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Investopedia: Easy To Like Everything About Kubota Except The Price

There's a lot working in Kubota 's (OTC: KUBTY ) favor these days. The lower value of the yen makes its products cheaper, while ri...

Investopedia: Waiting For Hormel To Get Cheaper Isn't Getting Any Easier

Once in a while even the best-loved food and beverage companies will sell off on concerns about organic growth trends or margin worries. So...

Investopedia: Hain Celestial's Valuation Already Incorporates Strong Expectations

Even as someone who isn't all that interested in the “healthy lifestyle” trends of today, I find it interesting to see the sort of visc...

Investopedia: HP Still Looks Cheap, But Execution Issues Are Part Of The Reason Why

There's a big difference between “cheap” and “cheap for a good reason”, and it's not always easy to tell the two apart. While Hewlet...

Investopedia: Abercrombie & Fitch The Latest To Get Trampled

This is turning out to be a cruel summer for teen retailers, with Abercombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF ) the latest to report very disappointi...

Investopedia: American Eagle Hammered As Conditions Worsen

To me, the biggest question coming out of American Eagle 's (NYSE: AEO ) poor second quarter and weak guidance is whether or not there...

Investopedia: History Suggests Street Will Get Over "Disappointing" Smucker Results

I don't want to spend too much time defending Smucker 's (NYSE: SJM ) fiscal first quarter results, as I thought they were fine. St...

Investopedia: A Solid Beat-And-Raise As Lowe's Closes Some Of The Gap

While neither Home Depot (NYSE: HD ) nor Lowe's (NYSE: LOW ) were exactly what I thought of as “cheap” a quarter ago, I did think Lo...

Investopedia: Canadian Dilution And Sluggish U.S. Shopping Bring Target A Little Wide Of The Mark

When Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ), Target (NYSE: TGT ), and Costco (Nasdaq: COST ) all see relatively uninspiring same-store sales growth trend...

Investopedia: Intuit Refocusing On What It Does Best

A quarter ago, I thought that Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU ) was underestimated and underappreciated by the Street. True, the company was (and is...

Investopedia: Analog Devices' Slow Walk To Better Days

The still-awaited semiconductor recovery is certainly taking its sweet time in getting here. In the meantime, Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI ), ...

Seeking Alpha: Even After A Big Run, The Housing Recovery Can Take Techtronic Higher

Plenty of stocks tied to housing in one form or another have enjoyed strong rebounds, and toolmaker Techtronic (NASDAQ: TTNDY.PK ) is no e...

Investopedia: Will Immunotherapy Disrupt The Oncology Market?

Goldman Sachs' recent list of eight "disruptive technologies" included new therapies to fight cancer, drugs that promise to u...

Investopedia: Home Depot Moves From Good To Great

While it shouldn't really surprise anybody if there's a little volatility or turbulence along the way, it looks like the long-await...

Investopedia: Medtronic Marking Time

These aren't the glory days for med-tech giant Medtronic (NYSE: MDT ), as fiscal 2014 will be a pretty weak year from a growth perspec...

Investopedia: Plenty Left To Do, But Signs Of Progress At Best Buy

I know that the skeptics on Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) are going to look at Tuesday's results and ask “What recovery?” After all, comps are...

Investopedia: International Rectifier Recovering, But Margins Need To Pick Up

Investors in semiconductor stocks have been waiting for almost two years for signs of sustained (or sustainable) improvements in the indust...

Investopedia: Workday Working Some Major Market Mojo

One way or another, Workday (Nasdaq: WDAY ) is going to be a fun stock to watch. Investors angered by the rich valuations once awarded to S...

Investopedia: NCR Transforming, But The Street Seems Up To Speed

NCR (NYSE: NCR ) has already gone a long way toward transforming itself from a tired, slow-growing manufacturer of ATM and point of sale ...

Investopedia: Veolia Offers A Decent Dividend, But Both Uncertainty And Upside

When last I wrote about European utility company Veolia (NYSE: VE ) for Investopedia (back in March of 2012), I was cautious about the n...

