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The Gap (GPS) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 23, 2013 5:00 pm ET Executives Katrina O'Connell Glenn K. Murphy - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sabrina L. Simmons - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance Analysts John D. Morris - BMO Capital Markets U.S. Kimberly C. Greenberger - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Matthew McClintock - Barclays Capital, Research Division Oliver Chen - Citigroup Inc, Research Division Janet Kloppenburg Adrienne Tennant - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division Irwin Bernard Boruchow - Sterne Agee & Leach Inc., Research Division Lorraine Maikis Hutchinson - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division Jennifer M. Davis - Lazard Capital Markets LLC, Research Division Randal J. Konik - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division Brian J. Tunick - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Presentation Operator Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Amber, and I will be your

Sears Holdings (SHLD) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 23, 2013 4:30 pm ET Executives William K. Phelan - Senior Vice President of Finance Edward Scott Lampert - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Finance Committee Robert A. Schriesheim - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Analysts Paul Swinand - Morningstar Inc., Research Division Gary Balter - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division Gregory S. Melich - ISI Group Inc., Research Division Mary Ross Gilbert - Imperial Capital, LLC, Research Division Presentation Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Sears Holdings Corporation Fiscal 2013 First Quarter Webcast. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference may be recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Bill Phelan. Sir, the floor is yours. William K. Phelan Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Sears Holdings Earnings

The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) Q2 2013 Earnings Call May 23, 2013 3:00 pm ET Executives Rudy J. Sankovic - Senior Vice President of Finance - Wealth Management W. Edmund Clark - Chief Executive Officer, President and Non-Independent Director Colleen M. Johnston - Chief Financial Officer and Group Head of Finance Mark R. Chauvin - Chief Risk Officer and Group Head of Risk Management - Corporate Office Timothy D. Hockey - Group Head of Canadian Banking, Auto Finance & Credit Cards, Chief Executive Officer of Td Canada Trust and President of Td Canada Trust Bharat B. Masrani - Group Head U.S. Personal & Commercial Banking, Chief Executive Officer of America's Most Convenient Bank(R) and President of America's Most Convenient Bank(R) Robert E. Dorrance - Group Head of Wholesale Banking, Chairman of TD Securities, Chief Executive Officer of TD Securities and President of TD Securities Analysts Peter D. Routledge - National Bank

Can BlackBerry’s (NASDAQ:BBRY) Messenger platform woo iPhone users away from Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iMessage service? Similar to iMessage for iOS-powered devices, BlackBerry Messenger is a free messaging service available to BlackBerry device users. Is Apple now a once-in-a-decade buying opportunity? Click here to get your 24-page Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Apple’s Stock now! However, BlackBerry has recently announced that it is untethering its instant messaging service from the BlackBerry ecosystem. Within the next several months, BlackBerry Messenger will be available on Apple’s devices as well as Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android-powered devices. Messenger already has 60 million users that send approximately 10 billion daily messages on its native platform, and its user base will only increase with the planned operating system expansion. On the other hand, the expansion of the messaging service is also seen as a risky move since BlackBerry will essentially be giving away one of its most popular services. It also remains to be seen how the Canada-based phone maker will monetize the expansion of BlackBerry Messenger. Former BlackBerry co-CEO and founder Mike Lazaridis thinks BlackBerry’s expanded Messenger service will do well on other platforms. “BBM [BlackBerry Messenger] is by far the most compelling wireless experience and wireless social networking environment,” said Lazaridis via Bloomberg. Although some analysts worry about BlackBerry’s shrinking service fee revenue, Lazaridis believes that the plans to expand BlackBerry Messenger are a testament to how well the latest BlackBerry 10 operating system is performing. Regarding the decision by CEO Thorsten Heins, Lazaridis states, “He’s speaking to the confidence he has in the platform. Not only is BlackBerry back in a big way with BB10, he’s also showing he can expand that vision to other platforms.” Although BlackBerry Messenger will undoubtedly grow its user base by expanding to Android and iOS-based devices, it remains to be seen how this will ultimately affect the user base of Apple’s own popular iMessage service. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Here’s how Apple and BlackBerry has traded so far this week. Here’s how Apple traded on Thursday: Follow Nathanael on Twitter (@ArnoldEtan_WSCS) Don’t Miss: Here’s How John McCain Made Tim Cook Laugh. Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Today’s tickers: HD, IMAX & DOV HD - Home Depot – Shares in the home improvement retailer are trading lower on Thursday, off the lowest levels of the session but still down 1.25% at $78.69 as of 11:50 a.m. ET, amid a down day for U.S. stocks. Trading traffic in newly issued weekly options on Home Depot suggests some traders are taking advantage of the dip today and positioning for shares in the name to resume hitting record highs next week. The stock yesterday rallied as much as 3.6% to touch an all-time high of $81.56 after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and raised its full-year earnings forecast. Traders preparing for shares in HD to potentially rebound in the near term looked to the May 31 ’13 expiry options contracts, and appear to have purchased calls and sold puts on the stock. Call buyers snapped up roughly 1,000 calls at the May 31 ’13 $77.5 strike for an average premium of $1.27 each, and around 500 lots at the $80 strike at an average premium of $0.28 apiece. These contracts make money at expiration next week as long as shares in Home Depot recover from today’s slight declines. Meanwhile, fresh interest in weekly puts appears to be largely driven by sellers of the contracts. It looks like traders sold around 900 in-the-money puts at the May 31 ’13 $80 strike in the early going for an average premium of $2.09 each. Sellers of the contracts walk away with the full amount of premium at expiration should shares in HD settle above $80.00. Several hundred contracts appear to have been sold at the May 31 ’13 $77.5 and $82.5 strikes as well. IMAX - IMAX Corp – Put options changing hands on the entertainment technology company this morning look for shares in IMAX to potentially head lower during the next four weeks. Shares in the name are down 1.5% in early-afternoon trading to stand at $27.60 as of 12:20 p.m. in New York. The most traded contracts on IMAX…

