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Notable Insider Buys in the Past Week: Biglari, Coty, Danaher, Foot Locker And More
Saturday, November 28, 2020 - 2:45pm | 901Read More...Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors when markets face uncertainty. This past week, some insiders add to their stakes in a retailer, a beauty products maker and a couple of conglomerates. A couple of biopharmaceutical companies saw insiders acquiring some shares as...
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Trian Partners On Initiated Large Stake In Pentair
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 2:52pm | 382Read More...Shares of Pentair plc. Ordinary Share (NYSE: PNR) opened strong for trade on Tuesday after news broke that Nelson Peltz's Trian Partners has acquired a 7.24 percent stake in the company. Ed Garden, Trian Partners CIO, was on CNBC recently to discuss why the fund initiated such a large stake...
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Dow's Losing Streak Now Stands At 6 Days, S&P 500 And Nasdaq Slightly Positive
Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 5:07pm | 2915Read More...U.S. stocks were mixed on Thursday as the Dow Jones index traded lower by 206 points before recouping most of these losses. However, the index closed the day in negative territory for the sixth straight day, despite encouraging U.S. labor data being reported. Speaking to Bloomberg, St. Louis...
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Markets Sell-Off After Malaysian Airline Crash In Ukraine
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 4:50pm | 3179Read More...U.S. stocks sold off after news reports began to surface that a Malaysian Airlines jet has crashed in Ukraine. While details have yet to be confirmed, a Ukraine minister claimed that the plane, which carried nearly 300 people, was shot down by rebels. Also not helping the market sentiment...
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Barron's Recap: The New Face Of Wall Street
Sunday, June 8, 2014 - 2:33pm | 799Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: Morgan Stanley's makeover, the top 100 women financial advisors, as well as the prospects for Danaher, Office Depot, EOG Resources and more. Cover Story "Morgan Stanley's Makeover" by Avi Salzman. Morgan Stanley's (NYSE: MS) strategy of lower risk and less debt...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of January 27: Facebook, Google, Apple And More
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 7:56am | 982Read More...The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...
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Market Wrap For December 12: Dow Suffers Second Consecutive Day of Triple Point Loss
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 5:41pm | 2348Read More...Major indices continued its decline from yesterday as the Dow suffered a triple digit point loss for the second consecutive day. Positive retail sales data added to an otherwise already convincing case that the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve to begin tapering. The Fed's policy...
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Nordstrom Joins UBS List Of Top Dividend Payers
Saturday, August 17, 2013 - 12:01pm | 896Read More...The analysts at UBS have added Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) and Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) to their Dividend Rulers list. Two consumer goods companies already on the UBS list are Clorox (NYSE: CLX) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). UBS selects stocks for its Dividend Ruler list based...
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Four Other Stocks to Ride the Housing Recovery (GNW, MHK, SWK, TWC)
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 12:29pm | 1014Read More...It is clear that as the housing market recovers, the home builder stocks, and even the big-box home improvement retailers Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW), have benefited from the boom. But in a research report released Tuesday, UBS (NYSE: UBS) analysts offer a list of...
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Matt Damon's Pledge to Not Flush the Toilet May Boost Water Stocks
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 8:31am | 590Read More...Matt Damon won’t flush the toilet until everyone in the world has clean water. Or, so the actor says in a new YouTube video released yesterday and well on its way to going viral according to the L.A. Times. Damon’s threat is all part of a humorous three-minute spoof released by his nonprofit...
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Six Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 7:22am | 1060Read More...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 stock 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...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 17
Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 9:36am | 1322Read More...The earnings season ramps up this week. Tech giants Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are scheduled to share their third-quarter results, as are big banks including Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS),...
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Snap-on Earnings Preview: Sales Growth Expected to Continue
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 9:05am | 554Read More...Snap-on (NYSE: SNA) is on scheduled to post its second-quarter 2011 results tomorrow, July 21, before the opening bell. Investors will be watching to see if the streak of sales growth over the past few quarters has continued. Analysts are looking for the tool maker to report per-share earnings of...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 18
Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 9:18am | 1316Read More...Earnings season ramps up this week with quarterly reports due from the likes of tech companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), big banks such as Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), and consumer goods giants such as PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and Johnson &...
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Citi Maintains Buy on Danaher
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 9:25am | 96Read More...Citi is out with its report today on Danaher (NYSE: DHR), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Citi writes, "Danaher issued 17.5 million shares, representing less than 3% of shares outstanding and $2.9 billion in new debt including $1.1 billion of commercial paper. Since European regulatory...
