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Earnings highlights: Dell, Sears, Costco, Heinz, Tiffany, Borders, DSW and others

Posted May 31st 2008 11:40AM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Google (GOOG), Dell (DELL), Starbucks (SBUX), Tiffany and Co (TIF), Sears Holdings (SHLD), Costco Wholesale (COST), Novell Inc (NOVL), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), salesforce.com inc (CRM)

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

Big Lots Inc. (NYSE: BIG) Q1 earnings rose 20%, driven by cash-strapped bargain hunters.
Borders Group Inc. (NYSE: BGP) narrowed its loss in the first quarter though same-store sales fell.
Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) Q3 profits climbed 32%, beating analysts' estimates.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) posted solid Q1 results that beat analysts' expectations (see the transcript).
DSW Inc. (NYSE: DSW) Q1 earnings declined, hurt by weak same-store sales.
H.J. Heinz Co. (NYSE: HNZ) better-than-expected Q4 results sent the stock to a 52-week high.
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: IART) beat Q4 estimates and offered Q1 guidance.
J. Crew Group Inc. (NYSE: JCG) lowered its full-year forecast, leading to analyst downgrades.
Joy Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JOYG) Q2 results beat expectations, and it raised its full-year guidance.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF) posted record Q4 revenues but a bigger-than-expected loss.
Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) Q1 profits beat estimates and led to analyst upgrades.
Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) beat Q4 estimates and offered full-year guidance.
Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) swung to a profit that was in line with analysts estimates.
Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) Q1 revenues surged on new customers and demand in Asia.

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Analyst initiations: HLF, LVLT and SNDK

Posted Aug 3rd 2007 10:32AM by Kevin Shult (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Initiations, Level 3 Communications (LVLT), SanDisk Corp (SNDK)

MOST NOTEWORTHY: SanDisk (SNDK), Indevus Pharmaceuticals (IDEV), Integra LifeSciences (IART) and Level 3 Communications (LVLT) were today's noteworthy initiations:

SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) was initiated with a Neutral rating at Cowen, as the firm believes it could face challenges in Q4 NAND flash memory demand given supply.

Rodman & Renshaw initiated shares of Indevus (NASDAQ: IDEV) with a Market Outperform rating and $10 target. The firm believes Indevus Nebibo and Sanctura XR upcoming events provide an attractive entry point.

Morgan Stanley initiated shares of Integra LifeSciences (NASDAQ: IART) with an Equal Weight rating and $55 target, citing competitive risks from larger competitors.

Shares of Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) were initiated at Raymond James with an Underperform rating, as the firm believes estimates will be difficult to achieve given high debt levels and free cash flow.

OTHER INITIATIONS:

Cowen initiated shares of STEC Inc (NASDAQ: STEC) and Spansion (NASDAQ: SPSN) with Neutral ratings and shares of Silicon Motion Technology Corp (NASDAQ: SIMO) with an Outperform rating.