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Business Insider
23-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Progressive (PGR) Receives a Buy from Roth MKM
Roth MKM analyst Harry Fong maintained a Buy rating on Progressive (PGR – Research Report) today and set a price target of $315.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $277.12. Confident Investing Starts Here: Fong covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Progressive, Allstate, and Assured Guaranty. According to TipRanks, Fong has an average return of 14.5% and a 74.89% success rate on recommended stocks. In addition to Roth MKM, Progressive also received a Buy from Wells Fargo's Elyse Greenspan in a report issued yesterday. However, on May 21, KBW maintained a Hold rating on Progressive (NYSE: PGR). Based on Progressive's latest earnings release for the quarter ending March 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $20.4 billion and a net profit of $2.57 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $17.24 billion and had a net profit of $2.33 billion Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 107 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of PGR in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in March 2025, Devin C Johnson, a Director at PGR sold 400.00 shares for a total of $110,016.00.
Daily Mail
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Trumpets of Patriots founder Clive Palmer to retire from politics after annoying Aussies with unsolicited texts
Clive Palmer is set to retire from politics after his Trumpet of Patriots political party failed to secure any seats this election - despite him spending more than $60million to promote it. The Trumpet of Patriots only secured 1.85 per cent of the primary vote, according to data from the Australian Electoral Commission. On the back of his election blow, Mr Palmer has revealed that he will retire from politics and instead focus on charity work instead. 'I'm 71 and I'm getting too old for politics,' he told The Daily Telegraph. 'I'd rather spend time helping the tens of thousands that are homeless and hungry in this country … that's why I've donated $5m to Foodbank,' he said. The Trumpet of Patriotsnfuriated voters after sending unsolicited texts to mobile phones across the country. The messages were signed off by Harry Fong, the party's lead Senate candidate for Queensland, and urged people to 'Vote1 (sic) Trumpet of Patriots'. Social media was flooded with people complaining about the messages, with the correspondence ramping up at the start of the week. Frustrated Australians got their revenge on MrFong by finding his mobile number online and spreading it on social media 'His name is Harry Fong and his info is below. He's removed his contact info from his QLD Bar bio but I found a previous one with his mobile and email,' one man posted. 'I've never been so pleased to be a night owl as I am today. Have at him kids, text him and let him know how much you love his spam and feel free to share this post as wide as possible so everyone can reply to his texts!' Mr Palmer was grilled by Channel Seven's Mark Riley on Saturday night over his election spending and spam text strategy. 'You've been the great disruptor in this campaign, there's been absolutely no missing your spam messages on all of our mobile devices,' Riley said. 'What was your objective in this campaign? Last time we heard you spent 100-odd million dollars and got about 10 back. You're doing your dough, what's the point?' Mr Palmer replied by saying: 'Well I think we've got 130,000 Australians homeless at the moment, we've got 3.7million Australians having trouble with food. 'So having a debate, having different ideas, having disagreements is not a bad thing for a democracy.' The Trumpet of Patriots picked up just 2.1 per cent of the primary vote and failed to pick up any seats as of 11pm on Saturday. In NSW, the party picked up just 1.9 per cent of the primary vote while in Victoria they performed the weakest out of all the states with just 1.2 per cent of the vote. The party performed the strongest in Queensland with 3.52 per cent of the vote. Trumpet of Patriots' candidates performed poorly across the board. In the Sydney electorate of Reid, David Sarikaya received 1.5 per cent of the vote, failing to defeat Labor's Sally Sitou. During the campaign, Mr Sarikaya faced multiple reports that he had formerly been bankrupt.
