Month: December 2017

Lazard Ltd. LAZ and OM Asset Management PLC OMAM — the two investment managers — have market capitalization of $6.6 billion and $1.8 billion, respectively. Being based in the same region, both companies are influenced by a similar economic environment […]

Cousins Properties CUZ announced that it has completed the sale of its Orlando office portfolio and equity interest in a joint-venture (JV) Miami asset. The Orlando portfolio, which consists of Bank of America Center, Citrus Center and One Orlando Centre, has been sold for a gross price of $208.1 million. […]

On Dec 22, we issued an updated research report on Actuant Corporation ATU . The company currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) but has a favorable VGM Score B. […]

TransDigm Group Incorporated TDG has decided to divest the SCHROTH business. The company had earlier announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) had been investigating its acquisition of SCHROTH seatbelt and restraints business, which the company concluded in February this year […]

Hercules Capital, Inc. HTGC remains well-positioned to grow in the future supported by its increasing loan originations. […]

Lindsay Corporation LNN reported first-quarter fiscal 2018 (ended Nov 30, 2017) earnings of 30 cents per share, surging a whopping 275% from 8 cents per share recorded in the prior-year quarter. Earnings, however, missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 36 cents. […]

Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA, which had earlier sanctioned the Swiss subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM for money laundering, said that it will now conduct an in-depth review of the unit’s anti-money laundering systems. This is because the regulatory body has found that the banking giant has seriously breached anti-money laundering regulations in its dealings with the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB. […]

Alphabet Inc. GOOGL announced on Thursday that Eric Schmidt will be stepping down from the post of executive chairman in January, after his 17-year long tenure with the company. […]

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value? One way to find these companies is by looking at several key metrics and financial ratios, many of which are crucial in the value stock selection process. […]

After a busy last week filled with clinical trial data presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, the cancer space saw regulatory approvals for label expansion of four drugs this week. Roche Holding AG’s RHHBY breast cancer drug, Perjeta, received FDA nod for its label expansion in post-surgery breast cancer with high risk of recurrence. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company’s BMY blockbuster PD-1 inhibitor drug, Opdivo, received approval for intravenous administration in patients with completely resected melanoma with lymph node involvement or metastatic disease in the United States […]

2017 has been a banner year for the U.S. stock market and the trend is likely to continue next year. The tax reform will act as a major driving factor for stocks coupled with strong corporate earnings and accelerating economic growth in many parts of the world […]

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP is one of those cybersecurity companies that have demonstrated remarkable share price performance in the year so far. The stock has rallied 23.5% in the year so far, outperforming the ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF’s HACK return of 18.8% […]

The restaurant industry has been lacking zing over the past few quarters. Negative comps resulting from sluggish traffic, along with rising costs, continue to take the shine out of restaurant stocks. […]

Facebook Inc. FB recently signed “an unprecedented global, multi-year” deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) that will allow users to post videos with music from the record label on its platform as well as on Instagram and Oculus. […]

Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value? One way to find these companies is by looking at several key metrics and financial ratios, many of which are crucial in the value stock selection process […]