Direct and Retail Business Segments Achieve Operating Income for Second Consecutive Quarter

This week’s candidates from the Century Club scan, a TA scan developed with MarketClub’s smart scanner to search for charts that have a perfect +100 score in its objective scoring system, tweaked to hone in on smaller stocks:   Sino Gold (SIOGF.PK) Market Cap: n/a     PGT, Inc. (PGTI) Market Cap: 63.72M   Nautilus Corp. [...]

Late on Tuesday, diversified agribusiness and retailing firm The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDE) announced its third quarter net income rose 22% to $12.8 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, from $10.6 million, or $0.58 per diluted share in the same quarte[More...]

Companies that could issue positive surprises include Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX), SucessFactors (SFSF) and Sunoco (SUN). Penn Virginia Corporation (PVA) could potentially disappoint investors. The Week's Events November has historically been one of the best months for the major markets, according to the[More...]

Interactive Brokers Group?s (IBKR) second quarter diluted earnings of $0.44 per share (down 33.3% sequentially, but up 57.1% compared to the prior-year quarter) were six cents short of our estimate. The results were impacted mainly by the 32.6% sequential decline in market making segment?s net revenues (due to subdued market volatility), while the brokerage segment?s net revenues were down 3.0% compared to the prior quarter. The company continued to maintain a highly liquid balance sheet with low leverage, and a strong capital position. After reviewing the results, we are moderating our EPS estimates and six-month target price for IBKR, while maintaining our Hold recommendation on the shares. IBKR is currently trading at 13.4 times the consensus estimate for FY08, a 4% premium to 12.9 times for the peer group median. On a[More...]

Yesterday shares of Nautilus, Inc. (NYSE:NLS) jumped 31% to $6.77 on volume of 1 million shares shares, more than 3 times their daily average over the past 30 days. This all happens a week later after the earnings call on May 5th?  What, what, what!??

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