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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Gainers (TGE, CRIS, MGIC, VOD)
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 8:13am | 159TGC Industries Inc (NASDAQ: TGE) rose 17.13% to $8 in the pre-market session. Dawson Geophysical Co (NASDAQ: DWSN) agreed to buy TGE for stock valued at $157 million, or $8 per share. Curis Inc (NASDAQ: CRIS) added 16.04% to $3.40 in pre-market trading. CRIS reported positive outcome in Genentech...
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Sprint and Google to Launch Integrated Google Voice Experience on All Sprint Phones
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 8:03am | 70Sprint (NYSE: S) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today a new integrated Google Voice™ experience that will allow Sprint customers to set their existing Sprint wireless phone number as their Google Voice number. Sprint is the first and only carrier to offer this capability, which will be...
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Sukuk resurgence likely resilient to market stress
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 4:20pm | 735Regarding the thesis that “the outlook for [GCC investment banking] is broadly positive” as “the region's investment and project finance needs are growing enormously,” Global Finance notes this month (“Banking on Stability”) that “after M&A, fees from debt capital markets operations (DCM)...
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Deutsche Bank Reiterates Buy Rating On AMT, CCI, SBAC
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 8:40am | 71Deutsche Bank is reiterating its buy rating on the following companies: American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT), which closed Thursday at $51.04. Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI), which closed Thursday at $39.88. SBA Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: SBAC), which closed Thursday at $40.82.
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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Losers (NKE, ARMH, NYX, VOD)
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 8:20am | 115Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) dipped 6.92% to $79.50 in the pre-market session. NKE reported downbeat FQ3 results. ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) fell 1.01% to $25.48 in the pre-market session. ARMH's PEG ratio is 4.25. NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) moved down 0.23% to $35.25 in the pre-market session. NYX'...
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Piper Jaffray Remains Neutral On Sprint Nextel, $4 PT (S)
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 8:01am | 88Piper Jaffray left its Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) Neutral rating and $4 price target unchanged in a research report published today. In the report, Piper Jaffray states, "We recently concluded our quarterly wireless retail surveys. Based on these checks, we believe the positive subscriber trends...
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High Yield Telephone Stocks
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:01am | 486According to the latest Forbes Magazine billionaire issue, the richest man in the world is Carlos Slim Helu, who made much of his money from the Latin American telecommunications company, America Movil (AMX). The company announced this week that it is proposing a two for one stock split and a stock...
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Time To Look At Banks On Dividend Hopes? (C, JPM, BAC, GS, COF)
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:17am | 506Now may be a good time to look at the big international banks, as hopes increase the companies will be allowed to raise their dividends sometime in the next few months. Names like Citigroup (NYSE: C), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Capital One (NYSE: COF) and Goldman Sachs (...
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Auriga Maintains Hold on China Mobile (CHL)
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 8:21am | 121Auriga is out with its report today on China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), maintaining Hold. In a note to clients, Auriga writes, "We view China Mobile's capex increase announcement for 2011 during its earnings release on 3/16/11 as marginally positive for our communications semiconductor universe. The...
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Auriga Maintains Hold Rating On CHL
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 8:21am | 179Auriga is maintaining is Hold rating on China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) after the company reported its 2010 revenue and EPS slightly below consensus expectations. “We continue to view CHL's stock as lacking near-term catalysts but being supported by the company's strong FCF and high dividend yield (4.1...
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Auriga Maintains Hold On China Mobile After 2010 Earnings Release (CHL)
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 8:19am | 189Auriga has published a research report on China Mobile Limited (NYSE: CHL) after the company released 2010 earnings that came in slightly below analyst estimates. In the report, Auriga writes "We continue to view CHL's stock as lacking near-term catalysts but being supported by the company's...
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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Gainers (QTWW, MGIC, LEAP, VOD)
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 8:09am | 136Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: QTWW) rose 30.20% to $5.13 in the pre-market session. QTWW's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 430.00%. Magic Software Enterprises Ltd (NASDAQ: MGIC) added 4.59% to $5.70 in pre-market trading. MGIC shares have surged 75.24% over the past 452...
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Benzinga's Top ETF Decliners, March 16th (DZK, TYH, TQQQ, CZM, EZJ)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 8:36pm | 198Direxion Daily Developed Markets Bull 3X Shares(ETF) (NYSE: DZK) traded sharply lower today as the MSCI EAFE Index struggled. DPK fell 9.10%, and closed at $57.00. Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3x Shares (ETF) (NYSE: TYH) fell 7.51%, and closed at $41.64 as the sell off in the tech space...
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Goldman Sachs Suggests Buying Call Spreads on American Tower Corporation (AMT)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 9:28am | 166Goldman Sachs is out with a research note this morning, where it suggests that traders buy call spreads on American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) ahead of several positive catalysts. Goldman Sachs Telco Analyst, Jason Armstrong, is bullish on the towers, and sees 28% upside to Buy rated AMT (12...
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Top 4 Mid-Cap Stocks In The Technology Sector With The Lowest PEG Ratio (UMC, TSU, TNE, NCR)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 2:52am | 131Below are the top mid-cap technology stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of PEG ratio United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC) has a PEG ratio of 0.17. UMC's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $4.09 billion. TIM Participacoes SA (NYSE: TSU) has a PEG ratio of 0.44. TSU's trailing-...