LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Jeff Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Windstream Corp. , will participate in a panel discussion on "Cable & RLEC Entry into the CLEC Market" at 10:30 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Windstream Corp. has chosen a technology non-profit executive and two state Teachers of the Year as judges for its Classroom Connections program, which will provide public schools in Windstream's service area the opportunity to receive up to $100,000 for technology-related upgrades.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Tony Thomas, chief financial officer of Windstream Corp. , will speak at 10:15 a.m. CST on Wednesday, March 10 at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference in Palm Beach, Fla.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Tony Thomas, chief financial officer of Windstream Corp. , will speak at 1:50 p.m. CST on Tuesday, March 9 at the Raymond James 31st Annual Institutional Investors Conference in Orlando.
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- PHONE+ magazine, a publication of Virgo Publishing LLC for the telecommunications indirect sales channel, has announced that Dan Sterling, Vice President of Windstream's dealer channel, has been named the Channel Executive of the Year.
Windstream Corp has reportedly launched a next-generation Internet Protocol solution that bundles voice, data and broadband Internet over a single IP connection.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jeff Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN), will participate in a panel discussion on "Cable & RLEC Entry into the CLEC Market" at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 16 at the COMPTEL PLUS Spring 2010 Convention & EXPO at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tenn. 2010 03 10 14:33
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN) has chosen a technology non-profit executive and two state Teachers of the Year as judges for its Classroom Connections program, which will provide public schools in Windstream's service area the opportunity to receive up to $100,000 for technology-related upgrades. 2010 03 09 11:57
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tony Thomas, chief financial officer of Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN), will speak at 10:15 a.m. CST on Wednesday, March 10 at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference in Palm Beach, Fla. 2010 03 08 16:08
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 5, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tony Thomas, chief financial officer of Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN), will speak at 1:50 p.m. CST on Tuesday, March 9 at the Raymond James 31st Annual Institutional Investors Conference in Orlando. 2010 03 05 15:23
GREENVILLE, S.C., March 5, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PHONE+ magazine, a publication of Virgo Publishing LLC for the telecommunications indirect sales channel, has announced that Dan Sterling, Vice President of Windstream's (formerly NuVox's) dealer channel, has been named the Channel Executive of the Year. 2010 03 05 10:32
Barry Barker is founder and President of Barker Financial Management, a fee only Financial Planner and RIA based in Baltimore, MD. Before starting his investment firm, Barry earned a Masters from Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering and worked for FMC Corporation performing financial analyses of technical innovations and new business while developing technology alliances and joint ventures.
We recently had the opportunity to ask Barry what his single highest conviction stock holding currently is in his portfolio.
For investors currently evaluating dividend stocks, there really are a lot of attractive options. The average yield of dividend stocks in the Dow Jones index is now 2.9%. The S&P 500 sports 15 stocks with dividend yields above 6%. Those are pretty attractive yields for income investors, given that a money market account currently offers less than a 1% return. However, many dividend investors automatically ignore high yielding dividend stocks as they assume that such high yields are too good to be true.
Of course there is much more to evaluating a dividend stock than just looking at...
(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 13F filings.)
Next up is Jonathan Auerbach's hedge fund Hound Partners. Hound is a New York based firm that Auerbach started with assistance from legendary hedgie Julian Robertson. He is one of the many 'Tiger Seeds' that Robertson has sprouted up in an attempt to crank out a new round of successful investment managers. Auerbach of course previously worked for Robertson's Tiger Management.
Many wireless and wireline service providers have announced quarterly and fiscal 2009 results in the last fortnight. The common theme seems to be that profit margins are under pressure and in some cases even revenues have come in lower than in 2008.
Despite a boost from iPhone, AT&T (T) revenues and operating profits declined in the Q409 quarter. In fact the wireless revenues increase is typically compensated by a decline in wirleline voice revenues.
Stocks discussed on the lightning round session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday February 4.
Bullish Calls:
Citigroup (C): "I have a $3 stock by the name of Citigroup, where all anyone ever does is say that Vic Pandit is on the ropes… I do not think so… Citi is back to that level where I have to buy it."
Stocks discussed on the lightning roundsession of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Monday, January 4.
Bullish calls:
Windstream (WIN): "There have been people who have dumped on this stock… there have been non believers, there have been people who have told me, Jim, that dividend is not safe. I am sticking with WIN up here at $11."
Leading rural telecom carrier Windstream Corporation (WIN) reported that it will continue with acquisitions to expand its business. The company may buy smaller telephone operators and broadband Internet service providers to expand operational scale, subscriber base and product/service range.
Windstream is on an acquisition binge as the carrier has spent more than $2.2 billion so far in the current year. The company recently purchased privately held small carrier Lexcom Inc for $143 million in cash. Windstream also acquired Pennsylvania-based rural phone and Internet service operator D&E Communications (DECC) for $333 million...
By Toby Manthey Executives at Little Rock based Windstream Corp. in 2009 received 13 to 19 percent less in compensation than in 2008, according to an annual proxy statement filed Wednesday. Jeff ...
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By Robert Bell Compensation for executives at Windstream Corp. of Little Rock was down slightly last year, according to the company's proxy statement, which was released Wednesday. Total ...
For safer investing, it is always wise to consider stable stocks that pay a good dividend. Five companies for consideration are Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q), Frontier ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN) has chosen a technology non-profit executive and two state Teachers of the Year as judges for its Classroom ...
New York, March 8th (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of Windstream Corporation (NYSE:WIN) closed the trading day at $10.61 very close to its 50 day moving average currently set at $10.57. Windstream's ...
Unusual volume of put contracts was traded today. There were 7,428 puts contracts versus the ten day average volume of 735. On the calls side, 448 calls contracts were traded. Today's traded Put ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jeff Gardner, president and chief executive officer of Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN), will participate in a panel discussion on "Cable & RLEC ...
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