Any retailer who could not surpass expectations last month has to have company-specific problems. September was simply a stellar month.
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I don't think there's any company-specific news on i2 today (Wednesday). I think it's just the case of a broad rally in the software group.
I think Microsoft's situation was a little company-specific, in that it had so much cash on the balance sheet that it was almost obscene to investors.
Wal-Mart's cautious comments are warranted, ... Even though its problems are not company-specific, it does bode badly for the profits and sales across the retail chain in the back half of the year.
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Starting with the recession in the mid-70's, the worse the economy got the better Wal-Mart sales would be. Now, like everybody else, Wal-Mart is using every excuse in the book to disguise company-specific problems.
The corporate spending environment was better in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 than fiscal 2003 and yet, Oracle's application sales business declined, ... This suggests that clearly it's a company-specific problem.
Gold is at a high and the dollar weakened again. As a result, you would think stocks would be a lot lower today, with people putting money into those areas and taking money out of stocks, but they're not that bad. We're kind of just drifting. The Dow has its own company-specific problems, but the Nasdaq is hanging in there.
The Dogs often do well because adversity brings internal change to a company in management, approaches or efficiency. However, the investor is also exposed to high company-specific risk with such a small number of stocks, and we know from history that some stocks doing badly will continue to do badly.
Companies are going to deliver good numbers. Aside from the usual company-specific disappointments, we are going to get further confirmation that things are moving in the right direction.
While we continue to have concerns about the lower-end consumer, we believe a good deal of Dollar General's issues are company-specific.
When we've had company-specific disappointments like this over the past two years, we've seen buyers come in after the midday to snap up bargains. If that doesn't happen, it could be very bad. We could see the Dow at 10,500, which would be a blow less than a week after everyone was talking about tripping over 11,000.
You've got ying and yang going on here. You've got a decent company-specific story and confidence with the strategy, but you also have an incremental worsening situation on the housing front and no visibility into any good news.
It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.
Dell's commentary implied that Dell was probably overly aggressive on price, and that's probably more of a company-specific issue than an industry specific issue, ... But people will look to see if aggressive pricing impacted (HP) as well.