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Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...

Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO) is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, January 5, after the closing bell. Investors could use a little good news, considering the shares have traded mostly between $56 and $60 since the end of October and analysts seem unenthused about the stock...

The week (and the new year) will start off quietly, as far as quarterly reports are concerned. Things will pick up a little steam later in the week as Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL), Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ), Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO), Monsanto (NYSE: MON) and Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) each step into...

The payroll tax cut debate is heating up in the U.S. Congress right before the holidays, as the politicians are trying to find a mutual ground. President Obama and the democrats have been defending the pay roll tax cuts, whereas the republican politicians have been reluctant to extend them. The...

With investors and analysts keeping one eye on how the holiday shopping season is progressing and another eye on what's happening in the eurozone, there may be little on the earnings front this week that attracts much attention. Among the week's most high profile quarterly reports are those from...

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter 2011 results Thursday, November 17, before the opening bell. The company has seen double-digit year-over-year percentage revenue growth for the past four quarters, as well as its net income rise in three consecutive quarters....

Yesterday, the day that the 99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) agree to be taken private, competitor discount variety stores Dollar General (NYSE: DG) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) reached new 52-week highs of $39.40 and $80.99 per share, respectively. Dollar General boosted its sales forecast and...

Shoppertrak may suggest that retailers have little to look forward to this coming holiday season, but here are seven retailers that are riding high now. The share prices of most of them have jumped more than 10% in the past month and they are all trading near their 52-week highs. AutoZone (NYSE:...

As the month and the calendar quarter wind down this week, only a handful of companies are scheduled to report their earnings results. These include Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO), Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL), McCormick (NYSE: MKC) and Walgreen (NYSE...

At the end of last week, discount retailers Dollar General (NYSE: DG) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) reached new multiyear highs of $38.59 and $76.32 per share, respectively. Dollar General launched an e-commerce site recently and opened some 260 new stores in the first half of 2011. Also,...

Things will be fairly quiet on the earnings front this this week, with only a few S&P 500 components scheduled to post quarterly results: Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B), Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) and Joy Global (NASDAQ: JOYG) are expected to report earnings growth, while SAIC's (NYSE: SAI) earnings...

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) and Fred's (NASDAQ: FRED) reached new 52-week highs of $67.08 and $14.66 per share, respectively, in Tuesday's trading session. Dollar Tree recently posted better-than-expected first-quarter results due to cost cutting and strong same-store sales, and the company has...

Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) will be reporting its third-quarter fiscal 2011 results Wednesday, June 29, before the opening bell. While the sluggish economy no doubt has continued to benefit the nation's number two dollar-store chain, the company also faces stiff competition from larger rivals...

As the calendar quarter winds down this week, S&P 500 components scheduled to report quarterly results include Family Dollar Stores, General Mills, Monsanto and Nike. Analysts on average are expecting to see year-over-year earnings growth from each of them. Here are the consensus per-share...

Morgan Stanley reiterated is Overweight rating on Dollar General (NYSE: DG). At the same time, Morgan Stanley removed its price target from the company's stock, following recent outperformance of the company's stock. In a research report published today, Morgan Stanley states, "We are removing our...