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FeedPosted Mar 22nd 2011 12:00PM by Jason Raznick (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Walgreen Co (WAG)
Walgreen (WAG), Dollar General (DG) and Express (EXPR) all reported higher quarterly profits Tuesday morning, with Dollar General and Express both beating Wall Street consensus earnings estimates. With news like this, it may be beneficial for an investor to take a closer look at the retail sector.
Granted, Walgreen did not impress Wall Street, and shares fell more than 7%. Express and Dollar General, however, are reaping the benefits with Express trading up over 5% and Dollar General enjoying a 3% upswing. Both companies opened trading up in the markets Tuesday.
Continue reading Trade the Positive Retail News
Posted Mar 20th 2011 12:30PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Tiffany and Co (TIF), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Economic Data, Housing
Quarterly reports from Oracle (ORCL), Discover (DFS) and Tiffany (TIF) will highlight news on the earnings front this week.
Elsewhere on the economic calendar, the focus will be on housing, with existing home sales data due from the National Association of Realtors on Monday, new home sales numbers from the Census Bureau on Wednesday and data on housing starts released on Thursday.
Also watch for durable goods orders in February and the final GDP for the fourth quarter.
Continue reading Week in Preview: Housing Data and Late Season Earnings (ORCL, DFS, TIF)
Posted Mar 4th 2011 10:00AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: PepsiCo (PEP), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Newsletters, Walgreen Co (WAG), Procter and Gamble (PG), Stocks to Buy

"A good source for finding stocks that consistently boost their dividends is S&P's High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index," suggests
Chuck Carlson.
The editor of
The DRIP Investor explains, "Four stocks in that index -- ExxonMobil (
XOM), PepsiCo (
PEP), Procter & Gamble (
PG) and Walgreen (
WAG) -- are also long-time residents of our Editor's Portfolio.
"It's estimated that approximately one-third of the S&P 500 Index's total return since 1926 is due to dividends. Thus, dividends matter, especially if that dividend stream rises over time.
Continue reading Dividend Aristrocrats: Four Income Favorites
Posted Feb 4th 2011 3:30PM by Steven Mallas (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Walgreen Co (WAG), CVS Corp (CVS), Rite Aid Corp (RAD)
CVS Caremark (CVS), a drugstore chain that competes with Rite Aid (RAD) and Walgreen (WAG), reported earnings for the fourth quarter on Thursday. The market wasn't taken by them. Looking at the extreme right side of the chart, it can be seen that the stock came under some pressure after the release. This afternoon, the shares are under further pressure: at the time of this writing, they were off by 1.1% to $32.55, with heavy volume backing the trade.
Does it sound like the company missed the estimate attached to it? No, that wasn't the problem. According to the Associated Press, adjusted profit came in at 80 cents per share, one penny ahead of the prediction.
Continue reading CVS Caremark: Buy After Latest Report?
Posted Feb 2nd 2011 12:00PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Walgreen Co (WAG), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Analyst Initiations, Anadarko Petroleum (APC)
Analyst Upgrades
- Electronic Arts (ERTS) to overweight from neutral at Piper Jaffray.
- Helix Energy (HLX) to overweight from equal weight at Morgan Stanley.
- Quest Software (QSFT) to neutral from sell at Goldman.
- LTX-Credence (LTXC) to buy from hold at Needham.
- Anadarko (APC) to buy from hold at Canaccord.
- Walgreen (WAG) to hold from sell at Citigroup.
- Pericom (PSEM) to buy from hold at ThinkEquity.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: APC, DLTR, ENR, ERTS, KKR, NUAN, QSFT, WAG, WWW ...
Posted Jan 4th 2011 11:00AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, eBay (EBAY), Motorola (MOT), Walgreen Co (WAG), Carnival Corp (CCL), Safeway Inc (SWY), NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Amgen Inc (AMGN), Analyst Initiations, Polo Ralph Lauren'A' (RL)
Analyst Upgrades
- Polo Ralph Lauren (RL) to buy from hold at Citigroup.
- Qualcomm (QCOM) to buy from neutral at Roth Capital.
- Walgreen (WAG) to conviction buy from neutral at Goldman.
- Rockwell (ROK) to outperform from neutral at Credit Suisse.
- Carnival (CCL) to buy from hold at Deutsche Bank.
- SunTrust (STI) and TD Bank (TD) to outperform from market perform at Keefe Bruyette.
- Hawaiian Electric (HE) to outperform from neutral at RW Baird.
- Essex Property Trust (ESS) to outperform from neutral at Macquarie.
- Amgen (AMGN) to neutral from underperform at BofA/Merrill.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: EBAY, ERIC, MMI, MSI, NKE, QCOM, RL, ROK, SWY, WAG ...
Posted Dec 23rd 2010 1:30PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Forecasts, Other Issues, General Electric (GE), Walgreen Co (WAG), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Bank of America (BAC), Bank of New York (BK), CVS Corp (CVS), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Teva Pharm Indus ADR (TEVA), Wells Fargo (WFC), Bargain Stocks, Chasing Value™, Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV)

