Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, August 01, 2013
Seven Extraordinary Biotech and Medtech Companies / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Senior Biotechnology Analyst Jason Napodano of Zacks Investment Research specializes in uncovering small biotech and medtech companies with good prospects for successful drug development. He relishes proven management capable of creative financing to move private equity into the public markets, and he does not shy away from tiny companies outside the U.S. that have extraordinary technology. In this wide-ranging interview with The Life Sciences Report, Napodano presents the elegant growth stories of seven small companies that could return magnificent gains to investors.
The Life Sciences Report: Jason, you follow some companies that are not domiciled in the U.S. Are there special considerations or concerns that investors should be aware of before investing in stocks outside U.S. markets?
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Don't Be Fooled by the Media, Boeing Stock is a Buy / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: I was at work here at the office last Monday night when I heard about the Boeing 737 crash at New York's LaGuardia Airport. A nose wheel on the jetliner had apparently given way after a hard touchdown just after 5:30 p.m. (EDT), leading to a crash that injured about eight of the 150 folks on board
"Uh-oh," I thought to myself. "Here comes another feeding frenzy."
You're an exceptionally sharp group of folks, so you know what I'm getting at here.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Investors Look at Health Care Sector Stocks for a Healthier Portfolio / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Charles_Carnevale
The Health Care sector is comprised of many diverse companies, as can be seen from the list of subsectors provided below. Historically the Health Care sector has been comprised of a significant number of companies with above-average growth rates of earnings. Consequently, a majority of the companies comprising the Health Care sector could be thought of as growth stocks over dividend growth stocks.
One of the primary reasons for this was that the sector was benefiting from the tailwinds of the powerful demographic forces of an aging population. Additionally, there were many scientific advances that also provided above-average growth to many companies in this sector. As a result, health care stocks were once considered defensive because they were mostly unaffected by economic weakness.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Is Cell Therapy the 'Future of Medicine'? / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
The pricey evolutionary tradeoff for walking on two legs is the curse of lower back pain. Jason Kolbert of the Maxim Group understands the power of stem cells as disease-modifying therapies for degenerative disc disease of the spine, a leading-edge, multibillion-dollar indication. Kolbert explores the opportunities that cell therapies offer investors in this interview with The Life Sciences Report, and puts a personal spin on their regenerative promise.
The Life Sciences Report: Jason, I wanted to ask you some questions about degenerative disc disease (DDD) and the use of cell therapy to manage the problem. Some people have said that the spine is a hostile environment. Why is it hostile?
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Friday, July 26, 2013
The Fed is Crushing Corporate Investment / Companies / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: U.S. and global companies may be sitting atop piles of cash as the stock market hovers near all-time highs, but total capital expenditures likely will fall over the next two years.
Reductions in capital expenditure in heavy spending commodity sectors, such as energy and mining, will drive down inflation-adjusted spending by 2 percent in 2013 and 5 percent in 2014, according to Standard and Poor's.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Ignore Corporate Earnings Noise to Find the Best Tech Stocks to Buy Now / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: It's been a rocky, uneven earnings season for the tech sector. But if you know where to look amid all the noise and numbers, there are clues that can help you find the best tech stocks to buy now.
Until Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) reported this week, tech stock investors had almost uniformly glum news from the biggest names in the sector.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Whilst Facebook Stock Price Zooms Higher, But Don't Let Earnings Fool You / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) stock is up more than 30% today as investors applaud the second-quarter earnings report released yesterday (Wednesday).
Investors were thrilled to see FB earnings improve from previous disastrous quarters, and their exuberance pushed Facebook stock above $30 a share for the first time since January.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Is Rackspace's Cloud Computing Being Vaporized? / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
David Mamos writes: Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is currently the number two provider of cloud computing. The company has been under the microscope lately as its stock has dropped nearly 45% year-to-date.
But the microscope is not just fixated on Rackspace, it's also focused on the entire cloud computing sector.
This sector is growing rapidly with analysts speculating enthusiastically that the overall cloud market could reach anywhere from $40 billion to $70 billion by 2016 or earlier.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
After Saving My Life, This Technology Will Save Your Retirement / Companies / Mobile Technology
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: The technology I want to tell you about today is one of my best investment ideas.
And not just because it saved my life.
