Walmart.com/AOL NEW YORK -- Treadmills for $33? Computer monitors for $9? The deals are too good to be true -- even at Walmart. It turns out they're not. Walmart Stores Inc. (WMT) says a "technical error" caused certain products to be priced absurdly low or high on its website earlier Wednesday morning. The company said it's working to resolve the issue and that the site may have intermittent problems with availability until then. "We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers," said Ravi Jariwala, a spokesman for Walmart's online operations. Earlier Wednesday, shoppers took to Twitter to cite ridiculously low prices like treadmills for $33.16 and Hewlett Packard LCD monitors for $8.85. Jariwala declined to comment on whether it would honor bargains that customers scooped up and said it was still working through the details. Heading into the crucial holiday shopping season, Walmart has doubled the number of items it has on its website from last year to 5 million. That's expected to help fuel a 30 percent growth in online sales to $10 billion for its current fiscal year, which ends in late January. That's still just a sliver of the $486 billion in annual sales Walmart did last year. Walmart is based in Bentonville, Ark. We're not saying you should give up shopping on Black Friday altogether. Just do it online instead. At one point it may have been true that Black Friday was for in-store deals, while Cyber Monday was for the e-commerce set. But these days, retailers are taking pains to offer a seamless experience between their online and bricks-and-mortar channels, and that means many of the marquee Black Friday deals can be had from the comfort of your couch. "[Retailers] continue to get better at syncing the online and offline experience," says Brad Wilson of BradsDeals. "95 percent-plus of deals are going to be available both online and offline."
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Active Control Techn (ACTV)
The Active Network, Inc. provides organization-based cloud computing applications services to business customers in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers ActiveWorks, an organization-based cloud computing platform, which transforms the way organizers record, track, manage, and share information regarding activities and events. Its ActiveWorks back-office system pulls customers� participant management, operational reporting, volunteer management, and service and payment processing functions into one hosted system. The company also provides consulting services, which consist primarily of business mapping, project management services, and guidance on best practices in using its services; and implementation services, including system set-up and configuration, and data conversion, as well as develops customized training and education programs relating to both the use and administration of its services. It serves a range of customers, including communit y and sports organizations, large corporations, small and medium-sized businesses, educational institutions, federal and state government agencies, non-profit organizations, and other related entities. The company was formerly known as Racegate.com, Inc. and changed its name to The Active Network, Inc. in May 2001. The Active Network, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Eric Volkman]
Active Network (NYSE: ACTV ) is on the hunt for a new chief executive following the resignation of Matthew Landa. His place will be taken, on an interim basis, by Jon Belmonte. The appointment is effective immediately. Belmonte is the firm's former chief media officer and COO.
- [By Jake L'Ecuyer]
Equities Trading UP
The Active Network (NYSE: ACTV) shot up 25.66 percent to $14.32 after the company agreed to be taken private by Vista Equity Partners for $1.05 billion. - [By Selena Maranjian]
The biggest new holdings are Liberty Media�and AbbVie. Other new holdings of interest include The Active Network (NYSE: ACTV ) , which specializes in online registrations for endurance events such as marathons and triathlons. The company recently signed a three-year deal with Ironman, and its most recent quarterly earnings report featured revenue up 12% and shrinking losses. Some have questioned the company's solvency, while others like its valuation.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Homeloans Ltd (HOM.AX)
Homeloans Limited engages in the mortgage origination and management of home loans in Australia. The company originates residential mortgages through external mortgage brokers, satellite offices, and internal consultants. It is also involved in the securitization of mortgages through the residential mortgage trust, a special purpose vehicle used to issue residential mortgage backed securities. In addition, the company offers various types of home loans, including variable rate, fixed rate, split, lo doc, bridging, interest only, standard, and line of credit home loans. Further, it provides home loans for building and renovating, refinancing and debt consolidating, and investing activities, as well as for first home buyers and self employed borrowers. Additionally, the company offers various insurance policies comprising home and contents, motor vehicle, landlords, and life insurance policies. Homeloans Limited was founded in 1985 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
Hot Financial Stocks For 2015: Commerce Bancshares Inc.(CBSH)
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Commerce Bank, N.A. that provides various general banking services to individuals and businesses. It operates in three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth. The Consumer segment includes the retail branch network, consumer installment lending, personal mortgage banking, consumer debit and credit bank card activities, and student lending. The Commercial segment provides various corporate lending, merchant and commercial bank card products, leasing, and international services, as well as business and government deposit and cash management services. The Wealth segment offers traditional trust and estate tax planning services, brokerage services, and advisory and discretionary investment portfolio management services to personal and institutional corporate customers. This segment also manages a family of proprietary mutual funds, which are available for sale to trust and general retail customers. The comp any, through its other non-banking subsidiaries, involves in underwriting credit life and credit accident, and health insurance; selling property and casualty insurance; private equity investment; securities brokerage; mortgage banking; and leasing activities. It serves customers through a network of branches and ATM machines, online banking, and a central contact center from approximately 370 locations in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Roland Head]
Today's earning calendar is fairly quiet ahead of tomorrow's results from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, but Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ: CBSH ) started off the financial reporting season this morning, reporting earnings of $0.72 per share -- a penny ahead of analyst expectations. The company credited "strong growth in loans, improved net interest income and continued free income growth," as well as "growth in revenues from our trust and corporate card businesses, which grew by 8% and 8.6%, respectively, compared to the second quarter of last year."
