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Earnings highlights: Dell, GM, Lowe's, Heinz, Smucker, Washington Post and more

Posted Feb 28th 2009 12:40PM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings reports, Yahoo! (YHOO), Dell (DELL), General Motors (GM), Gap Inc (GPS), Lowe's Cos (LOW), Office Depot (ODP), Hormel Foods (HRL), salesforce.com inc (CRM), Public Storage (PSA)

Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

Bidz.com Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDZ) Q4 earnings release included notice about an SEC investigation.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) saw net income drop by almost 50%, falling short of estimates.
Ducommun Inc. (NYSE: DCO) received an analyst's downgrade after its Q4 earnings release.
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) said Q4 earnings fell due to weakness at Gap and Old Navy stores.
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) worse-than-expected results prompted speculation about its survival.

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Public Storage (PSA) soars as Q4 earnings beat estimates

Posted Feb 27th 2009 2:10PM by Brent Archer
Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Good news, Options, Technical Analysis, Public Storage (PSA)

Public Storage (NYSE: PSA - option chain) shares are headed higher today after the company reported a fourth-quarter profit of $151.7 million after the close yesterday. PSA's funds from operations of $1.49 per share beat analysts' projections of $1.28 per share.

This industry has been one of my favorites for a while as it addresses Americans' dual compulsions to buy stuff and never get rid of it. Plus, their business model is pretty nice -- they charge a whole lot of cash just store your junk in a garage that cost them very little to build and maintain. If you think that the stock won't fall by too much in the coming months, then now could be a good time to look at a bullish hedged trade on PSA.

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Ads Gone Bad: Public Storage anti-semitic -- 'the worst ever'

Posted Sep 9th 2008 3:55PM by Sheldon Liber
Filed under: Consumer experience, Television, Rants and raves, Marketing and advertising, Public Storage (PSA)

This post is part of our Ads Gone Bad series. Share your thoughts and memories of this ad in the comments, and be sure to check out our other posts on marketing gone wrong.

I have watched this controversial advertisement for the Public Storage Co. over and over and I take no offense. Spike has portrayed it as the most anti-Semitic "worst ever" commercial, but I do not see it that way. Given my father is a survivor of the Holocaust (Warsaw Ghetto and all) and I have grown up with many accounts of murderous atrocities and learned of, and experienced, many more anti-Semitic accounts, I think Spike is way off base with this one.

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Earnings highlights: Dell, GM, Lowe's, Heinz, Smucker, Washington Post and more

Public Storage (PSA) soars as Q4 earnings beat estimates