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FeedPosted Nov 18th 2009 9:30AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Deere and Co (DE), Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT)
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says it's not too late to get on board these rocket ships. During the great narrow bull market that was 2006-2007, anyone who hitched a ride on any bulk or oil carrier, any DryShips (
DRYS) (
Cramer's Take) or Diana (
DSX) (
Cramer's Take), or any Frontline (
FRO) (
Cramer's Take) or Nordic American Tanker (
NAT) (
Cramer's Take), or anyone who bought anything ag-related -- Deere (
DE) (
Cramer's Take), Monsanto (
MON) (
Cramer's Take), Potash (
POT) (
Cramer's Take) -- looked like a genius.
Beginning midyear last year, you looked like a moron.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Ag and shippers are the newest bull markets
Posted Nov 16th 2009 9:20AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Cisco Systems (CSCO), Market matters, International Business Machines (IBM), Caterpillar (CAT), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Procter and Gamble (PG), Freep't McMoRan Copper (FCX), Oil, Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks
The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that OPEC may take oil out of the equity-market equation and make stock-picking matter again. If OPEC says it likes an oil price in the $75-78 range, as it said today, we could be looking at a nirvana moment for stocks. We know that any time oil bounces, the S&P 500 futures go up. Any time it goes down, the S&P futures go down. But if OPEC wants to keep it right here, we take oil out of the equation and make stock-picking matter again.
Right now, the Saudis are telling the big oil-shipping companies that they want to bring 1 million barrels a day into the market straight away to keep oil below $80. That can be used to overwhelm the speculators who are tying up as much as 20% of the oil fleet in the world to keep oil off the market and buoy its price. But they will not bring the oil to the market below $75.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Oil and the equity nirvana
Posted Oct 24th 2009 2:20PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), McDonald's (MCD), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), New York Times'A' (NYT), Bank of New York (BK), Hershey Co (HSY), Gannett Co (GCI), Morgan Stanley (MS), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), SLM Corp (SLM)
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Amazon, Apple, Caterpillar, Hershey, McDonald's, UPS ...
Posted Oct 21st 2009 9:00AM by Steven Mallas (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Industry, Caterpillar (CAT)
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) is doing great. The stock is hot, and even though the company is still reporting sales and earnings declines, you just know that the fundamentals will eventually get better. In the meantime, management is doing its best to beat earnings expectations.
Yesterday, management succeeded. For the third quarter, according to our Closing Bell post, Caterpillar said it made 64 cents per share. Analysts were expecting only 6 cents per share. Well, something was off there, huh? Anyway, according to the actual press release, sales decreased over 40%, and per-share profit was off by 15%, but really, it didn't matter to the market. Shares of the heavy equipment maker closed higher by 3%, on heavy volume.
Continue reading Caterpillar exceeds expectations: Too late to buy?
Posted Oct 19th 2009 12:50PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Estee Lauder (EL), Caterpillar (CAT), Halliburton (HAL), American Express (AXP), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Mattel, Inc (MAT), Southwest Airlines (LUV), Analyst initiations, Deere and Co (DE), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL)
Analyst upgrades:
- American Express (NYSE:AXP) was upgraded to Market Perform from Underperform at FBR Capital, as the firm sees limited near-term downside in the stock. The firm raised its target price on the shares to $37 from $25.
- RBC Capital upgraded Estee Lauder (NYSE:EL) to Outperform from Sector Perform. Target to $44 from $34. UBS upgraded Nestle on expectations the company will begin returning cash to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.
- Piper Jaffray raised Dicks Sporting (NYSE:DKS) to Neutral from Underweight following positive channel checks and raised its target on the shares to $28 from $18.
- Sohu.com (NASDAQ:SOHU) was upgraded to Neutral from Sell by Pali Capital.
- Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) was raised to Buy from Hold by Natixis.
- Sunpower (NASDAQ:SPWRA) was upgraded to Neutral from Underperform at Macquarie.
- China Automotive (NASDAQ:CAAS) was upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Merriman.
Continue reading Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AXP, HAL, EL, MAT, CAT....
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