- [By Monica Gerson]
Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ: CBSH) is projected to report its Q3 earnings at $0.72 per share on revenue of $254.92 million.
First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) is estimated to report its Q3 earnings at $0.76 per share on revenue of $320.72 million.
- [By John Maxfield]
Bank investors got their first glimpse of what first-quarter earnings might look like today when Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ: CBSH ) reported its results. Shares of the Kansas City-based bank are trading sharply lower after its earnings per share fell by 4.3% on a year-over-year basis.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Casa Holdings Limited (C04.SI)
Casa Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, distributes electrical and electronic home appliances in Southeast Asia, south Asia, north Africa, the Middle East, and certain European countries. The company offers hobs, cooker hoods, ovens, microwave ovens, washers, dryers, dishwashers, washing machines, tumble dryers, fridges, and coolers; kitchen and bathroom fixtures, including kitchen sinks, faucets, mirror cabinets, showers, bathroom accessories, bath tubs, and shower trays; and water heaters. It also engages in the design, assembly, installation, and provision of after-sales maintenance services for commercial air conditioning and other mechanical ventilating systems, such as central air-conditioning units and dryers machines. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Singapore. Casa Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of Azzuri Holdings Pte Ltd.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Savanna Energy Ser Com Npv (SVY.TO)
Savanna Energy Services Corp. provides various oil and natural gas services in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The company provides contract drilling services through conventional drilling rigs, hybrid drilling rigs, single drilling rigs, and coring and delineation rigs. It also engages in well servicing activities for oil and gas explorers; and providing oilfield services, such as oilfield equipment rental for oil and gas customers. The company operates a fleet of approximately 100 drilling rigs and 100 well service rigs. Savanna Energy Services Corp. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Northwest Bancshares Inc.(NWBI)
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Northwest Savings Bank that offers various banking and consumer finance services. The company offers consumer and commercial deposits, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, term certificate accounts, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises one- to four-family residential real estate loans, multifamily residential and commercial real estate loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, and commercial business loans, as well as consumer loans, including automobile loans, sales finance loans, unsecured personal loans, credit card loans, and loans secured by deposit accounts. It also offers trust, investment management, actuarial and benefit plan administration, brokerage services, title insurance, and municipal bonds, as well as involves in the ownership and operation of properties. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 171 community-banking of fices in northwest, southwest, and central Pennsylvania; western New York; eastern Ohio; Maryland; and southeastern Florida. It also operated 51 consumer finance offices in Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Warren, Pennsylvania.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Duprey]
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ: NWBI ) announced today that it will be paying a special dividend of $0.12 per share in May to�supplement the regular dividend for the first quarter of 2013, which it prepaid back in December in a bid to�accelerate the distribution of cash�to help shareholders offset some of the risk of higher taxes.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Jewett-Cameron Tra Com Npv (JCT.TO)
Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of specialty metal products and wholesale distribution of wood products to home centers and other retailers primarily in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Industrial Wood Products; Lawn, Garden, Pet, and Other; Seed Processing and Sales; and Industrial Tools and Clamps. The Industrial Wood Products segment processes and distributes industrial wood products; and offers treated plywood to boat manufacturers and the transportation industry. The Lawn, Garden, Pet, and Other segment is involved in the wholesale of wood products, such as fencing and landscape timbers; and manufacture of specialty metal products comprising dog kennels, proprietary gate support systems, perimeter fencing, and greenhouses. The Seed Processing and Sales segment processes, distributes, and sells agricultural seeds to distributors. The Industrial Tools and Clamps segment i mports and distributes products, including pneumatic air tools, industrial clamps, and saw blades. Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd. was founded in 1953 and is based in North Plains, Oregon.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Cambium Learning Group Inc.(ABCD)
