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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of March 17: FedEx, Nike, Oracle And More
Sunday, March 16, 2014 - 3:52pm | 928Fiscal third-quarter results from ostensible economic bellwether FedEx (NYSE: FDX), consumer goods giant Nike (NYSE: NKE) and leading technology company Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) will be the highlights on the earnings front this week. Packaged food producers ConAgra (NYSE: CAG) and General Mills (...
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Seven Consumer Goods Stocks Analysts Are Bullish On For 2014
Monday, December 23, 2013 - 7:53am | 964Markets have had a heck of a year. The unemployment rate has ticked down and the uncertainty about when the Fed's quantitative easing will begin to taper is over. And the prospects for Europe and China are looking better. Though analysts do not expect another banner year for stocks, and some...
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Market Wrap For December 5: Market Participants Anxiously Await Tomorrow's Employment Report
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 6:00pm | 2246Stock futures pointed to a lower open following premarket data revealing that the U.S. economy and job market are improving faster and stronger than expected. Selling began at the bell and continued for the entire day as major indices failed to hold on to any rallying gains. Investors and...
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Market Wrap For November 26: Nasdaq Closes Above 4,000 For First Time Since 2000
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 5:44pm | 1627Investors and traders certainly had their plates full Tuesday with a plethora of data releases sending the Dow to new record highs and the Nasdaq index closing above 4,000 after briefly breaching the mark on Monday. The markets gave back modest gains towards the end of the trading session and...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of November 25: Hewlett-Packard, Tiffany And More
Sunday, November 24, 2013 - 12:34pm | 974Quarterly reports from Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Tiffany (NYSE: TIF) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this holiday-shortened week. A handful of other retailers and a couple of Chinese solar companies are scheduled to report as well. Below is a quick look at what analysts...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of August 26
Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 8:08pm | 872Quarterly reports from Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) and Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) will highlight an otherwise pretty quiet week on the earnings front as the quarter winds down. Here is a quick look at expectations from those two reports, as well as those from Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), Brown-...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of May 27
Sunday, May 26, 2013 - 8:57am | 958The retail earnings crunch is winding down, with reports from Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) and a sprinkling of others this holiday-shortened week. In fact, the first-quarter earnings season is winding down, so overall things will be pretty quiet on that front...
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Tiffany Earnings Preview: Revenue Growth, EPS Decline Expected
Saturday, May 25, 2013 - 9:35am | 785Luxury spending bellwether Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF), which recently announced its 12th dividend increase in the past 11 years, is scheduled to report its first-quarter fiscal 2013 results Tuesday, May 28, before the markets open. Growth has slowed in recent quarters for luxury retail stocks...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 18
Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 3:16pm | 913Here is a quick look at what analysts expect to see from FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Nike (NYSE: NKE) and some of the other most prominent quarterly reports scheduled for this week. FedEx Third-quarter fiscal 2013 earnings from this ostensible economic bellwether are expected to...
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Why Coach, Limited Brands and TJX Caught Sterne Agee's Eye (COH, LTD, TJX)
Monday, March 4, 2013 - 1:36pm | 872Earlier Monday, brokerage firm Sterne Agee initiated coverage on a number of specialty retailers, citing strong growth prospects and longer-term fundamentals that are underappreciated or misunderstood. Among those retailers that Sterne Agee initiated with Buy ratings were Coach (NYSE: COH),...
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Toyota, Movado and Others Analysts Are Bullish On
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 3:10pm | 776Despite the threat of the federal budget sequestration looming over the U.S. economy and the markets, analysts are still optimistic about certain stocks. Here is a quick look some dividend payers in the consumer sector that analysts have a consensus recommendation of Strong Buy: Movado (NYSE: MOV...
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Top Performing Dividend Payers in Consumer Goods with the Most Upside Potential (BC, F, MOV)
Monday, February 18, 2013 - 12:10pm | 775It 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 the top performing dividend payers in the consumer goods sector over the past six months, such as farm products provider Alico (...
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Tiffany Earnings Preview: Higher Revenue but Lower EPS Expected
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 4:56pm | 599Tiffany (NYSE: TIF), which plans to open a flagship store in Paris in 2014, is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2012 results Thursday, November 29, before the markets open. Investors will be looking to see the effects of the slowdown in luxury spending in China, as well as the impact on...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of November 26
Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 2:19pm | 934While the holiday season is in full swing now, the earnings season is winding down. Perhaps the most prominent quarterly reports on this week's schedule those from Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain, and Tiffany, the iconic purveyor of luxury goods. The consensus forecasts of...
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Four Retail Stocks That Doubled in Six Months (BONT, LL, OSTK, ZLC)
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 3:22pm | 853Major retailers are beginning to share their third-quarter results, with JCPenney (NYSE: JCP), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom among those on tap this week, and with big-box store operators Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Target (NYSE: TGT) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) on the schedule for next week. Between that...