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Earnings highlights: Deere, Freddie Mac, Applied Materials, Barclay's and others

Posted May 17th 2008 4:10PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Home Depot (HD), Penney (J.C.) (JCP), Applied Materials (AMAT), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Lowe's Cos (LOW), Kohl's Corp (KSS), Toll Brothers (TOL), Deere and Co (DE), Barclays plc ADS (BCS), MBIA Inc (MBI)

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

Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Q2 profits declined on a glut of flash memory chips.
Bally Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BYI) beat Q3 expectations and offered full-year guidance.
Barclay's (NYSE: BCS) reported a big Q1 loss on credit-related write-downs.
Constant Contact Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCT) saw big increases in Q1 revenues and in its customer base.
Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) Q2 profits rose on international demand, but results just missed estimates.
Fluor Corp.'s (NYSE: FLR) strong Q1 results are a signal for the energy sector, says Jim Cramer.
Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) Q1 loss widened on the housing slump, but not as much as forecast.
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. (NYSE: IMB) narrowed its loss but predicted it wouldn't see a profit in 2008.
LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) Q1 earnings topped forecasts and it raised its outlook.
MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) reported a larger-than-expected Q1 loss due to write-downs.
Mindray Medical International Ltd. (NYSE: MR) beat Q1 expectations and raised its full-year guidance.
Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) Q2 earnings were in line with analysts' expectations.
ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) beat Q1 expectations and raised its Q2 revenue forecast.
RealNetworks Inc. (NASDAQ: RNWK) beat Q1 estimates and announced share buybacks and a spin off.
Salary.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SLRY) missed Q1 forecasts, leading to analysts' downgrades.
Sykes Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: SYKE) beat Q1 estimates and raised its Q2 and full-year forecast.
Syniverse Holdings Inc. (NYSE: SVR) beat Q1 expectations on strength in "messaging and mobil data."
Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) warned of lower Q2 profits and more "challenging times" ahead.
Website Pros Inc. (NASDAQ: WSPI) reported flat earnings despite soaring revenues and operating income.

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Closing Bell: survey says national home prices tumbled 7.7%

Posted May 13th 2008 4:14PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), International Business Machines (IBM), , ,

National home prices tumbled by 7.7% in the first quarter in a recent survey. While retail sales did fall -0.2% overall in the month of April, the ex-autos numbers were actually positive by +0.5%. Below are the unofficial closing levels for major averages:

DJIA 12,833.97 (-42.34; -0.33%)
S&P500 1,403.42 (-0.16; -0.01%)
NASDAQ 2,495.34 (+6.85; +0.28%)
10YR-TBond 3.909% (+0.134%)
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Clear Channel Communications Inc. (NYSE: CCU) was up again on news of a settlement between the buyers and the banks for the $20 billion delayed buyout by Bain Capital and THL Partners. The court was adjourned until 2 pm today to allow settlement talks to continue. Shares were up 4% to $34.24 at the end of the day.

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Web.com gets married

Posted Jul 2nd 2007 10:50AM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Deals

I've met Web.com's (NASDAQ: WWWW) CEO Jeff Stibel several times. When he came on board the company about two years ago, things were fairly bleak. The hosting company was bleeding lots of red ink and had no vision.

That changed quickly with Stibel. He cut costs and remade the company by changing the branding, adding new services and putting together some key alliances.

It was all encouraging. But despite everything, Wall Street was not responding. Then again, in the small cap world, it's not easy to get the attention of investors and analysts.

So last week, Web.com agreed to sell out to Website Pros (NASDAQ: WSPI) for $6.5233 per share or $129 million.

In the combination, there will be much more scale to attack the large market opportunity for small and medium size business (SMB) web sites. There are about 25 million in the US.

With the Deal, Website Pros will have $117 million in annualized revenues and 234,000 paid subscribers. But as more and more SMBs move to the Net, Website Pros will continue to benefit and I think get the attention of investors as well.

Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including the Complete M&A Handbook and the EDGAR-Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements.

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Earnings highlights: Deere, Freddie Mac, Applied Materials, Barclay's and others

Closing Bell: survey says national home prices tumbled 7.7%