RPX Corporation (RPXC) Barclays Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference Call May 22, 2013 15:40 ET Executives John Amster - Chief Executive Officer Ned Segal - Chief Financial Officer Analysts Adam Carron - Barclays Capital Darrin Peller - Barclays Capital Presentation Adam Carron - Barclays Capital Alright, good afternoon everyone. My name is Adam Carron, I work as an Associate Analyst on the IT consulting and computer services sector working for Darrin Peller over at Barclays. So with us this afternoon we have John Amster the CEO of RPX Corporation as well as Ned Segal, the newly appointed CFO. RPX is a name we’ve covered since the company was IPOed back in the spring of 2011. And for those of you who are unfamiliar with the story it’s essentially a company that helps operating companies reduce patent-related risk and exposure. So moving on to the questions, guys perhaps the best

This article is an update to the one I wrote almost two years ago: "Major Trends Point to Higher Crude Prices: Statoil to Benefit".In that article, I made a case for higher crude prices and Statoil (STO), my stock pick. Here I would compare those forecasts to actual events in the past two years, examining where I was right as well as wrong, and provide new forecasts for the next three years in light of recent headlines in the energy industry.Since July 2011, Brent spot prices have ranged from $95 to $125 a barrel, hovering over $100 per barrel most of the time (see chart below). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, released May 15, 2013 While oil prices have not trended dramatically higher, tipping the world economy into a recession, as some pundits feared, they have hovered near or slightly above $100 per barrel, a threshold

Williams-Sonoma (WSM) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 23, 2013 5:00 pm ET Executives Stephen C. Nelson - Vice President of Investor Relations Laura J. Alber - Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Incentive Award Committee Julie P. Whalen - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Executive Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer Patrick J. Connolly - Chief Marketing Officer, Executive Vice President, Director and Member of Incentive Award Committee Analysts John Marrin - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division Peter S. Benedict - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division David Gober - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Laura A. Champine - Canaccord Genuity, Research Division Daniel Hofkin - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division Matthew J. Fassler - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Bradley B. Thomas - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division Simeon Gutman - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division David G. Magee -

Infoblox (BLOX) Q3 2013 Earnings Call May 23, 2013 4:30 pm ET Executives Jane Underwood Robert D. Thomas - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Remo E. Canessa - Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer Analysts Jason Ader - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division Amitabh Passi - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Erik Suppiger - JMP Securities LLC, Research Division Ehud A. Gelblum - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Sanjit Singh - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division Jonathan B. Ruykhaver - Stephens Inc., Research Division Kent Schofield - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Alexander B. Henderson - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division Josh Beck - Pacific Crest Securities, Inc., Research Division Presentation Operator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Infoblox Third Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I'll now turn the conference over

Zumiez (ZUMZ) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 23, 2013 5:00 pm ET Executives Richard M. Brooks - Chief Executive Officer and Director Christopher Codington Work - Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer Analysts David M. King - Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division Sharon Zackfia - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division Randal J. Konik - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division Jeffrey Wallin Van Sinderen - B. Riley Caris, Research Division Erinn E. Murphy - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division Edward J. Yruma - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division Devin Prater - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division Maria C. Vizuete - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division Paul Alexander - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division Betty Y. Chen - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division Carla White Presentation Operator Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zumiez first quarter fiscal 2013 earnings call. [Operator Instructions]