Equity Analysis

While S&P 500 companies continue to do a reasonable job of beating profit forecasts this quarter, when it comes to revenues, the picture is entirely different, raising concerns about what may lie ahead in the fourth quarter. At the midway point in the third-quarter earnings season, with about half of the companies in the S&P [...]

Investors found little to celebrate among last week’s crop of earnings reports, and sought refuge amid several big market selloffs in the safer area of bond funds, according to the past week’s fund flows data from Lipper. Investors appear increasingly worried and uneasy by a string of high-profile earnings reports from companies that are announcing [...]

Overseas Shipholding (OSG.N) is sailing into rough waters, burdened by far too much debt and generating inadequate cash to meet its obligations. While the company ponders a bankruptcy filing, the stock has unexpectedly bounced off its lows, although StarMine models show little reason for optimism. Overseas Shipholding Co. (OSG.N) was already struggling to cope with [...]

Guidance on what stocks to avoid, sell or sell short can be hard to find, but the systematic StarMine models have identified no fewer than 43 companies – mostly mid-cap and small-cap stocks and concentrated in only three sectors – that appear likely to lag the broad market. Released: October 24 2012 Length: 3 Minutes [...]

Financials companies benefit from healthier markets and the housing industry’s recovery and are on track to report a 9.3% gain in earnings for the third quarter. Companies in the S&P 500 are taking advantage of analysts’ lowered expectations, posting positive surprises at a higher rate than they managed to do earlier during the earnings season. [...]

DreamWorks Animation (DWA.O) has reshaped the movie landscape with hits like “Shrek” and “Madagascar”, but its earnings quality leaves investors with less to celebrate. In the animated film ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’, a bunch of escapees from the Central Park Zoo in New York find themselves revitalizing the business fortunes of a travelling circus. [...]

With third-quarter corporate earnings season kicking into high gear, we highlight ten companies that seem poised to deliver big disappointments or positive surprises. With about 16% of companies in the S&P 500 having reported their third-quarter results as of mid-week, the ten companies that the StarMine research team selected as most likely to report big [...]

The stock market may have had a good week, but investors still appear to be trapped aboard a rollercoaster of worry, and the past week’s fund flows data from Lipper portrays a clear preference for “risk off” investments. The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to record its longest rally in nearly five weeks during the [...]

As analysts have become more bearish for S&P 500 third-quarter earnings, it’s increasingly important for investors to find ways to separate the wheat from the chaff. In this webinar, Thomson Reuters analysts discuss what they see as both risks and opportunities in the current environment. Released: October 17 2012 Length: 30 Minutes Given that we’re [...]

Best Buy’s ownership may be up in the air awaiting a buyout bid from its former CEO, but the writing is on the wall when it comes to fundamentals: the company is poised to report some disappointing earnings. Mid-November is D-Day for Best Buy (BBY.N); the deadline by which Richard Schulze, the company’s founder, former [...]