Procter & Gamble Company
NYSE: PG
$172.30
-$0.94 (-0.5%)
Closing Price on September 25, 2024
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Hope dies hard. A lot of Wall St. analysts still think that earnings from the S&P 500 companies will be up in aggregate in Q4 2008 compared with the same quarter last year. There is an extremely...
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You know it’s a rough day in the market when even defensive stocks are weak or mixed. We are at least seeing a mixed bag from some of these. But the trend is a pretty easy one to see. Even...
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The Association of National Advertisers, which includes big marketers like GM (GM), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Wal-Mart (WMT), argues that Google (GOOG) should not be allowed to sell advertising...
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Banks have been taking money from the Fed for months. They can pledge dirty dishes and wall paper in exchange for real cash at low interest rates. The system has been hailed as the salvation of the...
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These are more of Warren Buffett’s and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) holdings as of June 30, 2008: Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) 4,181,000 shares Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) 5,636,600 shares...
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Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) posted a 33% earnings gain to $0.92 net EPS, but before a tax gain it showed $0.80 EPS. Estimates from First Call were $0.78 EPS. For its next quarter the company...
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Next week we may have the FOMC meeting, but analysts and economists are looking for no change in rates with the language growing more hawkish on inflation and more cautious on the economy. But what...
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For reasons that are impossible to explain, much of the mythology of the late 20th Century American CEO was placed Atlas-like on the shoulders of John Francis Welch, GE’s head man from 1981 to...
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The two largest online social networks are Facebook, which is a private company, and MySpace, which is owned by News Corp (NWS). MySpace has always been the larger property. Facebook was a distant...
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It used to be that DEFENSIVE STOCKS were the way to go during periods of uncertainty and during times of market sell-offs. But now that isn’t even working out. After we looked at our first line...
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The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) Folgers unit have confirmed yesterday’s reports that the two companies are going to merge. The Folgers coffee...
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After today’s close, we saw which stocks Warren Buffett held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) as of March 31, 2008. Buffett’s filing cut off date is longer as he has 45-days to...
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For years, GE (GE) has been considered the single best corporate proxy for the US economy. For years it led all American companies in market cap. It businesses range from entertainment to medical...
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These are some of the top analyst calls we are focusing on this morning: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) Cut to Neutral from Overweight at HSBC. Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) Cut to Neutral from Outperform...
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Goldman Sachs has made some changes in coverage to its consumer products universe. The bulge bracket brokerage firm favors Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) and Colgate-Polmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) and...
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