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20 Money Facts About The 'Harry Potter' Franchise
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 8:22am | 946This week, "Harry Potter" fans celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the popular book and movies series. The first book of the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone," was published on June 26, 1997. Author J.K. Rowling took to Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) to...
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How Do Early Sales Of 'The Cursed Child' Stack Up Against The Harry Potter Series?
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 8:48am | 397Harry Potter is back and he may be better than ever in the latest book, "The Cursed Child Parts One And Two." The latest Harry Potter novel, a script-book based on the famed play by Jack Thorne, began selling at 12:01 a.m. on July 31, 2016. Retailer reports estimate that the publisher...
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Potential Top-Selling Book Of The Year? The New 'Harry Potter' Screenplay
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 11:30am | 374It is quite likely that for the first time ever, the largest publishing event of the summer is a script for a play. According to a report by CNBC, the script of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" ranks as top desired pre-ordered item on both Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble,...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of September 16: FedEx, Oracle and More
Sunday, September 15, 2013 - 12:17pm | 982Highlights on the earnings front this week will be the reports from FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL). Analysts are looking for marginal year-over-year growth of earnings and revenues from both of them. Others on deck to share quarterly results this week include General Mills (NYSE: GIS),...
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Poor 'Hunger Games' Sales Costs Scholastic
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 6:59am | 519In March 2012, the release of the movie based on the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy, published by Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), bolstered sales of the books. Since then, no more movies have been released, resulting in slower book sales. The Wall Street Journal reported that Catching Fire,...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of September 17
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 7:03am | 835FedEx (NYSE: FDX), an ostensible bellwether of the global economy, is on tap to share its most recent quarterly results this week, and analysts anticipate slightly lower per-share earnings compared to the same period a year ago. However, the forecasts for tech companies Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of December 12
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 12:13pm | 910Again this week, things will be fairly quiet on the earnings front. Among the week's most high profile quarterly reports are those from Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), which are forecast to post lower per-share earnings, as well as Discover Financial (NYSE: DFS) and FedEx (...
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Five Book Publishing Stocks: Not Dead Yet
Sunday, May 29, 2011 - 3:37pm | 711Online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) said earlier this month it now sells more digital e-books than paper books. And the consensus at this past week's BookExpo America was that the book publishing industry is losing money overall, even while sales of e-books and e-readers are on the rise....
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Gabelli Maintains Buy on Scholastic (SCHL)
Monday, March 28, 2011 - 9:01am | 90Gabelli is out with its report today on Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL0, maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Gabelli writes, "Results were well below our expectations in a seasonally weak quarter, and a second consecutive guidance reduction is a meaningful disappointment. Nevertheless, Scholastic...
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Gabelli Comments On Scholastic Revenue
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 9:42am | 79According to Gabelli, Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ: SCHL) saw revenues of $394 mm in line with estimate. Gabelli reported that earnings were considerably lower on reduced sales of high-margin technology products and greater service revenues that have lower margins. “Second consecutive guidance...