I'm talking about "location-based services," the technology that allows your smartphone to show where you are ... or tell you where you need to go.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Two Cheap Growth Stocks To Buy Now / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Money_Morning
Tim Melvin writes: Many investors know how to take their first profitable step in the search for ideal stocks to buy: Look for extraordinary growth potential selling at a significantly low valuation.
Even with markets up double-digits this year, there are still stocks to buy that are trading at a discount to what they're worth.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Why Companies Aren't Hiring Now / Companies / Employment
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: The stock market was rattled on Tuesday by underperforming manufacturing data.
The Richmond Federal Reserve Index, which measures manufacturing performance in the upper Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, fell to -11 in July, down from a 7 in June. This signals a significant drop in new orders and shipments.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Why Cybersecurity Stocks Are One of the Best Investments You Can Make Right Now / Companies / Cyber War
By: Money_Morning
Tara Clarke writes: or months now, we've been harping to our readers about why cybersecurity is one of the absolute best investments you can get involved with right now.
Now the rest of the financial media is catching on.
This weekend, Barron's profiled cybersecurity investing, detailing why it's one of the hottest sub-sectors of 2013.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
The Best Biotech Stocks for 2013 are Now Within Your Reach / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: Biotech stocks are soaring in 2013 as major innovations in healthcare have offered enormous breakthroughs on once-untreatable diseases and conditions.
But for years, it was tricky to invest in some of today's best biotech companies given their volatility and uncertainty in the industry. For the better part of five years, some of today's leading biotech stocks remained essentially flat.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Google Stock Price Slumps But Outlook Still Bright / Companies / Google
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes: Google Inc. (Nasdaq; GOOG) stock plunged after its earnings report missed estimates.
Thursday after the close, Google's posted Q2 profit of $9.71 billion, or $9.54 a share, up 19% from $8.54 billion, or $8.42 a share, in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue rose to $11.1 billion from $9.61 billion.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Highly Rated High Quality Equity Dividend Income Stocks / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Richard_Shaw
As of 07/18/2013, there are only 6 stocks traded in the US that have these attributes:
- highly rated for fair value
- highly rated for year ahead expected performance
- highly rated for earnings and dividend quality
- yield greater than that of the S&P 500
- paid and increased dividend for at least 5 years
- technical condition is neutral to attractive
Thursday, July 18, 2013
America's Banks Primed for Quantum Dawn 2 / Companies / Cyber War
By: DK_Matai
American Banks -- large and small -- are primed and ready for an elaborate simulated cyber attack today christened "Quantum Dawn 2" that will test how they would manage if teams of hackers unleashed a powerful and co-ordinated attack against them. A successful, widespread attack on the industry would end up shaking confidence in the banking system, and the possibility has banks and regulators more on edge now than ever before.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Goodbye Privacy: Big Data Is Coming to Town / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Just like the Christmas song, "He knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good..."
But nowadays it isn't Santa, it's Big Data. And it's becoming big business.
What can companies do with big data?
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Goldman Sachs Re-Writing History - Fabulous Fab And The Abacus 2007 Story / Companies / Banksters
By: Andrew_McKillop
OPEN HEART HONESTY FROM GOLDMAN SACHS
Goldman Sachs has an army of very smart contract writers, to drag in what Fabrice 'Fabulous Fab' Tourre might well call “les pigeons” in French. The easy hits.
Styled as an ace concocter of financial algorithms, like Abacus 2007, the heads of these creative contract writers are however nearly always close-linked to their really vital parts. The UK Daily Telegraph, 12 July, revealed that: “Emails between Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre and his girlfriend Marine Serres - a mix of pillow talk and fears over the future of the US mortgage market - have been released by Goldman Sachs in a bid to clear its name over US fraud allegations”.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Why Great Stocks Drop Hard and Reverse / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Banister
One thing that will always over rule charts and technical analysis is fundamentals in the long run. To be sure, I love technical analysis but I always combine my work there with fundamental research. I rarely if ever buy a stock just because the chart looks nice, that is almost always a recipe for disaster.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Tech Companies That Will Ride the Mobile Wave to Big Profits / Companies / Mobile Technology
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Companies that make CPU chips - the "brains" inside every kind of computing device - have a fresh catalyst within the mobile wave to help stimulate sales: "ultramobile" products.
Ultramobile is the term that research firm Gartner is using to describe very small and light notebooks, as well as tablet/laptop hybrids like the Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Surface.
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