Archive for June, 2009

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$HRB: H & R Block Inc: fiscal fourth quarter earnings beats Wall Street expectations, earnings rose 30%

H & R Block, Inc., a Kansas City based company released its earnings on Monday June 29, 2009 for the quarter ended in April 2009. It earned $706.9 million or $2.09 per share, during this quarter, which beats analysts average estimate of $2.05.

H & R Block had better than expected earnings in 3 out of last 4 quarters. The company exceeded Wall Street expectations by 2.4% in October 2008, by 100% in January 2009, and by 2.0% in April 2009.

H & R Block, Inc., provide tax, investment, retail banking, accounting, and business consulting services and products to consumers throughout United States, Canada and Australia. The Company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

The shares are up by 7.02% as of 9.58 AM June 30, 2009.

$APOL: Apollo Group 3Q profit tops wall street, earnings soar more than 45 percent:

$APOL: Apollo Group Inc., an education provider, announced Monday that its fiscal 3^rd quarter profit soared more than 45 percent to $201.1 million as sales rose nearly 26 percent.

Apollo Group through its subsidiaries, The University of Phoenix, Inc., Institute for Professional Development, The College for Financial Planning Institutes Corporation, Western International University, Inc., Insight Schools, Inc., Apollo Global, Inc., and Meritus University, etc provide various educational programs. It provides associates, bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs in arts, science, business and management, criminal justice, education, human services, health care, technology, and communications at campus and learning centers in 40 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, and the Netherlands, as well as through on-line educational delivery system.

The Company surpassed analyst earnings estimate four out of last four quarters by 11.9% in August 2008, 14.3% in November 2008, 18.5% in February 2009, 12.5% in May 2009.

For quarter ended May 31, 2009 Apollo Group reported net income of $201.1 million, or $1.26 a share, compared with $139.1 million, or $0.85 a share, a year ago. Analysts on average were expecting $1.12 a share, on revenue of $1.04 billion.

Shares of Apollo is up more than 10% as of 9:37 AM today.

My Watch list for the week of June 29, 2009

$APOL: Apollo Group

$HRB: H & R Block

$SCHN: Schnitzer Steel Industries

$SNX: Synnex Corp

$UNF: Unifirst

$STZ: Constellation Brands

$GIS: General Mills

$LNN: Lindsay Corporation

$AYI: Acuity Brands

$MSM: MSC Industrial Direct

I will be posting more details about these stocks later.

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$CAG: ConAgra Foods Profit Drops 13%

ConAgra Foods Inc's pofit fell 13% for it fiscal fourth quarter lacking earnings from trading operations it sold in the last year. But earnings from continuing operations more than doubled on cost cuts and rising sales

To read full story please visit The Wall Street Journal

$BBBY: Bed Bath & Beyond Profit Rises 14%

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., posted higher sales and a 14% rise in profit for the first full quarter.

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Stocks to watch on Thursday June 25, 2009

$ACN: Accenture Ltd: Operates as a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company primarily serves the communications, electronics, high technology, media and entertainment industries in Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific. Founded in 1995 and is based in Dublin Ireland. Accenture will be hosting a conference call at 4:30 PM on Thursday June 25, 2009 to discuss its third quarter fiscal 2009 financial results. Company is expected to show a profit of $0.64 per share for third quarter.

$CAG: Conagra Food: is a packaged food company in North America and Internationally. Its products are offered under the brand names such as Angela Mia, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers, Hebrew National, Hunt's Manwitch. PAM, Peter Pan, Snack Pack, Reddi-wip, Rosarita, etc. The Company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Omaha Nebraska. The company is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday 7:30 AM. Analysts expects earnings of $0.42 per share.

$RBN: Robbins & Myers Inc  Supplies engineered equipment and systems for various applications in energy, industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical markets world wide. The company is scheduled to report third quarter Fiscal 2009 results on Thursday June 25, 2009 after the market close. Analysts expects earnings of 0.25 per share.

Stocks to watch on Wed June 24, 2009

$ORCL: Oracle Corp., beats analyst estimates with a fourth quarter EPS of 0.46 cents.

$NKE: Nike the sport shoe maker will announce its fourth quarter results, after close on Wednesday.

$MON: releases third quarter results before the open on Wednesday. The estimate is $1.17 per share.

$RMBS: Rambus Memory chip maker cuts its second quarter forecast.

Good luck trading….

$ORCL: Oracle Profit slumps, but tops Wall Street views

Oracle Corp, said Tuesday its quarterly profit dipped 7%, as the business software company suffered from declining sales of new licenses in what is typically its strogest period of the year. To read more please click the link below/