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Growth & Income Stock Picks-January 26, 2011 - Zacks Rank Buys
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:00am | 92CORN PROD INTL (CPO): Free Stock Analysis Report AQUA AMER INC (WTR): Free Stock Analysis Report Zacks Investment Research
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Exelon Corporation Declares Dividend of $.525
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 4:15pm | 49The Board of Directors of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.525 per share on Exelon's common stock. The dividend is payable on March 10, 2011, to shareholders of record of Exelon at 5:00 p.m. New York Time on February 15, 2011.
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Trading Yahoo's Earnings (YHOO, AOL, GOOG)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 3:04pm | 248Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is set to report earnings tonight after the bell, and all eyes will be on Carol Bartz & co. to see if her company deliver the long-talked about turnaround that shareholders are looking for. Wall Street analysts are looking for fourth quarter earnings of 22 cents per share...
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Find Stocks Poised for Positive Sales Surprises - Screen of the Week
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 1:01pm | 232Kevin Matras puts the odds in your favor for finding companies poised to report positive sales surprises. Highlighted stocks include AFL, ATK, AWK, NBL and PWER. AFLAC INC (AFL): Free Stock Analysis Report ALLIANT TECHSYS (ATK): Free Stock Analysis Report AMER WATER WORK (AWK): Free Stock Analysis...
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Jefferies Prime Time AM Tickers
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 11:53am | 186Jefferies is out with a research report on various changes to its roster of companies. This morning, Jefferies initiated coverage on Elan (NYSE: ELN), rating the company a Buy with a $12 price target. In terms of price target changes, Jefferies changed Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) to $41 from $37, Bank...
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Jefferies: PEG Shares Are Attractive
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 10:06am | 93In a report released this morning, Jefferies said that it believes that Public Service Enterprise Group's (NYSE: PEG) shares are attractive “based on our sum of the parts valuation including P/E for PSE&G and open EV/EBITDA for the company's merchant operations.” “Governor Christie will likely...
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Dynegy Announces Expiration of Open Strategic Alternatives Process
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 9:35am | 89Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN) today announced that it did not receive any bona fide acquisition proposals prior to the expiration of its open strategic alternatives process on January 24, 2011. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Greenhill & Co., LLC, which conducted the process at the direction of the...
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Spectra Energy Partners Distribution in Line With Wunderlich's Estimate (SEP)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 8:51am | 134Wunderlich is out with its report today on Spectra Energy Partners (NYSE: SEP), after SEP announced a distribution of $0.45 per unit. In a note to clients, Wunderlich writes, "Spectra announced a distribution of $0.45/unit ($1.80/unit annualized) for 4Q10, which is 2.3% above the 3Q10 and 9.8%...
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Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of February
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 2:54am | 770Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...
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Find Stocks Poised for Positive Sales Surprises - Screen of the Week
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 1:00am | 232Kevin Matras puts the odds in your favor for finding companies poised to report positive sales surprises. Highlighted stocks include AFL, ATK, AWK, NBL and PWER. AFLAC INC (AFL): Free Stock Analysis Report ALLIANT TECHSYS (ATK): Free Stock Analysis Report AMER WATER WORK (AWK): Free Stock Analysis...
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Investment Analysis: Pulse Data Inc. (PSD.TO) – It Doesn't Get More Asymmetric Than This
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 4:32pm | 4303The investment analysis below is our eleventh in our ongoing series of guest write-ups, and is brought to you by friend of the blog David Brown of Hawk Ridge Management. Hawk Ridge Partners, founded by David in 2005 and based in Los Angeles, is a long/short equity fund focused on small and micro...
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Calls Purchased on Duke Energy Corporation (DUK)
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 3:40pm | 127Shares of Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) are higher on the session by 0.11%, currently trading at $18.18. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and it is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...
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Earnings Preview: Texas Instruments (TXN, QCOM, STM)
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 2:35pm | 218Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) is set to report earnings tonight after the bell. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings of 63 cents per share, up 11 cents per share from last year. Revenue is expected to rise to $3.50 billion for this quarter. At last check, shares of Texas Instruments...
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Calls Purchased on PPL Corporation (PPL)
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 1:01pm | 149Shares of PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) are higher on the session by 1.28%, currently trading at $26.16. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past four months and is currently trading below the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short...
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Pepco Energy to Implement a $2.3 Million Photovoltaic Project
Monday, January 24, 2011 - 11:40am | 104Pepco Energy Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POM) has reached agreement to design and construct a $2.3 million photovoltaic project for the Department of Energy at the Germantown, Maryland, campus. The project will be implemented under the U.S. General Services...