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Today brought a recovery rally as no more solid developments came out of Libya despite the continuous turmoil. A lower revision to GDP came from state spending and a University of Michigan confidence reading at a 3-year high that came out was from before the Libya situation exploded.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow Jones 12,130.45 +61.95 (0.51%)
S&P 500 1,319.88 +13.78 (1.06%)
Nasdaq 2,781.05 +43.15 (1.58%)

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Closing Bell: What Geopolitical Scare? (AAPL, DMD, NTRI, OVTI, SRZ, TRLG) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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All in all, this was a fairly quiet day. The markets started out soft but managed to hold up most of the day. A CEO confidence reading may have helped somewhat.

Here are today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 9,858.36 +71.49 (0.73%)
S&P 500 1,071.06 +5.58 (0.52%)
Nasdaq 2,138.23 +14.30 (0.67%)

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says tons of stocks look like good buys, and they go down all the time.

All weekend I heard it. Stocks have gotten too cheap. Put 'em away cheap. Don't worry about 'em cheap. To which I say, stocks are only cheap if the companies make it. Stocks are only cheap if the bondholders don't claim them.

Every day I see cheap stocks. Ford (NYSE: F) (Cramer's Take) reported this morning. Ridiculously cheap. How cheap is Sprint (NYSE: S) (Cramer's Take), for heaven's sake? Did you see the Sunrise Senior Living (NYSE: SRZ) (Cramer's Take) numbers? That stock should show up when you enter "cheap stock" in Google. Except Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) (Cramer's Take) comes up.

When Warren Buffett says stocks are cheap, or Jeremy Grantham or Steve Leuthold or Jeremy Siegel, it's very heartening. You just want to go out there and buy cheap stocks like CBS (NYSE: CBS) (Cramer's Take) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM) (Cramer's Take) and Ann Taylor (NYSE: ANN) (Cramer's Take) and Talbots (NYSE: TLB) (Cramer's Take).

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: 'Cheap' is meaningless originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You can call on numerous issues for today's big market rally. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) led the brokerage firms higher after beating earnings expectations, and that may have been equally as important to traders as today's three-quarters of the way interest rate cut when it took Fed Funds down to 2.25%. Many traders were looking for a full 1% rate cut on the Fed Funds and Discount Rate. The Fed even delivered a cut after seeing a strong PPI number that was much more realistic than the CPI number of last week.
  • DJIA 12,392.66 (+420.41; +3.51%)
  • S&P500 1,330.74 (+54.14; +4.24%)
  • NASDAQ 2,268.26 (+91.25; +4.19%)
  • 10YR-TBond 3.451% (+0.137%)
The list of 52-week lows is far smaller on a giant rally like this, but as usual there are always some feature stocks that can't manage to rally. There were some others noted this morning that just failed to participate, mostly from analyst downgrades.

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Closing Bell: Dow up 420 points thanks to the Fed, brokers back in action originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While residential and commercial construction remains in the doldrums, the senior housing market remains unaffected. Sunrise Senior Living (NYSE: SRZ) is enjoying an expanding market, opening seven new communities in 4Q 2007 alone. Sixteen more new senior living communities are in the works for 2008, to join the 22 new communities Sunrise opened in 2007. 4Q revenue under management increased 7% to $616.7 million and FY2007 revenue under management increased 8% to $2.37 million. Revenue growth was a result of a combination of acquisitions of existing senior communities, building new communities, as well as a 5.8-7.9% increase in the average daily rate in existing communities.

Presently, Sunrise Senior Living is enjoying a trifecta. The number of revenue producing senior communities is on the increase. The company usually hits its 95% occupancy rate within the first 12 months if not sooner, and the average daily rates paid by an increasing number of those residents is also going up. More people paying more money. For an investor, what's not to like?

Due to accounting restatements for its Greystone subsidiary, Sunrise Senior Living is currently in the midst of a $140 million reduction in net income for the period 1996-2005. By the end of 2008, the company predicts the accounting restatements will no longer be a drag on the balance sheet, which will then allow it to expand its senior living offerings in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. Currently the stock trades at under $25. There will be no shortage of seniors in the next few years looking for attractive housing options, so now might be a good time to investigate investments in the senior housing market.

Sunrise Senior Living brightens housing market originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>assisted living communitiesAssistedLivingCommunitieshousingmature housingMatureHousingretirement communitiesRetirementCommunitiesSRZSunrise Senior Living, IncorporatedSunriseSeniorLiving,IncorporatedWed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:00 EST<![CDATA[Who does Sunrise Senior Living (SRZ) think its owners are?]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/10/01/who-does-sunrise-senior-living-srz-think-its-owners-are/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/10/01/who-does-sunrise-senior-living-srz-think-its-owners-are/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/10/01/who-does-sunrise-senior-living-srz-think-its-owners-are/#commentsIt's a well-known fact that corporate governance in general, and annual meetings in particular, are a complete joke. If you believe in shareholder democracy, then please give me the tooth fairy's email address.

But Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (NYSE: SRZ) has taken the corporate governance parody to astounding heights. On October 16th, 17 months after its last annual meeting, and after options scandals, accounting scandals, and the firing of a CEO among other thing, shareholders will convene for the annual meeting.

The New York Times piece on this travesty sums it up: Welcome to the annual meeting. Now be quiet. Only three directors will be standing for re-election, and no other business issues will be allowed to be discussed.

And we thought the shareholders owned the company, and the board/officers were supposed to be held accountable to them. Hah!

We can only hope Sunrise's assisted-living facilities treat their residents with more respect than the company treats its shareholders.

Who does Sunrise Senior Living (SRZ) think its owners are? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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MOST NOTEWORTHY: Sonic Automotive (SAH), Hawaiian Electric (HE), AstraZeneca (AZN), AMB Property (AMB) and ProLogis (PLD) were today's noteworthy downgrades:
  • Hawaiian Electric (NYSE: HE) was cut to Underweight from Equal Weight at Lehman based on valuation and the regulatory environment.
  • AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) was downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at MorganStanley based on the reduced buyback, the $1.6B restructuring charge and potential for Nexium generics in Europe.
  • Citigroup cut AMB Property (NYSE: AMB) and ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) to Sell from Hold citing the tight capital markets and the impact on costs for the downgrades...
OTHER DOWNGRADES:
  • Keybanc downgraded shares of Diebold (NYSE: DBD) to Hold from Buy.
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Analyst downgrades: AZN, CNTY, DBD and DHI originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's a done deal! The acquisition of six Florida senior living communities in a joint venture between GE and Sunrise was completed today.
GE Healthcare Financial Services, a subsidiary of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), partnered up with Sunrise Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: SRZ) and together they bought six Florida senior living communities for $460 million. The deal included assuming $134 million in debt and $10 million in transaction costs.

While GE funded about $117 million of the $460 million purchase price, Sunrise only contributed some $39 million and the rest was financed. Yet Sunrise brings the experience and is set to manage the properties. Sunrise will have a 25% stake in the venture with GE having the remaining 75%.

The communities purchased can house about 2,300 residents and have annual revenues of more than $65 million. With this move, GE is trying to further capitalize on what is believed to be one of the future growth businesses as the baby-boomers age -- especially the independent living market one.

GE gets into the 'senior living' market with new deal originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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