Thursday 18 October 2012

Services Sectors With Negative Momentum; EBay 3Q Results- CSX, DG, IPG, WAG, CSX , EBAY


Shares of eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) moved down on Tuesday after it declared that its Q3 net income surged 22% thanks to higher revenue at its PayPal payments service and at the marketplaces business that comprises eBay.com.
The results were about within anticipations, with revenue a modest light and earnings a tad improve than what Wall Street analysts had forecasted.
He said in an interview that he’s carefully positive about consumer spending over the holidays, In the U.S., apparently they have to acquire previous the elections, and my sense is that consumers are ready to receives the elections behind them.
The online commerce firm declared on Wednesday that it generated $597 million, or 45 cents a share, in the July-September quarter. That’s increase from $491 million, or 37 cents a share, a year before.
CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX) reported the loss of -2.03% and closed at $21.19 with the total traded volume of 20.86 million shares. Its price to sales ratio ended at 1.85 and its price to cash per share was $ 32.27. Its market capitalization is $ 22.04 billion. The stock owned by the Financial Institutions was 68.85% while by insiders was 0.27%. CSX Corporation (CSX), together with its subsidiaries, is a transportation supplier. The Company provides rail-based transportation services, including traditional rail service and the transport of intermodal containers and trailers.
Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG) has the market capitalization of $16.10 billion, enterprise value of $18.86 billion. The company has the price over sales value of $1.03 whereas its price over book value of $3.35 for the most recent quarter. DG has the total of cash of $136.83 million as compares to total debt of $60.20 billion for the most recent quarter with the current ratio of 1.65 for the most recent quarter.
The stock has a 52-week high price of $56.04 and its 52-week low was recorded at $38.32, has 50-Day moving average was $50.73 and 200-Day moving average was $50.13.
Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE:IPG)’s reported the decrease of -2.82% to close at $11.01 with the overall traded volume of 9.63 million shares. Its market capitalization was $4.81 billion. Its debt to equity ratio was 0.67. Its beta value stands at 1.80 times and return on equity was 23.41%.
IPG has the total of 437.13 million outstanding shares as compares to 434.45 million shares that were floated in the market.
Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) moved down -1.48% to close at $35.83. Its total traded volume during last trading session was 8.35 million shares. Company’s 5 years revenue rate remained 5.91%. The total market capitalization is $30.76 billion. It gained 12.86% return on Equity, 9.64% return on Investment and 6.98% return on Assets. Walgreen Co. (Walgreen), together with its subsidiaries, provides its customers with multichannel access to consumer goods and services, and pharmacy, health and wellness services in communities across America.

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NCI) Reports Results For The Third Quarter of 2012


Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:NCI) consulting firm reported that it will publish its financial results for the third quarter on Tuesday October 30, 2012 at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
After release of third quarter results Chief Executive Officer, Julie Howard will host a conference call to deliberate the business and financial results of NCI at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Shares of the NCI are down almost 17% since its second-quarter miss in July, but near-term Avondale sees “mortgage servicing probes, technology and health data and process revenues enabling company to meet trampled down prospects.
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:NCI) traded with volume of 355,410 shares in last session which was unexpectedly higher versus average trading capacity of 190,242 shares. The stock traded with opening bell at $10.75, gained the maximum price level of $11.38 and then finished the day at $10.99 by scoring +3.68%.
NCI remained successful in generating revenue of $812.70 million in the trailing twelve months and made net income of $42.79 million. The Company maintained a positive 5.27% for the net profit margin and in its operating margin it scored 9.68%. Company’s yearly revenue change for the last five years was 2.85%.
The NCI’s price to sales ratio is 0.70. As far as the returns from the company is concerned, return on assets remained as +4.81%.
The stock showed upbeat performance of 2.52% for the week which was maintained for the month at -5.91%. Likewise the negative performance for the trailing 3 months was recorded as -16.99% and in last year was 7.12% while the performance so far in current year remains at -3.68%.