Zacks Equity Research highlights: Fomento Economico Mexicano (NYSE: FMX) as the Bull of the Day and PetMed Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: PETS) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research 2010 08 18 17:05
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Management typically evaluates short and mid-term economic and business conditions when they decide on allocation of limited resources. Cash is one such resource, which could either be reinvested back in the business, or returned to shareholders. Companies typically achieve some optimal balance in allocating cash flows from earnings between owners and the business. It is interesting to note than when management expects rosy business conditions in the next two to three years, dividends have a higher chance of getting raised. Back in 2007 and...
We mentioned our more cautious stance on PetMed Express (PETS) in our post the other week. Here, we provide more detail.
As it turn out, our timing works well because (1) PetMed Express announced a 25% increase to its dividend yesterday and (2), The Motley Fool featured PETS on Friday 7/30/10.
In that post, we shared points from a conversation with a friend and former colleague regarding the current market environment. He liked our post, but commented:
One more thing to think about is how street expectations for 2011 have been ratcheted up... for the S&P 500, the number is $90...This is not possible if you do a sector...
PetMed Express (PETS), America’s largest Pet Pharmacy, began fiscal 2010 on a disappointing note. The company reported its first quarter fiscal 2010 earnings per share (EPS) of 32 cents. This was way below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 38 cents and the year-ago quarter’s 36 cents.
Net sales of the company declined 3.6% year over year to $74.4 million. The company derives most of its revenues from repeat business; reorder sales were $57.6 million, up 7% from the first quarter fiscal 2009. The real strength of...
This is an update of our "How's the Economy Doing" periodic series and follows recent posts around economic data and divergent views. As a reminder, while our our investment strategy focuses on bottom-up analysis of individual companies, we think awareness of overall macroeconomic conditions is helpful since trends may impact certain companies or sectors.
(This post is part of our series on tracking hedge fund portfolios. If you're unfamiliar with tracking investments they disclose via SEC filings, check out our series preface on hedge fund filings.)
Next up is Roberto Mignone's hedge fund Bridger Management. Bridger focuses on long/short equity and event driven strategies (which you'll see evidence of in their portfolio below). Last we heard, Bridger has just under $3 billion in assets under management and is closed to new investors because Mignone likes to focus on investing rather than running a large...
US stock index futures are essentially flat this morning after a moderately weak session in most of Asia's markets. The eurozone and United Kingdom were also flat at the time of this writing, after having been moderately lower at the outset of trading.
From time to time I review Better Investing's most active stocks as reported by its members. According to members' recent buy and sell decisions, as reported by a small, informal sampling -- 107 transactions -- for the trailing 4-week period ended March 14, 2010, following are the most active stocks.
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