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Sunday, April 7, 2013 - 2:25pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 8
The new earnings season gets underway this week, with Alcoa (NYSE: AA) on deck late Monday and J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) scheduled to report first-quarter results Friday morning. By and large, analysts expect to see a year-over-year decline in per-share earnings from the former, but EPS growth,...
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Monday, February 25, 2013 - 4:51pm
Earnings Previews: Dollar Tree and TJX Companies
Discount retailers Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) and TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) are scheduled to share their fourth-quarter and full fiscal year results Wednesday morning before the opening bell. Retailers that cater to lower and middle income customers benefitted from belt tightening during the...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012 - 12:33pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of December 31
Things will be pretty quiet again on the earnings front this week, as the calendar year turns over. Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) and Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) are scheduled to share their fiscal quarter's results late in the week. But fourth-quarter 2012 earnings reports do not begin to roll in until...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012 - 3:30pm
Short Interest Swings in Retail Stocks (COST, DG, WAG)
The short interest in big retail companies was mixed during the first two weeks of December, the heart of the holiday shopping season. The number of shares sold short in Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), CVS Caremark (NASDAQ: CVS), Gap (NYSE: GPS), Target (NYSE: TGT) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) increased...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 3:27pm
Short Interest Swings in Retail Stocks (BBY, DG, TJX)
The short interest in big retail companies was mixed as the holiday shopping season got underway. Shares sold short in Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), CVS Caremark (NASDAQ: CVS), Lowe's (NASDAQ: LOW) and Target (NYSE: TGT) increased somewhat between the November 15 and November 31 settlement dates....
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Monday, December 10, 2012 - 7:59am
Dollar General Earnings Preview: Strong Third-Quarter Results Expected
Dollar General (NYSE: DG), which just recently became an S&P 500 component, is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2012 results early Tuesday, December 11. Investors will be hoping for a fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth and earnings per share (EPS) of $0.50 or...
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Monday, October 1, 2012 - 6:53am
Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 1
October marks a new month and a new quarter. Autumn is underway, and here is a look at what analysts expect to see from this week's quarterly reports from Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ), Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO), Marriott International (NYSE: MAR), Monsanto (NYSE: MON) and Mosaic (NYSE: MOS)....
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 11:02am
Coca-Cola FEMSA, Family Dollar, Other Dividend Payers on a RollBelow are some dividend paying companies with upward price momentum. They all have market capitalizations greater than $1 billion, and share prices that have increased more than 20% within the last 90 days. Agnico-Eagle Mines (NYSE: AEM) is a Canadian miner and producer of gold and other metals....
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Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 10:58am
Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 26 (BBY, FDO, WAG)While much of the attention will be on the Supreme Court this week, Best Buy is on tap to report its quarterly results. Analysts expect year-over-year earnings growth from the box-box retailer, as well as from Family Dollar and Red Hat. But the consensus forecasts for this week's results from...
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Family Dollar Earnings Preview: Higher EPS and Sales Expected
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 7:38amFamily 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...
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