Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED) announced its fourth quarter results of fiscal 2009 with earnings per share (EPS) of 67 cents, which fell short of both the Zacks Consensus EPS Estimate of 77 cents and the year-ago EPS of 72 cents. EPS was affected by the…
As I noted in my write-up for The Pantry (PTRY), my investing strategy focuses on finding value stocks trading at a Price to Book (P/B) of less than one. From these, I try to find seemingly boring and unsexy companies that I think will keep posting pos…
Stocks came strongly out of the gate last Monday to kick off the 2010 Wall Street race. And indeed the market advanced throughout the week, albeit fitfully, with the S&P 500 starting the week at 1114 and closing at 1144. So let’s recap last week
Every once in a while, the media grabs hold of a topic we’ve long been covering. Surely you’ve caught glimpses of news stories covering peak oil or the need for rare earth metals in the mainstream of late.
Waste Management, Inc. (WM) has acquired Metro Waste Disposal, a solid waste services company. Metro Waste Disposal, which primarily serves commercial and industrial customers in the Cleveland, Akron and Canton areas, will further strengthen Waste Mana…
US stocks retreated in afternoon trade as technology and financial shares declined, sending major indexes lower.[More...]
A crisis is unfolding that no one is talking about.
It’s not financial. And it’s not about oil.
Yet scores of Fortune 500 companies are worried about it. And at the same time, dozens of companies are salivating over the opportunity it presents.
A hostile commodity takeover is slowly gripping the world.
It began in Africa, but has quickly spread to Asia, Australia, Europe, and even the United States.[More...]