Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Moore's Law on Wheels - Your Car the Next Big Cyber Weapon? / Companies / Cyber War
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Since launching Private Briefing back in August 2011, we've been chronicling the escalating potential for cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism. And with the cyber-assaults that China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) have been launching against America over the last year or so, it's a story that we've been following with an increasing amount of attention.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Apple AAPL Stock Price to Test Key Near-Term Resistance / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
From a near-term P&F perspective, although Apple Inc. (AAPL) remains confined within a sideways range between 528 and 514, the price structure is clawing its way towards a confrontation with the top of the range.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Forget Gold... This is the World's Most Powerful Inflation Protection / Companies / Investing 2013
By: DailyWealth
Dr. David Eifrig writes: What I'm about to say might anger you...
But if you're holding gold as your only hedge against inflation... you're likely making a big mistake.
Many folks believe this common "myth" about gold: As the price of everyday goods we buy rises, the price of gold will increase in lockstep.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Deliver or Die: Financial Survival Challenges for Today’s Junior Oil Companies / Companies / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Long gone are the days of easy money, so it seems. Junior energy companies are finding today’s capital to be more expensive and harder to access.
In the current market, juniors are fighting an ongoing battle just to balance sustainable growth, manage debt, and to compete with peers for dollars that just aren’t there. When assessing a junior, one must look at how they put their budgets together and maintain them if they’re to survive out there in the wild.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
This Is My Favorite Kind of Money / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Money_Morning
Robert Hsu writes: My favorite kind of money does three things.
First, it grows. And it keeps growing every single year - by double digits.
Second, and unlike most corporate profits, it only gets taxed once.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Tesla Motors - What's Next? / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Kyle Anderson writes: Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) has seen a meteoric rise of 410% since the start of 2013, and the electric automaker is set to announce its third-quarter earnings tomorrow (Tuesday) after market close. TSLA climbed 8% today to $175.18 ahead of the report.
Analysts predict earnings of $0.11 per share for the electric automobile manufacturer. The California-based company suffered an earnings loss of $0.92 per share in the third quarter of 2012.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
Twitter Bubble Price Crash? An Ad Per Tweet Solution? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Twitter that has yet to make a single dime of profit was floated Thursday on the NYSE at $26 per share and immediately saw its stock price soar to close up 73% on the day at $44.90, valuing the company at more than $24 billion.
The obvious comparison for what could happen next to the Twitter's stock price is the Facebook example, which peaked on its IPO day as many rushed to bet heavily on one of the social networking backbones of the internet, dreaming of monetizing on its then 900 million users.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
Why Does JPMorgan Still Have A Banking License? / Companies / Banksters
By: Raul_I_Meijer
I was, well, still am, reading up on the latest developments in the wonderful world of Libor, and the name JPMorgan pops up a lot in connection with all that. There's of course the recent -probably still tentative - $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department. Seeing all the separate cases that have either been settled or are under active investigation in which JP Morgan is mentioned, along with a couple small lists in the WaPo And HuffPo, I figured it might be a good idea to make a more complete list (though I have no doubt I could make it twice as long) of actually investigated cases America's largest bank is a part of.
Friday, November 08, 2013
Rising Number of Americans See China as Dominant World Power in 2020 / Companies / China Stocks
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: Over the past year, I have heard a lot about how the Chinese real estate market was in a bubble and ready to collapse, similar to the state of the U.S. real estate market in 2008.
Anti-Chinese real estate pundits were saying to sell. “Chinese companies are crooks,” was a common theme and the communist regime there was not to be trusted by anyone, especially Americans, according to these talking heads.
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
Time to Buy Former Retailing Darling Tesco / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
Analyzing a company is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that you bought at a garage sale — some pieces will always be missing. No matter how hard you try, you’ll never have a complete picture. But the beauty of investing is that to succeed you don’t need all the pieces, just enough to see what the picture is trying to tell you.
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Starbucks Solid Growth Stock Expected to Keep Ticking Higher into 2014 / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Profit_Confidential
Mitchell Clark writes:
If volatility is the name of the game with stocks right now, consistency of performance is a very attractive asset.
Over the last several years, few companies have been able to deliver consistently rising financial metrics like Starbucks Corporation (SBUX).
