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Short Sellers Load Up More Best Buy and Sears (BEBE, BBY, SHLD)
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 2:24pm | 918Read More...Overall, the short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during the first weeks of June. But, Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), saw relatively large upswings in the period. The number of shares sold short in Avon Products (...
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Short Sellers Load Up on Best Buy and Sears (BBY, RAD, SHLD)
Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 8:06am | 1018Read More...Overall, the short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during the final weeks of May. But Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) saw especially large upswings in the period. The number of shares sold short in Avon Products (NYSE:...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 29
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 5:31pm | 1146Read More...First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...
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Short Sellers Move into Avon and Bebe Stores
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 9:46am | 983Read More...The short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed again during in early April. The number of shares sold short in Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), GameStop (NYSE: GME), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) and SuperValu (NYSE: SVU) increased between...
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Short Sellers Retreat from Best Buy and Rite Aid
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 12:29pm | 908Read More...The short interest moves in troubled retail companies were mixed during the latter two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME), Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased somewhat between the March 15 and March...
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Short Sellers Aim for Best Buy and Office Depot
Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 11:35am | 932Read More...The short interest in troubled retail companies was mixed but overall quiet during the first two weeks of March. The number of shares sold short in Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), Bon-Ton Stores (NASDAQ: BONT), OfficeMax (NYSE: OMX) and RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) increased somewhat between the February...
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Top Performing Dividend Payers in Consumer Goods with the Most Upside Potential (AVP, LZB, MOV)
Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 5:12pm | 749Read More...It is not unusual for stocks on a tear to overrun their mean price targets, which is a signal of how far analysts on average expect the share price to climb. Some of this year's top performing consumer goods stocks that pay dividends, such as Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO), Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL)...
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Office Supply Merger Brings Out the Short Sellers (ODP, OMX, AVP)
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 1:29pm | 858Read More...By and large, the short interest in troubled retail companies increased during the final two weeks of February. The number of shares sold short in Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME), J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH), Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD...
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Short Interest in Struggling Retail Stocks Declines (AVP, BEBE, SVU)
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 5:43pm | 858Read More...By and large, the short interest in troubled retail companies declined during the first two weeks of February. However, the number of shares sold short in Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), Bebe Stores (NASDAQ: BEBE), GameStop (NYSE: GME) and Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) increased between the January 31...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 11
Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 6:48pm | 874Read More...Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 30 (CMCSA, GM, KFT, V)
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:02am | 1279Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have posted stellar results, but earnings season rolls on. Here is a quick day-by-day rundown of what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most prominent earnings reports. Monday Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Watson...
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Colgate-Palmolive Earnings Preview: Q1 EPS, Sales Expected to Be Higher
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 6:55am | 880Read More...Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL), shares of which are trading near a multiyear high, is scheduled to report first-quarter 2012 results tomorrow April 26, with a conference call and webcast at 11 AM Eastern. Investors will be looking for Colgate to get back on track after a profit decline in the fourth...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 13
Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 3:39pm | 1114Read More...Analysts expect to see double-digit per-share earnings growth from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), Apache (NYSE: APA), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Marriot International (NYSE: MAR) when they report quarterly results this week. Other prominent reports on the...
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Nine Dividend Payers Up More Than 20% in Six Months
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 9:31am | 934Read More...So maybe you got out of the market when things got crazy, and you are looking to put a toe back in the water now that stocks have largely rebounded. Or perhaps you have been riding out the volatility but thinking you ought to diversify a little more. Well, here is a quick look at some options. They...
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Cosmetics Stocks: Looking Good
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 4:59pm | 545Read More...Clearly looking good is important to consumers, as stocks of cosmetics companies are going strong even during this anemic economic recovery. All of the stocks discussed here bottomed in January of 2009. Elizabeth Arden (NASDAQ: RDEN), Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) and Ulta Salon Cosmetics (NASDAQ: ULTA)...