Daily Mail
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Trumpet of Patriots are dealt humiliating blow after bombarding Aussies with spam texts in multi-million dollar election campaign
Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots have suffered a brutal defeat at the federal election despite spending millions of dollars on campaigning. The newly named political party picked up just 2.1 per cent of the primary vote nationally by 11pm on Saturday and failed to pick up any seats. Despite the billionaire party founder spending tens of millions on advertising and orchestrating a mass text campaign, the party struggled to win over voters. In NSW, Trumpet of Patriots picked up just 1.9 per cent of the primary vote while in Victoria they performed the weakest out of all the states with just 1.2 per cent of the vote. The party performed the strongest in Queensland with 3.52 per cent of the vote. Suellen Wrightson, the party's leader, received 3.72 per cent of the vote in the Hunter, near the NSW Central Coast, as of 11pm on Saturday. Ms Wrightson's result may not come as too big of a shock as she spent little time campaigning in the electorate. The party leader thanked her fellow Hunter candidates on social media on Saturday evening before locking her Facebook and X accounts. 'To my fellow Hunter candidates, thanks for a respectful & engaging debate about what we need in our community,' she wrote on X. 'One thing we can all agree on is Australia is the best country on earth & our collective future is worth fighting for.' Trumpet of Patriots' candidates performed poorly across the board. In the Sydney electorate of Reid, David Sarikaya received 1.5 per cent of the vote, failing to defeat Labor's Sally Sitou. During the campaign, Mr Sarikaya faced multiple reports that he had formerly been bankrupt. Trumpet of Patriots' aggressive campaigning techniques failed to pay off. Aussies were left furious after being bombarded by text messages from Harry Fong, the party's lead Senate candidate for Queensland. The messages are signed off by Mr Fong, and urge people to 'Vote1 (sic) Trumpet of Patriots'. Social media was flooded with people complaining about the messages last weekend, with the correspondence ramping up at the start of the week. Frustrated Aussies were able to get their own back on Mr Fong after finding the accredited lawyer's mobile phone number online and sharing it on social media. 'His name is Harry Fong and his info is below. He's removed his contact info from his QLD Bar bio but I found a previous one with his mobile and email,' one man posted. 'I've never been so pleased to be a night owl as I am today. Have at him kids, text him and let him know how much you love his spam and feel free to share this post as wide as possible so everyone can reply to his texts!'
Herald Sun
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Herald Sun
Why you keep getting political texts from the Trumpet of Patriots
Don't miss out on the headlines from Federal Election. Followed categories will be added to My News. An influx of unsolicited election texts from the Trumpet of Patriots party has left many voters irritated and confused as to how their data has been sourced. The texts typically include a short policy, a link to the party website – and, notably, no option to opt out of the messages. Frustrated recipients of the texts have taken their grievances to social media, complaining of the 'invasive' and 'disgusting' tactics employed by the political party. Melbourne media personality Jacqui Felgate shared a screenshot to her 414,000 followers on Instagram of the text she had received, prompting more than 700 comments from those who shared her thoughts. 'I do not know why it's a free for all with private numbers this election,' Ms Felgate captioned the post. 'I work in a non-emergency ambulance and we are getting these texts on the truck phone,' one person commented with an angry emoticon. Another person complained they 'blocked and got another today'. Senior economist Saul Eslake also took to social media to reveal his annoyance at the party's texts. 'Why am I getting regular servings of drivel from Harry Fong on behalf of Clive Palmer?' he wrote. 'I haven't signed up to any mailing list of his (or indeed any other political party). 'How did Harry Fong get my number? And why can't I block him, or report as spam, as I can do with all other unsolicited and unwanted texts and phone calls I get on an almost daily basis?' Mr Eslake asked how Mr Fong would feel if his phone was 'inundated with unsolicited text messages every day'. Despite the widespread ire, the Australian Electoral Commission said it had 'no insight' into how political parties obtained mobile phone numbers, except to confirm that the data 'was not provided by the AEC'. 'Political parties are exempt from the Spam Act and the Privacy Act and are able to send unsolicited text messages without an opt out option,' an AEC spokesperson said. 'Any changes to these laws would be a matter for the parliament to consider.' Therefore, given the text messages are not classified as commercial, they do not require consent nor an unsubscribe link and are under no obligation to disclose how they source people's phone numbers. Ultimately, while annoying, the texts are completely legal — and we may never know how our numbers are shared.
