Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Here’s Why Microsoft Stock Is Poised to Bounce Back / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Last week’s second-quarter earnings report from Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) disappointed Wall Street and plenty of other investors – and they punished the company by slashing its share price by 10% in one day, on Jan. 26.
However, that just makes the Microsoft story – which I began two weeks ago – more interesting.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
The 3 Big Reasons My Apple Stock Price Prediction Is Still Coming True / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) just reported the biggest quarterly profit ever for a public company – $18 billion in net income over the last three months of 2014. And CEO Tim Cook says his company made a “staggering” number of iPhone sales during that time – 74.5 million.
And already a lot of folks in the media and on Wall Street are asking this question: What’s next?
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Why Microsoft Stock Will Provide Major Investing Returns / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: On January 26, software giant Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced a disappointing quarter that sent Microsoft stock reeling by 10% on three times its normal trading volume.
It was the second major technology "miss" Wall Street had to digest in the last week's time, coming after a disastrous earnings release by IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM).
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
“Backup-Camera Envy” Is Driving This Unstoppaple Investment Trend / Companies / Technology
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Today is a good day to remind ourselves that we should always be in the stock market.
The markets remain the single best place to tap into the ongoing innovations in technology and the relentless growth that they create. And there are strategies we have at our disposal that we can use to safely capture some of that growth – and the wealth we all desire.
Today we’re going to head to the heart of the global auto industry to use Rule No. 3 – “Ride the unstoppable trends.” While we’re staying in the United States on this trip, we’re not traveling to Detroit.
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Monday, January 26, 2015
IBM Stock Is Taking Yet Another Hit / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: In late October, I warned investors to avoid International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) stock.
At that time, IBM stock was trading around $162 per share. Today it is trading at a shade under $158 per share, and could be heading much lower.
"Big Blue's" transition, or perhaps we can call it "turnaround," is at best stalling, and at worst, setting investors up for more disappointment as evidenced by its fourth-quarter (2014) earnings report.
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Best Way to Invest in the Next Alibaba Internet Stock IPO / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Think back to last fall.
No other business story took up more column inches and more TV time than the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) initial public offering (IPO).
The Alibaba IPO remained the world’s top business story for months on end because of the immense amount of wealth it drew in and then created.
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Outpatient Surgery Business Rains Cash into Healthcare Stocks / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: TLSReport
Nobilis Health Corp. has invented a genuine recipe for success: Provide outpatient surgical services with high profit margins and saturate a local consumer health market with advertising. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Nobilis' president Harry Fleming explains exactly how his booming firm's business model works—and why investors should take note of the new kid on the block.
Management Q&A: View From the Top
The Life Sciences Report: Tell us a little bit about the financial history of Nobilis Health Corp. (TSE:NHC).
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Saturday, January 24, 2015
Target Stock Canada's Failure Threatens American Investors / Companies / Retail Sector
By: Money_Morning
Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) had one chance to make a good first impression in Canada… and blew it. And Target stock may soon feel the effects.
I know because I saw it clearly for myself.
While that may sound harsh, it's the reality of what happened.
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
166 Trillion Reasons Why Bank Stocks Are So Cheap / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: My continuing search for sectors of the stock market that are trading cheaply and offer the potential for gain has led me to a controversial slice of the market: bank stocks.
Looking at the "Big Four" in the U.S. banking sector, it's easy to conclude that the sector is undervalued…
But that conclusion may be a bit misleading.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Solar Power is at a Tipping Point (The Upshot is Massive Profits) / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: I have spent years tracking dozens of promising renewable energy companies.
And while the potential of these groundbreaking companies has always been tempting, there have always been limitations holding them back.
New projects require intensive amounts of working capital to make them fully compatible with traditional methods of generating power, and there’s the widely held assumption that renewables can’t survive absent government subsidies and benefits.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Legal “Steroids” Are Making This Tech Stock a “Buy” / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Technology companies are a lot like major-league sports stars in that they often post their best results early in their careers.
Athletes’ bodies wear out, and they can compete at the highest levels for only so many years.
