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U.S. Banker
February 2002
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Designer-Made Earning Reports It has become popular for companies to dream up their own methods of accounting. The greatest danger is fooling oneself...   |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
David Henry |
Earnings: What To Listen For This time out, revenue growth will have more impact than cost-cutting on stock prices. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2004
J. Graham |
Earnings Madness Quarterly corporate earnings dominate the financial media. Earnings releases send investors into a flurry of buying the winners and selling the losers. But you should be looking beyond what you see in the news. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Brian Grow |
Profits: All's Well That Ends Well The odds were against solid quarterly profits -- and yet, thanks to a favorable swing in the dollar and further steps by companies to cut costs and boost productivity, Corporate America kept the earnings recovery on track in the second quarter. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2004
Bill Mann |
New Standards Help Shareholders Many will think this sort of topic belongs squarely in the "so what?" category. But after the French company LVMH sued Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD) for what it considered to be extremely negative coverage -- and won -- this issue takes on some importance. |
CIO
January 15, 2003
John Berry |
How to Apply EVA to IT Looking at IT investments through the lens of an EVA (economic value added) analysis can help quantify and demonstrate their value in language your CFO will understand. |
AskMen.com
July 14, 2003
Ash Karbasfrooshan |
Lingo You Need To Know When it comes to how you should speak, the bottom line is that you need to speak with conviction and confidence. Even if you are wrong, you need to give others the sense that you are right. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Leapin' Lehman! The brokerage reports a fabulous first quarter. Things are looking good for brokerage companies, and their stocks reflect that. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2004
David Forrest |
The High Price of Higher-Education Stocks Is it time to leave this keg party? The stocks in the education and training services industry have been on fire for the last 18 months, pushing many of them to rich valuations. It may be time to reconsider your positions in some of these companies. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2004
Ben McClure |
Quality Earnings Count Here are three telltale signs of strong earnings. This reporting period, it's worthwhile taking a peek behind the earnings. Here are three telltale signs of earnings "quality" to guide your stock picks. |
FDIC FYI
September 5, 2002 |
Corporate Earnings Growth Suggests Business Sector Recovery The recession that began in March 2001 has been termed a corporate sector recession because of pervasive weakness in the business sector. Recent earnings reports from companies in the S&P 500 index suggest that the trend of declining corporate profits may have run its course. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Vickers, Henry & Miller |
Is The Bull Ready To Catch Its Breath? Valuations aren't really out of whack -- and a correction may be a buying opportunity. Stocks have been on a tear since they bottomed out last March. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
Berner & Arndt |
The Best Gains In 31 Years Companies in 2003 posted the highest profit surge in Scoreboard history as the economy rebounds. |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004
Berner& Arndt |
The Sales Engine Kicks In First-quarter earnings for the 900 companies in BusinessWeek's Corporate Scoreboard surged 25% from the year before. But what stood out even more was the Scoreboard's 12% increase in revenue, the largest gain in three years. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Stephanie Anderson Forest |
This Recovery Is The Real Deal Profits for companies in the quarterly BusinessWeek Scoreboard soared 41%. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2004
Zeke Ashton |
King Makes a Comeback The love/hate cycle might be ready to shift again for this pharmaceutical. King Pharmaceuticals was once a beloved growth stock. Then it became an unloved drug stock suffering from intensifying competition, a poor acquisition or two, and an ongoing SEC investigation. The stock has started to come back. |
CFO
July 1, 2002 |
Take Me To Your Ledger Plus, good news for a hybrid tax shelter... why Americans don't invest abroad... NYSE wins a battle on Nasdaq's own turf... etc. |
CIO
January 1, 2001
Ian Springsteel |
Money Talk - Financial Glossary Fluency in CFO-speak can help your company---and your career. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2003
Motley Fool Staff |
Why Stock Prices Go Up and Down If a company's profits keep growing, its stock price will follow suit -- eventually. Corporate earnings drive stocks in the long run. In the short run, though, there are many different reasons stock prices flitter up and down. Don't take all moves too seriously. |
InternetNews
July 6, 2004
Christopher Saunders |
Negative Intel Report, Slew of Warnings Slam Techs Analyst warnings on an industry bellwether leads the way for sector-wide selling. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Faith Arner |
Kodak's Fuzzy Numbers The company has taken "one-time" charges every year for the past 12. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2004
Zeke Ashton |
