announced that the company has closed on its disposition of the InterContinental Prague to an investment group led by an affiliate of Westmont Hospitality for a total consideration of approximately euro 108.0 million. The consideration...
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Housing Starts Up, Permits Down - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 2:30pm | 1895Housing Starts rose in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 555,000 from 534,000 in September, an increase of 3.9%. The October numbers were revised higher from 519,000, so it is possible to see the increase as 21,000 or 6.9%. Relative to a year ago, they are down 5.8%. Quite frankly, a...
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Housing Starts Up, Permits Down - Analyst Blog
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 2:20pm | 1895Housing Starts rose in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 555,000 from 534,000 in September, an increase of 3.9%. The October numbers were revised higher from 519,000, so it is possible to see the increase as 21,000 or 6.9%. Relative to a year ago, they are down 5.8%. Quite frankly, a...
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WILLIAMS COS (WMB) - Profit Tracks
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 12:30pm | 604Since inception in 1988, the S&P 500 has outperformed the Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now by 80% annually (+2% versus +10%). While the rest of Wall Street continued to tout stocks during the market declines of the last few years, Zacks told investors which stocks to sell or avoid....