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Imperial Capital Lowers JetBlue Price Target
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 9:20am | 178Read More...Bob McAdoo reiterated an Overweight rating on JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) on Friday with a price target lowered to $16 from a previous $20. “New initiatives introduced at the recent JetBlue Investor Day suggest the new management team will be taking a more profit-driven approach to...
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Imperial Capital Updates The Airline Industry; American Airlines Is Top Pick
Friday, October 24, 2014 - 9:34am | 529Read More...Bob McAdoo of Imperial Capital issued an industry wide update for the airline industry following a mostly better-than-expected quarterly earnings seen in many individual airlines. "By and large, record third quarter 2014 operating results have been consistent with or better than investor...
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Airline Earnings: Southwest, American Airlines, JetBlue Were All Flying Higher
Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 4:34pm | 506Read More...Several airlines reported earnings on Thursday morning. Investors and traders have been paying particularly close attention to the group in recent weeks as oil prices tumbled while the Ebola scare placed a negative sentiment on the entire sector. Southwest Airlines: Improving Metrics...
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Barron's Recap: Investing Like A Tech Tycoon
Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 11:32am | 887Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: finding Silicon Valley riches, the prospects for JetBlue, Molson Coors, Beacon Roofing Supply, as well as the new and improved Penta quarterly. Cover Story "Invest Like a Tech Tycoon" by Alexander Eule. Silicon Valley moguls are investing smarter, with help from...
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Market Wrap For January 30: Markets Focus on Good News
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 6:06pm | 2831Read More...U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as investors and traders focused on the positives. Data showed that the economy expanded in the fourth quarter as consumer spending gained traction. "Today the market is focused on the good news, or the developed world," Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at...
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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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Cold Temperatures Not Likely To Have Macro-Economic Effects
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 9:06am | 554Read More...Everybody is talking about the deep freeze. Temperatures reaching minus thirty and lower have gripped some portions of the nation for days and it’s likely to last at least one more day -- but is it affecting the economic or is it business as usual? JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) doesn’t see it as...
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Airlines In 2014 – Good Bet or Bad Deal?
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 1:05pm | 669Read More...In general, airline stocks did well in 2013, leading some analysts such as Jack Hough of Barron’s to promote at least some airlines for 2014. Hough likes Delta (NYSE: DAL) in particular. Hough included that airline in a list of what he called turnaround stocks. Hough wrote, “The company has...
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Cable Companies Would Hate a Google – NFL Partnership (GOOG)
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 9:14am | 712Read More...If you haven’t heard, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and the NFL are in some form of communication regarding the NFL Sunday Ticket rights that will be up for grabs beginning with the 2015 NFL season. At this point, the story isn’t so much about Google or the NFL. It’s about something much bigger that...
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Two More Airlines Adopting Tablets (DAL, JBLU)
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 8:41am | 610Read More...In the wake of American Airlines’ (OTC: AAMRQ) announcement that it had equipped pilots with iPads, two more airlines announce extensive use of tablets, but not necessarily for the right reasons. First, on their cleverly-named blog, “BlueTales” JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) announced that it had...
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How To Avoid Extra Airline Fees
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 3:58pm | 688Read More...Airlines realize that customers hate add-on fees. So, they’re dumping them, right? Not exactly. They’re rebranding them. According to Kiplinger, the fees are the same, only the names are new. Now, they’re called “fare choices” or “trip extras.” For example, American Airlines’ Choice Essential...
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The Likely Winners and Losers of this Weekend's Epic Blizzard
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 10:11am | 583Read More...Boston’s WHDH meteorologist, Pete Bouchardon is on record calling the storm potentially “epic.” That was enough for airlines to cancel flights. So far, based on weather forecasts alone, airlines have canceled more than 3,300 flights according to CNN. Carriers announcing schedule changes before...
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Accenture, Covidien, Seagate and Other St. Patrick's Stock Picks
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 6:49am | 1019Read More...St. Patrick's Day is almost upon us. So here is a quick look at how the stocks of some companies headquartered in Ireland are faring, given the uncertain economic situation in Europe. Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) share price is up more than 17% year to date, including a 9% surge in the past month. The...
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JP Morgan Lowers Estimates on JetBlue
Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 8:27am | 81Read More...“JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) June RASM of 8% fell toward the low end of guidance, implying 2Q RASM of 13.4% (recall, previous guidance 13-15% range) vs. our 15% estimate. Holding other inputs constant, this reduces our 2QE EPS from $0.13 to $0.11 vs. consensus of $0.10,” JP Morgan...
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Five Stocks for Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 5:07pm | 866Read More...So Bob Dylan turned 70 years old today. But he's still going strong, still staying in the limelight. As widely reported in the past few days, in a previously unreleased interview from 1966, he admitted kicking a heroin habit. This iconic musician also has an upcoming show in Israel with Rickie Lee...
