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The following companies have scheduled their company earnings to be released today, Wednesday, March 07, 2012.

• Acadia Healthcare Company Inc (NASDAQ:ACHC) — After Market Closes

  Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. develops and operates a network of behavioral health facilities. It provides premier psychiatric and chemical dependency services to its patients in a variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals etc.

• Advocat Inc (NASDAQ:AVCA) — After Market Closes

  Advocat Inc. provides long-term care services to nursing home patients in eight states, mainly in the Southeast and Southwest United States. Its centers provide a range of health care services to their patients and residents.

• American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) — Before Market Opens

  American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is a retailer that designs, markets and sells its own brand of high quality, on-trend clothing, accessories and personal care products at affordable prices while targeting 15 to 25 year-old customers.

• Brown Shoe Co Inc (NYSE:BWS) — Before Market Opens

  Brown Shoe Company, Inc. is a footwear retailer and wholesaler, which provides an offering of licensed, branded and private-label casual, dress and athletic footwear products to women, men and children.

• Canadian Solar Inc (NASDAQ:CSIQ)

  Canadian Solar, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells solar cell and solar module products that convert sunlight into electricity.

• Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc (NASDAQ:PLCE)

  Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc. is a specialty retailer of children’s apparel and accessories, ages newborn to 14 years old..

• China Lodging Group Ltd (NASDAQ:HTHT) — After Market Closes

  China Lodging Group, Limited is an economy hotel chain in China and mainly utilizes a lease-and-operate model, under which the company directly operates hotels that are typically located in prime locations of selected cities.

• Ciena Corp (NASDAQ:CIEN) — Before Market Opens

  Ciena Corporation is a provider of communications networking equipment, software and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation and management of voice, video and data traffic.

• Coldwater Creek Inc (NASDAQ:CWTR) — After Market Closes

  Coldwater Creek is a specialty retailer of women’s apparel, accessories, jewelry and gift items sold under the ‘Coldwater Creek’ brand.

• Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE:CODI) — After Market Closes

  The company acquires controlling interests in businesses that operate in industries with long-term macroeconomic growth opportunities and that have positive and stable cash flows and face minimal threats of technological or competitive obsolescence.

• CPI Aerostructures Inc (AMEX:CVU) — Before Market Opens

  CPI Aerostructures, Inc. is engaged in the contract production of structural aircraft parts mainly for the U.S. Air Force and other branches of the U.S. armed forces, either as a main contractor or as a subcontractor for other defense main contractors.

• Express Inc (NYSE:EXPR) — Before Market Opens

  Express, Inc. is a specialty apparel and accessories retailer of women’s and men’s merchandise, targeting the 20 to 30 year old customer. Express merchandise is sold through the Company’s retail stores and website.

• Flotek Industries Inc (NYSE:FTK) — After Market Closes

  Flotek Industries, Inc. is a global supplier of drilling and production related products and services to the oil and gas industry.

• H and R Block Inc (NYSE:HRB) — After Market Closes

  H&R Block, Inc. through its subsidiaries, provide tax preparation, retail banking, accounting and various business advisory and consulting services.

• Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (NYSE:HOV) — Before Market Opens

  Hovnanian Enterprises Inc designs, constructs, markets and sells single-family detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, mid-rise and high-rise condominiums, urban infill and active adult homes in planned residential developments.

• Information Services Group Inc (NASDAQ:III) — After Market Closes

  Information Services Group, Inc. is engaged in the assessment, evaluation, negotiation and management of service contracts related to outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, and shared services.

• Jamba Inc (NASDAQ:JMBA)

  Jamba, Inc. operates as a retailer of blended-to-order fruit smoothies, squeezed-to-order juices, blended beverages and snacks.

• Kopin Corp (NASDAQ:KOPN) — Before Market Opens

  Kopin Corp. is a developer and manufacturer of III-V products and miniature flat panel displays.

• Lincoln Educational Services Corp (NASDAQ:LINC) — Before Market Opens

  Lincoln Educational Services Corporation is a provider of career-oriented post-secondary education as measured by total enrollment.

• Mannatech Inc (NASDAQ:MTEX) — After Market Closes

  Mannatech, Inc. develops, markets, and sells proprietary nutritional supplements, skin care and topical products, and weight-management products.

• Men’s Wearhouse Inc (NYSE:MW) — After Market Closes

  Men’s Wearhouse is a retailer of men’s suits and a provider of tuxedo rental product in the United States and Canada.

• MModal Inc (NASDAQ:MODL) — After Market Closes

  MModal Inc a provider of outsourced business services to healthcare companies, including hospitals & medical practices, in the US. Services include dictation, transcription, document management, management analytics, accounts receivable etc.

• Nanophase Technologies Corp (NASDAQ:NANX) — 4:00 PM

  Nanophase Technologies Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of engineered nanomaterial products in North America, Europe and Asia.

