Month: February 2018

Though Walmart Inc.’s WMT e-commerce sales did not grow as fast as expected last quarter, the retail giant has ample ways to please its online and instore shoppers. Walmart has planned to make huge investments in the online space this year, while its bricks-and-mortar stores will drive grocery orders and same-day deliveries. Investment in new brands and technology should also attract customers, which will eventually help the company achieve its sales goal. […]

Snap SNAP is introducing GIF — Graphic Interchange Format — stickers on its messaging application Snapchat by collaborating with Giphy. The GIF stickers will be available in the Sticker Picker menu of the application, reports TechCrunch. Snapchat also introduced a Tab feature on the Friends and Discover pages of the application that will enable users to easily sort the Stories that they wish to see […]

The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart WMT suffered its worst one-day stock decline in three decades following its fourth-quarter fiscal 2018 results. The stock tumbled more than 10% at the close of Tuesday’s trading session, representing its steepest one-day drop since Jan 8 1988, and wiping out more than $31 billion in the company’s market value. It trumped its average volume figures, as nearly 52.1 million shares exchanged hands compared with around 9 million on an average. […]

Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. SNI is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 26, after the market closes. Last quarter, the company delivered a positive earnings surprise of 7.1%. […]

United States Cellular USM , the wireless subsidiary of Telephone & Data Systems TDS , is slated to report fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 23, before the opening bell. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $1 billion, reflecting year-over-year improvement of 0.9%. The consensus estimate for the bottom line is pegged at a loss of 8 cents per share, indicating year-over-year decline of 14.3% […]

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? […]

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation PNW is likely to beat estimates when it reports fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 23. In the third quarter, the utility company delivered a positive earnings surprise of 5.58%. Why Likely a Positive Surprise A stock needs to have a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) for this to happen. […]

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. LPLA released its monthly activity report for January 2018. […]

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. JEC has inked a non-exclusive contract with Atos, in a bid to offer state-of-the-art predictive, condition-based field service optimization and maintenance solutions. […]

Astec Industries, Inc. ASTE reported adjusted earnings of 42 cents per share in fourth-quarter 2017, which declined around 20.8% year over year. Earnings also missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 45 cents […]

Recently, Infosys Limited INFY unveiled a combined Center of Excellence (CoE) with PTC India Ltd. (‘PTC’) in its Bengaluru campus. The new CoE will innovate premium solutions required for greenfield as well as brownfield industrial arrangements […]

Palo Alto Networks, Inc . PANW is slated to release second-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Feb 26. The question lingering in investors’ minds is whether this cybersecurity company will be able to post a positive earnings surprise in the to-be-reported quarter. […]

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. ACOR announced that the FDA has accepted its new drug application (NDA) for late stage pipeline candidate, Inbrija. […]

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 […]