Cytec Industries Inc.: Was Its Second-Quarter Jump A One-Time Fluke?
Cytec Industries Inc.: Was Its Second-Quarter Jump a One-Time Fluke? by Alexander Moschina, Investment U Research Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Everyone loves a good surprise. Especially investors. But when ...
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Earnings Preview: Cephalon
Cephalon Inc. (NASDAQ:CEPH) is scheduled to report second quarter results on July 27, 2010 after the market closes. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for the second quarter is $1.99 per diluted sha...
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Earnings Preview: U.S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X) is scheduled to release its third-quarter 2010 results on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 before the market opens. Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel is a leading steel manu...
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Bear Of The Day: Honda Motor Ltd. (HMC)
Honda Motor Ltd (NYSE:HMC) is expanding its business in Asia, growing its global network to increase efficiency and introducing new products to satisfy local markets. However, the economic downturn in...
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Sohu Tops Zacks Consensus
A leading online brand and Internet portal in China, Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ:SOHU) reported strong second quarter 2010 results. Earnings, including stock based compensation expense increased 3.8% year-o...
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Health Management Beats
Health Management Associates (NYSE:HMA) reported second quarter 2010 earnings per share of 16 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 15 cents, as well as the year-ago result of 13 cents. Reven...
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Hanesbrands Positive, Outlook Up
Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE:HBI) has delivered robust second quarter results of 2010 and lifted its revenue and earnings projection for fiscal 2010. Earnings shot up 109% year over year in the quarter to 6...
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Earnings Preview: MetLife
Global insurance giant MetLife Inc. (NYSE:MET) is scheduled to release its second quarter earnings results on July 29. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the second quarter is $1.01 per share, represent...
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The Investment Strategy Tester: Part One — Low Stock Allocations Can Be Riskier Than High Stock Allocations
By Rob Bennett The most important factor affecting an investor’s results is his stock allocation. So argues the conventional investing wisdom of today, a wisdom popularized during the Buy-and-Hold E...
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Nasdaq Beats By 3 Cents
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.’s (NASDAQ:NDAQ) second quarter operating earnings per share of 52 surpassed the Zacks Consensu...
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CSC Cloud Services For AMP
Virginia-based software major Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE:CSC) will provide one of its cloud-based services to an Australian wealth management company called AMP. AMP, a leading wealth management se...
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DuPont Outperforms, Lifts Outlook
As anticipated, chemical giant EI DuPont de Nemours & Company (NYSE:DD) recorded robust growth in revenues and earnings in the second quarter of 2010. DuPont recorded a near three-fold increase in...
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Summertime Stock Market Is A Trader’s Market
The market is holding key levels of 111 in the SPY (SPY). However, we cannot forget that this current trend is happening in July & August, months that have been notoriously slow and have never r...
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Earnings Preview: Wellpoint
WellPoint Inc. (NYSE:WLP) is scheduled to report its second quarter results before the market opens on Wednesday, July 28. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the second quarter is $1.55 per share, repre...
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Earnings Preview: Hospira
Hospira Inc. (NYSE:HSP) is scheduled to report its second quarter 2010 results on Wednesday, July 28, before the opening bell. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is earnings of 79 cents per ...
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Home Prices Rise In May
The Case Schiller Home Price Indexes were generally higher in May. On a seasonally adjusted basis (and there is significant seasonality to home prices, so looking at the unadjusted numbers the wa...
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Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes Up In May
Standard and Poors — The 10-City Case-Shiller Home Price Composite Index increased in May by 5.4% and the 20-City Composite Index increased by 4.6% compared to May 2009...
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Liberty Property Marginally Beats
Liberty Property Trust (NYSE:LRY), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), reported second quarter 2010 FFO (fund from operations) of $0.67 per share compared to $0.72 in the year-earlier quart...
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Masco Profits Fall
Masco Corporation (NYSE:MAS) reported a decline in profit to $55 million or 16 cents per share (before special items) in the second quarter of the year from $59 million or 17 cents per share (before s...