• New Mountain Finance Corp (NYSE:NMFC) — After Market Closes

  New Mountain Finance Corporation will be a holding company with no direct operations of its own, and its only business and sole asset will be its ownership of common membership units of the Operating Company, the operating company for its business.

• Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:OPTR) — After Market Closes

  Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing anti-infective products.

• Pall Corp (NYSE:PLL) — After Market Closes

  Pall Corporation supplies filtration, separation and purification technologies, using its fluid clarification and separations equipment for the removal of solid, liquid and gaseous contaminants from a wide variety of liquids and gases.

• Resource Capital Corp (NYSE:RSO) — After Market Closes

  Resource Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company that focuses mainly on commercial real estate and commercial finance.

• Semtech Corp (NASDAQ:SMTC) — After Market Closes

  Semtech Corporation designs, produces and market a range of products that are sold mainly into applications within the high-end consumer, industrial, computing and communications end-markets.

• Sequenom Inc (NASDAQ:SQNM) — After Market Closes

  Sequenom, Inc. is a diagnostic testing and genetics analysis company committed to providing products, services, diagnostic testing, applications and genetic analysis products.

• Simcere Pharmaceutical Group (NYSE:SCR) — Before Market Opens

  Simcere Pharmaceutical Group is engaged in the research, development, manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products in the People’s Republic of China.

• SMTC Corp (NASDAQ:SMTX)

  SMTC Corporation provides electronics manufacturing services, including product design and sustaining engineering services, printed circuit board assembly, production, enclosure fabrication, systems integration and comprehensive testing services.

• Speedway Motorsports Inc (NYSE:TRK) — Before Market Opens

  Speedway Motorsports, Inc. is a promoter, marketer and sponsor of motorsports activities in the United States.

• Standard Parking Corp (NASDAQ:STAN) — After Market Closes

  Standard Parking Corporation is a provider of on-site management services at multi level and surface parking facilities for markets of the parking industry.

• Stewart Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:STEI) — After Market Closes

  Stewart Enterprises, Inc. is a provider of funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry in the United States.

• Superconductor Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:SCON) — Before Market Opens

  Superconductor Technologies Inc. is engaged in the development and production of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies.

• Union Drilling Inc (NASDAQ:UDRL) — After Market Closes

  Union Drilling, Inc. provides contract land drilling services and equipment, mainly to natural gas producers in the United States.

• UniTek Global Services Inc (NASDAQ:UNTK) — After Market Closes

  UniTek Global Services, Inc. provides permanently outsourced infrastructure services, including engineering, construction management, and installation fulfillment services to companies in the telecommunications, broadband cable, wireless etc.

• Verso Paper Corp (NYSE:VRS) — Before Market Opens

  The Company is a North American supplier of coated papers to catalog and magazine publishers.

The following companies has recently had stock analysts initiate, upgrade or downgrade coverage on them. The analysis is detailed below.

New Coverage

• Delphi Automotive(DLPH)
  Robert W. Baird has initiated coverage at Outperform

• InvenSense(INVN)
  Robert W. Baird has initiated coverage at Outperform

Upgraded Coverage

• VMware(VMW)
  Oppenheimer has upgraded their rating
  from: Perform – to – Outperform (Target Price: $100.00)

Downgraded Coverage

• BlackRock(BLK)
  Standpoint Research has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold

• H & R Block(HRB)
  Standpoint Research has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Lockheed Martin(LMT)
  Standpoint Research has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Time Warner(TWX)
  Caris & Company has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Above Average
• Cogdell Spencer(CSA)
  KeyBanc Capital Mkts has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Cracker Barrel(CBRL)
  Standpoint Research has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold

The following companies have scheduled their company earnings to be released today, Thursday, December 01, 2011.

• American Software Inc (NASDAQ:AMSWA)

  American Software, Inc. develops, markets and supports a portfolio of software and services that deliver enterprise management and collaborative supply chain solutions to the global marketplace.

• Avago Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:AVGO) — After Market Closes

  Avago Technologies Limited is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog semiconductor devices with a focus on III-V based products.

• Barnes and Noble Inc (NYSE:BKS) — Before Market Opens

  Barnes & Noble, Inc. is engaged in sale of trade books, mass market paperbacks, children’s books, bargain books, magazines, gift, music and movies direct to customers.

• H and R Block Inc (NYSE:HRB) — After Market Closes

  H&R Block, Inc. through its subsidiaries, provide tax preparation, retail banking, accounting and various business advisory and consulting services.

• J Crew Group Inc (NYSE:JCG) — Before Market Opens

  The Company offers complete assortments of women’s, men’s and children’s apparel and accessories, including wedding and special occasion attire, weekend clothes, swimwear, loungewear, outerwear, shoes, bags, belts, hair accessories and jewelry.

