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Mitsui & Co. Ltd (MITSY)- Mkt cap- 30.59B, P/E- 7.61, Div/yield- 2.45/1.21, EPS- 43.94 Competitors- Itochu Corporation (ITOCY), Marubeni Corp (MARUY), SUMITOMO CORPORATION (SSUMY)- Shoei Utsuda- Chairman of the Board , Masami Iijima- President, Chief Executive Officer, Junichi Matsumoto-...

According to Oppenheimer, HCA (NYSE: HCA) is initiating with an Outperform rating. Eaton Corp (NYSE: ETN) is upgraded to Outperform. Estimates and price targets are increased on Citigroup (NYSE: C), Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG), WW Grainger (NYSE: GWW), KepCorp (NYSE: KEY), KKR & Co (...

BP plc (BP)- The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, established last August with $20 billion in seed money from BP, said it has approved 300,000 claims from businesses and individuals hurt by the spill, out of approximately 857,000 claims submitted. Poor trading results are likely to hurt Goldman Sachs...

W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) shares are significantly higher in a weak tape today, gaining more than 2% after the industrial company reported better than expected earnings this morning, and raised its guidance for 2011. The Ilinois-based company reported first-quarter net income of $158 million...

Grainger (NYSE: GWW) today reported results for the 2011 first quarter ended March 31, 2011. Sales of $1.9 billion increased 13 percent versus $1.7 billion in the first quarter 2010. Sales on a daily basis increased 11 percent as the 2011 first quarter had one more selling day (64) than first...

China's GDP growth continued at a blistering pace during the first quarter of 2011, rising 9.7 percent from the previous year, according to economic data released today from the People's Bank of China. Once again this outpaced many forecasts—even that of the Chinese government—and reignited the...

Below are the top small-cap rental & leasing services stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. Fly Leasing Limited (NYSE: FLY) has a dividend yield of 5.90%. FLY's shares closed at $13.64 on Friday. TAL International Group Inc (NYSE: TAL) has a dividend yield of 4.90%....

Morgan Keegan is raising its PT on shares of W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) from $160 to $164. W.W. Grainger closed Wednesday at $141.65.

Morgan Stanley, citing better number than expected, is raising its price target on Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) from $55 to $60. According to Morgan Stanley, “FAST posted slightly better than expected numbers with EPS of $0.54 vs. cons of $0.52 and revs of $641M (up 23% y/y) vs. cons of $630M....

Goldman Sachs is raising its PT on shares of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) from $38 to $39. United Rentals closed Tuesday at $31.43.

Pre-open movers US stock futures are higher this morning, as investors are awaiting data on retail sales and the Beige Book economic report. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 64 points to 12,257.00 and S&P 500 index futures surged 8 points to 1,316.30. Futures on the Nasdaq 100...

According to Piper Jaffray, Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) shares reflect the improving US manufacturing sector with a solid 1Q performance. Piper Jaffray reported that it continues to view Fastenal shares as fairly valued as their key end markets; manufacturing and non-residential construction,...

Piper Jaffray has raised the price target on Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) from $63 to $68 and maintains its Neutral rating.

Analysts at UBS upgrade Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) from “neutral” to “buy.” The target price for FAST has been raised from $63 to $72. FAST shares fell 4.39% to close at $64.54 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Shares of Fastenal Co. (NASDAQ: FAST) are down more than 5% today, despite the company reporting better than expected earnings this morning before the bell. The company reported quarterly earnings of 54 cents per share on revenues of $640.6 million. This is up sharply from a year ago, when the...