-
Earnings Expectations For The Week Of October 28: Apple, Facebook, GM and More
Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 7:10pm | 1392Read More...The earnings crunch rolls on. This week's highlights include quarterly reports from the two biggest companies by market capitalization, Apple and Exxon Mobil, which are expect to post declining earnings. Per-share earnings from General Motors are expected to be the same as a year ago, and...
-
Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 29
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 5:31pm | 1146Read More...First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...
-
One Analyst Thinks Joe Fresh Might Just Work for JC Penney
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 4:23pm | 528Read More...J.C. Penney(NYSE: JCP) is up $1.29, more than eight percent on news that ISI Group analyst Omar Saad said in a note to investors that the retailer may decide to convert its 300 top locations into a real estate investment trust, or REITs. With this move, the company could sublet space to other...
-
A Rundown of the Bad News for J.C. Penney in Just the Past Week
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 1:03pm | 481Read More...Last week, investors learned that, in 2012, J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) lost nearly $1 billion with sales dropping off by a staggering $4 billion. Over the past five trading days, JCP stock has lost 35 percent of its value with major shareholder and JCP board member, Steven Roth, of Vornado Realty...
-
Can JC Penney and Ron Johnson Afford Martha Stewart?
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 3:50pm | 513Read More...Martha Stewart must be loving this. The non-executive chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) is the center of attention in a contract dispute courtroom battle between retailing giants, Macy’s (NYSE: M) and J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP). Not a bad place for the 71-year-old home diva....
-
Martha Stewart, Macy's, JC Penney Go to Court – the Retail Wars Are On!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 1:33pm | 620Read More...It all started with a phone call. As reported by Bloomberg, Macy’s (NYSE: M) CEO, Terry Lundgren testified in court Monday that in December 2011 he received a phone call from Martha Stewart of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) who told him about her company’s deal to sell products at...
-
Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 29
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 7:18am | 940Read More...Recent earnings disappointments from tech giants like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), as well as industrials such as Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and DuPont (NYSE: DD), have taken their toll. The S&P 500 is down about three percent in the past three weeks....
-
Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 30
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 10:46am | 980Read More...Most of the companies that compose the S&P 500 have reported second-quarter results already. According to Bloomberg, some 72 percent of S&P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results so far have exceeded analysts' estimates. But the earnings season is not over quite yet. Among the...
-
Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 30 (CMCSA, GM, KFT, V)
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:02am | 1279Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have posted stellar results, but earnings season rolls on. Here is a quick day-by-day rundown of what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most prominent earnings reports. Monday Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Watson...
-
Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 31
Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 11:31am | 1163Read More...Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...
-
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Spikes on Buyout Rumors
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 11:17am | 173Read More...Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) was up more than 30% in morning trading after the company said that it had hired Blackstone Advisory Partners to evaluate possible investment partners and explore "other opportunities." In a statement today Martha Stewart said: "As the founder and...
-
RBC Capital Changes Several Price Targets, Including SKT, SYMC, WLL And PG
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 12:24pm | 362Read More...RBC Capital is changing the price target of the following companies: Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ: WTFC) $38 to $35 Whiting Petroleum (NYSE: WLL) $100 to $103 Visa (NYSE: V) $113 to $100 Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. (NYSE: SKT) $50 to $55 Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) $17 to $19 ProLogis (NYSE...
