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Top 4 NYSE Stocks In The Cement Industry With The Highest Cash
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 1:51am | 132Below are the top cement stocks on the NYSE in terms of cash. CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) had $2.59 billion in total cash and $7.81 billion in total debt for the latest quarter. Cemex SAB de CV (NYSE: CX) had $664.47 million in total cash and $17.28 billion in total debt for the latest quarter. Texas...
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Calls Purchased on Vulcan Materials Company
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 11:51am | 133Shares of Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) are lower on the session by 0.81%, currently trading at $37.47. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past four months and is currently trading below the 200-day moving average. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short...
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Jefferies Lowers PT On VMC To $51
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 7:18am | 120Jefferies, citing an announcement made by the company last Friday has lowered its price target on Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) from $52 to $51 but maintains its Buy rating on the stock. Says Jefferies, in its report, “Vulcan's announcement on Friday (3 June) on the pricing of its $1.1bn...
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Jefferies Lowers PT On Vulcan Materials To $51
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 6:25am | 27Jefferies & Company has lowered the price target on Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC) from $52 to $51 and maintains its Buy rating.
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Goldman Sachs Brings Asset Allocation Savvy to Its 401K Plan
Friday, June 3, 2011 - 10:41am | 3868Retirement investing is a long term process. This report reviews The Goldman Sachs 401(k) Plan . We will discuss the investment choices and present the plan rating by MyPlanIQ. Current economic and market conditions are discussed in the context of the investment portfolios in the plan. We will...
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Benzinga's After Hours Gainers
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 6:17pm | 130The U.S. stock market posted large declines on Wednesday amid widespread bearish sentiment on the heels of weak economic data. A few stocks are attempting to make back a portion of the day's losses in the after hours trading session. Among the late gainers are Orbitz (NYSE: OWW), CRH PlC (NYSE: CRH...
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Vulcan Materials Commences Tender Offer for Up to $275M Principal Amount of its Outstanding Notes
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 2:53pm | 62Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) announced today that it has commenced a tender offer for up to $275 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.60% senior notes due 2012 and 6.30% senior notes due 2013. The terms and conditions of the tender offer are set forth in an Offer to Purchase and...
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Vulcan Materials Announces $1.0 Billion Senior Note Offering
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 2:45pm | 81Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) announced today that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2016 and senior unsecured notes due 2021. Vulcan Materials intends to use the net proceeds from this...
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Puts Purchased on CEMEX, S.A.B. (CX)
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 11:42am | 134Shares of CEMEX, S.A.B. (NYSE: CX) are higher on the session by 0.18%, currently trading at $8.29. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past five months and is currently trading below the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A short...
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Daily Long and Short Setup
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 11:24am | 177The market definitely puked on the Existing Home Sales report, but the damage isn't all that bad from a daily perspective - it's just that it wiped out our early gains quite convincingly. Nonetheless, I am still focused on trading to the long side and will continue to do so, until this market...
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How expensive or cheap Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) might be?
Saturday, May 14, 2011 - 3:38pm | 1122Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) designs, manufactures and market da Vinci Surgical Systems is trading at a price of $356.00, a dramatic change of -5.04 with % change of -1.40 from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock...
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On This Day – 5 Stocks For Elizabeth (RHT, FTE, RDS, HW, CHOP)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 11:13am | 329On May 10, 1794, French Princess Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, was beheaded. It wasn't, it's probably fair to say, the best day she ever had. A royalist (her being a Princess and all), she viewed the French revolution as the incarnation of evil on Earth and, after bringing in foreign...
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Next Steps Following Last Week's Commodity Implosion
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 5:17pm | 988What a week it was. The first week in May brought a huge correction in commodities - most notably oil and silver. Trading volume of stocks that explore, pump and mine these commodities exploded, while share prices imploded. Over the course of the week the price...
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Next Steps Following Last Week's Commodity Implosion
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 5:17pm | 988What a week it was. The first week in May brought a huge correction in commodities - most notably oil and silver. Trading volume of stocks that explore, pump and mine these commodities exploded, while share prices imploded. Over the course of the week the price...
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Headwaters (NYSE: HW) Reports EPS of $(0.94) vs. $(0.93) Estimate; Revenues $127.1M vs. $131.1M Estimate
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 6:49am | 114HEADWATERS (NYSE: HW) today announced results for its March 31, 2011 quarter, the second quarter of fiscal 2011. Second Quarter Fiscal 2011 Summary The Company's second quarter 2011 revenue of $127.1 million decreased 1% compared to $128.2 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. Adjusted...