Toll brothers

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 12:00PM 8/19/2011
    Now more than ever, there's never a dull moment on Wall Street. Next week will bring plenty of critical headlines, from a panoply of retail earnings reports to Pandora's first results as a public company. Read on for a complete preview of the news to come.

    By Hugh Collins

    | 7:45AM 12/02/2010
    Luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc (TOL) reported earnings of 30 cents per share for the quarter ending Oct. 31, compared with a loss of 68 cents per share a year earlier. Revenue declined 17% to $402.6 million, the company said in a statement. Earnings benefitted from factors including a net...

    By David Schepp

    | 5:50AM 8/25/2010
    Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Wednesday (last updated at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time): Stocks Dive On Drop In Home Sales: Weak housing numbers sent stocks tumbling Tuesday in New York, after a report by the National Association of Realtors showed...

    By Gene Marcial

    | 7:30AM 8/11/2010
    Housing is one cold spot in the economy. Lennar, however, is among the few homebuilders that some big investors are moving back into. Its diversification and appeal to first-time buyers are some of its strengths.

    By Gene Marcial

    | 6:30AM 8/09/2010
    Instead of embracing what the daily voices of doom are proclaiming -- notice how equity prices continue to edge higher in spite of all the seemingly bad news. Now's the time for long-term vision.

    By Lita Epstein

    | 9:41AM 2/24/2010
    Luxury home builder Toll Brothers beat analysts' expectations and cut its losses to $0.25 per share diluted or $40.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010. And while quarterly revenues were down, the number of net signed contracts it booked for houses nearly doubled.

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 5:30PM 10/22/2009
    After leading an investment team to buy The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2006, Brian P. Tierney invited the widow of its onetime owner, Walter Annenberg, to visit him in her husband's old office. While visiting, Lenore Annenberg noted that Tierney had situated his desk differently from her...

    By David Schepp

    | 7:30AM 8/27/2009
    Wall Street is poised to take a breather Thursday as investors weigh recent gains that have lifted stock indexes to their highest levels so far this year. U.S. investors' cautiousness was apparent Wednesday after the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average gained less than half a percent to end the...

    By Lita Epstein

    | 11:30AM 5/27/2009
    As we learned yesterday housing prices continue to fall, but according to estimates from those in the know (or at least hope they know) -- including chief economists at Fannie and Freddie, the Mortgage Bankers Association, Realtors and homebuilder groups -- real estate may hit bottom in about a...

    By Lita Epstein

    | 10:00AM 2/10/2009
    Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) reported its first full-year loss after 22 years of profitability on the NYSE in FY2008, but the company is keeping its eye on the future. Frederick Cooper, Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations, told stockholders in a letter inserted in the annual...