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The Latest Picks And Pans From Barron's: Barrick Gold, BioNTech, Facebook, WW And More
Sunday, April 4, 2021 - 10:09am | 1149Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story discusses a beleaguered social media giant that is still a buy. Other featured articles share infrastructure picks, capital spending picks and a veteran fund manager's income picks. Also, see the prospects for an up-and-coming biotech, a gold...
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Vulcan Materials Cites 'Continuing Demand Growth' In Dividend Hike
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 2:46pm | 126Read More...Shares of Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC), a producer of construction aggregates, were trading higher by more than 1 percent on Friday after the company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend. Vulcan Materials will pay investors a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share and will...
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3 Stocks D.A. Davidson Analysts Just Upgraded
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 11:46am | 676Read More...Brent Thielman and JB Groh of D.A. Davidson were busy on Monday with three separate research reports in which shares of Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC), Summit Materials Inc (NYSE: SUM) and KLX Inc (NASDAQ: KLXI) were all upgraded. Vulcan Materials: Solid Fundamentals Brent Thielman...
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Barron's Recap: Is Now The Time To Sit On Cash?
Sunday, March 1, 2015 - 12:05pm | 870Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: where to invest cash now, a good time to be a small investor, as well as the prospects for a Google dividend, Vulcan Materials, Valmont Industries, Sinopec, American Express and more. Cover Story "Private Bank Survey: Where to Invest Cash Now" by...
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The Most Overvalued S&P 500 Stock Is...?
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 11:12am | 1247Read More...The winner, by more than a country mile, is... Amazon! (NASDAQ: AMZN). The online retailing colossus sports the highest price-to-earnings ratio among stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index: a whopping 462 times its trailing 12-month earnings. Amazon's P/E ratio, based on Wednesday's...
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Market Wrap For January 28: Markets Snap Losing Streak, Apple Tumbles
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 5:42pm | 2932Read More...U.S. stocks reversed its multi-day losing streak as investors found enough positives in Tuesday's earnings to end the Dow's five day losing streak. The FOMC began its first day of a two-day meeting. The Wall Street Journal's Jon Hilsenrath believes that the central bank will reduce...
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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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Texas Industries Earnings Preview: Narrower Loss, Revenue Growth Expected
Monday, January 7, 2013 - 2:13pm | 518Read More...Texas Industries (NYSE: TXI), shares of which are trading near a multi-year high, is scheduled to report its second-quarter fiscal 2013 results Wednesday, January 9, after the markets close. Investors will be looking for improved gross margins on lower costs and another quarter of better-than-...
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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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Jefferies Lowers PT On Vulcan Materials To $51
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 6:25am | 27Read More...Jefferies & Company has lowered the price target on Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC) from $52 to $51 and maintains its Buy rating.
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Jefferies Raises PT On Vulcan Materials To $52
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 8:38am | 27Read More...Jefferies & Company has raised the price target on Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC) from $47 to $52 and maintains its Buy rating.
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Vulcan Materials Q3 Earnings Disappoint Could Lead To Buying Opportunity, Jefferies & Company Reports
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 9:14am | 74Read More...If Vulcan Materials' (NYSE: VMC) share price weakens on the Q3 results “we would use it as a buying opportunity,” Jefferies & Company reports. “In our view, trading is troughing in Vulcan's markets,” Jefferies & Company writes. “Our estimate for this year's EBITDA of $401m, is only 37% of...
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Housing Market Slowed From Trends Experienced in 2Q10; Tax Credit Expiration and Economic Uncertainty to Blame
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 8:49am | 186Read More...Morgan Keegan reports that 3Q10 trends in the housing market have slowed from trends experienced in 2Q10 due to the expiration of the tax credit and continued economic uncertainty that affected homeowner spending decisions. “With stimulus spending continuing to provide demand for basic materials,...
