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Last Week's Notable Insider Buys: News Corp, Microsoft, Snowflake, Walmart And More
Saturday, March 13, 2021 - 12:45pm | 1030Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors, especially when markets are near all-time highs. A media mogul was among the insiders making purchases this week. Some insiders were buying shares as others were selling them. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10%...
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Notable Insider Buys Last Week: Keurig Dr Pepper, Xerox And More
Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 11:06am | 687Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors when markets are near all-time highs. Several insiders made return trips to purchase additional shares last week. An activist investor also came back to the buy window as well. Conventional wisdom says...
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Notable Insider Buys Last Week: Avis Budget, Axis Capital And More
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 3:34pm | 698Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors during periods of uncertainty. A number of executives and other insiders returned to the buy window last week. A beneficial investor added to its stake after an initial public offering. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and...
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Google, Yahoo And LinkedIn: Who Can Beat Earnings Expectations?
Sunday, January 31, 2016 - 8:41pm | 640Three Internet giants are on deck to share their latest earnings results this week. Analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from Google-parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD). Expectations for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are considerably more...
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Archer Daniels Midland Goes 'Wild' On Natural Flavors To The Tune Of $3.13 Billion
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 1:48pm | 583Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) said Monday it would acquire privately held Swiss company Wild Flavors for $3.13 billion, the biggest acquisition yet for the agribusiness giant. Wild Flavors, founded in 1931, produces natural-based flavors and “flavor systems” that give food...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of April 28: Big Oil, Big Pharma And More
Sunday, April 27, 2014 - 11:58am | 854The earnings crunch continues this week. Among the highlights will be scheduled quarterly reports from Exxon Mobil and Chevron, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, from Time Warner and Viacom, and also from Twitter. Early Thursday, Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is expected to say that it had earnings...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of February 3: GM, Twitter, Disney And More
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 7:42am | 989January, with its five percent correction, is behind us, and earnings continue to roll out this week, whether or not the groundhog saw his shadow. Highlights will include quarterly results from General Motors (NYSE: GM), Merck (NYSE: MRK), Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS),...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of October 28: Apple, Facebook, GM and More
Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 7:10pm | 1392The earnings crunch rolls on. This week's highlights include quarterly reports from the two biggest companies by market capitalization, Apple and Exxon Mobil, which are expect to post declining earnings. Per-share earnings from General Motors are expected to be the same as a year ago, and...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of August 5
Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 4:19pm | 1059The earnings season is beginning to wind down, and much of the focus this week will turn to central bank meetings and economic data from China and the United States. But, there are still plenty of earnings reports on the schedule this week, including those from Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Time...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 29
Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 5:31pm | 1146First-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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Benzinga Market Primer: Friday, April 26
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 6:33am | 1132Futures Lower Ahead of GDP U.S. equity futures traded lower in early pre-market trade ahead of the key U.S. first quarter GDP report due out at 8:30 am eastern. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg are expecting a growth rate of 3.1 percent in the first quarter with the range of estimates between 2.3-...
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Continued Drought in the West and Rain in the East Could Keep Corn Prices High in 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 10:12am | 521With winter snow still flying in the nation’s heartland, farmers are hard at work repairing corn planters, upgrading and modifying, even adding electronics -- anything that will give them an edge as they try to recover from the drought of 2012. Plans are already in place to plant the most corn...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 4
Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 5:13pm | 1026The S&P ended last week above 1,500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 14,000. Some strong earnings reports could push the markets higher, and there are plenty of quarterly reports on the schedule this week. Analysts by and large expect to see year-over-year earnings per share (EPS)...
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Three International Stocks Worth a Look Now (GMK, SODA, LULU)
Saturday, December 15, 2012 - 4:20pm | 609Here is a quick look at three international stocks -- Gruma SAB (NYSE: GMK), SodaStream International (NASDAQ: SODA) and Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) -- that have double-digit returns on equity and double-digit long-range earnings per share (EPS) growth forecasts. Each is up more than 15%...
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Four Latin America Stocks Worth a Look Now (AKO-B, ASR, CZZ, ICA)
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 7:12pm | 791Latin American Markets were largely up on Thursday, due in part to hopes that a debt deal would be reached in the United States to avoid the fiscal cliff. Here are four Latin America based stocks traded on U.S. exchanges that have consensus buy recommendations from analysts. Futhermore, they have...