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The Oil Services Industry's 3Q--A Fragile Recovery

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:17:26 GMT

We look back at the industry's third quarter and offer early thoughts on 2010.[More...]

Weekly Charts And Trends: Nov 22, 2009

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:22:03 GMT

Main Points EURUSD ST– The volatile consolidation continues.Clear signs of tiredness, but won’t actively look for a broader downside correction until (if) 55-dma at 1.4767 breaks on a close basis. USD Index– Same respect of 55-dma, particularly with the USD –ve seasonals. A close above the 55-dma needed to call for a broader turn, stands at 76.15, if achieved would be serious. Gold– Consolidates against the highs. Broader position squaring may cause it to correct but should be very much a buy on the dip.[More...]

Smith International (NYSE: SII): Upgraded To Buy At Citigroup, RBC Buys The Deal

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:28:06 GMT

Smith International (NYSE:SII) is getting some interesting comments following yesterday's sell-off on the announced secondary: - Citigroup is upgrading SII to a Buy from Hold while raising their price target to $35 (prev. $29).[More...]

Covered Call Time, Anyone?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:41:42 GMT

The markets closed strongly today - well, not the inverse ETFs, chuckle. Today should be confirmation for even the most timid soul (me) that the market is in a new up leg after bouncing off support last week. Actually, today would have been a lovely time to enter covered call and naked put positions. For that matter, Friday would have been, also.[More...]

Earnings News : EXPE, NEM, FTE, FSLR, CVX, AEP, ODP, XRAY, MCO, ORLY, AGN, SII, APA, PNW, PPL, WMGI, MWW, IRM, DNB

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:00 GMT

Expedia’s (EXPE) third quarter earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 15 cents. Revenue beat by 2.8%.[More...]

Perfect Example Of Unhealthy Volume: SII

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:20:31 GMT

I have been mentioning how the volume for stocks has been healthy in my recent posts. While I did try and explain what I meant by this concept, I always learn better with an example so here is one.[More...]

Cheapest Stocks In The S&P 500 - High Value Score Stocks pt.3 - Stocks Include SPRINT NEXTEL (S) and PHILIP MORRIS INTL (PM)

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:58:35 GMT

Related: AES, APOL, AZO, CEPH, DNB, FIS, PM, s, TMO, TSO To identify potentially attractive investment ideas, The Applied Finance Group (AFG) uses a combination of proprietary variables including valuation, economic performance,[More...]

Biggest Declines Among S&P

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:05:02 GMT

The following is a list of the S&P 500 firms where the analysts have been cutting their expectations for the current fiscal year the most over the last month. Most likely these firms reported disappointing earnings or gave negative guidance on their conference calls. Historically, you have not wanted to be invested in companies where the analysts who follow them most closely see the earnings prospects diminishing. Also, estimates in motion tend to remain in motion. The first bit of bad news is rarely the last (the cockroach theory). This means that the current expectations, even though down from last month, are probably still to high for these firms. To weed out anomalies, only those firms that are currently expected to earn more than $0.50 in 2009 are included and only those firms where there are a minimum of three estimates in the system. If you have these stocks in your portfolio, you might want to reconsider[More...]

Smith Int'l Misses, Plunges

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:19:29 GMT

Smith International, Inc. (SII) – a major oilfield services provider – reported financial results for the second quarter 2009 on Jul y27, 2009. Earnings per share, excluding one-time items, came in at $0.15, below our estimate of $0.21 and the Street’s estimate of $0.22. On a year-over-year basis, Smith’s adjusted earnings per share plunged 83.5%, while revenue declined 22.1% to $1.9 billion. ? The Houston-based company’s weaker-than-expected results were due to the collapse in North American natural gas drilling activity that has led to lower volumes and a very competitive pricing environment. ? Geographic Performance On a geographic basis, revenue in North America decreased 29.9% year-over-year to $906.1 million. Outside North America,[More...]

High Value Score Stocks - Russell 2000 (ex. financials)

Thu, 28 May 2009 18:16:43 GMT

Normally when searching for buy ideas, AFG narrows its list of potential investment opportunities using several powerful proprietary variables including valuation, economic margin, management quality, earnings quality and others. Using AFG’s valuation variable (value score) as a stand-alone screen, ValueExpectations has shown portfolios that have gone on to earn outstanding returns. We first posted a blog “High Value Score Stocks: S&P 500” in December of 2008 using only AFG's valuation variable - Value Score. These companies (DDS, S, NOV, MTW, SII, WFR, CHK) were identified as having the highest value score within the entire index. Since release, that portfolio has outpaced the S&P 500 by over 71% as of May 26, 2009. With the success of the first high value score stocks blog, we released a[More...]

Smith International launches stock offering

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:46:00 GMT

HOUSTON - Smith International Inc., a provider of products and services used by operators during the drilling, completion and production phases of oil and natural gas development activities, said Monday it has launched a public offering of 28 million shares of its common stock.
The company will use the proceeds to repay debt, fund potential acquisitions or investments and for general corporate purposes.
The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to 4.2 million additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any

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The Oil Services Industry's 3Q--A Fragile Recovery

Weekly Charts And Trends: Nov 22, 2009

Smith International (NYSE: SII): Upgraded To Buy At Citigroup, RBC Buys The Deal

Covered Call Time, Anyone?

Earnings News : EXPE, NEM, FTE, FSLR, CVX, AEP, ODP, XRAY, MCO, ORLY, AGN, SII, APA, PNW, PPL, WMGI, MWW, IRM, DNB

Perfect Example Of Unhealthy Volume: SII

Cheapest Stocks In The S&P 500 - High Value Score Stocks pt.3 - Stocks Include SPRINT NEXTEL (S) and PHILIP MORRIS INTL (PM)

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Smith Int'l Misses, Plunges

High Value Score Stocks - Russell 2000 (ex. financials)

Smith International launches stock offering

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Smith International, Inc. Prices Public Offering of 28,000,000 Shares of Common Stock

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Smith International, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Results

Smith International, Inc. Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

Form 4 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Dec 01 Filed by: Taylor Brian E. (10K)

Form 4 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Nov 19 Filed by: Restrepo William J (10K)

Form 4 Taylor Brian E. For: Oct 21 (10K)

Form 4 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Nov 03 Filed by: RADTKE DUANE C (10K)

Form 4 Mckay Norman A For: Nov 02 (10K)

Form 3 Mckay Norman A For: Nov 01 (10K)

Form 4 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Oct 22 Filed by: RADTKE DUANE C (10K)

Form 3 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Oct 22 Filed by: RADTKE DUANE C (10K)

Form 4 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Oct 21 Filed by: Restrepo William J (10K)

Form 3 SMITH INTERNATIONAL INC For: Oct 16 Filed by: Restrepo William J (10K)