Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, April 07, 2014
Biotech Investing - Finding the Blockbuster That Will Make You Rich / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: In the pharmaceutical industry, a "blockbuster" is any drug that brings in $1 billion or more in revenue per year.
It's the prize that every biotech hopes to win - and every biotech investor hopes to cash in on.
So how do you spot one in the making? If the market suspects a drug candidate has blockbuster potential, catalysts (events like positive clinical study results and regulatory milestones) will give its manufacturer's share price a big, big boost.
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Thursday, April 03, 2014
What the Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Stock Split Means for Investors / Companies / Google
By: Money_Morning
Kyle Anderson writes: The Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) stock split happens tomorrow (Wednesday, April 2), meaning Google shareholders of record as of March 27 will own two shares tomorrow for every share they own today.
Following the split, Google will have twice as many shares outstanding than it currently does. Google's "Class A" shares will trade under the ticker GOOGL, while the company's "Class C" shares will remain on the company's current ticker GOOG.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014
The Best Stock Investing Play in a Trillion-Dollar Market / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: In the go-go 1980s - back when the hit movie Wall Street told us that "Greed Is Good" -Carl Icahn was known as a "corporate raider"... and was revered for his windfall-producing decisiveness.
Icahn is still around. And he's still active. Only now - in the politically correct 2000s - he's known as an "activist investor" who's gone up against the likes of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY).
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Do Fundamentals and Technical Analysis Still Matter? / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
Mohammad Zulfiqar writes: Over the weekend, I met with a friend of mine. He’s been a stock market investor for some time now, and over the last few years—especially since 2012 and 2013—he has done phenomenally well when it comes to his portfolio performance.
While talking to him about markets, he said something very interesting. His exact words were, “If you are investing in the stock market using fundamental or technical analysis these days, you are most likely going to lose money—or your returns will be dismal. The basics principles of investing hardly apply these days.”
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Alibaba IPO Is Going to be Huge / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Kyle Anderson writes: There's still no official date set for the Alibaba IPO, but that hasn't stopped analysts and investors from speculating about the size of the company's initial public offering.
Alibaba IPOAccording to some analysts, the Alibaba IPO could raise almost as much as Facebook Inc.'s (Nasdaq: FB) 2012IPO, which raised $16 billion.
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Friday, March 28, 2014
How to Cash In Big on Russia’s Tech Stocks Market / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: There's an old French proverb that says: Achetez aux canons, vendez aux clarions. That's "buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets."
As a dyed-in-the-wool Contrarian investor, I'm a firm believer in the precept. In fact, back in the late 1990s, when New York money manager Anthony M. Gallea and I penned our book Contrarian Investing: Buy and Sell When Others Won't and Make Money Doing It, one of the opening lines was "Gloom makes us glad."
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Global Middle-Class Growth Boosting These Stocks Worldwide / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: The current drama surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been riveting and indicative of how the superlative growth in travel in the airline sector has encompassed Asia along with the world.
For years now, since the recession hit in 2008, I have been increasingly bullish on the airline sector across the globe, but especially in the emerging markets like China, India, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Helping to drive up the demand for travel in the airline sector has been the upward push in wealth creation in many of these regions, which has given more people the ability to afford air travel.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Apple Stock Price Setting Up For a Big Pop or Hard Drop / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Joseph_Russo
A quick technical heads up for Apple traders and investors
Following its 45% fall from grace last year, Apple has been on the rebound since printing its 385.10 low in April 2013. Since then, despite rallying more than 38%, and retracing nearly 62% of its bearish decline, the stock price remains almost 200-pts away from its all time high.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Berkshire Hathaway: The Insurance Float & Intrinsic Value / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Rory_Gillen
Warren Buffett often says that he considers Berkshire Hathaway’s balance sheet value (or net asset value) to be just a convenient proxy for the intrinsic value of Berkshire’s shares, but that their intrinsic value is a good deal higher. Here, we explain what Buffett means by this statement, we provide a range estimate for their intrinsic value and we place into context Berkshire’s 2012 commitment to buy back shares at a 20% premium to net asset value (book value).
