The weakness today doesn't concern me, ... There's a little profit taking after the five up sessions and there's some jitters over the dollar's decline, but I think it's pretty clear that the earnings are going to be quite good. |
There are a lot of good things happening right now, but the market continues to focus on Iraq, interest rates, the presidential election, and particularly right now, the high-profile earnings misses. |
There are some negatives out there, but manufacturing and factory orders seem to be coming back and there will be a lot of rebuilding down in the Southeast. I think we've basically been too negative. |
There are some rumors that although the market is open, a lot of people have decided to take long holidays, and so I think you'll see a drop in volume next week. |
There seems to be a lot of economic momentum and earnings momentum fueling this market, |
There seems to be a lot of economic momentum and earnings momentum fueling this market. |
There's just no obligation to jump in until we start seeing better (profit) reports and that won't be until July. |
There's not a lot of steam in this market. The volume has really dried up. |
These companies wouldn't be making these deals if they didn't have cash and if they didn't see strong economic growth ahead, so the deals are positive for sentiment. |
These concerns are going to keep us from going too high. The general trend is up, but it won't make investors euphoric, at least until after the election. |
They go into enterprise technology where they allow companies to access all kinds of systems in a secure mode. The company continually introduces products, ... We just jumped in, even at these levels, just about a week ago. We'll continue to buy this stock for many of our accounts. Our analysts are very high on it. We expect it to outperform the market over the next six-to-12 months. |
They make all sorts of devices for reconstructing your skeletal framework and they have a number of different businesses. This is a company that's expected to grow somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 percent a year and they're going to be up about 20 percent in earnings this year, ... Its got a price-to-earnings multiple a little bit better than market but it's got a better earnings growth rate, which justifies it. |
They run about 111 hospitals. It has about a 20 percent rise in earnings this year. Five- year projections are 20 percent annually. It's got operating margin around 20 percent. |
They said pretty much what people were expecting. Maybe some people were hoping that they might say something new, and are using the fact that they didn't as a reason to sell. |
They're going to be upwards, ... But it's only going to be in select sectors. |