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: ABB Gets Dinged On Orders, But Is It Timing Or Something Worse?

As more industrial companies report, what had originally looked like a pretty good quarter is looking increasingly mixed. While companies w...

Investopedia: Siemens Definitely Slimming Down, But Execution Is The Big Unknown

German industrial conglomerate Siemens (NYSE: SI ) has gotten a great deal more serious about streamlining its operations around those bu...

Investopedia: Nokia Buys Out Siemens, Are Phones Now On The Block?

There was never really a question as to if Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) and Siemens (NYSE: SI ) would unwind their 50/50 partnership in Nokia Sieme...

Investopedia: Absent A Quick Turnaround In Power, GE Has Gone Far Enough For Now

General Electric (NYSE: GE ) has been one of my go-to industrial stocks since around mid-2009, and the stock hasn't disappointed in t...

Seeking Alpha: Red-Hot Novadaq Shows There's Green In Being Green

There aren't a lot of great med-tech growth stories these days, and many of those are already quite expensive. Novadaq Technologies ( ...

Investopedia: Honeywell Is Popular, But Built To Perform Well

For the most part, I try to avoid buying stocks where the company is already pretty popular with the Street. Sell side analysts have a tend...

Investopedia: ABB Performing Well, But A Big Change Is Coming

This earnings season had been setting up quite well for ABB (NYSE: ABB ). Though there was some consternation that the company had overpaid...

Investopedia: Advanced Energy Industries Hanging On For The Turn

There's a quote you will hear once in a while around racing tracks that goes “to finish first, first you have to finish”. Given the nas...

Investopedia: Johnson Controls Has A Lot Of Improving Left To Do

One of the investment and corporate finance topics that has been getting more airtime recently is the notion of “peak margins” - the idea t...

Investopedia: Good Long-Term Trends, But Softer Conditions Today At United Technologies

It's pretty clear that United Technologies (NYSE: UTX ) has built itself around two principal themes – the increasing urbanization of...

Investopedia: Strong Execution Justifies Honeywell's Price

Many investors are so obsessed with finding bargains that they sometimes overlook excellent companies trading at reasonable valuations. Thi...

Investopedia: Nokia Still Straddling Fault Lines

Roughly 18 months into his tenure as the CEO of Nokia (NYSE: NOK ), Stephen Elop hasn't yet proven much of anything about the future o...

Investopedia: Hope Seems To Outshine Reality At Acuity Brands

It has been almost two years since I last wrote on Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI ), and in that time the company has seen only the barest recove...