For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 14, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (MDRX), Intuit Inc. (INTU), Cerner Corporation (CERN), Quality Systems Inc. (QSII) and MedAssets Inc. (MDAS).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:

Allscripts Aligns with Quicken

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (MDRX) recently entered in an alliance with Intuit Inc. (INTU), a leading provider of business and financial management solutions, to offer Quicken Health Bill Pay.

This is the first online service that integrates with

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Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (MDRX) recently entered in an alliance with Intuit Inc. (INTU), a leading provider of business and financial management solutions, to offer Quicken Health Bill Pay. This is the first online service that integrates with Allscripts' practice management and revenue cycle management solutions. As the name indicates, the system helps explain patients their medical bills and enable them to pay online while helping physicians get paid faster. Quicken Health Bill Pay alerts patients more quickly that a payment is due. The system displays how the amount due was calculated in simple mathematics and provides accurate data. The system quickens the patient bill payment process by an average of 18 days compared to the traditional way of using paper check. It also reduces the cost of collection incurred in the traditional process. It’s been observed that many physician practices write off roughly ...

Salesforce.com (CRM) continues to capture the headlines. The web-based software maker and a player in the "cloud computing" space now ventures into the business of selling accounting software in collaboration with a Dutch company. Salesforce has set up a company named FinancialForce.com in association with Unit 4 Agresso (UNI4), the parent company of financial software specialist CODA, that sells accounting software. Both the companies will invest in FinancialForce.com, which in turn will use CODA’s cloud accounting application previously known as CODA 2go and will deliver finance and accounting solutions in the cloud. This brings Salesforce to an area where the company has not ventured before. This new accounting application is expected to provide finance professional and CFOs with better efficiency and confidence to perform complex accounting operations. Both Salesforce and non-Salesforce customers will be able to use this application through FinancialForce.com. On the other hand, ...

Intuit Inc. (INTU) recently reiterated its guidance for the first quarter and full fiscal year 2010. California-based Intuit is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions. Its flagship products and services include QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax. The company expects first-quarter revenue between $479 million and $493 million, up 0% – 2% year over year. Net loss (excluding one time charges/gains) is projected between 19 cents and 15 cents. For full-year 2010, Intuit sees sales between $3.30 billion and $3.43 billion, up 4% – 8%. Earnings per share (EPS) are estimated between $1.89 and $1.96. Last month, the company reported weak results for the fiscal fourth quarter as there was a fall in sales growth from tax software as the number of tax filers did not increase as per historical levels. Management had then stated that it expects a strong rebound or significant ...

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RTN, Raytheon Company

RTN is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world.

RTN has surpassed another milestone on its Modernized User Equipment program by achieving live satellite M-code tracking with its MUE receiver. A Raytheon-led team developed modernized versions of the avionics and the ground-based module that receives signals from the Global Positioning System. Delivery of the pre-production receiver to the government is expected in November 2009.

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PWRM, Power 3 Medical Products Inc, PWRM.OB

Power3 Medical Products, Inc. is

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Intuit, Inc. (INTU) has a significant opportunity to increase its market share in the personal finance market with Microsoft (MSFT) recently announcing plans to exit its personal finance program. MSFT has been one of the prime competitors in recent times for INTU, which creates small business accounting, personal finance and tax preparation software for accountants, small businesses and consumers.

Microsoft’s exit should significantly help Intuit's small business arena. The company earlier announced the acquisition in June 2009 of online payroll services provider PayCycle Inc for about $170 million. PayCycle specializes in serving small businesses, accountants and financial institutions and has more than 85,000 small-business users.

PayCycle will be integrated into Intuit's small business group. We believe the acquisition makes sense as it expands the company’s footprint -- extending access to PayCycle's portfolio of financial-institutional and small-business clients, among which are Capital One (COF) and PNC Bank (PNC). The

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Intuit Inc.: Shares Climb on Strong Q3 ResultsShares of Intuit Inc. (INTU, Hold) are up over 8% in trading so far today, bucking the trend of steep decline in the broader markets. The company posted an EPS beat in the traditionally strong Q3 and narrowed its guidance range going forward, indicating better visibility into Q4.Q3 revenue upside was driven by better-than-expected results in QuickBooks, Accounting Professionals, FI's, and Other Businesses, offsetting weakness in the Consumer Tax segment. The non-GAAP EPS beat was mainly attributable to higher gross margins and effective cost-control measures.Intuit offers small business accounting, personal finance and tax preparation software for accountants, small businesses and consumers. Q3 non-GAAP EPS of $1.68 came widely ahead of our $1.58 estimate (consensus was at $1.61), while revenues of $1.434 billion also came ahead of our $1.1420 billion estimate.FY2009 guidance range was ...

First-quarter earnings season nears an end with Hewlett-Packard (

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Intuit Inc. (INTU, Hold) issued its fiscal Q209 results yesterday after the bell. Although year-over-year comparisons were negative, both for revenue and EPS, the company beat both our and consensus expectations by a comfortable margin. Q3 and full-year guidance was also softened considerably, particularly at the bottom line, reflecting the management’s concern of the softening economic environment. Nevertheless, the stock traded up sharply after the market close yesterday and is up nearly 12% so far today.The tax preparation software maker’s EPS beat came mainly from tight cost control, although operating income as a percentage of revenues fell nearly 5.2% on a year-over-year basis. Part of this decline was attributed to a deference of approx. $70 million of revenue from its top-selling TurboTax tax-preparation software to the 3rd quarter because of a change in the way it priced the product. Without the change in revenue timing, non-GAAP …

The most-watched vice-presidential debate in history recently took place between candidates Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, and Joe Biden, the senior Senator for Delaware, at Washington University in St. Louis. There were reportedly 70 million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research. Stockerblog.com has put together a comparison of the Joe Biden Stock Index, which is made up of the companies that are connected to the billionaire contributors to the Joe Biden campaign, and the Sarah Palin Stock Portfolio, which is made up of the stocks in the Alaska State disclosure filing for her and her husband. The Palin Portfolio was down 22% outperforming the Biden Index which was down 27%, which doesn't mean much since it a comparison of a contributor index to a stock portfolio, or in other words, apples to oranges. However, both grossly underperformed the Dow ...