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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Financial Skeptic http://www.financialskeptic.blogspot.com/ Critical commentary on investor relations and how investors may be duped and or mislead. Category: Directory » Business Blogs » Investing » Stock Market Hits: 8 Date added: 2006-03-30 21:51:18 Alexa traffic rank: 3,561,875 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast Faster than 49% of websites Site language: EN Site encoding: UTF-8

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Texas Instruments Telling Acquisition of Commergy Technology
Texas Instruments (TXN) just announced the acquisition of Commergy Technology. Terms and conditions were not disclosed and at this point it is entirely uncertain if the transaction will have a financial impact that would be noticeable to investors. What is telling is that the folks at Texas... Read more...
Published 11 hours ago

American Water Works Springs a Leak!
American Water Works Company, Inc (AWK) reported for the quarter, which includes a nonrecurring, noncash impairment charge, a net loss of $732.5 million, or $4.58 per share. Thats quite the initial first quarter for a company that went public and started trading on the NYSE on April 23. The... Read more...
Published 1 day ago

HP Swallows EDS! Will It Taste Good?
Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) for $13.2 billion in a deal that many feel will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM (IBM). The deal is huge and is HPs largest acquisition since it swallowed up Compaq.HP feels the deal will be... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Sprint Can It Still Disappoint?
Sprint (S) released its numbers this Monday morning. They lost just over 1 million customers. The ones that stayed are spending less money. The results looked bleak and surprised the street. The street was actually expecting better numbers which from sprint is an amazing assumption.Management was... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

AIG Clarity Challenged
American International Group (AIG) released its results and told the world the weak U.S. housing market, the disruption in the credit markets, as well as equity market volatility are responsible for some very bad returns for the investors. Then read this quote AIG emphasized that despite the... Read more...
Published 7 days ago

American States Water Gets Thirsty For Profit
American States Water Company (AWR) reported a 33% decrease in EPS. This company is supposedly a utility that delivers water to some of the most parched areas of the United States. Should be like shooting fish in a barrel. How can you drop the ball by 33%? How can management issue a press... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Orbitz Business Model Crashes
Orbitz (OWW)announced net revenues are up 3% and international bookings rose by 41%. You would expect good news at the bottom line. The losses increased by 50%. Q1 loss came to $15 million. Steven Barnhart, CEO and president of Orbitz Worldwide said that that the first quarter of 2008 would be... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

RR Donnelley Q1 Shrinking Margins
RR Donnelley reports its Q1 results. Thomas J. Quinlan III, RR Donnelley's President and Chief Executive Officer said We are pleased with our first-quarter performance.... Our prudent capital management, our ability to leverage capacity at newly acquired companies and our focus on cost control... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Berkshire Hathaways Conflicted Transparency
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) reported its Q1 results last Friday after market close. Berkshire Hathaway is a unique combination of sophisticated complexity with a disarming transparency. No other company has ever come out and said their own press release does not contain enough information. Read... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Burger King Shrinking Margins
Burger King (BKC) reported strong Q3 results led by global business momentum and raised fiscal year guidance. Then as you read the press release and I mean read, for nine full paragraphs, until you realize that the margins are starting to shrink dramatically. Overall sales growth has been strong... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Ingersoll Rand Tax Problem
Ingersoll Rand (IR) reported much improved results with revenues up by 9% and operating income up by 18%. They also have a high class problem they pay too much in taxes. Last years comparable quarter paid approximately $16.3 million in taxes. The latest quarter the tax man comes away with $47.2... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

CGI Positions Foreign Exchange Impacts
CGI (GIB) announced Revenue of $949.1 million, up 5.3% on a constant currency basis; - Q2 2008 bookings of $1.1 billion, up 23.4%; - Earnings before taxes of $100.4 million, up 8.6%; - Net earnings of $68.8 million, up 9.7%; - Net earnings margin of 7.2%, up from 6.6%; - EPS of 21 cents, up... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago