Trader’s Watch List: Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:WLL), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:MX), China Biologic Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBPO), LKQ Corp. (NASDAQ:LKQ)

An issue of Whiting Petroleum Corp (NYSE:WLL) debt fell 3% as a percentage of its face value during trading on Tuesday after Global Hunter Securities downgraded the stock from a buy rating to an accumulate rating, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. The high-yield debt issue has a 5% coupon and is set to mature on March 15, 2019. Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:WLL) belongs to Basic Materials sector. Its … Continue reading Trader’s Watch List: Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:WLL), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:MX), China Biologic Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBPO), LKQ Corp. (NASDAQ:LKQ)

Stocks in Focus : Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ), LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), AXL, LKQ Corp. (NASDAQ:LKQ), Golden Minerals (NYSEMKT:AUMN)

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is handling about 300,000 conversions from copper to fiber per year but it still has about 1 million homes left to convert to fiber before it wraps up its entire conversion plan that it has been working on for three years, said a top company executive today. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) belongs to Technology sector. Its net profit margin is 12.50% … Continue reading Stocks in Focus : Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ), LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), AXL, LKQ Corp. (NASDAQ:LKQ), Golden Minerals (NYSEMKT:AUMN)

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Intel Corporation  (NASDAQ:INTC) CFO Stacy J. Smith unloaded 614,432 shares of Intel stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, July 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $33.92, for a total transaction of $20,841,533.44. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 186,320 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,319,974. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) … Continue reading Best Stocks – Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) , Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) , Ocwen Financial (NYSE:OCN) , LKQ Corporation (NASDAQ:LKQ) , Perusahn Prsn (NYSE:TLK)

LKQ Reports 1Q 2013, $0.01 Shy of Consensus, Makes European Acquisition; Maintaining our $19 FVE

Narrow-moat rated LKQ LKQ reported first-quarter 2013 earnings per share before special items of $0.28, one penny shy of the Street consensus but up $0.03 on a comparable basis from the same period last year. The company reported record revenue of $1.2 billion, up 15.9% from the first quarter of 2012. LKQ also reported that on April 23, it agreed to acquire Sator Beheer, a … Continue reading LKQ Reports 1Q 2013, $0.01 Shy of Consensus, Makes European Acquisition; Maintaining our $19 FVE