Stock Analysts

CVS Beats by a Penny, Guidance Narrowed (AET) (CVS) (MHS) (UAM)

CVS Caremark ( CVS ) reported second quarter 2011 EPS of 60 cents, at par with the year-ago quarter earnings. However, after excluding the impact of certain one-time items, adjusted earnings per share came in at 65 cents, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny but meeting the year-ago quarter’s adjusted earnings. Net revenues increased 10.9% year over year to $26.6 billion, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate […]

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Fortune Brands Misses Estimates (BF.B) (DEO) (FO) (MAS)

Fortune Brands Inc. 's ( FO ) adjusted earnings of 71 cents a share for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 97 cents and declined 5.1% from the prior-year quarter. Earnings, on a GAAP basis, were 65 cents per share compared with $1.17 per share posted in the year-ago quarter. […]

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Prudential Tops Estimates (AIG) (MET) (PRU)

Prudential Financial Inc. ’s ( PRU ) second quarter 2011 earnings of $1.71 per share have topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.55 as well as the prior-year quarter’s earnings of 88 cents. Results were aided by solid performance in the company’s U.S. […]

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Currency Wars & Kraft Splits in Two

[cnbc 3000037027] Insight on the currency wars and how to play it, with Rebecca Patterson, JP Morgan, and CNBC’s Kayla Tausche has the story on Kraft’s plans to split into two companies and what it means to investors, with Scott Mushkin, Jefferies […]

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Pioneer Beats on Volume Growth (APA) (CHK) (PXD)

Pioneer Natural Resources Company ( PXD ) has reported second quarter 2011 adjusted earnings of 94 cents per share, outpacing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 83 cents and showing a decent improvement from the year-earlier adjusted income of 43 cents. Better-than-expected results were mainly attributable to production growth in Spraberry field, Eagle Ford Shale and the Barnett Shale Combo. […]