{"id":136,"date":"2005-10-25T22:26:52","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-10-25T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T03:26:52","slug":"notable-earnings-intuitive-surgical-isrg-ultra-petroleum-upl-nutrisystems-ntri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/notable-earnings-intuitive-surgical-isrg-ultra-petroleum-upl-nutrisystems-ntri\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Earnings: Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Ultra Petroleum (UPL) &amp; NutriSystems (NTRI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was busy after the bell today with several high quality companies reporting.&nbsp; As usual I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll list the companies in order of their fundamental rank.<\/p>\n<p><p><strong><\/p>\n<p><u>[28\/30]<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRAA),<\/strong> the manager of portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables posted another very strong quarter after the bell today with <strong>earnings growing 32% and revenues growing 33% over the year ago quarter<\/strong>.&nbsp; <strong>Both beat estimates<\/strong>.&nbsp; Considering the outstanding results from this company for the last several years it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surprising that the stock has remains stagnant.&nbsp; &nbsp;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s currently forming a long base on base pattern with resistance at 45.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Corporate Executive Board (EXBD),<\/strong> the research and analysis company for corporations, is another company that continues to post solid results quarter after quarter, year after year of around 25 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 30%.&nbsp; No exception in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report as the company <strong>beat analyst estimates by a penny and reported earnings growth of 24% with revenue growth of 29%..<\/strong>&nbsp; Executive also <strong>raised Q4 and \u00e2\u20ac\u212205 guidance<\/strong>.&nbsp; The stock is currently basing with strong support at 75..\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p><strong><\/p>\n<p><u>[27\/30]<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) Blow Out Earnings!,<\/strong> the surgical robot manufacturer (da Vinci), blew away estimates again this quarter just as they did last quarter and <strong>beat estimates by .26\/share<\/strong>!&nbsp; <strong>Revenues came in more than 20% higher than estimates<\/strong>.&nbsp; Shares are soaring after hours more than 25%.&nbsp; The stock had been basing after the big gap up following the last earnings report and will break to all time highs on a big gap up once again tomorrow morning.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ultra Petroleum (UPL) Blow Out Earnings!,<\/strong> continues the streak of oil companies posting tremendous profit and revenue growth.&nbsp; Seems like earnings growth of 100% is routine for the top oil companies these days.&nbsp; Ultra <strong>smashed estimates of .32\/share by posting .38\/share<\/strong>, good for a 118% increase over the year ago quarter.&nbsp; After running up 100% in just a couple months, the stock has been consolidating and is currently bouncing off the 50 day moving average.&nbsp; It has held up remarkably well considering the big selling in oil recently.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><u>[26\/30]<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NutriSystem (NTRI)<\/strong> <strong>Blow Out Earnings!,<\/strong> the manufacturer of weight loss products and services, is <strong>the fastest growing company in the SelfInvestors.com database<\/strong>. The company retains that label after posting another huge quarter after the bell today which <strong>beat estimates by .03\/share<\/strong>.&nbsp; NutriSystem swung to a big profit in the latest quarter after posting a small loss one year ago.&nbsp; <strong>Revenues soared 743%.<\/strong> &nbsp; The stock is down more than 5% after hours, but I would expect the stock to swing to a gain before the trading day ends tomorrow.&nbsp; Just some knee jerk profit taking.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Akamai (AKAM),<\/strong> a provider of content delivery and application performance for ebusinesses, posted another outstanding quarter which matched estimates.&nbsp; <strong>Earnings increased from the year ago period by 56% and revenues increased by 42% in the same time frame<\/strong>.&nbsp; Akamai became profitable for the first time in \u00e2\u20ac\u212204 and is emerging as a leading technology company.&nbsp; It increased the number of customers with long term contracts by 45% from a year ago.. this from the CEO:&nbsp; &quot;Strong growth in our customer base reflects increasing trust in Akamai to accelerate the on-line delivery of mission critical content and Web-based applications by businesses and government agencies,&quot; Sagan said. &nbsp; The stock is in the process of carving out a long 2 year base with overhead resistance just above 18.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HealthExtras (HLEX),<\/strong> a provider of pharmacy benefits management services, posted results after the bell which <strong>matched earnings estimates of .15\/share<\/strong>.&nbsp; That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rise of 46% over the year ago quarter.&nbsp; However, <strong>revenue growth was a bit disappointing at 16%..<\/strong> it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the first time the company has posted growth of less than 20% in a couple years.&nbsp; Looking to 2006, the company is raising guidance and expect revenues to exceed 1 billion.&nbsp; The stock broke out of a flat base on Oct. 14<sup>th<\/sup>, but has been unable to hold those gains.&nbsp; The stock bounced off the 50 day moving average today and remains in a buyable range.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was busy after the bell today with several high quality companies reporting.&nbsp; As usual I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll list the companies in order of their fundamental rank. [28\/30] Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRAA), the manager of portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables posted another very strong quarter after the bell today with earnings growing 32% and revenues growing 33% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/notable-earnings-intuitive-surgical-isrg-ultra-petroleum-upl-nutrisystems-ntri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notable Earnings: Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), Ultra Petroleum (UPL) &amp; NutriSystems (NTRI)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-earnings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}