On Wednesday, Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever surprises inevitably arise. That way, you'll be less likely to have an uninformed, knee-jerk reaction that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.
One of the peculiarities of the Dow Jones Industrial Average's (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) bull run is that many of its more defensive components have participated in the rally. Procter & Gamble has soared to new highs recently as investors have overlooked some of its shortcomings and gravitated toward its healthy dividend yield and reputation for stability. Let's take an early look at what's been happening with Procter & Gamble over the past quarter and what we're likely to see in its quarterly report.
Stats on Procter & Gamble
Top 10 Defensive Stocks To Own Right Now: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.(HOT)
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. operates as a hotel and leisure company worldwide. The company operates luxury and upscale full service hotels, select-service hotels, extended stay hotels, resorts, retreats, and residences under St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W, Westin, Le M�idien, Sheraton, Four Points, Aloft, and Element brand names. It also engages in the development and operation of vacation ownership resorts; marketing and selling vacation ownership interests in the resorts; and provision of financing to customers who purchase such interests. In addition, the company develops, markets, and sells residential units at mixed use hotel projects. As of December 31, 2011, its hotel portfolio included 1,076 owned, managed, or franchised hotels with approximately 315,300 rooms; and 13 stand-alone vacation ownership resorts and residential properties. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwid e Inc. operates independently of ITT Corporation as of December 19, 1995.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sarah Jones]
Hochtief AG (HOT) advanced 5.9 percent to 56.51 euros. Germany�� largest construction company agreed to sell its airports division to Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada for about 1.5 billion euros as it streamlines its business to focus on more profitable units.
- [By Jon C. Ogg]
Starwood�Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT) is a winner if the higher end rooms are working better than the lower-end room rates. Its hotels and destinations include sucn brands as St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W, Westin, Le M茅ridien, Sheraton, Four Points and Element. After a drop of almost 4% on Tuesday, this stock is down 10% from its highs as well, and analysts have upside of about 15% expected for its investors.
- [By Dan Caplinger]
4. Hawaii
The poor pay 13% of their income in taxes in Hawaii, although the state has relatively high taxes across the board. Even tourists end up paying at least their fair share of taxes, with a double-digit percentage hotel tax imposed on Starwood (NYSE: HOT ) , Hyatt (NYSE: H ) , and other hotel chains, which they then pass on to their guests. The wealthy in Hawaii pay an average tax rate of 8%, the highest of the states on this list, because of extremely high marginal rates on income taxes that range as high as 11%. The sales tax is relatively reasonable at 4%, but the key problem is that the sales tax applies to grocery purchases, which hits the poor especially hard.
Top 10 Defensive Stocks To Own Right Now: Viasystems Group Inc.(VIAS)
Viasystems Group, Inc. provides multi-layer printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electro-mechanical solutions worldwide. The company?s products and services are used in a range of applications, including, automotive engine controls, data networking equipment, telecommunications switching equipment, complex medical, technical and industrial instruments, and flight control systems. Its PCBs products include circuitry and mounting surfaces to interconnect discrete electronic components, such as integrated circuits, capacitors, and resistors. The company?s electro-mechanical solutions comprise assembly of backplanes, assembly of printed circuit boards, fabrication of custom and standard metal enclosures, cabinets, racks, sub-racks and bus bars; systems integration; final assembly; and product testing and fulfillment. It also offers various manufacturing services consisting of design and prototyping, PCB and backpanel fabrication, backpanel assembly, PCB assembly, custom metal e nclosure fabrication, full system assembly and test, packaging and global distribution, after-sales support, and supply chain management. The company markets its products and services to original equipment manufacturers and contract electronic manufacturers in automotive, industrial and instrumentation, telecommunications, computer and data communications, and military and aerospace markets through its own sales and marketing organization, and through relationships with independent sales agents. The company was formerly known as Circo Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Viasystems Group, Inc. in January 1997. Viasystems Group, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Advisors' Opinion:- [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 Viasystems Group (Nasdaq: VIAS ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Hot Construction Companies For 2015: General American Investors Inc. (GAM)
General American Investors Company, Inc. is a self management investment trust. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach. General American Investors Company, Inc. was founded in 1927 and is based in New York, New York.
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Avon Rubber p.l.c. engages in the design, test, and manufacture of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear respiratory protection products and solutions for military, homeland security, law enforcement, first responder, emergency services, fire, and industrial markets primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company?s products include respirators or gas masks with various spares and accessories; emergency hood and self contained breathing apparatus; consumable filters; thermal imaging camera equipment; hovercraft skirts; industrial coated fabric solutions; and flexible storage tanks and fittings for military, industrial, and agricultural markets. It is also involved in the manufacture and sale of dairy products, primarily rubberware, such as liners and tubing used in the automated milking process under the Milk-Rite brand. Avon Rubber p.l.c. sells its respiratory protection products through a distribution network in the United States; and diary p roducts to original equipment manufacturers, as well as through distributors. The company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Melksham, the United Kingdom.
