Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) and Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM) released their quarterly financial results today. ADM reported net earnings of $345 million for the first quarter of 2011, down $151 million from the same quarter of 2010. Their reported earnings per share were $0.54, down from quarter one […]
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The October 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business from the Institute for Supply Management was released today and it put PMI at 56.9 percent, an increase over September’s 54.4 percent reading. Since any reading above 50 indicates growth, this is good news. You can see the full report here. Investors […]
The High Growth model managed by Joseph Mjelde is focused on stocks with consistent revenue and earnings growth of 20 percent or more. Mjelde also looks for those stocks that should have continued growth due to the trends of their respective industries. The model keeps 10 or more holdings and […]
In his Deep Fundamental Analysis model, manager Tab Buford reviews quarterly and annual reports and looks for companies that have a demonstrated ability to grow sales, book values, earnings and cash flows over many different economic cycles. One of the top holdings in the model is The Hershey Company (NYSE: […]
The Department of Commerce released their National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2010 advance estimate today. According to the report, GDP increased at an annual rate of 2 percent from the second to the third quarter, which was a greater rate than the prior quarter and […]
Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Lakshman Achuthan and Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Anirvan Banerji co-wrote and submitted an op-ed piece on CNN which ran today. In it, they stated that the double-dip recession many have feared is actually, “not going to happen.” According to […]
The Commerce Department released both new residential home sales and durable goods data from September today. According to the reports, new single-family home sales increased in September by 6.6 percent, but were 21.5 percent below September 2009’s sales, likely due to the lack of home buying tax credits available this […]
The Mid-Cap Fundamentals model managed by John Ballard is a long-term model that holds the best companies within under-capitalized sectors. Recently, Ballard added Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to the model. NFLX has a high price to earnings ratio compared to peers, but the company has basically no competition in the […]
billion in 2007 to $19.4 billion in 2008, then finally to $16.8 billion in 2009. During the first three quarters of 2010, the company had reached a reported
It was announced today that the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in October, and the increase—though slight—beat the expectations of analysts. To read the full report, visit the website. Combining the consumer confidence results with yesterday’s data about increasing existing home sales, investors should have been buoyed. But the […]
Frank Hogelucht, a relatively new model manager to Covestor (Frank’s Trading the Odds model has an inception date of August 13th, 2010), has an interesting approach to model management: he combines statistics and historical market data to create a ‘card-counting’ method of picking equities and funds for his model. We […]
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) presented their latest existing home sales information today. Happily, September saw a gain in existing home sales. In total, sales increased 10 percent, which is still 19.1 percent lower than September 2009 levels. This difference is likely due to the tax credits offered to […]