Gilead Sciences Drops Jaws With a 209% Increase in Q1 Net Income
Filed under: Investing Infectious disease-focused biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences did nothing short of dazzle Wall Street after the closing bell by reporting impressive top- and bottom-line...
View ArticleiRobot Trounces Wall Street on Strong Earnings
Filed under: Investing iRobot reported fiscal 2014 first-quarter earnings after the market closed today that beat Wall Street's expectations. For the period ended March 29, iRobot generated a profit of...
View ArticleWhy GW Pharmaceuticals, Revance Therapeutics, and Allergan Are Today's 3 Best...
Filed under: Investing The health-care sector may have been a major crutch for the broad-based S&P 500 during the past two months, but today it was its greatest savior, with merger and acquisition...
View ArticleCoca-Cola's First-Quarter Conference Call Reveals 2014 Could Be the Year It...
Filed under: Investing Coca-Cola recently announced results for what turned out to be a better-than-expected quarter. Although one cannot characterize the first quarter as a great one for Coca-Cola,...
View ArticleAaron's Uses Acquisition to Thwart Takeover
Filed under: Investing Source: Wikimedia Commons. Enough is enough. Rent-to-own leader Aaron's achieved its goal of getting private equity firm Vintage Capital to back off from its proposed $2.3...
View ArticleWhy NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Will Fly Above $40
Filed under: Investing While Fools should generally take the opinion of Wall Street with a grain of salt, it's not a bad idea to take a closer look at particularly stock-shaking upgrades and downgrades...
View ArticleWhy Tesla Motors Inc. Stock Raced Ahead Today
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleWhy Harley-Davidson, Inc. Stock Hit Full Throttle After Its Earnings Report
Filed under: Investing Shares of Harley-Davidson, Inc. surged in early Tuesday trading, racing ahead from $67.54 to $72.86 at last quote. The surge was in response to a Q1 earnings report that showed...
View ArticleYum! Brands Serves Up Sweet-and-Sour Earnings
Filed under: Investing Yum! Brands reported fiscal 2014 first-quarter earnings after the bell today that beat on the bottom line, but missed analysts' revenue targets. Yum! Brands is the parent company...
View ArticleFool's Gold Report: Will a Newmont-Barrick Merger Really Happen?
Filed under: Investing Gold continues to languish, with gold investors seeing few reasons to get optimistic about the yellow metal's prospects. As the stock market has risen, interest in gold has...
View ArticleIs It Game Over for Chipotle?
Filed under: Investing Source: Chipotle After shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill dropped 6% on April 17, investors might be thinking that the stock has finally run out of steam . The fall in the...
View Article7 Reasons to Be Bullish on Herbalife
Filed under: Investing Over the past couple of years, Herbalife has faced attacks from many different groups, and its share price has fallen significantly as a result. May 2012: Shares of Herbalife...
View ArticleBurrito Alert? Why Concerns Over a Planned Price Hike Are Obscuring an...
Filed under: Investing Chipotle's move to raise prices dominated the news coming out of its first-quarter earnings report. BusinessWeek's headline called for a "Burrito Alert: Chipotle Is Raising...
View ArticleA New Yahoo! TV Strategy Could Pay Off Nicely
Filed under: Investing Yahoo! is entering the crowded market for original online programming. Will the strategy pay off? Fool contributor Tim Beyers examines the prospects for a more expansive Yahoo!...
View ArticleIntuitive Surgical's Q1 Net Income Drops 77% on Weaker da Vinci Sales
Filed under: Investing Innovative robotic surgical-system developer Intuitive Surgical reported less-than-stellar first-quarter results after the closing bell this evening, highlighting what has been a...
View ArticleWill Alan Mulally's Departure Shake Up Ford Motor Company?
Filed under: Investing Ford's top brass posed with the all-new 2015 F-150 in Detroit in January. CEO Alan Mulally, at left, is set to depart soon, according to reports. He'll be replaced by Chief...
View ArticleHawaiian Holdings Climbs the Ranks of the Best Airlines
Filed under: Investing Hawaiian Airlines is moving up in the annual airline quality rankings. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The list of the nation's best airlines is out, and no carrier improved its...
View ArticleWill the Downside Continue for Noble Corp?
Filed under: Investing This year will be a tough one for offshore drilling companies, and Noble Corp is no exception. The rig market remains oversupplied; Noble itself acknowledges this fact, stating...
View ArticleWhy You Should Do More to Secure Your Smartphone
Filed under: Identity Theft, Consumer Protection, Internet Fraud, Mobile Technology, Cell Phones Lintao Zhang/Getty Images By Herb Weisbaum | @TheConsumerman If your cellphone were lost or stolen,...
View ArticleHow Simple Math and a Nike Cultural Imperative Might Have Killed Fuelband
Filed under: Investing This story originally written by David Stern at CITEworld. Sign up for our free newsletter here. It's nice to be right once in a while. In December, I had the distinct pleasure...
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