Author: Ned Douthat

“In Friday’s game plan, I told you to keep an eye on International Paper, which just reported its fourth quarter today. This manufacturer of all kinds of paper from loose leaf and industrial package and container...

I recently came across a post on the Wall Street Cheat Sheet blog (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: CNBC Ratings Get Smashed) that tells of a large decline in ratings for CNBC programming.  The table of data below shows that,...

“If you didn’t know any better you would think they wrote the Obama budget kind of like a nom de plume… Thanks to the acquisition of Washington Group in 2007, URS is now a major nuclear player with an...

Cummins Incorporated (CMI) reported a fabulous fiscal fourth quarter prior to the market’s open on Tuesday that caught nearly everyone off guard in just how strong it was.  The engineering firm and North...

“…EQT is up a whopping 610% over the last 20 years, S&P is up 231%. I’m sorry, that’s truly incredible out-performance which is why I keep featuring these stocks. EQT is one of the lowest cost...

A patent dispute regarding Boston Scientific (BSX) cardiac stents dating back to 2003 has finally come to a close with Boston Scientific to pay Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) $1.725 billion in two tranches.  This major...

On Wednesday, we wrote that investors should stay far away from Toyota Motor (TM) following their unprecedented recall of 8 popular models (Toyota’s Stuck Accelerators Cause Investors to Slam on the Brakes).  Initial...

“Lastly Gilead Sciences is buying back $1 billion worth of its stock over the next year. This comes after better than expected results earlier this week…” — CNBC’s Squawk on the Street 1/29/2010 In...

“The auto repair company that I have been mentioning for a long time on this show, Monro Muffler, MNRO. The largest pure play, under-car service chain company in America, with 780 locations. This is a twice-blessed stock...