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| L-3 Communications: Growing Dividend, Priced at a Bargain Chuck Carnevale submits:Historical Norms L-3 Communications (LLL), the sixth largest defense company in the United States remains undervalued in our view. Even though L-3’s fundamentals remain strong, the market seems to be ignoring this well positioned defense company. Currently trading at a mere 10.6 PE ratio its valued below most of its peers.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Car Sales Are Looking Strong Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Car sales dipped in February, but over the past year they are up 13.7%. Nothing moves in a straight line, but it seems to me that the upward trend here is clear (especially if you abstract from the temporary gyrations caused by cash-for-clunkers program last August). The bounce we've seen in the past year is about as strong as any we've seen coming out of prior recessions.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Honda: Sales Spike, Profits Surge Zacks.com submits: Honda Motor Co. (HMC) has posted a profit of ¥72.1 billion ($776 million) for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, an impressive increase of 140% from the same period in 2009. This was equivalent to earnings per share of ¥39.78 (43 cents), an increase of ¥138.95 ($1.50) from a loss of ¥99.17 ($1.07) for the corresponding period last year.Consolidated net sales and other operating revenue in the quarter rose 27.8% to ¥2.3 trillion ($24.5 billion). This was attributable to favorable currency translation effects and increased sales in the automobile business. At constant exchange rates, Honda’s revenue would have increased 25.4%.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Six Months After the Recalls: Toyota Bruised, Lexus Less So? TheCarConnection.com submits: It's been a tough and trying year for Toyota—and Toyota owners. There had already been a few isolated claims of accelerators sticking. But it was the news of an incident, last August—a family (and off-duty cop) in an ES350 who sped out of control to a fiery death—that punted Toyota's apparent issue with unintended acceleration into the national spotlight.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
JetBlue Beats on Record Revenue Zacks.com submits: JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU), one of the discounted airlines, reported its third quarter adjusted earnings of 18 cents per share surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny as well as the year-ago quarter’s earnings of 5 cents. The better-than-expected earnings were driven by higher fares, revenue maximization, cost control and network optimization. Net income quadrupled in the reported quarter to $59 million from $15 million in the year-ago quarter. Total revenue climbed 20.5% year over year to a record $1 billion, primarily due to an increase in airline traffic, measured in revenue passenger miles (RPM). In the reported quarter, RPM increased 9.6% year over year on an 8.5% increase in capacity. Load factor (percentage of seats filled with passengers) rose 90 basis points year over year to 84.6%.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |