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Denton-based retailer Sally Beauty reports improved results; stock …

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Denton-based Sally Beauty Holdings reported improved quarterly sales and reversed the sales declines from last summer and fall at its namesake stores.
Total sales increased 3.9 percent to $940.5 million in the company’s fiscal first quarter that ended Dec. 31. Same-store sales increased 2 percent from a year ago and increased 0.9 percent at its […]

The Arithmetic Of A Declining U.S. Stock Market In 2014 – Seeking …

Now that January has disappointed, market forecasts for 2014 have become less favorable (i.e. “January Effect”). Last month I forecast a 16% loss in 2014 while others were forecasting gains. I’m not saying “I told you so” but I would like to add some more justification for my prediction.As shown in the next graph, Wall Street is forecasting gains of […]

Facebook Trades North Of $60 For The First Time | TechCrunch

In after-hours trading today, investors rewarded Facebook with a rising share price after it reported stronger than expected revenue.The company reported that it earned $0.31 per share, and had revenue in the quarter of $2.59 billion. As reported earlier, the analyst set had predicted that Facebook would earn $0.27 on revenue of $2.33 billion. The earnings beat sent the company’s stock up 5 […]

Is the Stock Market Cheap? – Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Here is a new update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for the past month, which is 1783.54. The ratios in parentheses use the monthly close of 1805.81. For the earnings, see the table below created from Standard & […]

How To Trade Qualcomm's Mixed Earnings Report – Seeking Alpha

Another quarter, another mix report from Qualcomm (QCOM). The bad news is a disappointing guidance-the company is seeing revenues in the current quarter in the range of 5% to 15%, a disappointment for optimistic analysts. The good news is that the company met earnings expectations on slightly better than expected revenues:• Revenues: 1 $6.48 billion, up 33 percent year-over-year (y-o-y) […]