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Wed, October 27, 2010 THOR, XEL, VAR, LLL, RMD, OSK Expected To Be Up After Next Earnings Releases
October 27, 2010 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Thursday, October 28th 2010 and determining how the stocks have performed After their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and October earnings reports. THORATEC CORP (NASDAQ:THOR), XCEL ENERGY INC (NYSE:XEL), VARIAN MED SYS IN (NYSE:VAR), L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS (NYSE:LLL), RESMED INC (NYSE:RMD), OSHKOSH CORP (NYSE:OSK) are all expected to be Up After their earnings are released Thursday. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go Up After earnings are released Thursday:
Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Time
THOR THORATEC CORP October Earnings Q3 After
XEL XCEL ENERGY INC October Earnings Q3 Before
VAR VARIAN MED SYS IN 12 Quarter Q4 After
LLL L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS October Earnings Q3 Before
RMD RESMED INC October Earnings Q1 After
OSK OSHKOSH CORP October Earnings Q4 Before
This technology is designed to help the stock trader identify those companies that seem to have a consistent pattern of movement before or after the earnings release date, based on the history of earnings releases for that company. It combines a calendar of expected earnings releases with a history of past earnings releases in a way that lets you see if a pattern exists.
THORATEC CORP (NASDAQ:THOR) - Thoratec Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary medical devices used for circulatory support. It operates in two divisions, Cardiovascular and International Technidyne Corporation (ITC). Cardiovascular division offers medical devices used for mechanical circulatory support (MCS). Its products include HeartMate II, an implantable left ventricular assist device consisting of a miniature rotary blood pump to provide intermediate and long-term MCS; HeartMate XVE, an implantable device for intermediate and long-term MCS; and Paracorporeal Ventricular Assist Device, an external device approved for bridge-to-transplantation and post-cardiotomy myocardial recovery to provide left, right, and biventricular MCS. This division also offers Implantable Ventricular Assist Device, an implantable device, which provides left, right, and biventricular MCS; CentriMag that provides 6 hours support for patients requiring short-term extracorporeal circulatory support during cardiac surgery, as well as used as a right ventricular assist device for 30 days for patients in cardiogenic shock due to acute right ventricular failure; and Vectra Vascular Access Graft, which is used as a shunt between an artery and a vein. ITC division offers point-of-care diagnostic test systems that monitor blood coagulation, as well as monitor blood gas/electrolytes, oxygenation, and chemistry status. This segment also provides incision products to obtain a patients blood sample for diagnostic testing and screening for platelet function. It offers its products to hospital point-of-care market; and the alternate site point-of-care market comprising physicians offices, long-term care facilities, clinics, visiting nurse associations, and home healthcare companies. Thoratec Corporation markets its products through direct sales force and distributors in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
XCEL ENERGY INC (NYSE:XEL) - Xcel Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and public authorities in the United States. The company generates electricity using coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar energy. It also purchases, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas to retail customers, as well as transports customer-owned natural gas. Xcel Energy primarily serves customers in the areas of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. As of December 31, 2009, it provided electricity services to approximately 3,392,586 customers and natural gas services to approximately 1,880,557 customers. Xcel Energy, through its joint venture interests in WYCO Development L.L.C, develops and leases natural gas pipeline, storage, and compression facilities. The company was founded in 1909 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
VARIAN MED SYS IN (NYSE:VAR) - Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (VMS), incorporated in 1948, designs and manufactures advanced equipment and software products for treating cancer with radiation, as well as X-ray tubes, replacement X-ray tubes and flat panel digital subsystems for imaging in medical, veterinary, scientific and industrial applications. The Company operates in three segments: Oncology Systems, which designs, manufactures, sells and services hardware and software products for treating cancer with radiation; X-ray Products, which manufactures and sells X-ray imaging components and subsystems, and Other, which includes Ginzton Technology Center (GTC) and BrachyTherapy operations.
Oncology Systems
VMS is a provider of products, such as linear accelerators, treatment simulators and verification products, information management and treatment planning software and other accessory products and services for conventional radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). Revenues from the Oncology Systems business segment represented 82% of the Company's total revenues during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2005 (fiscal 2005).
The Company's Clinac series of medical linear accelerators are used to treat cancer by producing therapeutic electrons and X-ray beams that target tumors and other abnormalities in a patient. VMS produces versions of these devices to suit various facility requirements. The Company's Millennium series of multi-leaf collimators are accessory devices that are used with a linear accelerator to define the size, shape and intensity of the radiation beams generated by the linear accelerator. VMS also offers a real-time patient position monitoring software product, the RPM respiratory gating system, which allows the Clinac to be synchronized with patient breathing to help compensate for tumor motion during the course of treatment.
