Archive for May, 2009
California home prices starting to increase
April sales and price report.
Linked above the the April sales report from the California Association of Realtors. The big news is that the state has now had two months of increases in the median sales price.
The median price for April was 36.5% lower than for April 2008. This is the 1st time in 9 months [...]
Flower Foods increases dividend
Printable Version.
I developed an interest in Flower Foods (FLO: 25.14 -0.15 -0.59%) some time back but did not follow up on further research. It was nice to get the email today announcing that they are increasing the dividend by 17%. This come on a sales increase of 19% in the most recent quarter.
Management is projecting [...]
New home sales raw data
newressales.pdf (application/pdf Object).
The link above is the April new residential sales report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales were basically level with March.
The numbers I find interesting are the year over year comparisons. April 2009 sales were 34% below the April 2008 rate. However, the April 2009 available inventory was 35.4%. [...]
Raw existing home sales data
rel0904ehs.pdf (application/pdf Object).
Linked above is the data from the National Association of Realtors on existing home sales for May 2009. If you get tired of sensationalized headlines and spin in the articles, take a look at the data for yourself.
The non-seasonally adjusted numbers show some nice gains from April and I wonder in this new [...]
Can the financial media read?
I was taking a look at one of the stocks I follow on this site and a couple of the news headlines caught my eye. Troubled Atlas Pipeline Partners (APL: 14.40 -0.04 -0.28%) released their first quarter results a couple of weeks ago and here a a couple of lingering headlines:
From TradingMarkets.com: Atlas Pipeline Holdings [...]
