Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Facebook's Big Reveal is a Big Let Down - Graph Search Not Good Enough to Help Stock / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes: The excitement Tuesday among Facebook stock (Nasdaq: FB) investors and industry followers over the company's mysterious event was quickly doused after the social networking giant announced the launch of a Facebook graph search - a kind of closed social search engine.
Immediately following the statement from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the hyped media event at FB headquarters, shares of Facebook stock slipped more than 1% on extremely heavy volume. The news was a disappointment to many who had been hoping for something bigger, flashier and more tangible, like a Facebook phone.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Why The Uranium Sector Is Heating Up With Mergers and Acquisitions / Companies / Uranium
By: Jeb_Handwerger
At the end of 2012 I was interviewed on uranium and indicated to investors to accumulate as the uranium miners and the uranium price hit three year lows. The pullback in uranium miners and price coming into the year end was a potential buying opportunity as they reached important support levels historically indicative of a bullish reversal.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Why Apple Stock Faces Strong Headwinds / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: Have you seen the share price of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) lately? Since it traded at its record high of $705.07 on September 21, 2012, it has been a mess. Faced by rising competition, better products, and superior pricing, Apple has seen its price shaved by about 28.0% in what has been a trend reversal to the bearish side, according to my technical analysis. Apple is on the verge of breaking below $500.00, a move that was last encountered on February 16, 2012.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Who is Warren Buffett?, The Graham-Buffett Investing Strategy / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Submissions
J. Royden Ward writes: Warren Buffett is my hero. In my mind, he is the best investor ever. If you had invested in one share of his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) 25 years ago when it sold for a mere $3,030 per share, your one share would now be worth $143,000 today. The increase works out to a compound annual growth rate of 16.7%. You would have doubled your investment every four and a half years!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
How Far Will Apple Stock Price Fall? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: PhilStockWorld
I had to commit to AAPL as our "One Trade" for 2013. I didn't want to do it but there wasn't a stock I felt more sure about beating the market over the next 12 months. The icing on the cake was the drop to $485 (even as I write this, I can't believe the price) on the same afternoon I was scheduled to be on BNN to announce the trade (see full interview and all 3 trade ideas here).
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
iPhone Becomes Apple Stock's Big Vulnerability / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: We hear one tidbit of bad news about Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) cutting orders for iPhone 5 components and - boom! - Apple stock drops more than 6%.
The reason for the stark cause-and-effect on Apple stock is that the iPhone contributes about 53% of Apple's vast revenue. [In fact, were the iPhone a standalone company, it would rank 29th in the Fortune 500.]
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Helium Filled Hard Drives Could Turn Western Digital Into a Big Winner / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: With the commodities boom still in full swing you are probably aware the advantages of owning stocks related to gold, silver or other hard assets.
But when was the last time you heard someone extolling the investment virtues of helium?
And I'm not talking about helium as most folks think of it - in those giant (and comically overpriced) party balloons.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
BioTech Bull Market's Next 1,000%-Plus Move Starts Now / Companies / BioTech
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Biotech stocks have an incredible history of delivering quadruple-digit runs about once a decade...
It's stunning, really. In the late 1980s, biotech stocks took off, returning 3,246% in just a couple years. In the late 1990s, biotech stocks took off again, returning 1,523% in an even shorter period of time.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Shiller PE Ratio Continues to Mislead Investors, S&P 500 Is Fairly Valued Early 2013 / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Charles_Carnevale
Allow me to start this article by emphatically stating that I have a real problem with forecasting stock markets in the general sense. Instead, I prefer to forecast the intrinsic values of individual businesses based on their earnings justified fundamental values. I hold this position because I believe that it is not only possible, but also quite practical to analyze a specific business and then make an intelligent forecast (not a guess) but a rational estimation, based on the assimilation of fundamental facts, as to its past, present and future intrinsic value. Importantly, I’m not suggesting this can be done with absolute perfect precision down to the precise penny, rather I am suggesting it can be done within a reasonable range of rational probabilities.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Bank Stocks at Crucial Crossroads 2013 / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Last year was a great year to be an investor in bank stocks. We’ve seen a dramatic rebound in the price of most major bank stocks in America as the earnings outlook has improved. Clearly, the earnings outlook at the beginning of last year was far too pessimistic for the majority of bank stocks.
