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Top Stocks of New Jersey
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 3:19pm | 885Centrally located on the East Coast New Jersey is in a region where 100 million people reside with a collective purchasing power of over $2 trillion. Two major airports, the largest seaport complex (Port of New York and New Jersey) in the eastern United States and 35,000 miles of roads may explain...
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Stocks That Have Crossed 52-Week Highs (ARLP, ALTR, AERG, ESRX, FCFS)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 3:24pm | 263Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ: ARLP) crossed its earlier 52-week high of $46.74 and created a new 52-week high of $46.87, up 1.49%. ARLP produces and markets coal for American utilities and industrial users. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) rose 2.84% to $26.81 on total volume of 4,532,255...
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A Look At Glenview Capital's Portfolio (ESRX, ORCL, FIS, MCK)
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 7:42pm | 273Glenview Capital is a $7 billion hedge fund run by Larry Robbins. Prior to forming Glenview, Mr. Robbins was a trader at Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors. Glenview is known for taking concentrated positions in large cap stocks. The fund also employs an activist approach from time to time when they...
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Top Performing Industries For April 19 (KGJI, HNT, LH, POOL)
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 3:46pm | 199At 3:07 p.m., Dow added 55.80, or 0.50%, to 11,073.46, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.26, or 0.19%. The Nasdaq composite index lost 7.02, or 0.29%. The industries that are driving the market today are: Internet Service Providers: The top gainer of the day, this industry...
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Stocks That Have Crossed 52-Week Highs (ADEP, CCMP, CACH, CHSI, CECE)
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 3:33pm | 244Adept Technology (NASDAQ: ADEP) crossed its earlier 52-week high of $5 and created a new 52-week high of $5.34, before slipping to $5.11. ADEP offers intelligent robotics systems and services for the packaging, solar, medical, disk drive/electronics, machine tool automation and automotive...
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LabCorp Hits New 52-week High Ahead of Earnings
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 12:08pm | 139Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (NYSE: LH) is hitting a fresh 52-week high this morning of $80.62, up 4.73% on the session. The independent clinical laboratory company is scheduled to report earnings on 21st of April; the Street consensus for the quarter is $1.31 EPS on $1.2 billion in...
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Merger Arbitrage Mondays – April 19, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 3:03am | 4840Merger and acquisition activity continues to heat up with 5 new mergers announced last week and two deals closing. The pace of merger activity over the last few weeks combined with an uptick in IPOs (5 new offerings were filed last week) and heavy insider selling have me very worried about this...
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Top Performing Industries For April 16 (INMD, XATA, DG, KID)
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 3:27pm | 210At 2:08 p.m., Dow dipped a record 106, or -0.95%, to 11,038.84, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 16.24, or 1.34%. The Nasdaq composite index lost 33.09, or 1.32%. The industries that are driving the market today are: Medical Practitioners: The top gainer of the day, this...
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Benzinga’s Volume Movers (PFWD, MDSO, IART, INTC, GPRE)
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 3:23pm | 218Phase Forward Incorporated (NASDAQ: PFWD) shares gained 28.40% to $16.80. The volume of PFWD shares traded was 10278% higher than normal. The company has agreed to be acquired by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL). Medidata Solutions, Inc (NASDAQ: MDSO) shares climbed 5.76% to $ 16.17. The volume of MDSO shares...
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ThinkEquity LLC Raises Fair Value Estimate For Express Scripts, Inc. (ESRX)
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 1:49pm | 97Analyst Glenn Garmont at ThinkEquity LLC has raised the fair value estimate for Express Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) to $120. The revise fair value estimate reflects several changes made by ThinkEquity to its forecast for the company. For 2010, it has raised EPS estimate for the company from $4.90...
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OCR Initiated With Positive
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 9:13am | 41Analysts at Susquehanna initiate coverage of Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) with a “positive” rating. Shares of OCR rose 0.33% to $30.01 in pre-market trade. More Analyst Ratings here.
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Top 5 Large-Cap NASDAQ Stocks With Highest Revenue Estimates (COST, MSFT, DELL, SHLD, ESRX)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 5:38am | 179Below are the top 5 large-cap stocks in the NASDAQ in terms of revenue estimates. Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is expected to generate $77.94 billion of revenues this year. COST’s quarterly earnings growth stands at 25.10% y/y. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to...
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Fast Money Picks For April 14th (DPZ, DRYS, MHS, RDC, GE)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:16pm | 176Tim Seymour said on CNBC's Fast Money Final Trade that he likes DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS). DryShips Inc. (DRYS) fell 1.23% today and closed at $6.44. Gary Kaminsky is speculating that an upside surprise might be coming in Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ). Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) spiked...
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Puts Rolled in Athenahealth
Friday, April 9, 2010 - 1:29pm | 147Athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN) has been slowly drifting lower all morning long and is now in negative territory by roughly 1.00% to $36.08. The stock was upgraded to “Hold” from “Sell” yesterday at Citigroup, but the stock could not put together a rally and was lower yesterday as well. Athenahealth is...
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Stocks That Have Crossed 52-Week Highs (OZRK, BIOS, BKCC, BOFI, BEXP)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 2:33pm | 221Bank of the Ozarks (NASDAQ: OZRK) crossed its earlier 52-week high of $35.84 and created a new 52-week high of $36.42, up 2.53%. OZRK’s board has hiked its regular quarterly cash dividend by 7.1%. BioScrip, Inc (NASDAQ: BIOS) moved up 3.05% % to $9.11 on a total volume of 376,576 shares, as...