Category: Corporate News
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Corporations – And Corporate Execs — Fall Out Of Love With Their Shares / Companies / Corporate News
By: John_Rubino
It’s no secret that one of the main things propping up the US stock market has been corporations’ willingness to buy back their own shares with borrowed money. The following chart illustrates the rather amazing correlation between share repurchases and share prices.
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Thursday, August 04, 2016
Walkers Spell and Go Holidays Winners List Post-mortem / ConsumerWatch / Corporate News
By: Anika_Walayat
Hello everyone, I am back for a Walkers Spell and Go Post-mortem update as Walkers Spell and Go is now officially DEAD, for if you go to the walkers website and click any of the ‘Spell and Go’ links you go a page that effectively tells you that it is DEAD. So here is our update video on how many of the 20,000 advertised holidays walkers has likely awarded during its 4 month long promotion -
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
How Hostess Has Adapted Even the Twinkie to a Changing World / Companies / Corporate News
By: Rodney_Johnson
In 2004, Hostess Brands declared bankruptcy. At the time, I wrote that the maker of Twinkies, Ho Hos, and Snoballs was suffering because of demographic trends.As millennials aged past elementary and middle school, they quit munching on such snacks. With fewer kids in the younger age cohorts, slower Twinkie sales seemed inevitable
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Friday, July 01, 2016
Will PayPal Ever Hit Its Stock Price Target? / Companies / Corporate News
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
Can shares of PayPal, which began trading as an independent company last year after its spinoff from eBay, manage to reach its share price target estimated by analysis at $45 a share? According to comments on Twitter and StockTwits, a financial social media platform from back when PayPal first began trading, many thought that this was certainly possible. Right at the beginning, PayPal shares were closing at around $40, valuing PayPal at $49.4 billion. However, currently, PayPal share prices are valued at $35.08, just under $10 less than their share price target for 2016.
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Thursday, February 04, 2016
Another Corporate Giant Is Leaving the U.S. – What This Means for You / Companies / Corporate News
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno
Try getting in shape for a marathon on an all-McDonald’s diet...
You wouldn’t be surprised to come in dead last. After all, you didn’t put in much effort. Actually, you went out of your way to make yourself less competitive. So you would expect to lose.
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Friday, January 29, 2016
Xerox - CEO Future Role, Icahn's Involvement, and Company's Debt / Companies / Corporate News
By: Bloomberg
Xerox Chairman & CEO Ursula Burns spoke with Stephanie Ruhle and David Westin on Bloomberg TV's "Bloomberg <GO>" to discuss that in an agreement with investor Carl Icahn, Xerox will split into two publicly traded companies.
Fortunately when we did speak to him, as you know he's a large holder of our shares, he agreed with the outcome we reached."
On Icahn's involvement going forward, Burns added: "On a go-forward basis he will be involved from a perspective when the company separates into two; he will have some governance input into the services business. Will not be engaged with the document technology business or with current Xerox business at all."
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Future of Corporatism in 2016 / Politics / Corporate News
By: BATR
Economists, stock pickers and financial analysts are eager to play the forecast game. Clients of these erudite soothsayers would like you to believe that their study of trends and markets are founded on empirical maxims. What they carefully avoid admitting is that predicting the political climate is even more important than knowing the direction that monitory central banking will follow. 2016 promises to be a pivotal year. Depend upon the overactive drive of a lame duck President to complete his task of ruining the economy before he leaves office.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Stock Markets "Whistle Past the Graveyard" as Google Gains $65 Billion in Just One Day / Companies / Corporate News
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com
Michael E. Lewitt writes: While markets decided to ignore what are destined to be doomed attempts to cover over intractable debt crises in Greece and China, the real action in the markets last week took place in two high-flying NASDAQ stocks – Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG).
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Time Warner Shareholders Pay CEO $100 Million Exit Package / Companies / Corporate News
By: Harry_Dent
By Rodney Johnson : Late last month Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable agreed to a merger in a $55 billion deal — closer to $79 billion if you include debt. If the merger goes through, Time Warner’s CEO Robert Marcus will leave the combined company with an exit package worth just over $100 million.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
GE's Restructuring Pleases Investors and Avoids Other Risks / Companies / Corporate News
By: John_Browne
On April 10, General Electric, which for 123 years has been one of America's best known and most highly respected companies, announced a radical return to its basic industrial roots. After years of disappointing share performance, and a campaign of criticism by frustrated investors, Chief Executive Jeff Immelt decided to spin off most of its $500 billion GE Capital arm which, if taken as a stand-alone company, would have been the seventh largest bank in the U.S.