Investopedia: Arcos Dorados Still Several Fries Short Of A Happy Meal

Investors who bought Arcos Dorados (Nasdaq: ARCO ) thinking they were getting McDonald's -like (NYSE: MCD ) consistency with a Latin A...

Investopedia: Corning's Always-Frustating Mix Of Opportunity And Risk

I will always have a soft spot for companies like Corning (NYSE: GLW ). I'm a science geek at heart, and what Corning has accomplished...

Seeking Alpha: OMV's Transformation Should Unlock Meaningful Value

One of the most rewarding things about writing about stocks is when you write a piece, make certain specific predictions, and then see thos...

Investopedia: Nordstrom Shows That Even The Best Can Struggle A Bit

It's hard to find new positive things to say about Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN ). This high-end retailer has long stood out from the crowd wi...

Investopedia: Applied Materials Still Waiting For Orders To Materialize

Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT ) is an interesting company (and stock) today. With 3D chips on the way, it looks like the semiconductor ...

Investopedia: Dell Scratching And Clawing For Share

The situation around Dell (Nasdaq: DELL ) continues to churn, as the company scratches, claws, and fights for market share and relevance in...

Seeking Alpha: Microsemi Not Quite To Plan, But Still Improving

Owning Microsemi ( MSCC ) is an interesting experience. For a company that is pretty small and obscure by most standards, there's a s...

Seeking Alpha: ON Semiconductor - If It Stops Getting Worse, It Could Get So Much Better

In Hollywood, asking "How can it get any worse?" aloud is a sure way to get either a comedic or horrific answer in the next scene...

Investopedia: Consumer Spending Looking Bleaker For Wal-Mart

It seems like hopes for a strong back-to-school season (not to mention a more general spending recovery overall) are fading away for Wal-Ma...

Investopedia: NetApp Underwhelms, But Still Looks Undervalued

There is a risk that investors and analysts are going to start viewing NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP ) less as an undervalued tech stock in an attr...

Investopedia: Agilent Grinding Through Challenging Market Conditions

It may not look like it on the basis of the last few quarters, but Agilent (NYSE: A ) is getting better. Weakness in multiple test and mea...

Investopedia: The Market's Panic On Cisco Seems Overdone

Over time you eventually get used to the idea that the market seldom looks past one or two quarters (except, of course, when it's conve...

Investopedia: Deere May Be Getting Too Little Credit

The ways things are in the market today, whenever I see an industrial stock that seems to be undervalued by 15% or more, I start wondering ...

Investopedia: Pricing Still A Long-Term Risk, But Illumina Continues To Build A Sequencing Fortress

Between the disruptions created by Thermo Fisher 's (NYSE: TMO ) acquisition of Life Technologies, Roche (Nasdaq: RHHBY ) all but raisi...

Investopedia: Expectations, Not Performance, Eclipse Cree

It's pretty rare for a company at the leading edge of an emerging technology to have a smooth growth trajectory, and LED leader Cree (N...

Investopedia: JDSU's Results Highlight The Volatility Of The Telco Capex Recovery

Happy days are here again in the telecom capex market, right? After all, companies like Juniper (Nasdaq: JNPR ), Ciena (Nasdaq: CIEN ), an...

Seeking Alpha: A Beat's A Beat, But Brocade Still Needs More Growth

Tuesday night had to be satisfying for Brocade ( BRCD ) shareholders. The stock has been strong over the past three months (up almost 40%...

Seeking Alpha: Tullow Hasn't Forgotten How To Find Oil, And The Shares Look Too Cheap

Exploration-focused oil and gas companies can give investors a wild ride. That has definitely been the case at Britain's Tullow Oil ( T...

Investopedia: CA Getting Some Benefit Of The Doubt, But It Must Deliver Growth

I carried the “ CA Technologies (NYSE: CA ) is too cheap” torch for a while, and though the stock is up about 20% since my last article, be...

Investopedia: BlackBerry Finally Looking For A Bidder, But Will A Real Buyer Bite?

It looks like an outbreak of rationality has hit BlackBerry (Nasdaq: BBRY ), as the company announced on Monday that it had formed a speci...

