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Archive for the '10Qs' Tag

UPS says healthcare rules no biggie…

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

You may remember back in March, shortly after the health care reform legislation was passed, that a small company called AT&T (T) made a big splash by announcing plans to take a $1 billion charge to cover the cost of the new regulations. Soon after, several other companies followed suit. The basic reasoning for the [...]

Knight Capital exec leaves, sort of…

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Just over two years ago, in May, 2008, Knight Capital Group, Inc. (KCG) acquired Libertas Holdings, LLC, described in this 8-K as “a leading boutique institutional fixed income brokerage firm.” In addition to acquiring a firm, Knight brought in Libertas’ founder and CEO, Gary Katcher, as a new member of its management team. At the [...]

The scoop on Kraft’s coffee price fixing woes…

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

One benefit from reading SEC filings is that they allow us to distill some of the details about matters that have previously only been reported in a general way. A good example comes from the 10-Q that Kraft Foods, Inc. (KFT) filed August 6. In early June, a story broke that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office [...]

FootnotedPro: Long-term risks to bank income

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

The slow season for filings is a mixed blessing: It lets us spend a little more time with the filings that do come in. But at the same time, there’s less in the way of clear-cut, compelling material for FootnotedPro, our subscription service for professional investors. So we took the opportunity to go back and [...]

Williams Sonoma’s recipe for an upscale retirement…

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

With Father’s Day less than a week away, it seemed like a good time to see what’s cookin’ at Williams Sonoma (WSM).  This has been a better year so far for the company, with the stock trading about 34 percent higher than it did at the end of 2009, increased revenues, and the dividend bump that [...]