Jeffrey Saut: Increased Interest in Stocks; 16 Names We Are Watching

Jeffrey Saut submits:

Excerpt from Raymond James strategist Jeffrey Saut’s latest essay (published Tuesday, February 16th):

…[T]he weather…has crippled the Northeast corridor over the past few weeks. Fortunately, communities are more capable of dealing with such storms today than they were more than a century ago. Still, the loss of productivity is likely going to be impactful in some of the upcoming economic reports.


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Gauging Sentiment for Hewlett Packard Ahead of Earnings

Jett Winter submits:

Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is scheduled to release Q1 earnings this Wednesday, February 17th, after the market close.

Average analyst estimates for the Computer and Printer giant are $1.06/share in EPS and $30.01 billion in Revenue. Twenty-Eight analysts track the stock with nine upward EPS revisions in the last 30 days and no downward EPS revisions in the last 30 days.


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