With high-tech corporations, however, the challenge isn’t age or health. It’s that there’s always a group of young start-ups with hot innovations breathing down the Old Guard’s necks.
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Monday, January 19, 2015
UBS Fine - Nothing but a Limp Reprimand / Companies / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Policing Wall Street is hard work.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the undisputed top cop on the Street beat, has its work cut out for it. The enforcers at the SEC have to juggle what and whom they go after because, after all, they don’t have unlimited resources.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
When a Trend Shifts Like This, Investors Can Get Rich / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Did you see the investing opportunity in the Golden Globe Awards last Sunday?
Not many investors did. It was easy to miss.
It wasn’t the dazzling fashion on the red carpet or the celebrities congratulating each other. What really struck me was a huge signal for money-making in our Technology trend.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
Why Renewable Energy Is Attracting the Smart Money / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: While everyone's been fixated on oil, renewable energy has been gathering some serious steam.
Led by solar power, worldwide capital investment in "clean" energy surged by more than 16% last year.
In fact, spending on renewable energy was so strong in 2014, some have begun to label the recent rush into renewables as a "turning point" in the energy balance.
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
CAT to Follow Crude Oil Price to $40.00? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Joseph_Russo
Is it reasonable to assume that so goes Crude Oil, so goes Caterpillar? Perhaps it is, or perhaps not, but the price charts of these two economic giants do show a fair degree of correlation.
Some Motley Fools I know think there may be some fundamental correlations as well.
Interestingly, both properties share downside price targets of $40.00 dollars. The major difference is that Crude is very much leading the way with a recent print low of $44.78 per barrel, which is not too far from our technical target.
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Rough Week For Stock Bulls But No Thrust Down Yet.... / Companies / Stock Markets 2015
By: Jack_Steiman
It wasn't a good week for the bulls, but if we look back on this market as to whenever it corrects, it seems about 5% is mostly the normal drop. That's just what we got from the top many weeks back at the old highs on the S&P 500. Basically, it was a one hundred point move lower, or 5%. Let's face it, that's not even selling when you think of the risk this environment holds based on all the troubles it's facing from horrific monthly charts to froth, etc. We had a major breakdown through the diagonals on all the key-index daily charts, but there has been absolutely no real follow-through to this point.
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
You Won’t Believe Where They’re Building 80% of the World’s PC Chips / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: This year, 80% of the chips for new PCs will be produced in Silicon Valley… Taiwan… China‘s Shenzhen Province… South Korea…
Wrong on all counts.
More and more of today’s chipmakers locating their manufacturing facilities a bit off the beaten path these days – in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies… and a nation that some of you may find controversial.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Ackman: "We did look at Tesco, I’ll have to admit that" / Companies / Tesco
By: Bloomberg
Bill Ackman , Founder and CEO of Pershing Square, discussed taking Pershing Square Holdings public and U.K. companies he was considering with Bloomberg TV's Francine Lacqua and Guy Johnson today. He said oil's drop is a "huge boon" to the U.S. consumer and helps "the vast majority" of the economy.
Ackman revealed he considered investing in Tesco in the last six months: "We did look at Tesco, I'll have to admit that. But we've had our difficulties with retail and a lot of structural changes going on that make that a more difficult business. We look occasionally at companies in the U.K.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Why the 'Big Money' Still Believes in Auto Stocks / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: U.S. auto sales were up big in 2014 and are expected to stay strong in 2015:
Oil prices have collapsed and are expected to stay low, fueling demand for pickup trucks, SUVs and RVs…
The average age of the U.S. auto fleet is at a record high 11.4 years while the average age of a full-size pickup truck is an even older 12.5 years according to industry analysts Polk….
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Monday, January 12, 2015
JPMorgan Is the Latest Target on Goldman Sachs’ “Hit List” / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: This may be old news, but as far as history goes, a lot of us forget it.
And you know what happens then – we’re doomed to repeat it.
What I like about people forgetting history are the trading and investing opportunities that pop up when I can see the past coming back to haunt us before others do.
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