Shares of CVS Caremark Corp (NYSE: CVS) fell 4.99 percent today, from $34.65 to $32.92, after it released its fourth quarter 2010 financial results. The company beat analysts estimates but its EPS and revenues fell from the prior year. This comes just a few weeks after the company, which had […]
With the barrage of information and advertisements hitting consumers through social media, television and radio, it can be difficult for a company to get consumers’ attention. This causes many companies to think outside the box for their advertising and promotion ideas, and adopt creative viral marketing tactics. While this can […]
*See important disclosures. In January, Analytic Investment added additional shares of Material Sciences (NASDAQ: MASC) to its Focus Value model. MASC is now the top holding in the model. Just before Analytic Investment increased its holding in this position, MASC announced that its board of directors had authorized the company […]
ADM had a 30 percent increase in their EPS, an unexpected rise partially due to reduced global grain supplies. Some are still concerned that ADM might miss
*See important disclosures. In Mark Holder’s Opportunistic Arbitrage model, the goal is to look for positions with long-term growth possibilities as well as opportunistic situations that leave companies trading below their intrinsic value. Last month, Holder added Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) to the model. In a recent post for Seeking […]
Days between October 1 and December 31, 2010: 92 ExxonMobil (XOM) earnings for this period: $9,250,000,000 XOM earnings per day during this period: $100,543,478 Remember, this is earnings – not revenues. HT: Eddy Elfenbein
When buying a new car is cheaper than buying a used one – Edmunds.com The best time to buy an airline ticket – WSJ Don’t get an MBA – Philip Delves Broughton, The Economist Why we use debit cards instead of credit cards – David Evans
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced today that the recently released Intel® 6 series support chips, which have been highly anticipated for months now, were issued with a design issue that has now been fixed. In the world of business, there are mistakes–and then there are mistakes. In INTC’s case, this faulty […]
At the supermarket, why do we all get the sense that we made the wrong decision in choosing a slow checkout line? Turns out that’s actually true most of the time, and until they change the organization method you can mathematically expect this frustrating experience to repeat itself more often […]
Assange gave an interview to 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft, which aired last night. Banking executives couldn’t have been pleased to hear this part:
Washington State’s O Bee Credit Union is running a local scavenger hunt based on Microsoft’s Tags (QR Codes) and will give away $15,000 in cash prizes to some who successfully capture all 30 tags on their mobile phones.