For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 21, 2009 – Zacks Equity Research highlights Vodafone (VOD) as the Bull of the Day and Conmed Corp. (CNMD) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), Coca Cola Company (KO) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT).

Full analysis of all these stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2676

Here is a synopsis of all five stocks:

Bull of the Day:

We maintain our Outperform recommendation for Vodafone (VOD), the largest revenue generating international wireless carrier. Revenue growth in the last quarter was fuelled by foreign exchange gains and acquisitions.

Additionally, increase in subscriber base was driven by continued healthy net additions in its Indian operation. Vodafone's globally diversified operation provides hedging elements which offset price competition and translation risk that may arise in specific markets. The company continues

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Before markets opened today, the Big Daddy among Defense contractors, Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT), reported strong third quarter fiscal 2009 results and raised its fiscal outlook. In the reported quarter with EPS of $2.07, the company beat both the Zacks Consensus Estimate and the year-ago EPS of $1.83 and $1.92, respectively. Net earnings rose to $797 million in the reported quarter compared to $782 million in the year-ago quarter. In a reversal of fortune, pension accounting adjustment negated $113 million from the quarter while in the year-ago quarter this adjustment had added $32 million to earnings. The spike in pension liability was due to the lower value of the company’s retiree fund. On the revenue front with $11.1 billion, the company beat the year-ago result of $10.6 billion by 4.5%. The upside in sales, year-over-year came from higher numbers across the board but especially from ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – July 22, 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: Texas Instruments (TXN), Xilinx (XLNX), Cypress (CY), Altera (ALTR) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:

Texas Instruments Beats Easily

On July 20, 2009, Texas Instruments (TXN) reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 ending June 2009. Both the top and bottom lines were well over initial consensus estimates.

Management stated that channel inventories declined 10% in the second quarter, and customer

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Before the markets opened today, the Big Daddy among defense contractors, Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) reported second quarter earnings of $734 million or EPS of $1.88, as compared to earnings of $882 million or EPS of $2.15 in the year-ago quarter. Although EPS fell by $0.27 year-over-year, $0.19 is attributed to pension adjustments. Pension accounting adjustment negated $115 million from the quarter while in the year-ago quarter this adjustment added $32 million to earnings. The spike in pension liability was due to the lower value of the company retiree fund. However, the results still beat the consensus EPS estimate of $1.81 by a wide margin. On the revenue front, with $11.2 billion the company beat the year-ago result of $11 billion. This was in line with the consensus estimate of $11.14 billion.   The downside in EPS year-over-year came from higher pension liability coupled with lower earnings year-over-year ...