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Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) will report earnings before markets open on Wednesday, May 22nd. Toll Brothers, Inc. builds luxury homes, serving both move-up and empty nester buyers in several regions of the United States. The Company builds customized single and attached homes, primarily on land that it develops and improves. Toll Brothers also operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, security, landscape, insurance brokerage, and manufacturing operations. Here is your Cheat Sheet to Toll Brothers Earnings: Earnings Expectations: Analysts expect earnings of $0.07 per share on revenues of $511.06 million. Currently, the company’s P/E ratio stands at 12.65. Analyst Trends: Analysts have a more positive outlook for the company’s next-quarter performance. Over the past three months, the average estimate for next quarter’s earnings has risen from a profit of $0.28 to a profit $0.31. For the current year, the average estimate is a profit of $0.74, which is worse than the estimate ninety days ago. Earnings Trends: Here’s how Toll Brothers has been performing on an annual basis: Fiscal Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Revenue ($) in millions 3,148 1,755 1,495 1,476 1,883 Diluted EPS ($) -1.88 -4.68 -0.02 0.24 2.86 Next, our CHEAT SHEET investing framework asks us to drill down to the recent quarterly data: Quarter Jan. 31, 2012 Apr. 30, 2012 Jul. 31, 2012 Oct. 31, 2012 Jan. 31, 2013 Revenue ($) in millions 321.96 373.68 554.32 632.83 424.60 Diluted EPS ($) -0.02 0.10 0.36 2.354 0.03 Past Performance: Toll Brothers has beat analyst estimates 3 times in the past four quarters. Shareholders could expect a boost if the company beats estimates. “E = Earnings Are Increasing Quarter-Over-Quarter” is a core component of our successful CHEAT SHEET investing framework. Don’t waste another minute – click here to discover our CHEAT SHEET stock picks now! (Company fundamentals provided by Xignite Financials. Email any earnings discrepancies to earnings [at] wallstcheatsheet.com) Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Bill Gates wrote an essay back in January of 1996 that was titled "Content is King", he couldn't have been more correct. Google (GOOG) was built with this premise is mind. Microsoft (MSFT) provided the medium and Google's profits hounds, Adsense and Adworks, ran like ravenous dogs devouring and consuming advertising market share at every opportunity. Old line traditional content providers, like TV, Radio and Print were forced to change their businesses, many going bankrupt in the process. Microsoft and Google both know the game is about keeping users entertained, and both have built empires designed to achieve this goal. If this premise holds true, then Google's ultimate defeat will come from the company that captivates the most users in entertainment, and correspondingly converts this experience into advertising dollars. No one has yet been able to match this formula with the same success, although social media giant Facebook(FB) is

In the battle for control of Sprint (S), rather than getting into a bidding war with Dish Network (DISH), SoftBank (SFTBF.PK) instead opted to make a logistical attack. Dish was happy to fight fire with fire. Sprint is clearly taking both bids seriously, as on May 20, it reported receiving a waiver from Softbank that permits Sprint to have discussions with Dish, including providing non-public information and engaging in negotiations.With the knowledge that Dish's rival bid for Sprint requires a substantial amount of financing, Softbank has implied that providing Dish with backing might affect the ability to participate in the public offering of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, a substantial Chinese e-commerce business in which Softbank owns a 33 percent stake. Dish responded by writing a letter to the FCC that states "If SoftBank has the power to influence crucial financing decisions of a Chinese company and enlist

US futures: (S&P -1.25, Dow Jones -4, NDX -2 with fair value lower providing upside to the open) Asia and Europe mixed. Copper and gold lower with WTI Crude and Brent Oil Futures lower. $ is higher vs Euro, higher vs. Pound and higher vs. Yen. US 10 year Treasury Yield -1. Prices as of 7:50 a.m. EST.

We will add a new buy to our model portfolio. It is a company in the transportation space that will benefit from the improved economy in the U.S.

Yesterday the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report on Apple's tax avoidance. Today Apple CEO Tim Cook will respond at 9:30 a.m. EDT and we expect Apple to set aside concerns.

Intuit (INTU) will report earnings after the close. Estimates are $2.93 versus estimates of $$2.51. There is some nice upside to our price target. This is worth doing some more work on.

Three of the last stocks I have written articles about have seen significant price appreciation because they were undervalued, in my opinion: MER Telemanagement Solutions Ltd (MTSL) went from the $2 range to the $5 range when I said it would double. (The company subsequently lost a major customer for 2014 on after it had renewed for 2013.) Ikonics Corp (IKNK) has doubled from $8 to the $16 area where it remains. Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated (EAC) has gone from $18 to $29.25 and closed just under $27 today. I am constantly searching for undervalued companies. I believe I have found the next stock that should be more than double the current price when you compare its numbers to the valuation of its industry.Flanigan's Enterprises Inc. (BDL), operates a chain of full-service restaurants and package liquor stores in south Florida. The company operates restaurants under its

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame recently wrote a bullish op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the “new lions of Africa,” referring to African economies – Rwanda included – that are poised to follow the growth path of the East Asian “tiger” economies of the 1980s and 1990s, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Only 20 years ago, thinking of Rwanda in these terms would have been absurd. In 1994, the country was in the midst of a genocide. But in April 2013, Rwanda tapped the international capital markets for the first time with a $400 million sovereign bond issue. Africa’s troubled history and high risk premia are enough to discourage investors from investing in economies like Rwanda, but as international economist Dambisa Moyo argued at the 66th Annual Conference in Singapore, frontier markets like Rwanda are actually offering higher equity market returns than developed and

A month ago I wrote an article in which I argue that J.C. Penney (JCP) is destined to fail unless the company saw significant increases in its sales. Here are some key points from that article: J.C. Penney is losing money at a rapid rate, and while bankruptcy is not an immediate threat, it is the most logical outcome given the company's current performance as well as its trajectory. In order to turn itself around the company cannot simply revert back to its old strategy. Under Ron Johnson the company did irreparable damage to itself by disenfranchising its customer base. In order to increase its sales enough to survive the company has to reinvent itself and create enthusiasm for its brand. While this in itself is not impossible it is incredibly difficult to achieve given the company's financial position. The company's problems are exacerbated by the tepid retail environment