Coventry Health (CVH) was upgraded today by Goldman Sachs (GS) to buy from neutral with a price [...]

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:10

There are still values to be found in the technology sector. Take a look at this maker of protective covers for smartphones, iPads and other electronic devices.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:26

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ?DividendRank? report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider?s view of the business, and presumably the only reason an insider ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 20:23

Guest post written by Joshua McKenty Joshua McKenty is CEO of Piston Cloud, an enterprise cloud software company. He was the founding technical architect of NASA?s Nebula cloud computing platform. In the last month, IBM, Red Hat, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have announced that they are joining OpenStack. This is only the latest indication ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 05:53

Mac Dougherty is co-founder with me in a company,??Cognitive Electronics, and before that, he founded??AskOnline, while an undergraduate at Harvard. He sends this story: * * * * * * * Johann Fust ??Johann Fust had a problem.?? A wealthy banker in Mainz, he was concerned about a series of loans that he had made ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 05:53

As a brand name in its own right, the Mercedes-Benz 4Matic all-wheel-drive system isn't nearly as well-known as Audi Quattro or Subaru "symmetrical" all-wheel drive with the catchy jingle about transferring power, ?from the wheels that slip to the wheels that grip.? So it's a bit of a surprise to learn that depending on where ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 23:27

General Mills (GIS) announced that earnings fell by 0.2% though sales were 13% higher. The company earned $391.5 million, or 58 cents per share, for the fiscal quarter that ended on February 26, versus $392.1 million, or 59 cents per share in the same period last year. Adjusted earnings were 55 cents versus 56 cents, ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:55

Price to book and price to sales both show the company trading at a discount to the industry average.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

Over the past few months, I?ve received one comment several times: ?I didn?t expect to read something like this on??Forbes.? To me the comment reflects a rather unfortunate and growing divide between the worlds of technology and business. The two worlds are getting increasingly intertwined, but at the same time, business people are getting increasingly ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

? Times columnist Paul Krugman's continuous railing against austerity reached a crescendo with Greece's default. In his What Greece Means, Krugman vents his outrage: "What Greek experience actually shows is that while running deficits in good times can get you in trouble... trying to eliminate deficits once you're already in trouble is a recipe for ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 00:32