Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE:FSS) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 30, 2024 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Felix Boeschen – Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Investor RelationsIan Hudson – Chief Financial OfficerJennifer Sherman – President & Chief Executive Officer Conference Call Participants Steve Barger – KeyBanc Capital MarketsChris Moore – CJS SecuritiesMike Shlisky – D.A….
Adam Gault Thursday’s first-quarter GDP report delivered a one-two punch for markets: slower-than-expected growth and hotter-than-expected inflation. In reaction, stocks fell and US Treasury yields rose. At first glance, the risk-off response looks reasonable. But a closer look at the GDP numbers still leaves room for debate. Let’s start with the offending data that sent…
Rick_Jo/iStock via Getty Images Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) is a company that primarily offers high frequency geospatial data from their own constellations of satellites, available to customers through their online platform. One of many 2021 SPACs that since fell to earth, the stock has plummeted from an IPO price of $10. While too much hype dominated…
Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images By Sam Korus, Director of Research, Autonomous Technology & Robotics Since late 2023, media headlines have seized on data showing that electric vehicle (EV) sales growth decelerated in 2022 and 2023, from +113% in 2021 to +59% and +28% on a year-over-year basis, respectively. Our research contextualizes this deceleration in…
honglouwawa If you want to explain why the S&P 500 has been rising, you don’t have to look far beyond how the expectations investors have for the index’ dividends have been changing over the last several months. We last presented our regularly scheduled winter snapshot of the expected future for the quarterly dividend payouts for…
Serjio74 Above: Macau growth is speeding ahead of many early recovery calls. We accept what may be some investors’ characterization of our bullish outlook on Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE:LVS) this past year as that of a faded broken record. Give the apparent resistance to the stock moving anywhere near my price target (“PT”) of…
Angel Di Bilio/iStock Editorial via Getty Images For the most part, the airline industry never recovered after COVID lockdowns. Across the board, airlines faced immense losses during 2020, causing nearly all to face tremendous debt growth. For some, that issue has been exacerbated by the sharp rise in interest rates, compounding their overall interest expense….
guvendemir Introduction The iShares US Aerospace & Defense ETF (BATS:ITA) is a passive index fund composed of the largest manufacturers of arms and military-grade equipment in the US (and the world, for that matter, but it is restricted to US stocks). Included in the index’s top holdings are names like Raytheon, now RTX Corp (RTX);…
RgStudio Investing in fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO) has been a tremulous journey for me, marking it as one of my worst investments. While starting a bullish article with such a candid admission might seem strange, I find it essential to establish context for a clearer understanding. Reflecting on my previous analyses, I wrote two bullish articles on…
DNY59 Warren Buffett’s recent significant stock sales and massive cash pile, warnings from a plethora of billionaire business tycoons, leading economists, indications from prominent investors such as Elon Musk and “The Big Short” Michael Burry, a number of prominent market valuation and macroeconomic models – all these suggest the market is overvalued and the economy…
InnaVlasova/iStock via Getty Images Foreword As supplement to this article, please note that Kiplinger has published an on-line slide-show detailing the latest 2023 S&P Dividend Aristocrats. The article, entitled The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, is by Dan Burrows, a contributing editor. S&P Dow Jones Indices rebalances the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats every January, the Aristocratic…
Nikola Stojadinovic Canadian company Park Lawn Corporation (TSX:PLC:CA) (OTCPK:PRRWF) engages in different services for the afterlife. The company has attractive and stable business characteristics with a long pathway for steady growth. Since the beginning of 2022 Park Lawn’s stock has experienced a sharp 60% decline from its highs, when the company was benefiting from the…
HeliRy Note: I have covered Top Ships Inc. (NASDAQ:TOPS) previously, so investors should view this as an update to my earlier articles on the company. Following no less than twelve reverse stock splits over the past 15 years, the majority of Greece-based tanker operator Top Ships’ legacy equity holders have long been diluted to zero…
Justin Sullivan Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) just triggered our buy-on-weakness signal in the Timing (“Tmg”) column of the report shown below. It already has our most important Buy Signal shown in the SID column. This SID signal uses both fundamentals and technicals. NVDA is already in our 2024 Model Portfolio. Why is our Timing signal so…
AlxeyPnferov Japan’s private sector growth ground to a halt in November according to the latest flash PMI data, which is based on about 85%-90% of total PMI survey responses each month. This was mainly attributed to a sharper fall in manufacturing output as service activity expanded at a slightly faster pace in the penultimate month…
scyther5/iStock via Getty Images Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE:ADC) has demonstrated a period of significant investment and development, channeling resources into a substantial number of retail net lease properties and completing several projects through its Developer Funding Platform (DFP). Despite a dip in net income per share, the company’s financial health is underscored by growth in…
BackyardProduction Shares of Northern Trust (NASDAQ:NTRS) fell over 6% on Wednesday after reporting disappointing quarterly results, adding to a painful year for shareholders, with the stock losing a quarter of its value. After seemingly being immune to the deposit crisis earlier this year, higher funding costs hit the business particularly hard in Q3, and management’s…
Lemon_tm One of my closest personal friends told me a few years ago to keep an eye on the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc (OTCPK:STMZF). This particular friend, although he was not a professional investor, have been very successful with his personal investments. So much so that he ‘retired’ from his day job as a…
tum3123 Global economic growth near-stalled for a second straight month in September amid a sustained contraction of developed market activity and an easing in the rate of emerging market expansion, according to the latest PMI indications. Slower expansions of both manufacturing and service sector activity caused overall emerging market output to expand at the weakest…
insjoy By William J. Luther The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to hold its federal funds rate target range at 5.25 to 5.50 percent on Wednesday. However, FOMC members also signaled that another rate hike is likely in the fourth quarter of this year. In the latest Summary of Economic Projections, twelve…
narvikk/E+ via Getty Images Investment Thesis The EC summer forecast just recently revealed that Germany’s economy is set to contract this year. It does not seem like a particularly dramatic event on its own. However, when it is coupled with a few other factors, such as the recent EU decision to launch an investigation into…
HJBC Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) continues to captivate the world with its unparalleled growth and innovation. Since it was founded, the company has stood as a shining example for stock market enthusiasts, consistently displaying strong upward growth. Yet, like all success stories, Amazon’s journey reveals not just the narrative of its meteoric ascent but also lessons…
Milko Reason for the Update: Q2 Earnings and Sell Rating Re-iteration Q2 2023 Earnings Overview Idorsia (OTC:IDRSF) provided its half-year 2023 financial revelations, which, unfortunately, failed to inspire confidence. The company ended with a meager CHF43.8M in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term deposits. Their sales were below expectations, and the withdrawal of the ambitious 2025…
Svetlana_nsk/iStock via Getty Images Summary Dutch Bros (NYSE:BROS) operates and franchises drive-thru shops that focus on serving hand-crafted beverages. I am recommending a buy rating as I believe BROS can continue to grow at the current fast pace, meeting consensus estimates. The potential for growth is huge if we compete against large players like Starbucks…
Pgiam/iStock via Getty Images Introduction Last week the Trifecta Distribution Index [TDI] flashed a Correction Signal completely suddenly. Both the TDI and the SDI (the S&P 500 11-Sector Diffusion Index) have a Daily Signal. These two indices are not products of the time-series analysis such as econometric models, but a sort of a cross-section analysis…
Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE:FSS) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call July 27, 2023 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Ian Hudson – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Sherman – President and Chief Executive Officer Conference Call Participants Christian Zyla – KeyBanc Capital Markets Chris Moore – CJS Securities Mike Shlisky – D.A. Davidson Walter…