New Year's Resolutions for Investors January is a traditional time for resolutions for the New Year. Here are 10 resolutions for investors to help cut down on mistakes, shape up portfolios, and achieve financial goals. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas Self-dealing and the misappropriation of profits at the expense of minority shareholders is much more common in other countries due to the weaker legal measures protecting such stockholders. |
The Motley Fool
April 16, 2004
Rich Smith |
DoubleClick's Pinched Penny Rounding earnings per share can lay traps for unwary investors. Online advertiser DoubleClick becomes a good lesson in why it is best to think of those little ticker symbols scrolling by as pieces of companies rather than little ticker symbols. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2003
John Teresko |
Driving Ongoing Profitability With EVA Economic value added, says Briggs & Stratton's John S. Shiely, frees the measurement of corporate performance from the vagaries of accounting conventions. Instead, it aligns the interests of managers with those of shareholders. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Lewis Braham |
Seeking Out Stocks That Surprise Anthony Weber is back in the saddle again. After two brutal years, the manager of the A-rated ABN AMRO/Veredus Aggressive Growth Fund is once again beating the market and his peers in the small-cap growth fund category. |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
Robert Barker |
Don't Get Hooked on Applied Materials The rush of pleasure promised by chip stocks can be so intense that it's understandable why some investors, after so recently having endured the agony of withdrawal, are now back to cravings. As an example of semiconductor investing's two sides, there's no better stock than Applied Materials. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Stephanie Anderson Forest |
Streaking Past Expectations Soaring profits bolster second-quarter earnings. Gains were especially notable in energy; the reinvigorated information technology sector; and among basic materials producers, which benefited from strong international demand. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 4, 2003 |
Pump and Dump: Analyst Bias and Corporate Financing A new study by Wharton accounting professor Scott Richardson and two colleagues suggests that, even if most sell-side analysts don't lie, they are so overly upbeat that their forecasts of corporate earnings and stock-price targets are hardly more accurate than falsehoods. |
U.S. Banker
October 2003
Lee Conrad |
Roessler's Out, Stock Surges At National Commerce But does the future hold renewed focus or a sale? |
CFO
July 1, 2003
Stephen Taub |
MVPs Of MVA Measuring how much market value companies created. |
CFO
May 1, 2004
Lori Calabro |
Hill on Wall Street Ten financial market questions for Chuck Hill, former director of research at Thomson Financial First Call. |
AskMen.com
September 29, 2002
Ash Karbasfrooshan |
Investing: Stocks 101 An introduction to investing in stocks |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2004
Chris Mallon |
Through the Earnings Looking Glass Look-through earnings provide a new and insightful view of your stock portfolio. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Economy Gets Some Get-Up-and-Go The recovery is gaining momentum as rate and tax cuts kick in |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Another Stock Evaluation Tool The earnings yield can help determine the fair value of a stock's price. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2004 |
Aliases on Financial Statements Within financial statements, names for some items vary from one company to another. Sometimes it seems like management is trying to confuse you. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2003
Alyce Lomax |
Immucor Bloodied The maker of instruments used by hospitals, labs, and blood banks for blood transfusions sees its shares battered after a second-quarter earnings warning. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Amgen's Engine Is the drug company geared up for success? |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
Andrew Park |
Profits: "The Fog Is Beginning to Lift" With the economy's biggest worries behind it, earnings look set to keep heading up |
Search Engine Watch
October 29, 2003
Grant Crowell |
Analyzing Search Engines as Investments Search has become increasingly popular, but do the common stocks of search engines make a good investment? High-tech investment analysts share a glimpse of the techniques they see to value publicly traded search firms, and which companies appear to be succeeding. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2003
Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Covering Portfolio Recovery Portfolio Recovery Associates' performance over the past six months have been good with earnings of $0.81 per diluted share translating to an earnings growth of nearly 31% over the first half of 2003. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003
Gene G. Marcial |
Medamicus: The Pulse Is Rising Medamicus, a small outfit that supplies medical-device giants, recently purchased Biomec Cardiovascular. Analysts think this makes the stock attractive. |
CIO
May 1, 2004
Gary Beach |
A Longer View Why are companies sacrificing long-term economic value to meet short-term targets? |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Discounted Education Private education stocks are hit hard today, with Corinthian Colleges declining the most. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2004
Phil Wohl |
America's Car-Mart Rolls On Will the pre-owned car dealer continue to drive better-than-expected results? |
Salon.com
July 18, 2000
Steve Bodow |
The Street comes clean Ah, earnings season: Microsoft, Amazon.com, AOL and Qualcomm fess up with their quarterly report cards. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004 |
How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings |
