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Retail Earnings Expectations: Home Depot And Target
Sunday, May 14, 2017 - 12:45pm | 661Reports from two big-box retailers will be among earnings highlights this week. Wall Street analysts expect very different results each of them. Just one of them exceeded earnings expectations in the previous two periods. The parade of big retailers sharing their latest quarterly results has...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Under Armour, CarMax, Lowe's And More
Sunday, April 2, 2017 - 12:45pm | 630This weekend's Barron's cover story takes a look at a once-hot apparel company poised for a turnaround. Other featured articles offer the prospects for the nation's largest used car purveyor and an Amazon-proof retailer with room for growth. The outlooks for undervalued energy stocks and high-...
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Following A Soft Q2 From Lowe's, Argus Adjusts FY17 Forecast
Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 10:43am | 359Despite a weaker-than-expected second-quarter earnings print, Christopher Graja of Argus Research maintains a Buy rating on Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) with an unchanged $90 price target. Lowe's reported that it earned $1.37 per share in the quarter, which was "well below" Graja's estimate...
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Can Applied Materials Or Cisco Systems Offer Up An Earnings Surprise?
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 8:53am | 562Two industry leading tech companies are expected to take their turns on the earnings stage this week. Wall Street analysts are looking for some earnings growth, but smaller revenues from each of them. One of them has had a better record of exceeding consensus earnings estimates in recent quarters...
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Retail Earnings Parade Begins: Target, Wal-Mart In The Spotlight
Sunday, May 15, 2016 - 1:37pm | 586The big retailers continue taking their turns on the earnings stage this week. Highlights include the most recent quarterly results from two leading big-box retailers. Wall Street analysts are looking for earnings growth from one but revenue declines from both. So far, the most recent quarterly...
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Short Interest In Express Scripts And Lowe's Doubles
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 9:27am | 639Short interest in a number of stocks surged in the most recent settlement period. A pharmacy benefit management company and a big-box retailer led that trend in late February. Shares of both of them rose in the period as the markets found their footing. As the markets seem to find their footing...
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Lowe's Dips 3% Following Inline Q4 Print, 2016 Guidance
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 9:23am | 294Shares of Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) were trading lower by more than 3 percent after the company reported its fourth quarter results. Lowe's said it earned $0.59 per share in the fourth quarter on revenue of $13.2 billion. Wall Street analysts were expecting the company to earn...
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Lowe's To Buy RONA...But What Exactly Is RONA?
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 9:52am | 355Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) announced on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Canada-based Rona Inc. Rona is a major Canadian retailer and distributor of hardware, building materials and home renovations products....
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Barron's 2016 Roundtable Part 2: Lots Of Savvy Investment Ideas
Sunday, January 24, 2016 - 6:05pm | 671The cover story in this weekend's Barron's offers the second part of the Barron's 2016 Roundtable. The panelists share their best investment bets for 2016, as well as some grim forecasts. Other feature stories include a report from Davos and a special monthly report on alternative investments....
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The Earnings Spotlight Is On Wal-Mart And Other Retail Giants This Week
Sunday, November 15, 2015 - 3:30pm | 822Big-box retailers will highlight the week's quarterly earnings reports. Expectations are low for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE: BBY), but somewhat higher for Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) and Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT). Bottom line growth is expected from some other...
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JPMorgan Is 'Reversing Course' On Valspar, Upgrades To Overweight
Saturday, September 19, 2015 - 10:23am | 331In a report published Friday, analysts at JPMorgan led by Jeffrey J. Zekauskas raised their rating on The Valspar Corp (NYSE: VAL) from Neutral to Overweight. In addition, they boosted their price target on the stock by $1.00 to $83.00. Shares of Valspar were slightly up on Friday trading....
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Louis Navellier Reveals His Current Favorite Stock Picks
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 1:40pm | 406Famous hedge fund manager and newsletter publisher, Louis Navellier, was on CNBC to reveal his current favorite stocks: Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) and Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT). Navellier also took the opportunity to explain why he has invested in Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) and Apple Inc.(...
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Lowe's Grinding Through A Corrective Consolidation: Where Does Support Show Up?
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 12:57pm | 483Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) shareholders have been rewarded with nearly a 300 percent return off of the late-2011 corrective lows. The rally since those lows has seemed to pick up steam as time has gone by – -until the peak was made in late February. Now, the stock is going...
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Deutsche Bank Pits Home Depot Vs. Lowe's
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 8:18am | 190Why are margins at Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) higher than Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW)? Deutsche Bank analysts ask that question in their "Call of the Week," arguing that Lowe's lower operating margins are actually a positive for the stock – a factor that underpins...
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Expert: Alibaba's Jack Ma Won't Pick A Fight With Jeff Bezos
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 4:21pm | 438If investors were expecting a big fight between Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) founder Jack Ma and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, they might be disappointed. Alibaba commands the Chinese online retail market with impressive results and a notable sales holiday, known...