Year: 2019

Northrop Grumman Corp. ’s NOC business unit, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. […]

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. […]

DISH Network DISH live TV streaming service Sling TV recently announced a price hike for all its subscription options by $5 each per month effective Dec 23, 2019. Sling Orange and Sling Blue are now available $30 per month each instead of $25. The main difference between the two packages is that Sling Blue includes Fox and NBC broadcast and sports networks, while Sling Orange includes Disney DIS and ESPN channels. […]

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. […]

HMS Holdings Corp HMSY closed the acquisition of Accent, the payment accuracy and cost-containment business of Intrado Corporation, for $155 million. The deal, announced last month, is expected to boost HMS Holdings’ Payment Integrity solutions business. For investors’ notice, Nebraska-based Intrado is an innovative, cloud-based, global technology partner to clients worldwide, while Accent operates as a healthcare payment accuracy and cost-containment company. […]

In the past five trading days, telecom stocks continued to rally as the United States and China reportedly made healthy progress in their trade negotiations and remained poised to ink the “Phase One" deal in early January. The pre-Christmas rally was further buoyed by the proposed tariff cuts by the communist nation to boost the economy. […]

Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. BECN , which belongs to the Zacks Building Products – Retail industry, has been grappling with lower net sales and earnings. The company’s margins remained pressurized throughout the year. […]

PulteGroup Inc. ’s PHM prudent land acquisition strategies are likely to drive volume and revenues higher. Additionally, improving housing market fundamentals are regaining optimism for the company […]

Newmont Goldcorp Corporation NEM reached a fresh 52-week high of $42.34 on Dec 24, before closing the session at $42.18. The company has a market cap of around $35 billion. Average volume of shares traded in the past three months has been 6,205.1K […]

Commercial Metals Company CMC looks promising at the moment, driven by robust key end markets, acquisitions and growth in the United States and Poland. We are positive about the company’s prospects and believe, this is the right time to add the stock to your portfolio as it is poised to carry the bullish momentum ahead. Shares of the company have surged 38.3% over the past year against the industry ’s decline of 1.3%. […]

Uber Technologies ’ UBER co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick will cease all connections with the company by this year-end, having already sold his entire stake worth approximately $3 billion . Effective Dec 31, he will step down from Uber’s board. Kalanick is said to be departing from Uber to “focus on his new business and philanthropic endeavors.” He is currently focusing on his new venture CloudKitchens, a start-up providing smart kitchens for delivery-only restaurants […]

Shares of Nevro Corp. NVRO scaled a new 52-week high of $117.51 on Dec 24, closing the session marginally lower at $116.65. […]

From the stock market perspective, the U.S.-China trade war, recession fears, interest rate cuts and partial government shutdown were among the key highlights of 2019, resulting in market volatility. However, the picture appears to be encouraging when we look at how Wall Street performed through the year. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up more than 24%, 30% and 36%, respectively over the past year […]

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. […]

Several factors have shaped the global market scenario in 2019. These include the trade tussle between the United States and China, concerns surrounding Brexit, lower manufacturing activity in Europe, headwinds in Hongkong and other political factors, which raised fears of a global slowdown. […]

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? […]

Lindsay Corporation LNN is on track with its Foundation for Growth initiative that is expected to improve overall earnings. Focus on growth objectives, development of technology products, business simplification and capital-allocation plan also bode well. Further, the infrastructure business continues to generate growth on the back of strong order activity for the Road Zipper projects and robust demand for transportation safety products […]

Investors undertake businesses that reap profits on a regular basis. And gauging the extent of profits, there is no better metric than net profit margin. […]

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. ICE is well-poised for growth on the back of a number of buyouts, compelling product portfolio and efficient capital deployment. The company also has a decent history of beating estimates in the last four quarters with the average being 4.82%. […]

Gilead Sciences, Inc . GILD announced that it has entered into an agreement with Eisai Co., Ltd for the distribution and co-promotion of its investigational, oral, selective JAK1 inhibitor, filgotinib, in Japan. The deal is pending approval […]