Posts Tagged ‘hold’

Despite strong holiday sales of smartphones, Verizon's profitability continues to be limited by their costly advertising war with AT&T.

Wall Street still appears to be quite skeptical of Bank of America’s ability to get back on the right track in the near term.

We anticipated another quarter of ugly y/y sales declines, but better than expected earnings results largely driven by cost-cutting initiatives.

There is increasing evidence that the online advertising market is beginning to recover which should help lift Yahoo’s third quarter performance.

After easily exceeding Wall Street’s consensus estimates the last two quarters, we expect Citigroup to only marginally exceed the Street’s expectations this quarter.

We believe that revenues could inch sequentially higher from last quarter’s level, but that probably won’t be enough to move the stock significantly.

We view management’s earnings guidance as being on the conservative side and expect reported results to be at the high end of their guidance range.

While the company has been able to increase margins by engaging in productive cost cutting, sales numbers have been particularly weak over the last couple of quarters.

The company’s portfolio of consumer products appears to be holding up quite well despite the economic challenges.

We are looking for Barnes & Noble to report earnings at the midpoint of their guidance range after delivering stronger than expected results last quarter. While the book seller continues to face severe economic headwinds, we believe the company remains focused on maintaining gross margins and reducing expenses.