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The Home Depot, Inc. (HD) Q1 2013 Results Earnings Call May 21, 2013 9:00 AM ET Executives Diane Dayhoff - Vice President, IR Frank Blake - Executive Chairman and CEO Craig Menear - Executive Vice President, Merchandising Carol Tomé - Chief Financial officer Marvin Ellison - Executive Vice President, U.S. Stores Analysts Dennis McGill - Zelman & Associates Gary Balter - Credit Suisse Aram Rubinson - Nomura Securities Dan Binder - Jefferies & Company David Gober - Morgan Stanley Christopher Horvers - J.P. Morgan Michael Lasser - UBS Matthew Fassler - Goldman Sachs Brian Nagel - Oppenheimer Peter Benedict - Robert Baird Greg Melich - ISI Group Michael Baker - Deutsche Bank Alan Rifkin - Barclays Capital Scot Ciccarelli - RBC Capital Markets Presentation Operator Good day, everyone. And welcome to today’s Home Depot First Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call. (Operator instructions) Beginning today’s discussion is Ms. Diane Dayhoff, vice

By Tim Seymour Embraer (ERJ) is about to announce another larger-than-expected customer order that will continue a re-rating process on the stock. A quick review of our updates on ERJ over the last two years illustrates our view that this is one of the best-run companies

Introduction Recently Microsoft (MSFT) released a Lumia ad which has gathered a lot of attention in the tech world. The ad is trying to promote Windows Phone at the expense of Apple and Android fans.The question that remains to be answered is whether this ad is a success, a waste of resources or whether it's actually counterproductive. Can it increase sales? The necessity of Microsoft (or Nokia) to do something in order to increase sales can be seen in the below graph. While Nokia (NOK) was the largest smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter of 2010, it has since seen sales declining constantly on a quarterly basis. (click to enlarge) Source: Gartner.com Some bulls had hoped/thought that Lumia with the release of W8 would receive an ecosystem-based boost, and while Lumia sales have increased from 2.2M in the year-ago quarter to 5.6M in the most recent quarter, it

PulteGroup, Inc. (PHM) May 21, 2013 8:45 am ET Executives Robert T. O'shaughnessy - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President James P. Zeumer - Vice President of Investor and Corporate Communications Analysts Michael Jason Rehaut - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Presentation Michael Jason Rehaut - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Okay, good morning, everyone. We're going to continue. If you want to find your seats. So moving right along, we have our second speaker and presentation of the day, PulteGroup, with the CFO, Bob O'shaughnessy. We also have Jim Zeumer of the Investor Relations team present on this. Pulte, one of the leaders of the space and historically, always been one of the most, not only geographically diverse, but demographically diverse builders with its Pulte move-up brands, Centex first time brand, and Del Webb Active adult, and Del Webb really being one of the

Copperfield Research -CR- has done a quite a job putting a cloud on magicJack (CALL) by posting here on SA and on different blogs such as short-centric theStreetSweeper.org on different companies. Before we get into the questions we have with the research, we must tell an anecdotal piece of research we conducted this past weekend on CALL. We called our local Radio Shack (RSH) which is known seller of CALL's products. The first one we called was out of stock for magicJack Plus. The manager said she would call around to the other stores to see if she could find one and took my number. She hasn't called us back yet. I then asked her if it was selling well and she said absolutely. It sells right out. Then, later that day, we were passing by a strip mall in Pawling, NY and my little boy yelled, "There's a

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (HOV) May 21, 2013 9:30 am ET Executives J. Larry Sorsby - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Director David G. Valiaveedan - Vice President of Finance and Treasurer Analysts Michael Jason Rehaut - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Presentation Michael Jason Rehaut - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Okay. We're going to continue with the next presenter. So thanks again for joining us today at the Sixth Annual JPMorgan Homebuilding and Building Products Conference. I continue to be Mike Rehaut, the senior analyst and head of the Homebuilding and Building Products Equity Research group. We're thrilled with the great turnout today, and a lot of core companies of our homebuilding and building products universe presenting over today and tomorrow. And currently, we have up, Hovnanian Enterprises, one of the key companies over the past downturn that's survived and is coming out,

