Month: November 2011

Capella Education Company (CPLA) was founded in 1991 in Minnesota as an education institution targeting working adults. By 1993 the company was offering doctoral and master’s degrees through distance learning programs, and by 1995 CPLA […]

Energy Transfer Partners L.P. ( ETP ) has commenced an underwritten public offering of 13,250,000 common units representing limited partner interests. The natural gas and propane gas master limited partnership (“MLP”) also intends to provide the underwriters with a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,987,500 additional common units to cover over-allotments, if any […]

Integrated oil and gas company TOTAL S.A. ( TOT ) announced that its Nigerian subsidiary Total E&P Nigeria Ltd. (TEPNG) has made a second oil discovery at its Oil Mining Lease ("OML") 102. […]

General Dynamics Corporation ( GD ) has entered into a definitive agreement with Force Protection Inc. ( FRPT ) under which the former will acquire the latter for a price of $5.52 per share of common stock, or approximately $360 million. Force Protection designs, manufactures, tests, delivers and supports its blast- and ballistic-protected products to increase survivability for users […]

On November 4, Hilltop Holdings Inc. ( HTH ) filed its 10-Q to report results for the quarter ending September 30, 2011. For the third quarter of 2011, net income attributable to common stockholders increased to $.25 mill ion breaking even on per share basis from a loss of $7.2 million or 13 cents in the year-ago period […]

Allos Therapeutics Inc. ’s ( ALTH ) third quarter 2011 loss of 11 cents per share was narrower than the year-ago loss of 18 cents and the Zacks Consensus loss estimate of 15 cents per share. […]

Tetra Tech Inc. ( TTEK ) is scheduled to report its third quarter and fiscal 2011 results on Wednesday November 9, 2011. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is 40 cents a share […]

Southern Union Company ( SUG ) reported third quarter 2011 adjusted earnings of 42 cents per share, falling short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 44 cents. Results however improved from the prior-year earnings of 40 cents. Including one time-items of 4 cents, the company reported a GAAP EPS of 46 cents in the quarter compared with 29 cents in third quarter 2010. […]

Q3 2011 Financial Results: DPP Products Driving Revenue Brian Marckx, CFA Chembio Diagnostics ( CEMI ) reported financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2011 on November 3rd. Revenue of $5.92 million crushed our $4.61 million estimate, the ~ $1.3 million difference split fairly equally between better than anticipated international sales of the lateral flow products and much stronger than estimated DPP product sales to FIOCRUZ. Q3 revenue was a record high for Chembio, surpassing their previous best quarterly sales of $5.67 million which came in Q4 2010. […]