Investopedia: Danaher Could Be Loading Up For A Bigger 2014

In a pretty lackluster industrial environment, Danaher (NYSE: DHR ) continues to hold its own. The company's organic revenue and segmen...

Investopedia: With Scale, Flowers Foods Has Built A New Future For Itself

Tech investors may turn their noses up at consumer staples companies as hopelessly low-growth and boring, but Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO ) ...

Seeking Alpha: CRE Playing The Long Game In China, And Looks Significantly Undervalued

Investors know all too well how challenging it can be to generate long-term gains from Chinese equities. Leaving aside those companies tha...

Seeking Alpha: Receptos Could Meet With A More Positive Reception

Investors do well to be very skeptical of the biotech companies that go public in the late stages of a multi-year bull market. In many case...

Investopedia: Jive Software Worth A Closer Look?

I wouldn't say that the market's love affair with all things “cloud” or collaborative is over, but having the right buzzwords is no...

Seeking Alpha: Middleby Not Giving Many 'Buy The Dip' Opportunities

When an investor is watching a great growth story from the wrong side of the glass, there's little to do but hope for the occasional st...

Seeking Alpha: FDA Kicks Wright Medical In The Groin - What Now?

There are days when the news that comes out of the stock market makes you want to rip the router out of the wall and just forget about stoc...

Investopedia: Sysco's Benefit Of The Doubt Looking A Little Fuzzy

Like a bag of produce left in the back of the fridge too long, the argument for Sysco (NYSE: SYY ) being a dependable year-in/year-out per...

Investopedia: Weaker Organic Growth Creating An Opportunity In Nestle

Swiss food giant Nestle (Nasdaq: NSRGY ) is a remarkable company in several respects. Despite being one of the largest food companies in ...

Investopedia: Fusion-io Tries To Hit Reset, But The Street Will Carry A Grudge

By no means is it unheard of for tech companies, including storage companies, to stumble in their early years. With Fusion-io 's (NYSE: ...

Investopedia: Nvidia's Core May Be Strong, But Tegra Is Getting Expensive

Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA ) generates a healthy amount of free cash flow and has maintained a strong GPU business despite but the pressures in ...

Investopedia: Can Mondelez Live Up To The Sell-Side Hype

Not unlike the apparent love affair between Wall Street and Kraft (Nasdaq: KRFT ), Mondelez (Nasdaq: MDLZ ) gets quite a bit of love from ...

Investopedia: Novo Nordisk Getting Its Trial By Fire

The past year or so has shown that Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO ) isn't immune from seeing some serious challenges to its business. Betwee...

Investopedia: Transocean Still Has Plenty To Prove, But The Valuation Isn't Demanding

It doesn't seem like it was that long ago when Transocean (NYSE: RIG ) was considered one of the best-run energy-related companies and...

Investopedia: Groupon Takes Another Step Forward

The once beaten-up Internet 2.0 stocks are coming back with a vengeance. Groupon (Nasdaq: GRPN ) still has a long way to go to match Facebo...

Seeking Alpha: Endo Health Has A Lot Of Work To Do

How do you ruin a specialty pharmaceutical business? Take a ridiculously lucrative stream of free cash flow generated by a strong pain fra...

Seeking Alpha: Can Tiny Synergetics See A Big Surge?

Having made some solid capital gains from various ophthalmology and niche med-tech companies in the past, I looked into Synergetics ( SURG ...

Seeking Alpha: Tornier's In The Right Market, But Expectations Are High

It seems pretty clear that extremities are the next big growth opportunity in orthopedics. Of course, "big" is a relative stateme...

Investopedia: A Little Noise In Disney Earnings Shouldn't Matter Much

Even though Disney (NYSE: DIS ) shares were basically flat for the past quarter (while the S&P 500 was up about 5% and some consumer ...

Investopedia: Parker Hannifin Skids, But Conditions May Be Bottoming

It's not too much of a stretch to say that Parker Hannifin (NYSE: PH ) makes industry move. Although the company doesn't give much...

Investopedia: Expectations Seem To Be A Bigger Problem For Emerson

I'm starting to feel a little sympathy for the management team at Emerson (NYSE: EMR ). While the recent financial performance from thi...

