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Education: Good sector
Shares of ITT Educational Services Inc (ESI) lifted educational stocks on Thursday after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.61 a share on revenue of $279.8 million, above Wall St estimates of $1.44 a share and $270.7 million in revenue.

Shares rose nearly 11 percent to $126,73. Fellow education provider DeVry Inc (DV) gained 3.3 percent to $63, Corinthian Colleges (COCO) added 5.8 percent to $18.02 and Apollo Group (APOL) tacked on 3.3 percent to $88.33.

Retail Tech: Bad Sector
Major U.S. indexes tumbled on Thursday, dropping after Dow component Microsoft ...
By  s J   (-14.94%  risk: aggressive)  01/22/09 Comment


European Economic Confidence Indicator Drops to Record Low, Unemployment Rises
The Euro-Zone December Economic Confidence Indicator (ESI) dropped to 67.1 from 74.9 in the previous month. Our forecast was 73.5 and our median 73.0 so...
By  Kathy Lien   (+0.00%)  01/08/09 Comment


Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: ALKS, CS, EBAY, AMZN, EXPE, FDX ...

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Expedia Inc (EXPE), FedEx Corp (FDX), Analyst initiations

Analyst upgrades:<>
  • Jefferies upgraded shares of Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) to Overweight from Neutral on valuation, as they believe the current share price undervalues Risperdal Consta and provides little to no value for other pipeline drugs.
  • JP Morgan upgraded ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) to Buy from Hold following the company's Q1 results, as they believe further estimate reductions are unlikely.
    • <>UBS expects ITT Educational (NYSE: <>ES...
    By  Eric Buscemi   (+0.00%)  12/19/08 Comment


    Online educators look to be a safe haven investment Graphic_rating_buy ESI

    Filed under: Industry, Stocks to Buy, Recession

    Financial winter is here and the temperature of the market seems to be dropping anew. Credit markets are frozen and the line for government handouts grows by the day. There is no easy fix to the morass.

    That much is clear.

    As such, we will have plenty of time to contemplate exactly where it is we want to go from here. Hopefully, we won't make the same mistakes twice, and, in that way, some good may come out of the carnage after all.

    <>We all know how we got into this mess. Greed and debt led to asset value growth that was unsustainable. The piper is...
    By  Jamie Dlugosch   (+43.39%  risk: conservative)  11/13/08 Comment


    Private Education Providers: A Counter-Cyclical Investment Idea

    Private education providers have often been viewed as counter-cyclical companies. Recent earnings reports reinforced this reputation.

    Apollo Group (APOL), DeVry (DV), ITT Educational Services (ESI) and Strayer Education (STRA) all generated revenue and profit growth last quarter. The 4 companies also reported increases in student enrollment.
    By  trackseekingalpha   (-13.40%  risk: aggressive)  11/05/08 Comment



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