Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: An earnings "triple play" occurs when a stock beats earnings and revenue estimates and guides future earnings higher. There were about 70 stocks that had "triple plays" during the first quarter earnings season. As we enter the second quarter earnings season, investors may...
David M. Gordon submits: Yeah, okay, so Google GOOG shares 'plummet' -- at least seemingly. You can read a pretty fair explanation of Wall Street's reception of Google's earnings report here. To Blodget's thoughts, I would add that Google's practice has been not to play the mug's game of...
Trader Mark submits: In this era where the masses only look at what Briefing.com tells them and/or never actually open up an earnings report to look inside but only react to the "headline" number, Trina Solar TSL is giving back Thursday's gains on what I consider to be a stellar...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: We grabbed the historical earnings reports for Goldman Sachs GS from the Bespoke Earnings Report Database to see how the stock has traded recently on the day of its quarterly releases. Since the credit crisis began, the company has had three prior quarterly...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: After declining by more than 10% in reaction to its earnings report after the close on Monday, Apple Computer AAPL has now erased all of its declines and is now actually up. So much for concerns regarding the health of Steve Jobs. click...
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: You ought to consider picking up some Microsoft MSFT shares ahead of the company’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings report due after the close on Thursday. At least, that’s the view of several analysts who have penned reports on the company previewing the results. The Street...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Earlier today we posted on the most volatile stocks on earnings reports out of the 2,700 stocks in the Bespoke Interactive Earnings Report Database. Below we highlight the same information for the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The...
Eric Fox submits: Ruby Tuesday, Inc. RT reported its fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 (ending 6/3/08) earnings and held a conference call to discuss the results.RT also updated its guidance and discussed its strategic initiative for fiscal year 2009 as follows: by Eric Fox
Trader Mark submits: Nothing surprising in Thursday morning's earnings report - and frankly it does "not matter" right now because as we all know, potash = oil, at least in hedge fund's eyes. The analysts finally seem to be somewhat catching up to the earnings potential. They only missed by...
Ranjit Thomas submits: American Greetings AM reported earnings on Wednesday, Jun 25 see conference call transcript. The company exceeded revenue estimates for the quarter, but fell far short on EPS. It blamed roll-out costs for a new card line in Canada. This was a disappointing performance, as competent management would...
Pressure to meet the numbers is greater than ever. But don't let own company issue a misleading earnings report. The nightmare of risky accounting is on the increase. In the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure—and personal financial incentive for managers—to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue expectations....
From the executive summary: ‘The technology companies have been the biggest embracers of pro forma results, which are really only hypothetical numbers. They are the numbers that the companies want to think about even though the numbers rarely reflect the true health of a company's ongoing operations. Pro forma numbers...
OnlyEBAY submits: Another EBAY quarterly earnings report is on our doorstep. I've already mentioned my financial expectations for Wednesday night (follow the Q2 earnings release here). The only thing I would add is that I expect EBAY will have continued its aggressive buyback program, which will help EPS...
Andy Zaky submits:Steve Jobs hasn't attended a conference call in years see archive. So any attempt to imply that Jobs' lack of presence at the conference call yesterday is related to health concerns, is either driven by a motivation to manipulate the stock price or is said with a complete...
Zachary Scheidt submits: MCSI INc. MXB is a recent spinoff from Morgan Stanley MS. The company has been trading since November as its own unit but is still under the shadow of Morgan which holds 100 million shares of the company. As MXB released its quarterly report, there...
Ranjit Thomas submits: Gerber Scientific GRB is a supplier of automated manufacturing systems for sign making and specialty graphics, apparel and flexible materials, ophthalmic lens processing, and print and packaging industries. Next earnings report due: This morning, Thursday, June 19. by Ranjit Thomas
Rebecca Engmann Darst contributed to this report. Merck MRK – Yesterday’s move by Merck and Schering-Plough SGP to postpone their earnings releases pending the release of some very discouraging clinical data on storied cholesterol drug Vytorin led investors to chasten the latter drug company much more virulently than the...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: When I read Google’s GOOG earnings report, two things stood out: Google generated over $5B in revenue, in Q2 nonetheless, historically the weakest quarter. This means Google’s 2008 will be robust, nonetheless: by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Aaron Adams submits: Agria GRO could be an ideal setup for anyone wanting to try and make a quick and substantial profit on an undervalued company. To explain why, I want to get into the philosophy behind the trade. One of the safest and most profitable ways to make...
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Intel INTC shares are modestly higher heading into the company’s Q2 earnings report later tonight. The Street consensus is for revenue of $9.32 billion and profits of 25 cents a share. For the September quarter, the Street sees $10.07 billion and 34 cents. Several...
