Associated Banc (ASBC) was downgraded today by Morgan Stanley (MS) from equal weight to underweight as the firm believes the stock is fairly valued at current levels. A $13 price target was issued. Shares are lower by about four percent. Baker Hughes (BHI) today had its estimates and price target reduced to $54 with a ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

Do you think that is the most sophisticated marketer in the world??? Or ??? They're not.?? Entertainment marketers are doing the best brand building in the world right now.?? The campaign for The Hunger takes this to a new level. This is a big paradigm shift from the nineties when entertainment marketing was sometimes an ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:25

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: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

What defines the Don Draper of 2012? That's the question I took to a panel of folks who know best: today's "Mad" men and women, ad agency chief executives and creative officers, in anticipation of the return of AMC's hit "Mad Men" Sunday night. In their emailed responses, a constant: the Don Draper of 2012 ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

The old razor/razor blade business model has been kind to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). The sale of millions of its Keurig coffee machines in recent years, at no profit or even at a small loss, brings customers back for gazillions of the company's K-cups, the little coffee portion one snaps into the brewer. The ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

In decades of experience as a women's advocate, I've learned people can be inspired to action by one of two things: anger or aspiration. A roiling, boiling anger is propelling women???even many who've never been activists before???to embrace their ?power to? to take leadership and make change. They're making their voices heard over the din ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

Will first-quarter results be a hurdle or a a roadblock?

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

Leggett & Platt Dividend Chart by YCharts We've all reached for a dinner check and then, bringing the total into view, felt a sour stirring in our stomach. Generosity can be painful, and the devoted dividend payers at Leggett & Platt (LEG) are surely wincing these days, after greatly boosting the company's dividend in 2007 ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

Kraft is splitting into two different companies: fine. Kraft is renaming the corporate division of the spinoff to reduce confusion: fine. Kraft had to include a phonetic spelling of its new brand name in the launch release: major red flag. Kraft has decided to rename its global snacks company "Mondelez," which is "a newly coined ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

General Mills (GIS) and ConAgra (CAG) are expected to report similarly flat earnings for the fiscal third quarter, ended Feb. 29, this week, and standing back to back there?s little to differentiate these two food makers ? at first glance. Both have roughly the same healthy dividend yield. And that yield is roughly equal to ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56