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Reports indicate that at least 17 people were shot and killed and more than a dozen people were wounded after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
This marks the deadliest school shooting since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook School on December 14, 2012.
The shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida today. This is at least the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.
Our hearts are with the victims, their loved ones, and all those impacted by yet another senseless shooting at an American school.
We need to introduce a pragmatic and effective solution to this almost uniquely American problem of gun and weapon violence in schools and gun control to mental people?
Deepest heartfelt prayers and a moment of silence for the victims and families of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Another horrific tragedy that is impossible to comprehend.
CBS (NYSE:CBS) And Viacom Could Be The Key For A Stock Re- Merger -CWEB.com
CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS), the American media corporation offers an attractive valuation.
CBS reported better than expected profitability, offset by a top line $100 million miss due to lower than expected advertising sales.
Management has outlay a plan to generate over $150 million in revenue for the company in 2018.
Share repurchases stemming from the CBS Radio merger and a possible sale of real estate assets could provide a boost in the stock.
Management has been encouraged by the progress of its subscription streaming services, which will be vital to the company’s long-term success.
CBS (CBS -0.9%) CEO Les Moonves and his counterpart at Viacom (VIA, VIAB +0.6%), Bob Bakish have met last week to discuss potential re – merger according to CNBC News report.
Shari Redstone, whose family’s National Amusements controls both companies, has pushed for the two to reunite after a split more than a decade ago.
Things have been going well for CBS (NYSE:CBS) as of late. The firm reported better than expected profitability and positive outlook for the year 2018.
CWEB Analyst have initiated a Buy Rating for (NYSE:CBS) and a Price Target of $90 within 12 months.
A Bank Bargain JPMorgan And Chase (NYSE:JPM) – CWEB.Com
The next 6- 12 months should be good. Banks will likely to build capital, which can be deployed into growth opportunities, the bulk of the tax cuts should drop straight to the bottom line, and there’s just modest risk that managements will compete away these gains through more competitive pricing.
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is experiencing positive momentum for the business and the stock. The company is set to benefit from the interest rate increase cycle, a lower tax rate, cash savings and continued economic growth.
Given the favorable economic backdrop for banks, it’s likely the stock will remain elevated.
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) looks to be entering a new cyclical bull market, that could generate once in a lifetime levels of capital appreciation.
JPMorgan (JPM) stock has substantially outperformed the rest of the banking industry in the long term. The financial crisis in 2009 was a major blow to investors in the sector but things are looking really good for Jamie Diamond.
JPMorgan Chase is the most valuable bank in the world and is one of the most attractive banking investments right now.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) is a very successful American bank. If you’ve been following the bank over the past decade or so, you would’ve heard the name Jamie Dimon floating around.
12 straight quarters of better-than-expected earnings from JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is still a credit to the quality and strength of this bank.
CWEB Analyst have initiated a Buy Rating for JP Morgan Chase and a Price Target of $200 within 12 months.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Is Still Very Cheap – CWEB.Com
Given the positive evolution of the US economy, the early stage of the investment banking business in the cycle and the reasonable valuation of MS stock price, the stock is a very strong buy.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has always been one of my top choices in the bulge bracket financial sector.
Their recent results, consistent strong showing in the league tables, healthy capital levels, and diverse business and positive cash outflow has attracted a very good investment buyers.
Morgan Stanley produced solid results that confirm its revenue recovery from earlier in the year.
While modest revenue growth assumptions leave the stock looking inexpensive in 2018 investors are really looking to make some solid stock gains this year in (NYSE:MS)
With strong fundamentals and good growth prospects, MS is worthy investment candidates.
Morgan Stanley continues to improve its performance, so much so that the bank’s CEO is stepping up its target ROE to a 10 percent to 13 percent range.
The company’s valuation is attractive at 10 times earnings and 1 time book value.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has also announced the creation of 14 new play spaces for children through a Morgan Stanley Foundation grant to KaBOOM!
CWEB has initiated a Buy Rating on (NYSE:MS) within one year valuation and $130 price target.
