Archive for January, 2010
Investment Ideas: NPBC, CEDC, HF, COP
In defiance of the marketwide selling, and despite the terrible performance over the past twelve months, investors are flowing into National Penn Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:NPBC). Perhaps these buyers are focused on - and rightfully so - the projected next twelve months.
National Penn Bancshares is expected to return to profitability again in 2010, earning $0.27 per [...]
Market, SPDRs (SPY) Now Taking on Water
The S&P 500 SPDR ETF (NYSE:SPY), though not yet even close to falling out of its recent bullish trading range, may have just done something far more alarming. The support line that extends back to July (and arguably to March’s bottom) failed to act as a floor today. The ETF is under it for the [...]
Tuesday’s Unusual Volume Activity
Rallying is one thing, but rallying on high volume is altogether different - and much more bullish. That’s what makes Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM), American Medical Systems Holding Co. (Nasdaq:AMMD), IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCM), Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq:AMED), and Vivo Participacoes S.A. (NYSE:VIV) are Tuesday’s standouts…. big gains, on massive volume. The reason for the [...]
Tuesday’s Market Round-Up: All You Really Need to Know
Slow down a minute Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ENDP) - there’s already a generic Lipoderm skin patch like the one you just submitted an NDA (new drug application for). At least that’s the story from Watson Laboratories Inc. (NYSE:WPI), which recently notified Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings of the overlap.
Watson Laboratories Inc. invoked a ‘paragraph IV’ [...]
The Pros Picks, and Why: T, IBM, KFT, HPQ, MSFT
He gets zero points for creativity, but a few points for being bold enough to be boring. Tom Forester - portfolio manager of the Forester Value Fund has recommended Microsoft Inc. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) as his top tech picks right now…. a sector he’s keen on as a way of avoiding [...]
Volume Alerts: Today’s Heaviest Selling
They may or may not be Wall Street’s biggest gainers today (they are, in some cases), but a handful of stocks are being bought up on massive volume increases. It’s a potential sign of a breakout, and/or institutional buying. Those stocks are:
Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU)
Taleo Corporation (Nasdaq: TLEO)
Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc (Nasdaq: CHSI)
Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. [...]
Trade-Worthy: AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (NYSE: ANN)
About the only thing AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (NYSE: ANN) shares have going for them at this point is how anybody who’s thinking about shorting the stock, or buying put options on it, has a good chance at making some money.
Between the Motley Fool pointing out how unpopular ANN is on their CAPS site, the downgrade [...]
