Equity Analysis

The risk of information overload has never been higher; failing to keep track of all the data companies generate increases the risk of falling into a value trap. StarMine’s Text Mining Credit Risk Model helps in rapidly assessing that data to help identify companies like R.R. Donnelley that demonstrate characteristics associated with those value traps. [...]

The fallout from antitrust enforcement actions means that Brf-Brasil Foods is struggling despite a growing demand for poultry and beef products; margins and earnings quality have taken a blow. One of the big arguments in favor of viewing Brazil, Russia, India and China as a single giant multi-regional grouping of nations and businesses that has [...]

The wait is finally over, and the Federal Reserve’s latest round of monetary stimulus helped spur interest in risk assets. Still, however, investors demonstrated a clear preference for equity ETFs over mutual funds, a trend also witnessed in the August fund flows just released by Lipper. The Federal Reserve’s announcement of a fresh round of [...]

Earnings at JetBlue Airways (JBLU.O) were flying high in the second quarter, but may face a bumpy return to earth in Q3, thanks to the soaring cost of jet fuel. At first glance, JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU.O) seems to be flying high. The discount airline has continued to expand its capacity while other carriers cut [...]

Analysts expect restaurant chains to report a gain of 2.8% in SSS for the third quarter of 2012, down slightly from year-earlier levels, as companies in the group prepare to grapple with the effects of this summer’s drought on their cost structures. Whether they are dishing up cheesecake and chicken wings or just doughnuts, fast [...]

StarMine models accurately predict earnings surprises for 60% ofsecond-quarter candidates. Toward the end of each quarter, the StarMine research team at Thomson Reuters examines corporate earnings forecasts in search of a group of companies that it believes are most likely to report earnings that either beat or fall short of the consensus forecast for earnings [...]

Finding a coherent explanation for an expected earnings disappointment can be almost as difficult as tackling the problem itself. Here are several of the most commonly-cited reasons by companies for their growing bearishness. There are fewer than two weeks left before most companies in the S&P 500 index must draw a line under the third [...]

The remarkable rally in Spanish stocks over the last several weeks has largely closed the valuation gap between this part of the eurozone periphery and stocks in the rest of the region. Mario Draghi’s pledge to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro sent share prices in regions on the periphery of the eurozone [...]

Investors respond to pre-QE3 rally by pulling money out of equity funds — but putting it into equity ETFs. In the final days before Federal Reserve announced a third wave of monetary policy stimulus, aka QE3, the stock market climbed higher, propelling some market indexes to the highest levels they have seen since the financial [...]

Already, it is clear that companies in the S&P 500 companies are likely to post the slowest annual revenue growth rate in the last decade (barring the 2008/2009 financial crisis) and the trend seems to be getting worse, with more disappointments in store. Released: September 12 2012 Length: 3 Minutes Two quarters of corporate earnings [...]