Union Pacific Corporation’s (UNP) third quarter earnings of $1.02 per share were a penny ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.01 per share. Last year, the company had reported earnings of $1.38 per share. Results suffered due to global recession and related decline in rail traffic. Total revenue was $3.7 billion, down 24.0% year over year. The yearly decline was driven by severe volume declines shrinkage of 15% and a much lower fuel surcharge recovery. Freight revenues declined 25% to $3.5 billion. Diesel fuel prices decreased 49% to an average of $1.87 per gallon from an average of $3.70 per gallon last year. Operating expense was $2.7 billion, down 26.0% year over year, mainly due to a 59.0% decline in fuel expense. Operating ratio was 73.7% versus 74.9% last year. The improvement was attributable to price increases, lower fuel prices, network management initiatives, improved ...

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Thursday July 30, 2009

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CAS Medical Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CASM) today announced that the Company will release second quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2009 on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 before the market opens. The Company will host a conference call that same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Participants on the call will be Andrew Kersey, President and CEO, and Jeffery Baird, CFO.

The Board of Directors of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) has declared a quarterly dividend of 27 cents per share on its common stock, payable October 1, 2009 to stockholders of record August 31, 2009.

The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of

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After the market closed today, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) reported second-quarter diluted EPS of $0.66, down 44% from the $1.18 earned in the year-ago quarter, above consensus of $0.64, but below our estimate of $0.83, largely due to lower-than-expected revenues.

Total revenues declined 33% to $1.9 billion from $2.8 billion in the prior-year quarter, reflecting a 26% decrease in traffic volume and reduced fuel surcharge revenues. This compares to consensus revenue estimates of $2.05 billion and our estimate of $2.2 billion.

Volume was off more than we had anticipated, and was worse than the first quarter when volume fell 20%. While this is not entirely surprising, it was a disappointment, especially in view of somewhat better performances at Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), which posted a 22% volume decline, and CSX Corporation (CSX), which reported a 21% drop in volume.

All segments reported lower revenues during the quarter; the worst

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – July 24, 2009 – Zacks Equity Research highlights Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) as the Bull of the Day and BJ Services (BJS ) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), SanDisk (SNDK) and Sanmina-SCI (SANM).

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:

Growth of mega-blockbuster Plavix is helping Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) drive EPS growth up near 16% in 2008. However, patent expirations loom large in Bristol's future starting in 2011 when the Plavix patent expires.

That being said, the company does have an attractive mid-to-late-stage pipeline, and management has been dramatically working to reduce costs and shed less profitable and non-core businesses. We

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Stock performance in the transportation sector has been very uneven, reflecting the varying fortunes of particular industries within the sector. The median year-to-date-stock price gain/(loss) has been mixed for industries in the Zacks transportation universe, with all industries underperforming the S&P 500's 3.3% increase, with the exception of railroads and air freight.

Air freight has been helped by large gains in smaller companies as the giants within the air freight sector, United Parcel Service, Inc. (

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Stock performance in the transportation sector has been very uneven, reflecting the varying fortunes of particular industries within the sector. The median year-to-date-stock price gain/(loss) has been mixed for industries in the Zacks transportation universe, with all industries underperforming the S&P 500's 3.3% increase, with the exception of railroads and air freight.

Air freight has been helped by large gains in smaller companies as the giants within the air freight sector, United Parcel Service, Inc. (

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Stock performance in the transportation sector has been very uneven, reflecting the varying fortunes of particular industries within the sector. The median year-to-date-stock price gain/(loss) has been mixed for industries in the Zacks transportation universe, with all industries underperforming the S&P 500’s 3.3% increase, with the exception of railroads and air freight.

Air freight has been helped by large gains in smaller companies as the giants within the air freight sector, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corporation (FDX), are down 10.6% and 8.4% year to date, respectively. The railroads were helped when CSX Corporation (CSX) kicked off the second quarter earnings season earlier this week with better-than-expected earnings.

Railroads 11.8% Air Freight 5.1% Equip & Leasing (2.1)% Trucking (2.5)% Shipping (2.8)% Airlines (29.5)% Among the hardest hit industries ...

Highlighted stocks include: Alcoa Inc. (...