Monday, March 17, 2014
Wells Fargo “Too Big to Fail” Bank Is Going Down / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Last week I told you about “The Coming Curse of Zombie Foreclosures.”
I described how folks – who thought they were foreclosed on – are suddenly finding out they are actually still on the hook for mortgage payments, taxes, and all kinds of maintenance on abandoned homes.
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Investors Big-Time Profit Play For a Scary Stock Market / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: U.S. blue chips suffered their biggest drop in five weeks yesterday and are down nearly 3% so far this year because the latest round of economic reports are fostering a lot of uncertainty about the prospects for continued global growth.
For most investors, it’s been that kind of year.
But I continue to believe that the tech sector – especially here in the U.S. – still has a lot of fuel left in its tank.
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Corporate Capex Fallacies and Why You Shouldn’t Rely on CNBC / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: F_F_Wiley
We get experts on everything that sound like they’re scientific experts … They’ll sit at a typewriter and make up all this stuff as if it’s science and then become an expert … Now, I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things. But I don’t think I’m wrong. You see I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something … how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something. And therefore, I see how they get their information and I can’t believe that they know it. They haven’t done the work necessary. They haven’t done the checks necessary. They haven’t done the care necessary … and they’re intimidating people. -Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Thursday, March 13, 2014
How to Profit Now from Canada's Overlooked Tech Market / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Many investors think of Canada as the land of mining stocks, and not without good reason.
It's resource-rich and home to a legion of mining firms that produce everything from gold and silver to iron ore. Canada ranks among the world's top five producers of 14 mineral commodities and is the world leader in the production of potash and uranium.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Investors Grab These Shares… Before Google Does / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes:As I've mentioned many times in Private Briefing, resident technology expert Michael Robinson and I talk by telephone at least once every day - and often two or three times.
On more than one occasion, in fact, Michael has joked that we could save a lot of time if we were capable of the "Vulcan Mind Meld" technique that Mr. Spock regularly used in the classic sci-fi TV show Star Trek.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Staples Store Closings Part of an Ugly Retail Sector Trend / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: The news that Staples Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) plans to close 225 stores illustrates a grim trend in retail that will accelerate over the next couple of years.
The store closings are expected to save Staples $500 million by the end of 2015 and represent 12% of the office supply chain's 1,846 North American stores.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
How to Play the Surging Uranium Bull / Companies / Uranium
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: Back in November we took a close look at the uranium market.
That's because the end of a 20-year milestone agreement was fast approaching...
From 1993 to 2013, the Megatons to Megawatts program saw highly enriched uranium from 20,000 Russian warheads converted into nuclear fuel, supplying American utilities.
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Saturday, March 08, 2014
Why This Tech Stocks Merger Means Huge Profits / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: My smartphone plays a vital role in my life.
And I’ll bet the same is true for you.
My two teenaged daughters are active in school, and have busy social lives. My wife is a successful professional. And with my own frenetic schedule – headlined by the work I do here for you – the text messages I send and receive using my Apple iPhone are often my only link to family and friends.
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Thursday, March 06, 2014
Apple and Tesla Motors Might Have a Secret Plan / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: now appears that rumors Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) had an acquisitive eye on Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) were just that - rumors.
But the two companies have been talking, and almost surely about the planned Tesla Gigafactory, an enormous rechargeable battery production plant projected to open in 2017 and cost at least $5 billion.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Cyprus - The Time of Maximum Pessimism Is the Best Time to Buy / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno
“The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.”—Sir John Templeton
As you may have heard, Doug Casey and I traveled to Cyprus in search of crisis-driven bargains… and we found them. This has been previously outlined in the articles here and in our specific investment picks in Crisis Investing in Cyprus.
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Monday, March 03, 2014
Should You Invest in the Marijuana Boom? / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Dan Steinhart, Managing Editor, The Casey Report
I was planning to explore the investment landscape of the burgeoning marijuana industry today, but it looks like the party’s already over.
Appearing before the Maryland Legislature, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop testified that 37 people died in Colorado on the first day of legalization from overdosing on marijuana.
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