Recent content by Symbol Surfing

A tale of 2 toy companies... The 5 year return on Mattel is -56%. The 5 year return on Hasbro is 145%...

Symbol Surfing has an earnings calendar that may be of use as well. It focuses mainly on components of the Dow Industrials, Dow Transports, Dow Utilities, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500. There are several sortable columns like Market Cap, EPS, P/E Ratio, Dividend Yield & Ex-Date. In most cases, it...

HRB reported earnings after the bell today. The stock price is up 10% in after hours trading.

Goldman Sachs was right on with the downgrade to sell and a price target of $1.50. FTR hit a 52 week low of $1.18 on Thu, May 11, 2017. Today was their ex-date with a 4 cent dividend. Somewhat ironically, the stock closed higher today at $1.34 for a change of 11 cents or 8.50%. The Price To...

Great call on Aug 10, 2016 when MSFT was at $58. It hit $62 and now it is above $70.

Good point. Of course, no one knows the answer to that question yet. I found this to be interesting. Prior to the deal announcement on July 25, 2016, the VZ stock price was at $56.95, a multi-year high. Since then, the stock price is down by -10%.

From a technical analysis standpoint, it looks like a possible inverted head and shoulders started to develop recently at the end of April. Also, it seems there is solid support around $45 over the past 5 years. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon started to move higher now especially with the...

GE reported earnings on Fri, Apr 21, 2017. Since then, the stock price is down by -8% and hit a 52 week low. I would wait to see the stock price start to consolidate before getting in.

I have been watching 7 large food stocks like ConAgra, Campbells, General Mills, Hormel, Kelloggs, Tyson and Smuckers. Each of these stocks has a negative 1 year return after hitting all time highs. Based on the recent price consolidation, it seems to me that the sell off is starting to wind...