This Week’s 5 Smartest Stock Moves: Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY) and More

SodaStream’s guidance is calling for revenue and adjusted earnings to climb 25% in 2013. It’s a slower clip than the market has been used to, but stacked on top of 2012’s final results, we’re also looking at numbers that are higher than Wall Street was modeling before the report.

As I pointed out in covering the results, investors shouldn’t be swayed by SodaStream’s historically conservative guidance. A year ago SodaStream was only targeting revenue growth of 28%. The pop star’s top line ultimately shot 51% higher in 2012.

4. Analysts in pairs, revisited
Just as two analysts turned bullish on Best Buy earlier this week, a pair of Wall Street pros also waxed bullish on Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) by introducing identical $1,000 price targets this week.

Bernstein Research analyst Carlos Kirjner and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets analyst James Lee issued reports on the same day with fresh goals of Google hitting the $1,000 mark.

The online search leader isn’t too far away. Shares topped $800 earlier this week for the first time in Google’s history.

5. I’ve got 51job, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:JOBS) but a miss ain’t one
51job is holding up in China.

The provider of online workforce recruiting, corporate outsourcing, and other human resources services posted better-than-expected results this week.

51job climbed 7% to $63.8 million, exceeding its earlier guidance calling for no more than $62.9 million on the top line. 51job’s earnings of $0.66 a share or $0.74 a share on an adjusted basis also clocked in well ahead of the $0.61 a share that analysts were forecasting.

Even as 51job winds down its original print advertising business in pursuit of higher-margin online initiatives, the company’s finding a way to grow in a niche that is going through its growing pains. Rival ChinaHR.com went through massive layoffs last month ahead of a sale earlier this month.

51job keeps producing, scoring its fifth consecutive quarter of market-thumping results on the bottom line.

This will come in handy for 51job’s next performance review.

The article This Week’s 5 Smartest Stock Moves originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Rick Aristotle Munarriz.

Longtime Fool contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz owns shares of SodaStream. The Motley Fool recommends 51job, Google, Imax, and SodaStream. The Motley Fool owns shares of Google, Imax, and SodaStream.

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