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Thursday, February 05, 2015
Adidas - We're Not Gonna Compete With Our Dumbest Competitor / Companies / Corporate News
By: Bloomberg
Kevin Plank, Under Armour CEO, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Stephanie Ruhle this morning to discuss the company's acquisition of the MyFitnessPal and Endomondo apps.
When asked about the Adidas strategy of signing on athletes, Plank said: "Spending more money is no strategy, right? And we're not going to compete with our dumbest competitor either."
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015
The Only Way McDonald’s New CEO Can Turn Things Around / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Just over two months ago I unceremoniously kicked McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD) off my “buy” list noting that for the first time in more than 10 years that the company was no longer tapped into any of our globally “unstoppable trends.” Now, with the stock down another 7% since then, the Board has just kicked CEO Don Thompson off the menu, too.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Fund Managers' Sears Stock Mania Dangerous Delusion / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: Investors reacted with joy when Sears Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: SHLD) announced on November 6 that it would sell 200 to 300 of its stores to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in 2015.
It was the "Big Bang" announcement investors had been waiting for since hedge fund billionaire Eddie Lampert combined Sears with the bankrupt retailer Kmart a decade ago.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
My Favorite Stock McDonalds Just Got Kicked Off My “Buy” List / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: This has been one of my favorite stocks for over 10 years.
I’ve called it a rock-solid investment, a powerful income play, and a global challenger that would be able to outmaneuver the competition to react to changing consumer preferences around the world. I’ve recommended it as a “BUY” twice to my Money Map Report readers, who had the chance to see great returns of at least 42.90%.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
As You Add Alibaba Stock, It's Time to Shed Sears / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
As Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) enjoyed sales of over $7 billion on Monday, its iconic retail antithesis in the United States edged closer to its demise.
On Friday, November 7, Sears Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: SHLD) stock jumped by 31% to $42.81 per share after the company announced that it was considering selling 200 to 300 of its 712 company-owned stores to a real estate investment trust (REIT).
Lest you think that's great news, consider that Sears is down nearly 50% over the past five years, and nearly 60% over the past ten years.
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Monday, October 27, 2014
Could Tesco Go Bust? How to Save Tesco from Debt Bankruptcy Risk / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Unbeknown to most of Tesco's remaining customers as they continue their weekly shops at its well stocked mega-stores across Britain is that Tesco is not just at the edge of a cliff but has actually fallen off it and is in a state of free fall. So whilst customers may soon start to look forward to splurging on their Christmas shopping which undoubtedly will buy the likes of Tesco time during a period when the stock price could hit bottom and bounce. However, as experienced investors well understand that which is termed a 'dead cat bounce', as literally even a cat thrown off a cliff will eventually hit bottom and bounce and so that will likely be the experience for Tesco investors over the coming months as they mistakenly assume a rallying stock price is a sign of recovery.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Tesco Meltdown Debt Default Risk Could Trigger a Financial Crisis in Early 2015 / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The mainstream press is finally waking up the the catastrophe that is taking place at Britain's largest Supermarket that for well over a year has been in a state of collapse, whilst the mainstream press in large part swallowed Tesco's bogus financial numbers as its management in a complete state of denial 'of this cannot be happening' first bent and then broke umpteen accounting rules so as to hide the true state of the supermarket giant's financial picture, one of effectively fast disappearing down a financial black hole as a consequence of the fundamental factor that Tesco just CANNOT compete against the discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl towards which Tesco has been exponentially haemorrhaging customers to the point where last week I wrote that it its customers had effectively vanished that risked the unthinkable that Tesco may not even make it to the end of the current financial year (March 2015).
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Tesco Supermarket Crisis Worse To Come as Customers Vanish! / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
It's a year since I started warning that Tesco was in crisis and that investors should bail out immediately (£3.80) and so far with the share price more than halving (£1.74) this mega corporation trend trajectory towards becoming a penny stock remains in tact. However, I fear things are about to get worse, much worse even to the point that within a few short months we could even be contemplating unimaginable, EXTINCTION!
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Gross' "Minsky Moment" - What Really Happened at PIMCO / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: As I mentioned over the weekend, the month of September ended with two dramatically different exits: The Hollywood ending of Yankee Captain Derek Jeter's Hall of Fame 20-year career, and the acrimonious departure of Bill Gross from PIMCO, the firm he founded 43 years ago.
The departure of the two could not have been in starker contrast.
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Friday, September 26, 2014
The Home Depot Breach Boils Our Blood – and It Should / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Who should worry about data breaches?
Everyone.
You as an individual are at risk. Your bank account is at risk. Your credit is at risk. You’re at risk in ways you never thought about.
Merchants are at risk, maybe to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
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