Top 10 Defensive Stocks To Own Right Now: Solarwinds Inc.(SWI)
SolarWinds, Inc. designs, develops, markets, sells, and supports enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure management software for IT professionals in various organizations in the United States and internationally. The company offers enterprise-class IT management products, including Network Performance Monitor, a server-based fault and performance management platform to minimize network downtime; Network Performance Monitor modules, a series of add-ons; network configuration manager to automate the processes of network device discovery, network inventory management, and network change management; user device tracker, a server-based switch port management tool; scalability engines to increase the scale of a number of the products; and enterprise operations console to provide web-based views of various instances of Network Performance Monitor modules and Application Performance Monitor. Its enterprise-class network and IT management products also comprise Applic ation Performance Monitor, a server-based availability and performance management system for applications and server infrastructure; patch manager to automate the process of deploying, managing, and reporting on patches and configuration settings; and synthetic end user monitor to capture the user steps of any web application and monitor the end-user experience; storage manager that combines reporting, monitoring, and notification on the performance of storage resources; backup profiler to provide a consolidated view of the status of backup operations; virtualization manager to manage various aspects of virtual server infrastructure; and log and event manager to automate the collection and interpretation of logs. In addition, the company provides free tools, such as desktop, laptop, server-based, or internet-based applications; and tools and toolsets for specific solutions of routine and complicated tasks. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas .
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Travis Hoium]
What: Shares of SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI ) dropped 14% today as investors reacted to the company's acquisition plans.
So what: Yesterday, the company announced it will buy N-able, a cloud-based IT infrastructure company, for $120 million. This is expected to reduce 2013 earnings and there's no guarantee the acquisition will pay off, so investors sold off shares today. �
Top 10 Defensive Stocks To Own Right Now: MGP Ingredients Inc.(MGPI)
MGP Ingredients, Inc. produces ingredients and distillery products in the United States. It processes wheat flour and corn into various products through an integrated production process. The company operates in three business segments: Ingredient Solutions, Distillery Products, and Other. The Ingredient Solutions segment products consist of specialty proteins, specialty starches, vital wheat gluten, commodity wheat starch, and mill by-products. The Distillery Products segment offers food grade alcohol; fuel grade alcohol, commonly known as ethanol; and distiller?s feed and carbon dioxide, which are co-products of the company?s distillery operations. The Other segment products comprise resins, and plant-based polymers and composites. MGP Ingredients, Inc. sells its products directly or through distributors to the manufacturers and processors of finished goods. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Atchison, Kansas.
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Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of semiconductor products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of carrier and enterprise networking products, and data center infrastructure systems worldwide. It offers a line of Ethernet switching products consisting of carrier Ethernet switch engines for customer premise equipment, access network equipment, wireless base stations, mobile access equipment, fiber and microwave wireless backhaul equipment, and metro networking equipment; and Ethernet switches that enable desktop, workgroup, and LAN infrastructure. The company also provides Ethernet media access controllers that offer addressing and channel control mechanisms and are used in enterprise class modular Ethernet switch platforms, as well as in Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH and Ethernet-over-OTN systems used in access, metro, and long-haul carrier networking systems; Ethernet transceivers, including single, quad, and octal devices that allow the transmission of 10/100/1000 BASE-T data over category 5 copper cable and fiber optic cabling for use in personal computers, home electronics, and LAN applications; and Ethernet transceivers with packet timing and synchronization capabilities. In addition, it provides a line of connectivity products, which comprise mixed-signal physical media devices, physical layer devices, crosspoint switches, and signal integrity devices that are used for the connection of systems via optical fiber, copper cable, or backplanes. Further, the company offers a range of transport processing products, such as framers, mappers, and switches, which support data rates up to 10 Gbps for SONET/SDH, EoS, and OTN applications. It markets and sells its products directly to OEMs and original design manufacturers, as well as through third-party electronic component distributors and manufacturing service providers. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Camar illo, California.
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CDC S.p.A. engages in the production and distribution of information technology (IT) products for the consumer and SOHO segments in Italy. The company engages in the provision of logistics management services comprising stock management and outbound logistics management, assembly of CDC brand personal computers, and sale of IT products under the Computer Discount brand. It also provides Internet services and portal services. The company offers its products through its distribution channel comprising 39 Cash & Carry outlets, retail channel consisting of 205 points of sale under the Computer Discount brand, and direct sales channel to IT retailers, system integrators, and other sector operators, as well as to public and private customers. In addition, it also involves in the real estate leasing activities. CDC S.p.A. was founded in 1986 and is based in Pontedera, Italy.
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