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Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (COF, CAH, DAI, TTWO, ISBC)
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 8:59am | 303Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) was upgraded today by Sun Trust Rbsn Humphrey from Neutral to Buy with a price target of $50. Capital One Financial is now trading at $37.85, 3.02% up. Capital One Financial closed at $36.74 in the previous trading session. In the last year, COF has gained...
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Benzinga’s Top Pre-Market Losers (PARD, DLTR, GENZ, SNDA, ACOR, TTHI, HCBK)
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 8:44am | 386Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PARD) decreased $0.33 or 12.64% to $2.28 in the pre-market session. Poniard Pharmaceuticals announced yesterday final data from a randomized , controlled Phase 2 trial of picoplatin in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. The 52-week trading range for PARD...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Favors GOOG, WMT, INTC, S, ERTS; Shows Dislike For AMD, SLM, PCS, GME
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 8:07am | 254In his "Mad Money Lightning Round," Jim Cramer said that he had reduced the target price for GOOG just because of the China issue. However, all the growth metrics are there in GOOG and that he would buy a little at this time. GOOG lost 3.21% to $564.27 in pre-market trading. Jim expressed his...
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Market Round-up (HSY, CBY, KFT, BRK.B, MSFT, AMZN, ERTS, GOOG, NOK, WPO)
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 1:36pm | 397Hershey (NYSE: HSY) yesterday decided at a board meeting that it will not fight for the takeover of Cadbury (NYSE: CBY) after the British confectioner accepted the bid from Kraft (NYSE: KFT). Read more about this company here. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) has split its Class B shares 50-to-1....
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Jim’s Rapid Fire Round – Favorites Include AAPL, ERTS, AKAM, CSCO, AMT, SWKS; Wary On GOOG
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 9:01am | 263Jim Cramer, the famous host of the "Mad Money" TV Show, told his viewers that investors must stick to stocks that are performing when the markets are declining due to correction or bad news. Cramer believes that digital media and smartphones will be a bigger revolution than the Internet or PCs and...
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Reviewing Recent Sales
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 3:10pm | 1660Thought it would be helpful to review positions we have exited over the past 3-4 weeks to see how they have done since we left. Almost all of these (perhaps all) were sold due stocks that had broken support, and I believed better near term money making opportunities could be found somewhere else...
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Cramer Says Time To Buy AA, Sell APOL, WNR and ACTI
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 6:35am | 354In his “Mad Money” show, Cramer said that the markets need a breather, which was provided by Obama's most recent plans to penalize financial institutions. Jim Cramer advocated buying Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and emphasized that the company’s cash flow numbers signaled a recovery in all sectors, ranging...
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Tuesday's High Volume Selloffs - FORM, ERTS, DTSI, MFLX
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 11:59pm | 133Taking big losses over the span of one day is survivable. Taking big losses on high volume, however, may be a problem.... pointing to a major shift in the market's underlying opinion of a stock. Here are Tuesday's losers with selloffs made on much higher than average volume. Multi-Fineline...
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Video Game Market Takes A Beating
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 3:16pm | 241With consumers becoming more careful with their discretionary spending, many video game makers have are finding themselves in an industry wide bear market. Video game industry titan Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) and retailer Game Group are the most recent companies to cut their earnings forecasts...
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Company News for January 12, 2010 - Corporate Summary
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 9:26am | 310• Alcoa (NYSE:AA) reported fourth-quarter earnings excluding items of one cent a share, below estimates of 6 cents, and versus year-ago quarter’s 28 cent loss. Revenues, however, came in better than expected at $5.43 billion, although under last year's $5.68 billion. The firm blamed the results...
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Top 5 Mid-Cap Stocks In The Technology Sector With The Lowest PEG Ratio (PWRD, SOHU, PCS, KNM, SPWRA)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 7:46am | 190Below are the top 5 mid-cap technology stocks on the NASDAQ and the NYSE in terms of PEG. Perfect World Co Ltd (NASDAQ: PWRD) has a PEG ratio of 0.48. PWRD’s market capitalization is $2.18 billion. PWRD’s quarterly revenue growth is 54.50%. Sohu.com Inc (NASDAQ: SOHU) has a PEG ratio of 0.57. SOHU’...
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Electronic Arts Cuts Forecasts, Shares Plunge
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:40pm | 119Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced that it expects GAAP and non-GAAP net revenue and earnings per share for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2010 to be below the financial guidance previously provided on November 9, 2009. Revised fiscal year 2010 expectation are primarily the result of...
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Take Two Interactive Sees Heavy Call Activity
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 12:21pm | 61Call options in Take Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) are seeing interest following speculation the company may be acquired. Over 18,000 calls were traded versus 400 puts. Traders focused on the Feb 12.50 calls where 7,075 contracts were traded versus an open interest of 1,685. Shares...
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Economic Effects Of Tiger’s Misses!
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 9:44am | 124Tiger Woods' career totals include 14 Grand Slam tournament victories, plus a number of "transgressions" and as much as $12 billion in wealth destruction because of them. That last figure arises from a study released last week that made headlines world-wide. Researchers examined the stock prices...
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Top 5 Mid-Cap NASDAQ Stocks In Technology Sector With Lowest PEG Ratio (SOHU, PWRD, GRMN, SNDA, NIHD)
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 6:40am | 180Below are the top 5 mid-cap technology sector stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of PEG ratio. Sohu.com Inc (NASDAQ: SOHU) has a PEG ratio of 0.34. SOHU’s market capitalization is $2.2 billion. SOHU’s twelve-month-trailing operating margins are 76.09%. Perfect World Co Ltd (NASDAQ: PWRD) has a PEG ratio...