Feb. 5, 2009 (Baystreet.ca) --
DALLAS, Texas – Beacon Equity Research announces the release of Trade Alerts covering Headlining Stocks: Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK), IMS Health Inc. (NYSE: RX), Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Cigna Corp. (NYSE: CI), Estee Lauder Cosmetics Inc. (NYSE: EL) and FLIR Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: FLIR). In the Trade Alert, the author highlights Duke Energy’s fourth-quarter solid results despite recession: “Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) shares rose 1.89% to $15.65 Thursday mid-day. Duke Energy operates as an energy company in the Americas. … The Charlotte, North Carolina-based power generator recently announced it earned $331 million, or 26 cents a share, for the quarter ended December 31, up from $243 million, or 19 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter when one-time charges from discontinued operations depressed its profit. … Excluding one-time items in both quarters, Duke earned $338 million, or 27 cents a share, in the quarter compared with $313 million, or 25 cents a share, a year ago. Revenue rose to $3.1 billion compared with $3 billion a year ago.” The Trade Alert author also featured IMS Health’s more than quadrupled fourth-quarter earnings:
“IMS Health Inc. (RX) shares climbed .59% to $15.46 Thursday. IMS Health provides information, analytics and consulting services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries worldwide. … Offsetting lower revenue that missed analysts' expectations, the provider of health-care data and service reported it more than quadrupled its fourth-quarter earnings. IMS Health reported net income of $98.5 million, or 54 cents per share, in the October-December quarter. A year earlier, it posted net income of $18 million, or 9 cents per share.”
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