Market Currents

• Tuesday, October 20, 2009

• 17:06 PM A year after many investors fled to the safety of grocers, some of those investments - including Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (GAP -0.3%) and Supervalu (SVU -1.6%) - are smelling a little ripe. Maybe the food play is played out. Comment!
• 09:47 AM SuperValu (SVU): FQ2 EPS of $0.35 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $9.46B (-7.5%) vs. $9.65B. Shares +0.3%. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable pre-market earnings: ALV, BK, BIIB, BLK, BTU, CAT, CMA, COH, DGX, DRH, DD, EAT, FRX, GAP, ITW, JEF, JRN, KO, LXK, LMT, MTB, PCP, PH, PFE, RF, SHW, STT, SVU, UAUA, UNH, UTX, WU Comment!

• Tuesday, October 13, 2009

• 09:49 AM "The Food Retail group's value trap designation has been well earned," Pali Research writes this morning, dropping shares of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea (GAP -7.7%) and SuperValu (SVU -3.6%) to Sell. Investing in grocery stocks based on inflation expectations "represents 'greater fool' investing at its best," firm says. 1 Comment

• Tuesday, July 28, 2009

• 08:14 AM SUPERVALU (SVU): Q2 EPS of $0.55 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $12.7B (-5%) vs. $12.8B. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: AMB, BEAV, BP, CE, CHKP, COH, CVH, DRH, ECL, ELNK, ENR, FPL, IPG, JEC, MHP, NOV, ODP, PCAR, PCX, ROK, SII, SVU, TEVA, TXT, VIA.B, VLO, VSH, WAT, WDR, X Comment!

• Wednesday, June 24, 2009

• 09:00 AM Premarket gainers: PPHM +14%. AIB +10%. CTIC +9%. MGM +8%. SOL +7%. AEG +6%. CNB +6%. BCS +6%. DB +5%. HL +5%. WNR +4%. ORCL +4%. SAY +4%.
  Losers: LYG -13%. SVU -11%. RT -9%. HEB -7%. Comment!

• Thursday, April 23, 2009

• 08:45 AM Supervalu (SVU): FQ4 EPS of $0.87 beats by $0.08. Revenue of $10.82B (+4.2%) in-line. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday's open: ABC, ALXN, AN, AVT, BDK, BG, BLL, CBE, CIT, CLS, CME, CNX, COP, CP, DHR, DO, EMC, ESI, ESV, EXC, FITB, GMT, GR, HSY, IGT, IVZ, JNS, LCC, LLL, MAR, MI, NCR, NCX, NIHD, NOV, NUE, OMTR, OXY, PENN, PM, PNC, POT, RCL, RS, RSH, RTN, RX, SCG, SEIC, SIAL, STI, SU, SVU, TCB, TMO, UNP, UPS, ZMH 1 Comment

• Wednesday, January 7, 2009

• 08:11 AM SuperValu (SVU): Q3 EPS of $0.62 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $10.2B (-0.4%) in-line. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Wednesday's open: FDO, MON, STZ, SVU Comment!

• Tuesday, October 14, 2008

• 04:05 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: ADTN, GAP, JNJ, PEP, SVU Comment!

• Tuesday, July 22, 2008

• 08:08 AM SuperValu (SVU): EPS of $0.79 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $13.35B (+0.4%) vs. $13.19B. [PR] Comment!
• 00:04 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: AKS, AVY, BHI, BIIB, BJS, CAT, CHKP, CME, CP, CPO, DD, DPZ, ERIC, FCX, FITB, FRX, GNTX, HAL, JBLU, JEC, JEF, KEY, LCC, LXK, LMT, OMC, PXPS, PAS, PCAR, PMTC, RF, ROK, RYN, STI, SVU, TLAB, UAUA, UNH, UPS, WAT, WB, WU, WTNY, XTO. Comment!