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Explaining Amazon's Stock Price Performance / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Charles_Carnevale
Amazon (AMZN) is a stock that seems to defy conventional wisdom about how a stock is, or should be, valued. Fundamental investors, like yours truly, recognize and respect the importance of the earnings and price relationship. Moreover, I will be so bold as to emphatically state that in the long run profitability (earnings) will be the primary determinant of a businesses' fair value, any business. However, my bold statement is predicated on the longer run. In the short run it is often a truth that all bets are off.
This leads me to a few words about market efficiency. Academics supportive of modern finance theory argue for an efficient market hypothesis (EMH). Investopedia offers the following definition of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (emphasis added mine):
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Friday, November 01, 2013
RBS Fake Internal Bad Bank For Engineering Artificial Profits Bonuses on Asset Writedown's and Privatisation / Companies / Banksters
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Today's announcement by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) that has seen its senior staff apparently been sat twiddling their thumbs for the past 5 years whilst collecting bonuses on the basis of fictitious profits are finally to get around to dealing with the banks bad debts by ring fence its worst performing assets / bad debts amounting to £38 billion in an INTERNAL bad bank which on face value goes against the wishes of last governor of the Bank of England who just wanted ALL of the bad toxic sludge to be dumped onto tax payers.
Friday, November 01, 2013
Why Facebook Stock is a Dead End Investment / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: I've made no bones about my feelings for Facebook Inc (Nasdaq: FB) - that it's overrated, a flash in the pan, and ultimately doomed.
Yes, the company just knocked the ball off earnings yesterday. And the stock is up 4.86% as I write this. But I really couldn't care less what happens in the short term. I still can't get behind its long-term potential.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
4D Printing Profit Potential Makes Me Drool / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: After more than 30 years in the markets, I've seen all kinds of new technologies that are supposed to change the world. Most are pumped by little-known companies with overly hyped marketing, aggressive underwriters, and little more than vaporware. To say I'm jaded would be an understatement.
But I ran across something recently that positively made my mouth drop.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
My Six Favorite Growing Dividend Paying Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Profit_Confidential
Mitchell Clark, B.Comm writes: The stock market typically reacts quite positively when a company beats Wall Street consensus. But in a considerable number of cases, a company’s share price after-earnings bounce isn’t really warranted, considering the run-up in anticipation.
Many stocks go up in value after beating expectations, but many numbers this quarter actually reveal a contraction in business conditions.
Monday, October 28, 2013
What Caterpillar’s Big Drop in Earnings Means for the General Stock Market / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: With the S&P 500 hovering around its all-time highs, I think it’s quite interesting to read some of the latest corporate earnings reports and get a sense of what’s really happening in the global economy.
One of the most international companies within the S&P 500 is Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE/CAT). The firm recently released its third-quarter 2013 corporate earnings report, in which the firm poured some cold water on expectations. Revenue during the quarter was down 18% year-over-year, and corporate earnings were down 44% year-over-year. (Source: Caterpillar Inc., October 23, 2013.)
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Corporate Earnings Leadership Emerging in These Transport Stocks / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Profit_Confidential
Mitchell Clark, B.Comm writes: As more and more companies report, it’s apparent that quite a few are beating Wall Street consensus (usually either on revenues or earnings, rather than both), and it’s happening in industries where you want to see leadership.
What Wall Street consensus actually becomes is typically a well-managed dance between sell-side analysts and a company’s chief financial officer. Consensus estimates generally don’t mean very much in the way of real economic growth, which makes it all the more significant when you do see real growth.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Three Bullish ETFs for an Increasingly Optimistic Eurozone / Companies / European Stock Markets
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: Despite Congress miraculously pulling the U.S. back from the brink of destruction by temporarily raising the debt ceiling and ending the U.S. government shutdown, Americans continue to be a pessimistic bunch. But can you blame us?
According to Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index, consumer sentiment remains in negative territory. After falling to -39 during the recent standoff in Washington, U.S. economic confidence has improved to -36. To use the term “improved” is being generous; in late May, the index was at -3. (Source: “U.S. Economic Confidence Index [Weekly],” Gallup web site, October 14, 2013.)
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Friday, October 25, 2013
JPMorgan Pays Another Record Fine - What Next? / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: The $13 billion settlement between JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and the federal government shocked markets this week, as the fines would be a record paid by a Wall Street institution.
According to reports, the sum will amount to approximately half of the company's 2012 profits.
The JPM settlement is another black eye for the company and its weathered Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jamie Dimon, who had emerged from the financial crisis as a pseudo cult figure with Teflon status.
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