Reporting the News vs Creating the News Cycle

CVS was downgraded today by Oppenheimer analyst Michael Wiederhorn to market perform. The value of such a downgrade AFTER the stock slid from over $112 a share in July of 2015 to under $53 a share recently is a bit suspect. That said, a downgrade would normally cause a stock price to slide at least …

Zillow Flips Upward on Home Flipping Story

For the past couple quarters Zillow has slid after reporting quarterly results. The big themes on the slide were the erosion in the growth rate of their core business (selling ads to Realtors) coupled with new (perceived?) risks to their business from adding new business lines including lending and home flipping. In after hours on …