Econintersect: Week 29 of 2015 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) contracted according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. Intermodal traffic expanded year-over-year, which accounts for approximately half of movements – but weekly railcar counts continued in contraction. This analysis is looking for clues in the rail data…
There are a number of great companies in the market today. By using the ModernGraham Valuation Model, I’ve selected 5 low PE stocks for the Enterprising Investor. These companies have the five lowest PEmg (price / normalized earnings) out of all companies reviewed by ModernGraham. Each company has been determined to be suitable for the Enterprising…
With stocks just 1-2% from record highs, because China is fixed, oil is recovering, Europe is awesome, and gas prices are low? It appears the talking heads forgot to tell the ‘people’ how great things are. Bloomberg’s Consumer Comfort index plunged (by the most since Sept 2014) to hover at 18 month lows… As 70% of…
The world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD – Snapshot Report), also known as AB InBev, reported lower-than-expected top and bottom lines for second-quarter 2015 mainly as a result of tough year over year comparisons due to sales gains from the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and a challenging environment in many markets where the company operates. AB InBev’s…
(Photo Credit: Esther Vargas) LinkedIn Corporation (LNKD) reports its FQ2 ’15 results after the closing bell today. The Estimize community is predicting an EPS figure of $0.35 and a revenue number of $685.93M. Wall Street analysts however, assume an EPS figure of $0.32 and forecast revenues of $681.56M. LinkedIn has underperformed year-to-date (YTD) with a capital…
Can markets be saved an eighth time, a ninth time, a tenth time this year? How about next year? What do we make of a stock market that’s been “saved” seven times in a mere seven months? Saved from what, you ask? Saved from rolling over, of course; after six years of upside, the current uptrend…
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Arch Coal Inc. (ACI – Analyst Report) reported a second-quarter 2015 adjusted loss of 73 cents per share, wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 59 cents and the year-ago loss of 46 cents per share. Arch Coal Inc. – Quarterly EPS | FindTheBest Total Revenue In the second quarter of 2015, Arch Coal’s total…
The Advance Estimate for Q2 GDP, to one decimal, came in at 2.3 percent, a substantial increase from the 0.6 percent of Q1, which is an upward revision from -0.2 percent prior to today’s annual revisions. Today’s number came in a tad on the light side of most mainstream estimates. The WSJ survey of economists…
Wednesday proved to be a big day for social stocks; but not necessarily in a positive way. After Twitter (TWTR) and Yelp (YELP) reported earnings on Tuesday after the bell followed by Facebook’s (FB) earnings report Wednesday morning, we saw total carnage in the social media space. Unfortunately, investors simply couldn’t find the positivity they…