Why Walmart (NYSE:WMT)Is Making Big Moves – CWEB.Com
Walmart is partnering with Payoneer (Payoneer.com) to process our Marketplace partner payments.
Payoneer is an established leader in the payment space and their platform will provide you with an improved payment experience.
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) also announced it will hold a live conference call with the investment community at 7 AM on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to discuss the company’s fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2018 earnings results, as well as its outlook for fiscal year 2019.
Walmart has over 260 million customers and members that visit more than 11,600 stores under 59 banners in 28 countries and eCommerce websites.
With fiscal year 2017 revenue of $485.9 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide.
CWEB has issued a Buy Rating for Walmart stock within 6 months and $150 – $200 price target.
Equifax ( NYSE: EFX ) did not disclose the information when it reported that a data breach exposed the personal information of 145.5 million consumers.
The company originally said that the information accessed included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers and credit card numbers.
And it’s ok for a company to keep these records on all of us. As long as equifax, trans union, and expiring are allowed to datamine us, we are all just pawns?
When hackers accessed the sensitive data of 145 million Americans, Equifax let weeks go by before notifying the millions at risk. And that was just the beginning of the nightmare.
Equifax by its deceit seems to be volunteering.
Finally when it was leaked they admitted to it and now we are finding out how many months later that even more information was exposed then was told the 1st time.
Why are the head people not going to jail but only getting a fine. The little guy gets screwed and big people are protected by lawyers and millions of dollars.
Stock should see a bear market and should go back to $70 if not lower based on class action lawsuits that have to be filed against them by all Americans.
Equifax executives allowed all that information to hacked and stolen, compromising your financial future.
Amazon’s move here makes a lot of sense, long-term.
But long-term, Amazon is one of the primary funding of autonomous vehicle tech, has partnered with a lot of the other players like Google aren’t exactly rivals in this sphere and their logistics chain and historical location puts them at a perfect position to get into this market and be incredibly disruptive.
The bigger issue here isn’t Fed EX / UPS, though; the long-term target is the larger trucking market.
This should be no surprise to anyone. Consumer direct is the way of the future. To think this started out as a place to buy books online. Now it is Amazon against everyone else.
Competition is great.
Transportation and delivery is an industry that is in tremendous of people right now and for the next several years as self driving vehicles take over and more and more goods or being delivered directly to consumers.
Right now the industry is a mess and could stand a lot of improvement.
NASDAQ (NASDAQ:AMZN) should see a huge uptick and we will not be surprised to see them at $2000 a share year end.
Twitter said Thursday it posted a modest $91 million profit in the final three months of 2017, marking the first time the company has had a profitable quarter since going public in 2013.
Twitter (TWTR) says it expects to be profitable for all of 2018 as well.
in 2013.
Twitter (TWTR) says it expects to be profitable for all of 2018 as well.
Daniel Ives, analyst at GBH Technology Research, said Twitter’s results were “a breath of fresh air for investors that have patiently awaited for this turnaround story to manifest after years of pain”.
Twitter’s quarter four revenue of $732 million is a two percent increase from the previous year — though total annual revenue decreased 3 percent to $2.4 billion. “We’re pleased with our performance in 2017 and our return to revenue growth in the fourth quarter,” Ned Segal, Twitter CFO, said in a press release.
Q4 revenue: $731.6 million, compared to $686.1 million expected by Wall Street. (Up 2% year- aover-year)
Q4 earnings: 19 cents per share, compared to analyst estimates of 14 cents per share on an adjusted basis.
Monthly active users: 330 million, compared to analyst targets of 333 million. (Flat quarter-over-quarter, up from 318 million year-over-year).
GRPN has shown a great buying opportunity lately. During the latest quarter, the adjusted EBITDA jumped by 45% to $46.6 million and billings grew by 16%. The company also has the Number One Retial App and two-thirds of transactions come from mobile sources and a customer satisfaction rating is at 90%.
By comparison, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) trades at 4X
The overall finances are also in good shape. There is $639 million in the bank and there is no long-term debt.
GRPN may ultimately prove to be an enticing buy out candidate at some point.
