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- DryShips: Dividend Love
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: It is no secret that I view dividend paying stocks as a 'girl's best friend" - at least for the time being. With volatility still at record levels and the continued significant potential for event risk in the credit and equity from...
- External links 2009-01-22
- DryShips Looks Good, Even without Its Dividends
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: It is no secret that I view dividend paying stocks as a 'girl's best friend"W - at least for the time being. With volatility still at record levels and the continued significant potential for event risk in the credit and equity from...
- External links 2009-01-28
- Ethanol Industry: Down But Not Out
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: Ethanol producers have been making the news again - this time a flurry of plant closings and fire sales is mixed in with new plant openings. Taken together, investors have to conclude the ethanol industry is down but not out. Verenium Corporation VRNM...
- External links 2009-02-03
- Phase Forward: Pace of Business Holding Up Well
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: Most investors are at a loss in the in the current equity market environment to decide the best course of action…or inaction. Buy? Sell? Hold? The dramatic economic downturn has spooked even traders with the steeliest nerves. Indeed, the dread...
- External links 2009-02-23
- Dynamic Materials: Dividends in Lean Times
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: Dynamic Materials BOOM is switching to a quarterly payout from an annual dividend, declaring the first quarterly dividend of $0.04. The payout has not been increased, but we expect more frequent payment could create interest among investors who are looking for a combination of...
- External links 2009-06-17
- You Say Platinum, I Say Palladium
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: The palladium mining industry is getting drawn into the energy and carbon debate by some recent technological advances. Representatives of North American Palladium, Ltd. PAL told a compelling story at the NYSSA 9th Annual Mining and Minerals Conference in New York in late May...
- External links 2009-06-17
- Conmed Earnings Preview - Still Undervalued
- Debra Fiakas, CFA submits: Conmed Healthcare Management CONM is scheduled to report June quarter results on Wednesday this week after the market close. A conference call is scheduled for the same afternoon. We have an estimate of $0.02 EPS on $13.0 million in sales for the quarter....
- External links 2009-08-11
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- TechTeam fighting takeover attempt from hedge fund.(News)
- Byline: Anjali Fluker As TechTeam Global Inc. fights an attempted takeover by one of its largest shareholders, one analyst said the company needs to be very careful in how it communicates with shareholders. Debra Fiakas, managing director of New York City-based Crystal...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Hurco Companies, Fuel Tech and Radyne Corporation
- CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases the latest Analyst Interview. Today's interview is with senior analyst Debra Fiakas, who discusses Hurco Companies (Nasdaq: HURC), Fuel Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq: FTEK) and Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN).
- Research articles 2007-03-15
- News Corp.'s Chernin Sitting Pretty In Any Succession Scenario
- Rupert Murdoch continues to make CEO succession a high-profile issue at News Corp. In the company's just-filed 2008 proxy filing, the first item of note is that the company's longtime No. 2, News Corp. President Peter Chernin, gets paid as much as the top boss. In 2007, they...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- No Reform in CEO Pay at General Mills
- Stephen Sanger, the recently retired CEO of General Mills, ranked near the bottom of Forbes' 2007 CEO performance rankings (148 out of 189). And and his exit package, which I sifted through in the company's most recent proxy filing, suggests that General Mills has no intention of embracing the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Tax Man Cometh to Synopsis
- Synopsis, a developer of chip set design software, provided details on its recent dust-up with the IRS in its third-quarter 2008 filing on Tuesday. During the third-quarter ended July 31, the IRS completed a field examination of Syopsys' federal income tax returns for the years 2002 through 2004, and now...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- FedEx's Price Hedge Against Slumping Demand
- Few were surprised when FedEx Corp. reported decreased shipping volume for its overnight services in its first-quarter ending August 2008. FedEx spelled it out in its press releases and its 10-Q filing: a weak U.S. economy and persistently higher fuel prices had reduced demand for the overnight shipper's premium services....
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Ticking Financial Bombs at Caterpillar
- Jim Owens, Chairman and Chief Executive of Caterpillar, told analysts on the company's third-quarter 2008 earnings call he believes demand in emerging markets, especially for energy and mining equipment, should offset weaker construction spending in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. What he and other executives failed to mention on the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Acquisition Hangover at Manpower
- In its most recent quarterly filing, Manpower, Inc. detailed a write-down of $140.8 million in goodwill and $22.3 million in intangible assets, signaling another asset bubble bursting in this global slowdown -- that of employment service providers. The charge for impaired assets came after the company determined that...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Radyne and Hurco
- CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases the latest Analyst Interview. Today's interview is with senior analyst Debra Fiakas, who discusses Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN) and Hurco Systems (Nasdaq: HURC). A synopsis of today's Analyst Interview is presented below. The full article can be read at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678. Which companies would you...
- Research articles 2006-11-30
- Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Radyne and Hurco Systems
- CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases the latest Analyst Interview. Today's interview is with senior analyst Debra Fiakas, who discusses Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN) and Hurco Systems (Nasdaq: HURC). A synopsis of today's Analyst Interview is presented below. The full article can be read at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678. The last time we...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- SVB Financial Group -- Last Bank Standing?
- Silicon Valley Bank SVB Financial Group focuses on commercial lending to companies predominantly in the technology, life science, wine and private equity sectors. Jaded and weary from the seemingly endless loss of banks involved in originating and securitizing mortgage loans, might this offer some comfort to stockholders? Unfortunately, the focus...
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Jackson Hewitt Prepares for 2009 Tax Season
- Despite popular thinking on the certainty of taxes, recent filings with the SEC suggest even Jackson Hewitt Tax Service JHI -- and its business partners -- is taking a cautious approach to the coming year. The No. 2 U.S. tax return preparer, which competes with H&R Block, has reworked agreements with its...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- LIFO vs FIFO Inventory Accounting at Home Depot
- Home Depot, Inc. announced a key change in accounting principals in its third quarter filing with the SEC. After adopting a new enterprise resource planning system, otherwise known in the wholesale-retail world as an “ERP†system, Home Depot is now keeping track of inventory values in its Canada retail operations...
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
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