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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 12:48pm
The 20 Stocks with the Highest Share Price
It's official. With its shares eclipsing the $900 mark, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is trading in the nosebleeds. Out of curiosity, Benzinga decided to look where other publicly traded companies in the S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) were trading at. This only includes the S&P 500 -- otherwise companies...
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Monday, May 6, 2013 - 3:08pm
Warren Buffett Takes Center Stage Again After Shareholders' Meeting
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B), appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box for three hours Monday morning. Buffett, fresh off of a booming weekend in Omaha, Nebraska after Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting, spoke from an...
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Monday, May 6, 2013 - 6:32am
Barron's Recap: Apple Tops the Barron's 500
This weekend in Barron's online: the annual Barron's 500 ranking, a look at some bargain stocks from that list, the prospects for Linn Energy and Atlas Air, and alternatives to REITs. Cover Story "The Barron's 500" by Jacqueline Doherty. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have struggled of late, but it...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 7:58pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 15
The earnings crunch is on this week, with first-quarter results due from such iconic blue chips as Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and Microsoft. Analysts expect to see year-over-year earnings growth from each of them, but earnings declines from Intel,...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 8:27am
Companies Scrambling to Gain Cloud Market Share
Monday’s announcement by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) that its Cloud Drive desktop app now syncs files across various devices puts the company on par with cloud competitors like Dropbox and others that have long offered that capability. Amazon, which offers 5GB of free storage with a basic account, is...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 11:17am
Four Large Cap Buyout Candidates with Healthy Dividends (CA, GRMN, LO, NOC)
In a report this past week, analysts at the Merrill Lynch unit of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) offered list of potential large cap leveraged buyout candidates. All the companies that made their list have healthy cash flow, smart valuations and low corporate debt. Here is a quick look at four of...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 2:14pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of January 21
The focus was on the big banks last week, with Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) reporting strong results, but Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) not so much. The spotlight is on tech earnings this week. Analysts anticipate lower per-...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012 - 3:16pm
Oracle Earnings Preview: Revenue and EPS Growth Expected
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), which last week announced it would acquire DataRaker, is scheduled to report its second-quarter fiscal 2013 results Tuesday, December 18, after the markets close. Investors will be looking for the company, with its push into cloud computing, to get back on track after last...
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Monday, October 29, 2012 - 7:29am
Barron's Recap (10/27/12): The Big Money Poll
This past weekend in Barron's online: the results of the autumn Big Money Poll, the prospects for General Mills, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling and Barnes & Noble, as well as what President Obama does and does not know about American business. Cover Story "Bye-Bye Bull?" by Jacqueline...
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Monday, October 15, 2012 - 10:21am
IBM Earnings Preview: Another Revenue Decline Expected
International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), whose share price pulled back last week from a multiyear high, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Tuesday, October 16, after the closing bell. Investors will be looking for the company to get back on the right track after last quarter'...
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