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  • CBOE Expands its Options And some Grocery Shopping by Finance Banter
    The VIX is down 8% to 22.50 near; the wild swings in the VIX has caused the 10-day historical volatility of this measure of implied volatility to jump from 85% to 125% in the past three trading sessions.  The put/call ratios remain somewhat elevated with the all exchange reading at 0.95 at... More »
    December 1, 2009 • KR, SWY, SVU
  • Why pay a premium for a KKR IPO -- Dollar General by IPOdesktop
    Dollar General (DG)Largest discount retailer in the United States by number of stores, with 8,577 stores located in 35 states as of July 31, 2009, primarily in the southern, southwestern, midwestern and eastern United States.SALES ARE UPFor the first half of 2009, total sales growth was... More »
    November 9, 2009 • WMT, TGT, DLTR
  • Sizing up Supervalu by Mark Krieger
    The way Wall Street has turned on SVU, you’d think the company had one foot on a banana peel  and  the other  on a “slip and slide”. The Street has literally wrote it  off as damaged goods because of its heavy debt load, as it is evident that most... More »
    October 5, 2009 • KR, SWY
  • Winds of Change: Harbingers of Correction Emerging by Raymond Chung
    Give credit to the bulls.  For the last six months, most economic indicators and corporate earnings in aggregate have been in their favor.  Economic data has become less and less bad, and many companies have either beaten lowered earnings expectations or achieved trough earnings (at... More »
    October 1, 2009 • ADBE, BBY, BBBY
  • Don't Bet Against King Kroger by Wall Street Strategies
    Grocery giant Kroger (KR) recently reported a second quarter earnings report that fell handily below expectations. Sales were half a billion dollars below consensus and earnings fell shy by $0.05 per share, sending shares down more than 8% the same day. For the average investor in the market... More »
    September 17, 2009 • KR, SWY, SVU
  • Kroger Gains Back Market Share from Wal-Mart by Jake Berzon
    Kroger reported its second quarter earnings on Tuesday morning, September 15th, 2009. Earnings were 39 cents vs. 42 cents a year ago, disappointing analysts whose consensus view was 4 cents higher. Sales for the quarter were fractionally lower, as well - $17.74 billion vs. $18.09 billion in the... More »
    September 16, 2009 • KR, WMT
  • The Weekly Special: Harris Teeter/The Ruddick Corporation by H.J. Huneycutt
    For those who follow my writings here at Seeking Alpha and my investment analysis at Motley Fool, you might know that I tend to veer towards stocks that offer the highest reward potential, which means I end up buying a lot of “medium risk” and “high risk”... More »
    August 9, 2009 • RDK, GAP, SWY
  • Another look at Supervalu (SVU) by Jake Berzon
    I first wrote about SuperValue (SVU) at the end of 2008, here, after picking up some shares at $12.46. Fifteen days later I sold those shares at a profit of 43.5%. By the end of the day this Thursday, SVU shares were once again trading within pennies of the price I paid for them in December.... More »
    July 3, 2009 • SVU, KR, SWY
  • Short-Term Market Concerns, Volatility Rising by Price Headley
    June 22, 2009 June Expiration ended last Friday with the major indices down sharply for the week.  We are also down thus far on Monday, with the S&P 500 Index (SPX) right around the round 900 level currently.  Earnings Reporting includes some big names in a variety of sectors this... More »
    June 22, 2009 • SPX, DIA, SPY
  • Grocery Store Stocks: Fallout Coming in Highly Competitive Industry by Joe Kunkle
    Grocery store stocks do not receive a lot of coverage in the market, and have underperformed in the recent rally for the most part.  This trend is likely to continue as rising commodity costs crimp margins and hurt earnings across the board, while a few should be able to gain market share... More »
    June 14, 2009 • WFMI, WMT, COST

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