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Top 5 Mid-Cap NASDAQ Stocks with Highest ROE (WIN, JOYG, APOL, PTNR, STRA)
Monday, December 28, 2009 - 8:57am | 191Below are the top 5 mid-cap stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of highest return on equity. The return on equity for Windstream Corporation (NASDAQ: WIN) is 95.78%. WIN’s market capitalization is $4.91 billion. Soleil initiated coverage of WIN with a “buy” rating. The return on equity for Joy Global Inc...
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Top 5 Mid-Cap NASDAQ Stocks with Highest PEG Ratio (APOL, HCBK, NIHD, ROST, FWLT)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 8:29am | 189Below are the top 5 mid-cap stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of highest cash per share. Apollo Group Inc (NASDAQ: APOL) has a PEG ratio of 0.96. APOL’s market capitalization is $8.96 billion. APOL’s shares have fallen by 23.25% over the past 52 weeks, as compared to a 29.53% rise in S&P500. Hudson...
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IBM Signs Indian Outsourcing Deal - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 4:16pm | 289International Business Machines (IBM) announced the signing of a 10-year outsourcing deal with Digicable, a leading cable and broadband distribution player in India. The deal is worth $83 million. Under the outsourcing agreement, IBM will support the integration of Digicable's digital media...
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Bookkeeping: Starter Stake in DragonWave (DRWI)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 2:59pm | 1699I beginning a new stake - about 0.9% exposure - in a DragonWave (DRWI). On fundamentals I would like to be buying more, but the stock is very extended versus its moving averages so I am going to get our feet weet just over $11.00 (0.9% exposure) and hope for a pullback to $10 - $10.50 to make the...
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Labor Unrest, Mega Mergers And Tax Cuts Predicted In 2010 (NWS, BT, VOD)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 10:32am | 191According to Mathew Lynn, a Bloomberg columnist, the coming year could throw some intriguing surprises. Lynn predicts a mega merger between British telecom giants BT Group (NYSE: BT) and Vodafone (NASDAQ: VOD). Both face rapid technological changes and earnings pressure. A merger may help them...
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Iphone To Be Sold By Vodafone In UK, (AAPL, VOD, FTE, TEF)
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 12:05pm | 137Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iphone will be sold by Vodafone (ADR) (NASDAQ: VOD) in the UK, beginning January 14. However, the iphone has already been sold in the UK by Orange, which is owned by France Telecom (ADR) (NYSE: FTE), and Telefonica's (ADR) (NYSE: TEF) O2. "We started preparing our network...
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Corkery New CFO For Deltek (PROJ)
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 5:01pm | 156Deltek Inc.’s (NASDAQ: PROJ) search for a CFO has finally come to an end. Michael Corkery has been appointed the new CFO, thus ending the search which began in July 2009 following Mark Wabschall’s departure. Corkery’s experience as VP of Finance at Nextel (NYSE: S) has been viewed positively by...
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Opportunities In Tech And Life Sciences (TU, RCI,VITA, OSIP)
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 2:46pm | 183According to Canaccord, Telus Corporation’s (NYSE: TU)(FREE stock trend analysis) Wind Mobile shows a great potential with a unique pricing model which can help expand the subscriber base rapidly. The Buy rating is maintained on Telus but Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI)(FREE stock trend analysis...
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Takeaways From Call With Sprint Nextel Corporation CFO
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 1:40pm | 101On Wednesday JPMorgan hosted a call with Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) CFO, Bob Brust. The topics of discussion included balancing the subscriber growth and the profitability, the pricing environment, churn and the capital spending plans. JPMorgan’s key takeaways were that Sprint Nextel...
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Virgin Media Continues Innovation - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 11:32am | 571Virgin Media Inc. (VMED), the second largest cable MSO in the U.K., continues to innovate offerings in order to reduce churn and prevent its market share drain due to the onslaught of new entrants. Recently, the company launched “Get Social", a new social networking and email application for its...
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Research In Motion (RIMM) Announces 3Q Results, (VOD, VZ, T)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 4:55pm | 108RJ Insights reiterated Market perform rating on Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) and reduced the price target from $85.00 to $80.00. The firm expects F3Q10 revenues of $3.8 billion and EPS of $1.04 – in line with consensus revenues at $3.8 billion and EPS at $1.05....
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Telestone Technologies (TSTC) - Small Cap Chinese Telecom Equipment Maker; Some Services to Boot
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 2:54pm | 2026Much like SmartHeat (HEAT) which we mentioned at the beginning of the month [Dec 3, 2009: IBD - SmartHeat: Heating Equipment Maker Benefits as China Spends to Clean its Air], there are quite a few small-ish cap Chinese stocks flying almost every day. Many are the "same old, same old" names that...
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NASDAQ's Most Advanced Today (LIMS, ARRY, SGEN, JASO, JAZZ)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 2:43pm | 268The most advanced shares in today's NASDAQ trade so far were of Starlims Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: LIMS), Array BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRY), Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGEN), JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (ADR) (NASDAQ: JASO) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAZZ). Starlims...
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Benzinga’s Top Gainers (LIMS, ARRY, JASO, Q, LEAP)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 1:12pm | 209Starlims Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: LIMS) has soared 46% to $13.85 on 1.06 million shares. Yesterday, Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) reported that it has reached an agreement to acquire Starlims Technologies for $123 million in cash, or $14 a share. Today, LIMS made a new 52-week high of $13....
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Congestion In Telephony Networks - Move Towards Higher Bills Or Consolidation? ATT, AAPL, RIMM, S, NWS
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 5:04pm | 173The rising proliferation of smart phones like iPhone (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Blackberry (NASDAQ: RIMM) is choking networks of major telecom companies. Mobile data traffic on AT&T’s (NYSE: T) network has risen more than fifty fold over the last three years due to Apple and Blackberry users, however...