To paraphrase
Mark Twain "The reports of
our death are greatly exaggerated". The world
economy has been in shambles for a few years now, and our nation has much work ahead of it. 2010 was an improvement over 2009 and I believe 2011 will show further improvement.
There are lots of ideas running through my mind as I consider where the economy might be heading in 2011. What opportunities lay in front of us waiting to be picked up or passed over? Just five trading days left, and market activity will slow down except among fund managers making adjustments for tax purposes or window dressing. You should examine your tax situation, too.
Continue reading Chasing Value: Pre-Christmas Quick Takes
Posted Dec 22nd 2010 8:30AM by Paul Foster (RSS feed)
Filed under: Walgreen Co (WAG), Options
Walgreen (WAG) is expected to report Q1 EPS on December 22. January and February put option implied volatility of 27 is near its 26-week average, according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional price movement.
Massey Energy's (MEE) board is considering several bids for the company, reports the Wall Street Journal. Overall option implied volatility of 36 is below its 26-week average of 51, according to Track Data, suggesting decreasing price movement.
Options Update is by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com.
Posted Dec 19th 2010 12:30PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY), Darden Restaurants (DRI), NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE), Economic Data
Companies continue to file quarterly reports late in the season, and a few are poised to spread some early holiday cheer for investors this week. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect strong earnings results from Nike (NKE), Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) and Darden Restaurants (DRI), among others. Here's a quick look (for more details, see the DailyFinance Week in Preview).
Analysts forecast Nike's fiscal-second quarter earnings to come in at 88 cents per share, a 13.6% increase from the same period of last year. The world's leading athletic footwear maker also is expected to post revenue of $4.8 billion for the three months that ended in November. That's 9.3% more than the same period a year earlier. Note that Nike's earnings have not fallen short of consensus estimates in the past five quarters.
Continue reading Week in Preview: Late Season Earnings from Nike, Bed Bath & Beyond, Darden
Posted Dec 14th 2010 11:00AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Walgreen Co (WAG), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Research in Motion (RIMM), Amgen Inc (AMGN), Analyst Initiations
Analyst Upgrades
- Amgen (AMGN) to overweight from neutral at Piper Jaffray.
- Goodrich Petroleum (GDP) to outperform from market perform at Wells Fargo.
- Tutor Perini (TPC) to buy from neutral at UBS.
- Covidien (COV) to buy from neutral at Goldman.
- Sara Lee (SLE) and Comcast (CMCSA) to outperform from market perform at Bernstein.
- Research In Motion (RIMM) to outperform from sector perform at FBN Securities.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: AMGN, CMCSA, GDP, FAST, FLR, KBR, PGR, RIMM, SLE, WAG ...
Posted Dec 9th 2010 12:00PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Home Depot (HD), Walgreen Co (WAG), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Lowe's Cos (LOW), Under Armour'A' (UA), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Analyst Initiations, Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT), AOL (AOL)
Analyst Upgrades
- Walgreen (WAG) and Triumph Group (TGI) to buy from neutral at UBS.
- Focus Media (FMCN) to buy from neutral at Goldman.
- Home Depot (HD) to outperform from market perform at FBR Capital.
- Arbitron (ARB) to overweight from neutral at JPMorgan.
- Waddell & Reed (WDR) and Legg Mason (LM) to overweight from equal weight, and Janus Capital (JNS) to overweight from underweight, at Barclays.
- Central Euro Media (CETV) to buy from hold at Deutsche Bank.
- GenOn Energy (GEN) and Ntelos (NTLS) to outperform from sector perform at RBC Capital.
- Cooper Tire (CTB) to buy from neutral and Goodyear Tire (GT) to buy from underperform at BofA/Merrill.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: AOL, FMCN, GT, HD, JNJ, JNS, LOW, QCOM, RY, UA, WAG ...
Posted Oct 5th 2010 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Walgreen Co (WAG), Harley-Davidson (HOG)

In the race to devalue currency globally, Japan adopted the same US-style on rates and went to a short-term rate of 0.0% to 0.1% from 0.1%. The hopes of a global quantitative easing drove shares higher and manufacturing data added support.
Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:
Dow Jones 10,941.08 +189.81 (1.77%)
S&P 500 1,160.41 +23.38 (2.06%)
Nasdaq 2,398.86 +54.34 (2.32%)
TOP ANALYST CALLSContinue reading Closing Bell: Easing to the Rescue (CLDX, GYMB, WFR, TLB, WAG, SKS, HOG)
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