Parker Hannifin Is The Latest Industrial To Beat Earnings Estimates And Bolster Guidance [View article]
$PH...............Parker Hannifin (PH +5.7%) trades up after its FQ3 results easily beat estimates on record sales. Net income jumped 11% Y/Y on strong operating performance in its North American industrial business and a boost from a one-time tax benefit. The company also increased its EPS guidance to between $7.30 - $7.50 from its earlier estimate of $6.90 - $7.30, and raises its quarterly dividend by $0.2 to $0.41 per share. [
Key Catalysts Will Drive ConocoPhillips Stock Appreciation [View article]
$COP..................... spinoff Phillips 66 (PSX) will replace Supervalu (SVU) in the S&P 500 index, with SVU moving to the S&P MidCap 400 after the close of trading April 30. The grocer's market cap is below $1.4B, "making it more representative of the mid cap market space," S&P Indices says
Basic Energy Services Poised To Move Higher After 40% Pullback [View article]
$BAS...............Basic Energy Services (BAS +3.4%) is initiated at Market Perform rating with an $18 target price at Howard Weil, which says that while Q1 results prove BAS is not entirely insulated from "various degrees of franchise contortion in addressing established and emerging oil and liquids plays," it finds BAS "with refreshingly less to do in this regard save for sticking to its roots
Attention Shoppers: Qualcomm And EMC Are Now On Sale On Aisle 5 [View article]
$EMC..................... is reportedly in talks to acquire XtremIO, an Israeli developer of high-end storage arrays relying on flash memory, for $400M-$450M. It's also claimed NetApp (NTAP) and others have talked with XtremIO, which competes with fast-growing Violin Memory. XtremIO would fill a hole in EMC's line: the company has rolled out server flash modules, but has only announced plans to offer arrays built specifically with flash in mind
The 3 Way Trade That Could Imperil Google [View article]
$GOOG....more signes of the developing partnership between Facebook and Microsoft................ (FB) has agreed to purchase a portion of the patents and patent applications Microsoft (MSFT) acquired from AOL for $550M in cash. Facebook will receive 650 of AOL's patents and applications through the deal, while Microsoft will hold onto 275, as well as license to the ones it's selling to Facebook. Microsoft paid $1.056B for AOL's portfolio, reportedly trumping a Facebook offer in the process
Parker Hannifin Is The Latest Industrial To Beat Earnings Estimates And Bolster Guidance [View article]
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Key Catalysts Will Drive ConocoPhillips Stock Appreciation [View article]
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Microsoft Continues To Impress [View article]
Microsoft Continues To Impress [View article]