• Mitel Networks Corp (NASDAQ:MITL) — After Market Closes

  Mitel Networks Corporation is a provider of integrated communications solutions focused on the small-to-medium sized enterprise, or SME, market.

• PVH Corp (NYSE:PVH) — After Market Closes

  Phillips Van Heusen Corp is an apparel company which designs and markets branded dress shirts, neckwear, sportswear and, to a lesser extent, footwear and other related products.

• Sycamore Networks Inc (NASDAQ:SCMR) — Before Market Opens

  Sycamore Networks Inc. develops and markets Intelligent Bandwidth Management solutions for fixed line and mobile network operators worldwide and provides services associated with such products.

• Talbots Inc (NYSE:TLB)

  Talbots, Inc. together with its wholly owned subsidiaries is a retailer and direct marketer of women’s apparel, shoes, and accessories.

• Ulta Salon Cosmetics and Fragrance Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) — After Market Closes

  Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrances, Inc. is a beauty retailer that provides one-stop shopping for mass and salon products and salon services in the United States.

• Uti Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ:UTIW) — Before Market Opens

  UTi Worldwide, Inc. provides air & ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage, distribution, inbound logistics, truckload brokerage & other supply chain management services.

• Zumiez Inc (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) — After Market Closes

  Zumiez Inc. is a mall based specialty retailer of action sports related apparel, footwear, equipment and accessories operating under the Zumiez brand name.

The following companies has recently had stock analysts initiate, upgrade or downgrade coverage on them. The analysis is detailed below.

Upgraded Coverage

• Carrizo Oil & Gas(CRZO)
  Global Hunter Securities has upgraded their rating
  from: Accumulate – to – Buy (Target Price: $48.00)

• Time Warner Tcom(TWTC)
  DA Davidson has upgraded their rating
  from: Neutral – to – Buy (Target Price: $24.00)
• SolarWinds(SWI)
  Needham has upgraded their rating
  from: Hold – to – Buy (Target Price: $36.00)
• Republic Airways(RJET)
  Dahlman Rose has upgraded their rating
  from: Hold – to – Buy (Target Price: $8.00)
• Quality Systems(QSII)
  Stifel Nicolaus has upgraded their rating
  from: Hold – to – Buy (Target Price: $46.00)
• Quality Systems(QSII)
  Maxim Group has upgraded their rating
  from: Hold – to – Buy (Target Price: $50.00)
• H & R Block(HRB)
  Oppenheimer has upgraded their rating
  from: Perform – to – Outperform (Target Price: $19.00)
• Equity Res(EQR)
  Argus has upgraded their rating
  from: Hold – to – Buy (Target Price: $68.00)

Downgraded Coverage

• Rubicon Tech(RBCN)
  Avian has downgraded their rating
  from: Positive – to – Neutral

• Rubicon Tech(RBCN)
  UBS has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Neutral (Target Price: $11.00)
• Sykes Enterprises(SYKE)
  Stifel Nicolaus has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Targacept(TRGT)
  Global Hunter Securities has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Accumulate (Target Price: $12.00)
• TBS International(TBSI)
  Dahlman Rose has downgraded their rating
  from: Hold – to – Sell (Target Price: $0.25)
• Valence Tech(VLNC)
  Needham has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Adobe Systems(ADBE)
  Standpoint Research has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Rovi(ROVI)
  Collins Stewart has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Neutral (Target Price: $40.00)
• Rovi(ROVI)
  Brean Murray has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Primo Water(PRMW)
  BB&T Capital Mkts has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Powell Inds(POWL)
  Stifel Nicolaus has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• NVIDIA(NVDA)
  JMP Securities has downgraded their rating
  from: Mkt Outperform – to – Mkt Perform (Target Price: $18.00)
• Maidenform Brands(MFB)
  Brean Murray has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• IntraLinks Holdings(IL)
  Stifel Nicolaus has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold
• Hibbett Sporting(HIBB)
  Longbow has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Neutral
• FEI(FEIC)
  McAdams Wright Ragen has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold (Target Price: $44.00)
• Alaska Comms(ALSK)
  RBC Capital Mkts has downgraded their rating
  from: Sector Perform – to – Underperform (Target Price: $4.00)
• Central European Dist(CEDC)
  Deutsche Bank has downgraded their rating
  from: Buy – to – Hold (Target Price: $3.10)

The following companies have scheduled their company earnings to be released today, Thursday, September 01, 2011.

• Ciena Corp(CIEN) — Before Market Opens

• Flow International Corp(FLOW) — After Market Closes
• H and R Block Inc(HRB) — After Market Closes
• Met Pro Corp(MPR)
• Methode Electronics Inc(MEI) — Before Market Opens
• Mitel Networks Corp(MITL) — After Market Closes
• Movado Group Inc(MOV)
• Uti Worldwide Inc(UTIW) — Before Market Opens