Investopedia: ADM Offsets Weak Volume With Strong Ethanol

With ethanol margins improving in the second quarter and investors increasingly transitioning from the old (poor) crop to the new (good) c...

Investopedia: Hologic Struggling To Find A New Path

Hologic 's (Nasdaq: HOLX ) difficult midlife crisis continues. With its core cervical cancer screening business struggling in response...

Investopedia: Tyson Foods Continues To Leverage Strong Margins In Proteins

As many packaged food companies start to stumble and sputter, Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN ) appears to be picking up steam. With generally solid...

Investopedia: Global Giant HSBC Still An Attractive Story

When I last wrote on HSBC (NYSE: HBC ) about 18 months ago, I was positive on this global banking giant. In the intervening period the s...

Investopedia: Societe Generale Continues To Clean Up Its Act

The stocks of U.S. banks like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ) and Citigroup (NYSE: C ), not to mention smaller regional players like Zions (...

Seeking Alpha: Mindray's Quarter Won't Settle Diddly

Both bulls and bears can find information in Mindray 's ( MR ) second quarter report to uphold their preexisting biases about the stoc...

Seeking Alpha: Wright Medical Showing A Growth Core, But Transition Will Be Messy

Sometimes simplifying a business makes things a little more complicated in the short term. When Wright Medical ( WMGI ) elected to sell it...

Seeking Alpha: Should Traders Try To Play The Odds With Cyclacel?

To be very clear from the get-go, I'm not bullish on the long-term prospects for Cyclacel ( CYCC ), nor those of its lead drug sapacit...

Seeking Alpha: Novadaq On Track To Bring Excellent Growth To Light

With second quarter results in hand, Novadaq ( NVDQ ) continues to look like a rare med-tech story with both very strong growth and large...

Seeking Alpha: MAKO Surgical - Rebuilding Credibility, But They Need To Rebuild More Knees

When I last wrote on MAKO Surgical ( MAKO ), I thought investors would be well-served by slowly building a multi-part position. With the ...

Investopedia: Wall Street All In On Kraft's Improvement Potential

The way many sell-side analysts talk about Kraft Foods (Nasdaq: KRFT ) and the company's CEO Tony Vernon, you would think they make s...

Investopedia: Can Sanofi Investors Just Blame It On Rio?

Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) was supposed to be a relatively solid Big Pharma company in 2013. True, the company is going through some pressures f...

Investopedia: Chevron Disappoints, But Offers A Little Value

With the results in hand from Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM ) and refiners like Valero (NYSE: VLO ) the big surprise for the second quarter would...

Investopedia: Will Less Scarcity Value Harm Whole Foods?

Whole Foods (NYSE: WFM ) is still most commonly identified as the supermarket for organic, natural, and healthier foods. While plenty of s...

Investopedia: Eaton's Conservatism Clashes With Street's Enthusiasm

Wall Street badly wants to believe in the narrative of a strong second half recovery, and companies that don't toe that particular line...

Seeking Alpha: Industry Headwinds Masking Some Progress At Axiall

The trouble with commodity businesses is that there's only so much that a company can do to control its fate. In the case of Axiall ( A...

Seeking Alpha: Atmel Needs To Show That Touch Can Be A Growth Business Again

While Atmel ( ATML ) has looked for touch controllers/sensors in mobile devices to build on its core microcontroller business and reignit...

Investopedia: Becton Dickinson Already Priced For Excellence

It's pretty rare to see an “Underperform” rating on a med-tech stock these days, but Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX ) carries more than Jo...

Investopedia: The Street Has Caught Covidien

For most of 2012 and 2013, Covidien (NYSE: COV ) was the not-so-little med-tech that could. In an environment were companies like Johnson ...

Investopedia: Kellogg Reports Unimpressive Earnings

While the bull market in consumer stocks has slowed a bit over the past quarter, and Kellogg 's (NYSE: K ) performance has trailed other...

Investopedia: Weatherford Burning Through Its Benefits Of The Doubt

Broadly speaking, there are two valid reasons to own Weatherford (NYSE: WFT ). First, you believe that the company's position in marke...