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Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the share price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...

This past weekend, Barron's online covered topics including the annual ranking of the world's most respected companies, the Treasury's auctioning of the remaining TARP shares, small cap company RealD and mid cap firm Corrections Corporation of America. Cover Story "The World's Most Respected...

Here is a quick look some dividend payers with momentum. They all have market caps greater than $1 billion, and their share prices are up more than 30% in the past 90 days. While shares of Advantest (NYSE: ATE) pulled back a bit in the past week, they are trading more than 77% higher year to date...

While much of the attention will be on the Supreme Court this week, Best Buy is on tap to report its quarterly results. Analysts expect year-over-year earnings growth from the box-box retailer, as well as from Family Dollar and Red Hat. But the consensus forecasts for this week's results from...

Today, Illinois holds its Republican Primary, as the candidates hope to add to their delegate counts. Polls show a close race between frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. While the focus is on Illinois, let's have a look at the stocks of some of the many corporations headquartered in the...

Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, December 21, before the opening bell. Investors will be looking for anything that might boost the stock's sagging share price, like perhaps an easing of tensions between Walgreen and Express Scripts (NASDAQ:...

As Christmas and the end of the year rush toward us, here is a quick look at expectations for some of the most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. These include Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY), General Mills (NYSE: GIS), Nike (NYSE: NKE), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Walgreen (...

As the month and the calendar quarter wind down this week, only a handful of companies are scheduled to report their earnings results. These include Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO), Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL), McCormick (NYSE: MKC) and Walgreen (NYSE...

Overall, retail sales have sputtered in recent reports. But not all is doom and gloom in the sector; here are seven retail stocks that are on a tear. All of them hit 52-week highs yesterday, and all are up more than 20% since the beginning of the year (or in one case, since its IPO earlier this...

Citi is out with its report today on Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), reiterating Hold. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "WAG delivered strong +4.1% topline growth during F3Q11 as its Customer Centric Retailing initiative continued to gain traction by driving more trips and increased basket size. Looking...

“This past Tuesday, Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) announced it will not participate in the Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) pharmacy network beginning on 1/1/2012,” JP Morgan wrote in a report this morning. “We remain hopeful the two companies can come to a mutually agreeable contract. However,...