The question: what’s in store for bank stocks in 2013?
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Why Apple Stock Needs to Refocus Its Energy / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Profit_Confidential
George Leong Writes: The share price of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) has been on a steady decline since trading at $705.07 on September 21, 2012. There are questions swirling around regarding the ability of Apple CEO Timothy Cook to deliver the superlative revenue growth traders have been accustomed to in the past. But with the rise of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and “Android”-based phones and tablets, the competitive environment has tightened; Apple will need a “Plan B,” according to my stock analysis.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Q4 Corporate Earnings Season: Stocks Likely to Disappoint / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Ben Gersten writes: The Q4 earnings season has started off on an unexpectedly good note.
Both Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) last week reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat estimates.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
AAPL - An Apple a Day May Not Keep Losses Away In 2013 / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Michael_Noonan
We deviate from our coverage of the futures markets to take a look at this popular stock. As we often say: A chart is a chart, composed of price, volume, and time. While fundamentals may be more prevalent in stocks, from an analysis perspective, they can be very subjective, depending upon how they are presented. The reason we view any analysis only from price, volume, and time, is that the charts reflect all the best fundamental views that are translated into buy/sell activity. Charts also include all the worst possible points of view, for they, too, are an integral part of the price/volume relationship.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Investing 2013 - Four Safe Banking Stocks You Can Buy Right Now / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Between the financial crash of 2008 and the Eurozone debt crisis, big Western banks have turned into pretty dodgy investments.
I'm talking about the banks that were "too big to fail."
These days the profits of these fine institutions are largely dependent on not writing off too many bad loans or incurring huge fines and lawsuits from various past misdeeds.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
AIG Considering Suing Government Over Bankruptcy Saving Bailout / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Just one month after American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) paid back the last of its huge $182.3 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded rescue, the insurance giant is pondering whether to join a shareholder lawsuit charging the bailout terms were unfair.
Former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg initially filed the lawsuit in 2011, claiming the 14% interest rate that the government charged, as well as the large size of its stake - 92% - were harmful to AIG shareholders.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
The Top Tech Stocks for 2013 / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Investment_U
David Eller writes: January is here and predictions for the coming year are rampant.
There are so many great cutting-edge technology companies and hopes for the next 12 months that it’s easy to lose your discipline and let greed take over.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013
The Era of Radical Change is Here, Tek Stocks for 2013 / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes:
I'm not one for partying. But I am very much into tradition.
And I have one tradition that makes New Year's Eve one of my most favorite days of the year.
You see, every New Year's Eve - before we head out to dinner - my wife and I sit by the fire as I review the paradigm-shifting events and exciting discoveries of the prior 12 months.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Why The Fiscal Cliff Deal is Great News For Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
I wish I had a nickel for every scary story I read about dividend stocks and the fiscal cliff over the last four months.
I heard so many, I could probably take the rest of the year off.
Of course, a funny thing happened on the way to this great apocalypse: dividend stocks are not only alive and well, but stronger than ever.
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Monday, January 07, 2013
Apple Stock Price Forecast to Collapse to $50 Target By 2016 / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: EconMatters
Downtrend still intact
It is official Apple is one weak stock right now. It is supposed to be a tell when the market is up, and your down considerably to the tune of 3%. The Jim Cramer tax selling notion can now be dispelled as well. This is the new year, and for Apple shareholders the misery of the third quarter is repeating itself.
After a bump up with the entire market at the beginning of the year, a 300 point rally can lift a lot of boats; the sellers loved that entry point to reassert this stock on the downtrend it has been on since the 700 dollar level.
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Sunday, January 06, 2013
Corporate Earnings Disaster Setting Stocks Up for a Fall / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: EconMatters
It is ironic that stocks are at five years highs going into what is probably going to be the biggest disappointment of an earning`s season since the 2008 financial crisis. We got a hint of 4th quarter results during the disaster which was the 3rd quarter earning`s season where most companies missed on the revenue side, and those that beat EPS guidance, did so barely, and most of that was created through stock buybacks and creative smoothing techniques.