Filed under: Earnings Reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. (TGT)

Big Lots (BIG), a retailer whose colleagues include Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT), was feeling the wrath of the sellers on Friday. The stock closed down 5% to .50. Volume was above the norm.

According to Briefing.com, the company made 23 cents per share in the third quarter. Unfortunately, that was one penny below the overall forecast. In addition, guidance for Q4 wasn’t too striking, and same-store sales experienced only slight growth.

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Big Lots Falls After Disappointing Earnings Report originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Earnings Reports, Competitive Strategy, Marketing and Advertising, Campbell Soup (CPB)

Campbell Soup (CPB) reported its fiscal first quarter results Tuesday morning, and the stock was trading lower after the company’s quarterly earnings came in under expectations.

Headed into this earnings report, analysts had been expecting to see the company report .83 per share, but the Campbell’s came up a little short, reporting actual earnings of .82.

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Campbell Soup Reports Disappointing Earnings originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Major Movement, Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Bad News, Options, Technical Analysis

It seems that 92% year-over-year earnings growth wasn’t quite enough to impress Wall Street. Shares of DVD rental kiosk operator Coinstar Inc. (CSTR) are taking a beating as traders pan the company’s softer-than-forecast second-quarter results and lackluster revenue forecast.

For the recently concluded quarter, Coinstar banked a profit of .4 million, or 41 cents per share, up from last year’s results of million, or 23 cents per share. Revenue for the quarter climbed 35% to 2.4 million. As recently as May, Coinstar predicted its quarterly revenue would arrive between 3 million and 3 million.

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Coinstar Hammered After Disappointing Earnings originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cephalon (CEPH – option chain) stock is trading lower today after the company reported second-quarter earnings of .1 million, or .11 per share yesterday evening. Excluding one-time items, CEPH earned .05 per share, or 2.4 million. Analysts had forecast a profit of .77 per share on revenue of 3 million. However, shares of the stock are trading lower today after the company forecast 2010 revenue of .63 to .71 billion, below analysts’ estimates of .73 billion. If you think this stock won’t be rising too far in the coming months, then it could be a good time to look at a bearish hedged play on CEPH.

This morning, CEPH opened at .67. So far today the stock has hit a high of .42 and a low of .71. As of 12:15, CEPH is trading at .24, down .66 (-5.8%). The chart for CEPH looks bullish and S&P gives CEPH a positive 4 STARS (out of 5) buy ranking.

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Cephalon Falls On Disappointing Full-Year Forecast originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The most recent edition of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer has an article entitled "Buy beer, sell bonds". For a moment, I thought it was a call to serious alcohol consumption funded with loads of borrowed money! No such luck. Instead Grant’s is bullish on beer stocks (specifically Molson Coors (TAP)) and bearish on bonds (especially Treasuries). For those who agree, consider buying TAP and TBT (the Ultra-Short Treasury ETF).

The following paragraph from the article is worth repeating here:

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