3 Media Stocks in Focus: Comcast Posts a Dividend, AOL Pushes for Electronic...
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCSA): Comcast has declared a $0.195 per share quarterly dividend, in line with its previous dividends. It has a forward yield of 1.74 percent, for shareholders of record on...
View ArticleSEC Closes Its Sales Tax Inquiry Into Sprint and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S): Current price $6.73 Sprint revealed in a regulatory finding that the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a formal order of investigation connected with the firm’s...
View ArticleAOL Earnings: Here’s Why Investors are Happy Now
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. The revenue beat is a positive sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the...
View ArticleAOL Earnings Show a Company in Search of a New Identity
“AOL takes a major step forward today with another quarter of growth and our agreement to acquire the Adap.tv video marketplace platform that will make AOL a clear global leader in the most important...
View ArticleDisney’s Lukewarm Quarter, Honda Grows Facility Investments, and 3 More Hot...
Disney (NYSE:DIS): Disney’s reported earnings per share of $1.03 beat estimates by 2 cents, while revenue of $11.05 billion missed expectations by $14 million. The company’s Parks and Resorts segment...
View ArticleIs AOL Stock Supported By These Factors?
With shares of AOL (NYSE:AOL) trading around $36, is AOL an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework: T = Trends...
View ArticleAnalysts: Panera’s Plan to Strengthen Sales is Value and 3 More Research...
Panera Bread (NASDAQ:PNRA): Wunderlich upgraded Panera Bread from Hold to Buy, citing the recent pullback in shares and confidence in the management’s plan to strengthen sales and operating trends. The...
View ArticleAmazon’s Rumored Jump into the Console Fray, Toyota Faces a Huge Settlement,...
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): Sources indicated to VentureBeat that Amazon is looking to break into the game console industry with an Android-powered gaming console — complete with a dedicated...
View Article3 Media Stocks in Focus: AOL Lays Off Hundreds, Fox Finds a Friend in Wells...
AOL (NYSE:AOL): CEO Tim Armstrong has confirmed that “hundreds” of Patch’s 1,300 workers have been laid off including division chief Steve Kalin, and that 400 of Patch’s 900-plus sites will be shut...
View ArticleEarnings Volatility Drives AOL and These Stocks in a New Direction
AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street’s expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased 96.56% to $0.35 in the quarter versus EPS of $10.17...
View ArticleApple, Google, Microsoft, and the NSA: What’s the Deal?
Last Thursday, executives from some tech giants met with President Obama at the White House reported Politico. Some of the leaders who attended included Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, AT&T’s...
View Article4 Tech Stock Stories for a Weekend Download
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO): Closing price $27.32 Sources to The New York Post say that Yahoo! Finance is next in line for a remake as part of Chief Executive Marissa Mayer’s “grand mobile strategy,” as...
View ArticleIs AOL’s News Service Weakening?
On Friday, AOL (NYSE:AOL) announced that it was going to be cutting a number of jobs at Patch, the news service the company owns. AOL is going to cut 500 jobs, which is almost half of Patch’s...
View ArticleThese 8 Giants Are Dominating Web Traffic This Summer
The popularity of the Internet over the past decade has not only paved the way for more daily entertainment, but also for more advertising from major corporate giants. According to comScore, a leader...
View ArticleMove Over Google, Yahoo Is Top U.S. Web Property for July
Wednesday marked a major victory for Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Marissa Mayer. Just over a year after her official appointment to chief executive officer, Mayer has managed to swing a number of...
View ArticleYahoo! Beats Google in Domestic Web Traffic and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO): Current price $27.80 According to comScore’s monthly rankings, Yahoo surpassed Google in domestic Web traffic in July. The aggregation of sites operated by Yahoo, which...
View ArticleApple Averts iTunes Antitrust Lawsuit and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks to Follow
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL): Current price $488.58 In a Tuesday decision, the United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco said that Apple does not have to face an antitrust lawsuit brought by...
View ArticleMove Over Google, Yahoo Is Top U.S. Web Property for July
Wednesday marked a major victory for Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Marissa Mayer. Just over a year after her official appointment to chief executive officer, Mayer has managed to swing a number of...
View ArticleYahoo! Beats Google in Domestic Web Traffic and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO): Current price $27.80 According to comScore’s monthly rankings, Yahoo surpassed Google in domestic Web traffic in July. The aggregation of sites operated by Yahoo, which...
View ArticleFacebook Surges While Zuckerberg Discusses 2012 IPO and 2 Other Hot Stocks to...
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB): Current price $45.01 Shares seem to be on track for new all-time highs Thursday, trading up around 0.80 percent in heavy volume, having touched $45.62. Meanwhile, Chief...
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