Based in St. George, Utah, SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ:SKYW) is the parent company for SkyWest Airlines. The firm was in the spotlight on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 when they announced the stock was given an outperform rating by advisor firm AvondalePartners. According to Avondale, the aggressive tactics launched recently by SkyWest concerning the merger with WMM MicroCap company ExpressJet Holding (NYSE: XJT) and based on the use of cash liquidity to drive the company’s growth, could result in a significant increase in the company stock price.

On August 4th, 2010, SkyWest had announced the merging with ExpressJet Airlines. The aggressive move confirmed the perception of a clear intention of the company to expand a great deal in the near future. Moreover, SkyWest’s Chief Financial Officer, Brad Rich, revealed that the aim of the company was to combine the airlines within 12 months, and forecasted a bold $60 to $70 million in cost savings.

The announcement marked a remarkable day for ExpressJet, with the announcement fueling a frenzy that sent share prices up over 100% to close at $6.75. The recent facts influenced the expectations of research analysts’, as the Avondale significantly increased in SkyWest’s price target by 14.29% and slapped an outperform rating for the next 12 months (price target raised from $14 to $16 per share). Next move for SkyWest is an investment of $7 million in Vietnamese start-up Mekong Air, providing four regional jets and technical support. This editor made the contact with Mike Kropp, Chief Financial Officer for SkyWest to invite him to an interview with James Ream, Chief Executive Officer of Expressjet. Mr. Kropp has given a verbal commitment for a mid-September interview, which will be posted here on the homepage.

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APTD has seen a jump of over 30% in the first 25 minutes of trading and doesn’t look to be slowing down!!

It must have been the late news last night that has grabbed the attention of investors early.

APTD announced that the company is now in a POSITIVE CASH POSITION!To see the full release see: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AlphaTrade-Pleased-with-Cash-bw-3150854903.html?x=0&.v=1

Being cash positive is a significant milestone for a small-cap company! Especially in this rough economy!

APTD is building up its fundamentals for a potential take off !

Remember APTD has been around for a long time and has what we feel are rare fundamentals for a stock in this price range.We watched APTD at much higher levels and saw it drop on very little volume, which we believe could be a sign that it is ready to move again!We feel APTD could continue gaining ground this coming week!APTD was trading over 1.5 cents a few weeks ago.

Again here are our Top 10 Reasons to look at APTD: #1- APTD is not a start-up, with over 10 million dollar in revenue achieved in the past! #2- APTD never traded this low before (.0047) – APTD traded as high as 50 cents in the past!

#3- APTD is now eager to tap into the multi-trillion dollar online trading industry that larger firms such as Scottrade and Ameritrade have dominated in recent years.#4- According to preliminary research, analysts for APTD concluded a nominal penetration of 1% of the total market share could result in revenues in excess of $100 million!!!!

#5- APTD recently announced that they believe their stock could be worth over 2 cents in the future! That is over 200% higher than here!

#6- CFA research Analyst Clay Mahaffey recently gave a BUY ALERT with a 2-3 cents price target on APTD .

#7- APTD recently announced a newly improved software for Blackberry users. Revenue could start increasing faster with this new software!

#8- APTD started bouncing from its 52 weeks low and could see more gains soon!

The surge in price and volume on Friday could indicate a week of more gains for APTD!

#9- APTD is expanding into the digital media space which is worth over $66 billion!

#10- APTD had over 119 million shares in short volume not too long ago. The short covering might have started on Friday! And more gains could be achieved this week!

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