Cambium Learning Group, Inc. provides intervention curricula, educational technologies, professional services, and other research-based education solutions in the United States. Its Voyager segment offers reading, math, and professional development programs, as well as online courseware and credit recovery solutions for at-risk and special education student populations. This segment also offers reading, literacy, and targeted intervention programs; interactive Web-based programs; math programs for additional student practice for grades 2-8, students in the 25th percentile and below in grades 5-9, and students at risk of failure in algebra; professional development services for teachers and leadership; and online instruction, supplemental courseware, and intervention programs. The company?s Sopris segment provides printed and technology based supplemental solutions comprising assessments, literacy and mathematics interventions, positive behavior supports, and professional development. It offers various programs that address students who score at or below the basic skill level in writing; reading and writing intervention programs; literary screening and progress monitoring tools; professional development programs for educators; programs to improve reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension for grades 3-12; and intensive, multisensory, and small group reading intervention programs for primary through intermediate grades. The company?s Cambium Learning Technologies segment provides integrated Websites for individual classrooms, schools, and districts; subscription-based online library of interactive simulations for math and science in grades 3-12; text-to-speech software literacy solutions for individuals with special needs and learning difficulties; and hardware products that target students with physical, visual and cognitive disabilities. Cambium Learning Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Enseco Energy Services Corp (ENS.V)
Enseco Energy Services Corp., together with its subsidiaries, provides energy related services and rentals to the upstream oil and gas industry in the United States and Canada. It offers directional drilling services and equipment, including performance drilling motors; electromagnetic measurement while drilling (MWD) tools; negative and positive pulse MWD tools; well planning services; directional modeling services, including torque and drag, bottom hole assembly design, and anti-collision analysis; vertical monitoring services; un-manned MWD; and LWD-gamma ray, annular pressure, and resistivity measurements. Its directional drilling services and equipment allow customers to deviate a well from the vertical. The company also offers production testing/well testing services and equipment comprising P-tanks, frac flowback testing for oil and gas wells, in-line testing, bleed offs, stimulation recovery, sour service capability, wheeled flare stacks and office trailers, flow l ines rated to 10,000 psi, vessels rated from 200 to 1,440 psi, portable and skid mounted packages, separator working pressures to 2,000 psi, zero ground disturbance flare systems, material balance metering of gas and liquids, sand traps and junk catchers, electronic and Web based report posting, and rental equipment. As of December 31, 2011, it had 31 active testing units and related equipment in Canada; and 12 MWD systems. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Calgary, Canada.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Astaldi Spa(AST.MI)
Astaldi S.p.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, construction, and management of public infrastructure and civil engineering works in Italy and internationally. It offers transport infrastructure services, including roads, motorways, railways, undergrounds, ports, and airports; and water and renewable energy works, such as dams, hydroelectric plants, waterworks, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, and treatment plants. The company is also involved in the civil and industrial construction projects, such as hospitals, car parks, and transport infrastructure. Astaldi S.p.A. is headquartered in Rome, Italy.
Top Low Price Stocks To Watch Right Now: Tidewater Inc.(TDW)
Tidewater Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides offshore service vessels and marine support services to the offshore energy industry through the operation of a fleet of marine service vessels. It provides services in support of offshore exploration, field development, and production, including towing of and anchor handling for mobile offshore drilling units; transporting supplies and personnel necessary to sustain drilling, workover, and production activities; offshore construction and seismic support; and various specialized services, such as pipe and cable laying. The company?s vessels include platform supply vessels, and anchor handling towing supply vessels that are used in transporting supplies and equipment from shore bases to deepwater and intermediate water depth offshore drilling rigs, platforms, and other installations; towing-supply and supply vessels used in intermediate and shallow waters; and crewboats and utility vessels that are chartered for transporti ng personnel and supplies from shore bases to offshore drilling rigs, platforms, and other installations. It also operates offshore tugs used for towing floating drilling rigs; assisting in the docking of tankers; towing barges; assisting in pipe laying, cable laying, and construction barges; and commercial towing operations, including towing barges carrying various bulk cargoes and containerized cargo. In addition, the company operates inshore tugs; production, line-handling, and various other special purpose vessels. Further, it operates two shipyards, which construct, modify, and repair vessels. As of March 31, 2011, the company had 378 vessels serving the global offshore energy industry. The company has operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico, the Persian/Arabian Gulf, and areas offshore Australia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela, and West Africa. Tidewater Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisi ana.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
When judging a company's prospects, how quickly it turns cash outflows into cash inflows can be just as important as how much profit it's booking in the accounting fantasy world we call "earnings." This is one of the first metrics I check when I'm hunting for the market's best stocks. Today, we'll see how it applies to Tidewater (NYSE: TDW ) .
- [By Jon C. Ogg]
Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) was started as Buy at Wunderlich Securities.
Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) was started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.
- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Tidewater (NYSE: TDW ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
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