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Virgin Media: Corner Turned, Upside Ahead

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:06:31 GMT

Virgin Media reported its best quarter in several years. Mid to upper single digit revenue and EBITDA growth comfortably exceeded estimates and translated to a big beat in free cash flow.[More...]

Sector Detector: Financials Holds On To The Top Ranking

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:11:34 GMT

The market continues to flash signs that it wants to breakout, although mixed news has brought on a consolidation for the first two days of the week. Sabrient’s SectorCast-ETF rankings show little change this week, and this unbiased, value-oriented, quantitative model continues to have a bullish flavor by favoring sectors that are more dependent on economic growth, like Financials, InfoTech and Energy, which remain comfortably above the more defensive sectors like Utilities, Consumer Staples, and Telecom.[More...]

Retail In The Spotlight

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:52:14 GMT

Earnings Preview 2/19/10 Earnings Season is winding down, but that does not mean it is over. Next week will bring 570 earnings reports, including 57 members of the S&P 500. The focus will mostly be on the retailers, with such heavyweights as Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), Lowe’s (LOW) and Macy’s (M) expected to report.[More...]

Sector Detector: Financials And InfoTech Looks Strong

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:47:51 GMT

Sabrient’s fundamentals-based SectorCast-ETF model appears to be softening its conservative posture in the wake of the recent market weakness. Sectors like Financials, InfoTech, and Energy that are more dependent on economic stability and growth are scoring higher this week, pushing traditionally defensive sectors lower. Notably, after correcting hard recently, stocks in the Materials sector have been receiving upward revisions from the analyst community, which is lifting it from the bottom of the rankings for the first time in a long time.[More...]

Seven Bull Stocks To Know In Media

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:48:26 GMT

Anticipation of Comcast Corp and General Electric JV has built a run-up in the media stock buying.[More...]

Boston Scientific Slumps, But Option Traders More Optimistic

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:47:01 GMT

Today's tickers: BSX, VMED, SPY, GME & QSFT[More...]

NDX 100 New Faces: Year End Changes

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:35:00 GMT

NASDAQ announced eleven component changes to the NASDAQ 100 Index. All new members will be added this Monday December 22nd. Let’s take a quick look at the companies that are being added to the $NDX: Automatic Data Processing (NASD:ADP) Daily Chart with InVivo Swing Trading Tools First Solar, Inc. (NASD:FSLR) [More...]

Virgin Media in Early Turnaround - Analyst Blog

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:56:00 GMT

Virgin Media Inc. (VMED) is, in our view, in the early stages of a turnaround, poised to generate strong free cash-flow growth and improved EPS in 2009. A new management team is re-branding the services (formerly notorious for poor customer service and rolling out digital services to stabilize ARPU), reduce churn and slow its market share drain from the onslaught of new entrants into VMED's markets. The company remains focused on leading in next-generation broadband and redefining the TV experience through VOD (video on-demand). On the cost side, we expect lower interest expense, capital expenditures and income taxes to increase free cash flow in 2008. A pending deferment of bank debt payments to 2012 from 2009, and easing of covenant restrictions is shifting investor focus to fundamentals from liquidity issues. The debt deferment[More...]

Worst Performers Over Last Quarter

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:14:00 GMT

And here is the list of worst perfomers... keep in mind this is over a 90 day period. I show 136 stocks that lost at least 45% in the previous quarter. Very bad. The list is obvious - anything global growth, commodity related or the "dead" financial types.CriteriaMarket capitalization $1.25B+Average trading volume 100K+Stock price $0+Return this month -45%+Green names we own, blue names we have owned in the past or discussed in the blog. In orange I listed names we owned at some point during the quarter.[More...]

Analyst Comments: Qiagen, Virgin Media, Priceline, NovaMed

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:52:00 GMT

Qiagen N.V. (QGEN), through its subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, and the U.S., operates in the life sciences industry with a portfolio of more than 500 products and automated solutions. Though the molecular diagnostic and research market offer enormous growth, the company faces stiff competition. As such, we maintain our Hold rating for Qiagen. The company continues to remain aggressive on the acquisition front. The most significant deal closed by the company in July 2007, is the acquisition of Digene Corp., which should boost the topline going forward. Another recent significant acquisition was Corbett Life Sciences which occurred in July 2008. We believe the company will continue entering into strategic partnerships and alliances going forward. We are optimistic on a number of new research products and potential breakthrough procedures for fractionation of[More...]

Virgin in search for new funds

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:47:00 GMT

CABLE company Virgin Media yesterday became the latest major business to tap debt markets for funds ahead of the potential threat of interest rate hikes.
Virgin Media joins Premiership football club Manchester United and German car giant BMW in seeking to raise cash before borrowing costs begin to head up and bond investors expect higher returns.
Its Pounds 500m bond issue -- the fourth in six months -- will refinance part of its existing Pounds 5.8bn net debt and cut the bank loans due for repayment in 2012 from Pounds 3bn to Pounds 2bn.

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Virgin Media: Corner Turned, Upside Ahead

Sector Detector: Financials Holds On To The Top Ranking

Retail In The Spotlight

Sector Detector: Financials And InfoTech Looks Strong

Seven Bull Stocks To Know In Media

Boston Scientific Slumps, But Option Traders More Optimistic

NDX 100 New Faces: Year End Changes

Virgin Media in Early Turnaround - Analyst Blog

Worst Performers Over Last Quarter

Analyst Comments: Qiagen, Virgin Media, Priceline, NovaMed

Virgin in search for new funds

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