{"id":98,"date":"2005-08-02T06:14:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T11:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/?p=98"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:10:12","slug":"notable-earnings-august-2nd-before-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/notable-earnings-august-2nd-before-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Earnings: August 2nd Before the Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Several high quality companies are reporting this morning led by <strong>United  Therapeutics (UTHR)<\/strong> with a rank of 52 out of 60.&nbsp; &nbsp;The developer of therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular, oncological and infectious diseases posted a profit for the first time in the June &#8217;04 quartrer and growth has accelertated ever since.&nbsp; Quarter over quarter earnings growth in the last 4 quarters has been 264%, 550%, 287% and 444%.&nbsp; This morning, the company isn&#8217;t hitting those lofty numbers again, but has smashed estimates nonetheless by .16\/share by posting 172% quarter over quarter growth.&nbsp; The stock is soaring in premarket trading, up nearly 16%.&nbsp; United Therapeutics has carved out a very short base and volume levels don&#8217;t indicate real healthy action up to this point.&nbsp; Look for the stock to return to the area around 57 &#8211; 58 as a possible opportunity to initiate a position.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Rank 51\/60<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A.M. Castle &amp; Co (CAS):<\/strong>&nbsp; The plastic and specialty metals distributor is looking to bolt out of a base this morning on strong earnings.&nbsp; This is a company that has bounced back in a big way in the last year after losing money in the previous 3.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li><strong>Schawk Inc (SGK):<\/strong> The provider of digital imaging prepress services to the consumer products packaging market beats by a penny.&nbsp; The stock is in the process of carving out a new base.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A.D.A.M Inc (ADAM): <\/strong>The publisher of interactive healthcare educational products is a very small company with no analyst estimates, but has posted another strong quarter with an increase in revenue of 29% and increase of 79% in earnings from the year ago period.&nbsp; The stock is currently working on carving out the right side of a base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other notables reporting this morning in order of rank&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amedisys (AMED) &#8211; up 9% in premarket, Coach (COH), Laserscope (LSCP) &#8211; up 8% in premarket, Remington Oil (REM), Oskosh (OSK), Eagle Materials (EXP), Accredited Home Lenders (LEND), Vital Images (VTAL) &#8211; up 18% in premarket trading, Coventry Health (CVH), TXU Corp (TXU), Petroquest Energy (PQUE), Genesee (GWR) and American Capital Strategies (ACAS)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several high quality companies are reporting this morning led by United Therapeutics (UTHR) with a rank of 52 out of 60.&nbsp; &nbsp;The developer of therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular, oncological and infectious diseases posted a profit for the first time in the June &#8217;04 quartrer and growth has accelertated ever since.&nbsp; Quarter over quarter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/notable-earnings-august-2nd-before-the-bell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notable Earnings: August 2nd Before the Bell<\/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-98","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\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}