VMS's VARiS information management software system records and verifies radiotherapy treatment procedures carried out on the linear accelerator, performs patient charting and manages patient information. Its Vision product line is integrated with the VARiS product and manages patient image data. The Company has also developed its VARiS MedOncology information management software system that records and stores patient data relating to chemotherapy treatment procedures. ARIA Oncology Information Management System is VMS' next generation integrated information management software system.
The Company's Eclipse treatment planning system provides doctors with three-dimensional (3D) image viewing, treatment simulation, radiation dosage calculation and verification and other tools for generating treatment plans for the patient, which can be reviewed and analyzed using its SomaVision workstations. VMS' Helios software module utilizes a technique known as inverse planning to enable the physicians to rapidly develop optimal IMRT treatment plans based on a desired radiation dose outcome to the tumor and surrounding tissue. The Company's treatment simulators enable physicians to simulate radiation therapy treatments prior to treatment delivery.
VMS manufactures and sells an electronic portal-imaging product, PortalVision, which is used to verify a patient's treatment position. The Company's Argus line of software products allows the management of quality control data for radiation therapy products. VMS also manufactures and sells Acuity, a simulator, which uses advanced amorphous silicon imaging technology and has been designed to facilitate IMRT treatments by integrating simulation more closely with treatment planning and by helping physicians deal better with tumor motions caused by breathing.
The Company's products have focused on enabling IGRT. These products include On-Board Imager System (OBI), which allows dynamic, real-time imaging of tumors while on the treatment couch, and the cone-beam computerized tomography for OBI, or CBCT. CBCT allows patient positioning based on soft-tissue anatomy. Enhancements to existing products, such as C
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS (NYSE:LLL) - L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. provides command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems; aircraft modernization and maintenance; and government services in the United States and internationally. Its C3ISR segment offers fleet management sustainment and support, such as procurement, systems integration, sensor development, modifications, and periodic depot maintenance for signals intelligence and ISR special mission aircraft, and airborne surveillance systems; strategic and tactical signals intelligence systems; secure data links; secure terminal and communication network equipment and encryption management; and communication systems. The companys Government Services segment provides communication software support, information technology services, and various engineering development services and integration support; engineering and information systems support services; teaching and training; human intelligence support services; aviation and maritime services; and technical and management services. L-3 Communications Aircraft Modernization and Maintenance segment offers modernization, upgrades and sustainment, maintenance, and logistics support services for military and various government aircraft and other platforms. Its Electronic Systems segment provides power and control systems, electro-optic/infrared products, microwave components, avionics and displays, simulation and training, precision engagement, security and detection, propulsion systems, telemetry and advanced technology, undersea warfare, and marine services. The company serves the U.S. Department of Defense and its prime contractors, the U.S. Government intelligence agencies, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice, allied foreign governments, and other U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies. L-3 Communications was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York.
RESMED INC (NYSE:RMD) - ResMed Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of medical equipment for treating, diagnosing, and managing sleep-disordered breathing and other respiratory disorders. Its portfolio of products for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and other forms of sleep-disordered breathing include airflow generators, diagnostic products, mask systems, headgear, and other accessories, such as cold passover humidifiers, carry bags, and breathing circuits. The company also offers data communications and control products, such as the ResLink, ResControl, ResControl II, TxControl, ResScan, and ResTraxx modules that facilitate the transfer of data and other information to and from the flow generators. ResMed Inc. sells its products worldwide through a network of distributors, independent manufacturers representatives, and direct sales force. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
OSHKOSH CORP (NYSE:OSK) - Oshkosh Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets a range of access equipment, specialty vehicles, and vehicle bodies worldwide. Its Defense segment manufactures severe-duty, heavy, and medium-payload tactical trucks for the Department of Defense, including hauling tanks, missile systems, ammunition, fuel, and cargo for combat units. The companys Access Equipment segment offers aerial work platforms and telehandlers used in a range of construction, agricultural, industrial, institutional, and general maintenance applications. Its Fire and Emergency segment provides custom and commercial fire apparatus and emergency vehicles, including pumpers, aerial and ladder trucks, tankers, light and heavy-duty rescue vehicles, wildland rough terrain response vehicles, mobile command and control centers, bomb squad vehicles, hazardous materials control vehicles, and other emergency response vehicles. The company also manufactures towing and recovery equipment, airport snow removal vehicles, custom ambulances for private and public transporters and fire departments, mobile medical vehicles, and custom vehicles for the broadcast and communications industry. In addition, this segment engages in the installation of equipment, as well as sale of chassis and service parts. Its Commercial segment produces and sells front and rear discharge concrete mixers, and portable and stationary concrete batch plants for the concrete ready-mix industry; and field service vehicles and truck-mounted cranes for the construction, equipment dealer, building supply, utility, tire service, and mining industries. This segment also offers lease financing to concrete mixer customers, concrete batch plant customers, and commercial waste haulers. The company was formerly known as Oshkosh Truck Corporation and changed its name to Oshkosh Corporation in February 2008. Oshkosh Corporation was founded in 1917 and is based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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