Groupon, Inc. (Groupon), incorporated on January 15, 2008, operates online local commerce marketplaces around the world that connects merchants to consumers by offering goods and services at a discount. The Company operates through three segments: North America, which represents the United States and Canada; EMEA, which consists of Europe, and the Middle East and Africa, and the remainder of its international operations (Rest of World). The Company offers goods and services in three primary categories: Local Deals (Local), Groupon Goods (Goods) and Groupon Getaways (Travel). Consumers access marketplaces through its Websites, primarily localized groupon.comsites in various countries, and its mobile applications. Its Local category includes offerings from local and national merchants, as well as local events. Its local offerings consist of various subcategories, including events and activities, beauty and spa, health and fitness, food and drink, home and garden, and automotive. The Company also offers deals on concerts, sports, theater and other live entertainment events through GrouponLive.
The Company’s Goods category offers customers the ability to find deals on merchandise across various product lines, including electronics, sporting goods, jewelry, toys, household items and apparel. Through its Travel category, the Company features travel offers at both discounted and market rates, including hotels, airfare and package deals covering both domestic and international travel. For many of its travel offerings, the customer must contact the merchant directly to make a travel reservation after purchasing a travel voucher from the Company. However, for some of its hotel offerings, customers make room reservations directly through its Websites. The Company’s applications and mobile Websites enable consumers to browse, purchase, manage and redeem deals on their mobile devices. In addition, the mobile experience controls location in several ways, enabling consumers to filter by distance, discover deals near them and visualize the assortment of Groupon offers through a maps view.
Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) stock price has rallied by over 55% since July 31st when the company signed a partnership deal with GrubHub Inc (NYSE: GRUB).
Another positive factor that could drive up GRPN stock is its connection with Chinese Internet powerhouse Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA), which acquired a 5.6% stake in Groupon in February 2016.
Our rating for Groupon is strong Buy and we can see a positive momentum and $30 a share within one year.
Even as though Sears has shuttered many of its stores, they are rebuilding and opening smaller and more attractively styled stores. Notably, with the Brookfield Square Sears redevelopment financing plan, proposed mall and hotel property approved. Within this mall reinvention, there will be a hotel and entertainment venues. The mall will focus less on clothing stores that have had a hard time competing with Amazon (AMZN). Even Target and Nordstrom’s are experimenting with opening up smaller stores that offer a much more different shopping experience like Nordstrom Local in Los Angeles with a more focus on services instead of just selling merchandise.
There will be a conference center that will reside where the old Sears automotive building was and Sears will host an 18,000-square-foot facility selling home goods such as mattresses and appliances. Anything ordered online at Sears.com can also be picked up in these store locations. Three new tenants will be leasing a small portion of the Sears building.
For Sears, closing stores can be a path to profitability and beefing up their online presence. Sears has made a deal with Amazon to start selling its Kenmore-branded appliances online that are compatible with Amazon’s Alexa.
Comparing to all other retailers in the industry including Kohls, Costco, Nordstrom, Macys, Amazon and Walmart Sears holding has a potential turnaround of going over $60-$100 within a year by focusing on shop your way and other new ventures.
Our second stock pic is Top Ship. Lets remember that the 52 week high for this stock was $ 88,392.8571
Some value predictions is that this could easy run within a year to $750 a share.
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose on Thursday on higher rates for capesizes and panamax vessels. The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize shipping vessels, was up 17 points, or 1.42 percent, at 1,217 points.
* “Capesize rates are edging higher yet again … as the Pacific market continues to come alive,” said analysts at shipbroker Clarksons Platou Securities.
* Average daily earnings for capesizes, which typically transport 150,000-tonne cargoes such as iron ore and coal, rose $515 to $13,936.
* The panamax index rose 25 points, or 1.72 percent, at 1,481 points, its highest level since Dec. 20 last year.
* Average daily earnings for panamaxes, which usually carry coal or grain cargoes of about 60,000 to 70,000 tonnes, increased $202 to $11,871.
* Among smaller vessels, the supramax index shed 4 points to 904 points, while the handysize index lost 3 points to 581 points.