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DELPHI ENERGY $2.67 (Toronto symbol DEE; TSI Network Rating: Speculative) (403-265-6171; www.delphienergy.ca; Shares outstanding: 116.5 million; Market cap: $311.2 million; No dividends paid) explores for oil and gas in Alberta and B.C.
In the three months ended December 31, 2010, Delphi’s combined daily output of natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil rose 24.0%, to 8,539 barrels of oil …read more »
AMAZON.COM $164.70 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 448.8 million; Market cap: $73.9 billion; No dividends paid) will now offer free streaming of movies and TV shows to its Amazon Prime members. These customers pay $79 a year to get unlimited two-day shipping.
The company will offer Prime members more than 5,000 movies and TV shows. …read more »
AMAZON.COM $186.62 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (206- 266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 448.8 million; Market cap: $83.8 billion; No dividends paid) has agreed to pay $320 million for the 58% of privately held Lovefilm International Ltd. that it didn’t already own.
Amazon.com took a minority stake in U.K. based Lovefilm after it sold its DVD rental business in …read more »
AMAZON.COM $129.65 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 447.8 million; Market cap: $58.1 billion; No dividends paid) reports that its sales jumped 41.2% in the latest quarter, to $6.6 billion from $4.7 billion a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 39.4%, to $0.46 from $0.33.
Sales of electronic books for its Kindle reader continue to grow …read more »
AMAZON.COM $146.43 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 445.5 million; Market cap: $65.2 billion; No dividends paid) has received approval from the federal government to open a $20-million distribution centre in Canada.
In 2002, the government let Amazon open a Canadian web site, www.amazon.ca, but would not let the company build a warehouse because of concerns …read more »
AMAZON.COM $128.36 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 433.0 million; Market cap: $55.6 billion; No dividends paid) is now selling its Kindle e-book reader in Canada. The reader costs $279 U.S., plus shipping.
Canadian Kindle users can wirelessly download files from Amazon’s Kindle store, which contains over 300,000 books. Most bestsellers and new releases will be …read more »
AMAZON.COM $131.29 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 433.0 million; Market cap: $56.8 billion) reported sharply higher results in the three months ended September 30, 2009. Revenue rose 27.8%, to $5.4 billion from $4.3 billion a year earlier. Earnings jumped 68.6%, to $199 million, or $0.46 a share, from $118 million, or $0.28 a share. …read more »
AMAZON.COM $83 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 431.8 million; Market cap: $35.8 billion) plans to buy privately held Zappos.com for $807 million in common stock. Zappos is an online seller of shoes, clothing and accessories.
Zappos posted roughly $1 billion in sales last year (Amazon.com had $19.2 billion). Zappos was launched in 1999, and was …read more »
AMAZON.COM $62.35 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 428.6 million; Market cap: $26.7 billion) has unveiled a thinner, faster and lighter version of its Kindle electronic reader.
The Kindle 2 has seven times more storage than the first Kindle, as well as sharper images and a longer battery life. The Kindle 2 also has a text-to-speech …read more »
AMAZON.COM $35.84 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (206-266-1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 428.8 million; Market cap: $15.4 billion) reports that in the three months ended September 30, 2008, profits rose 47.5%, to $118 million or $0.28 a share from $80 million or $0.19 a share a year earlier. Revenues rose 30.7%, to $4.3 billion from $3.3 billion.
Despite the improved …read more »