After falling 84% from high to low during the financial crisis, the S&P 500 financial sector is now up 231% from its low back in 2009. As shown in the long-term chart below, the sector has really charged higher this year, breaking out of a multi-year sideways range that had been in place. That being said, the chart really shows just how far the financial sector still has to go to get back to where it was pre-crisis. (click to enlarge) The rally in financial stocks has coincided with a big drop in default risk for stocks in the sector. Below we provide charts of five-year credit default swap prices (in basis points) for the six largest banks and brokers here in the U.S. The price shown is basically the yearly cost in dollars to insure $10,000 of debt from default over the next five years. As shown, default risk

Before analyzing a company for investment, it's important to have a perspective on how well the business has performed. Because at the end of the day, if you are an investor, you are buying the business. The FAST Graphs™ presented with this article will focus first on the business behind the stock. The orange line on the graph plots earnings per share since 2003. A quick glance vividly reveals the historical operating record of the company.Rockwell Collins Inc (COL) is a pioneer in the development and deployment of innovative communication and aviation electronic solutions for both commercial and government applications.This article will reveal the business prospects of Rockwell Collins Inc through the lens of FAST Graphs - fundamentals analyzer software tool. Therefore, it is offered as the first step before a more comprehensive research effort. Our objective is to provide companies that have excellent historical records and appear

Best Buy (NYSE:BBY): Earnings of $0.32 beat estimates by $0.06, although revenue of $9.38 billion fell short by $1.26 billion. A 1 percent slide in comparable store sales was handily offset by a 16 percent surge in online sales, although gross profit veered downward slightly. The company pointed out that Samsung store-within-store locations will be a key focus for the company in Q2, and CEO Hubert Joly indicates the company might do more store-within-a-store deals with other vendors, as talks are ongoing. 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! United Continental Holdings (NYSE:UAL): United Airlines has signed a capacity agreement with SkyWest (NASDAQ:SKYW), for operation rights for 40 Embraer 175 aircraft with the United Express moniker. ”These new aircrafts will offer our customers an improved travel experience with a larger first-class cabin and wider fuselage and larger overhead bins,” said Alex Marren, senior vice president Network Operations and United Express. 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! Google (NASDAQ:GOOG): YouTube’s video upload rate has surpassed the 100 hours per minute mark, just after its eighth birthday. At this time last year, YouTube was uploading 72 hours per minute. YouTube is still a growing platform, with future plans to unify its design across platforms, as well as rolling out premium subscriber channels to help diversify its monetization efforts. 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! Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE:AA): An 8-K filing shed some more light on the company’s plans to remove 460,000 metric tons of smelting capacity, as it will put off the construction of a potline at its Baie-Comeau smelter in Quebec, while preparing for the upgrade by investing $100 million during the next three years. The company will also be permanently shutting down the plant’s two Soderberg potlines. 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! Don’t Miss: Will $6.5 Billion Dividend Brighten GE Stock? Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Range Resources Corporation (RRC) May 21, 2013 9:05 am ET Executives Mike Middlebrook Laith Sando Analysts William A. Featherston - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Presentation William A. Featherston - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Okay. I think we're going to get started this morning. I'd like to welcome everyone to our UBS Global Oil & Gas Conference. I think this is the ninth year we've done it in Austin, but the first year at the Four Seasons, so we're very excited about the new venue. And I think we have a very exciting lineup for you over the next 3 days. And we're pleased to kick it off with Range Resources with a very large and dominant position in the Marcellus Shale. Here to tell us about it is Mike Middlebrooke who runs Northern Marcellus Shale division, and we also have Laith Sando from the IR division. So with