Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Monday, March 26, 2012
How to Buy Foreign Market Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
Don Miller writes: There's nothing better than buying stocks with strong upside and getting paid with cold, hard cash.
It's true here in the United States and in foreign markets all around the world.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
How to Earn a 9.25% in 30 days While Waiting for Apple's Dividend / Companies / Options & Warrants
Larry D. Spears writes: Although it's been one of the market's darlings for a decade now, dividend-oriented investors have long shunned computer giant Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) because, well ... it didn't pay one.
That, coupled with AAPL's historically high share price, has always kept me from buying Apple stock - but, as a trader, it hasn't kept me from generating income with Apple options.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Apple Stock Price Parabolic Move Compared to Past Parabolic Trends / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
In the first chart below I have included a weekly chart of the Nasdaq 100. Beginning at the 4-year cycle low that occurred in October 1998, we can see that price rose sharply into February 1999. In fact, in that 4 month period this index moved from a low of 1,063.74 up to 2,150.83. This was a 102% advance in only 4 months. As we moved into October of 1999 this advance was much more modest, but still managed to advance another 400 points during this time period and in doing so the Nasdaq 100 had advanced 143% in a mere 12 months. As this move received more and more attention more and more people jumped on the bandwagon with the hottest tech stock. As a result, a bubble began to form. From the October low at 2,299.95 the Nasdaq then advanced another 2,516. 39 points over the next 5 months. It was at this point that the advance went parabolic and in some 17 months the Nasdaq 100 had altogether advanced from the 1998 4-year cycle low at 1,063.74 into the March 2000 high at 4,816.34 for a total advance of 352.77%. From that high the Nasdaq 100 fell back to 795.25, which totally erased the entire move up from the 1998 4-year cycle low in which the dot-com bubble began and I still remember people talking about the tech stocks and why tech was back at the 2002 bottom. To date the Nasdaq 100 is still off of its high by some 40%.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
How to Pick Winning Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
Don Miller writes: Do you need more income? Join the crowd.
It seems everyone is scouring the landscape these days for decent income investments to beef up their monthly take-home - especially now with the price of gas and other everyday items skyrocketing.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
How Savvy Investors Build True Wealth / Companies / Investing 2012
Keith Fitz-Gerald, writes: Most investors think of time as an enemy, a predator that stalks them all of their lives. They never feel they have enough of it so they are constantly trying to outwit it.
Trying to beat time, they become irrational and make unpredictable, impulsive decisions to "get ahead" or hit the proverbial "home run."
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Truth About Corporate Earnings and How They Drive Stock Values and Shareholder Returns / Companies / Corporate Earnings
I want to start this article out with the positioning statement, that I am a fundamental investor, and that I believe in conducting a comprehensive fundamental evaluation on any Company (common stock) that I buy, or for that matter, hold or sell. My own personal core investing philosophy is about investing in businesses and not the stock market. Consequently, it is only through a comprehensive analysis of the company’s fundamentals that the investment merits of an operating business can be analyzed and evaluated.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Apples Do Fall From The Trees, Now Not the time to Buy AAPL or Silver / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Question we are pondering today is whether or not investors do learn from their prior mistakes. Small children learn lessons, such as not to touch the hot stove again. They remember that lesson all of their lives. Humans spend a considerable part of their lives learning and remembering such lessons. However, when some well learned children grow into investors they seem to develop a mental block that prevents learning. Chart below of the price of Apple's stock over the past year suggests that something, perhaps it is greed, has interfered again with the learning process. Trees do not grow to the sky, and apples do ultimately fall from the trees.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Cameco and UEC Poised to Profit from a Nuclear Renaissance / Companies / Uranium
Jason Simpkins writes: Uranium stocks got hammered last year in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
But now, roughly one year later, uranium mining stocks have finally begun to bounce back... just like we told you they would.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Germany Set to Invest $260 Billion in a Renewable Revolution / Companies / Renewable Energy
Dr. Kent Moors writes: The moment Germany announced its highly publicized decision to phase out nuclear energy in the wake of the Japanese triple disaster; observers began to ask one very important question.
Just what energy source would replace such a huge swath of power in Europe's dominant economy?
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
New Apple Dividend Will Help Push Share Prices Higher / Companies / Dividends
David Zeiler writes: A new Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) dividend will make the stock even more attractive while expanding the pool of potential investors.
Apple announced Monday that starting in September, it will pay a $2.65 quarterly dividend.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Here is What's Wrong With Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) / Companies / Banking Stocks
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: If you have a mortgage with Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and want to refinance, don't bother.
You are not worth the bank's time. Or at least I wasn't.
That's what I learned first-hand last week when I called Bank of America to refinance a home mortgage I've had with them for years.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Higher Bank Dividend Payments Would Relieve Shareholder Stress / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: The real winner in last week's bank stress tests should have been the shareholders.
But after the stress test results on 19 top financial institutions were announced last week and all but four of them passed, shareholders with bank dividends were left wanting more.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Growth in Google's Android Pays Off for InvenSense / Companies / Tech Stocks
David Zeiler writes: The exploding number of Google Android devices has become a cash machine for microchip maker InvenSense Inc. (NYSE: INVN).
InvenSense makes the tiny motion sensors used in 70% of Android phones and 90% of motion-sensing Android tablets.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
iRobot's Timing Couldn't Be Better For Investors / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael Robinson writes: iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) made the right decision.
And the Pentagon just proved it.
The small-cap robotics leader knows only too well it needs to increase its private sector sales as America works to cut defense spending.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Apple Stock Market Investors Forgetting the Past / Companies / Tech Stocks
Life is good. Today, Apple's new Ipad went on sale, and yesterday, March 15th, its stock topped $600 a share. The company's market size is larger than the entire US retail sector, Exxon (formerly America's most valuable company), all 526 NFL franchises, or the total of the cash holdings of the US government (app $73 billion). There is even talk, that since the company has moved past half a trillion in market size, climbing from $500 a share to $600 a share in only 24 trading days, maybe it is not so outrageous to think that the stock could hit $1 trillion in market size.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Tech Stocks Soar on "Off the Charts" Demand for Apple Products / Companies / Tech Stocks
Don Miller writes: If you're invested in technology stocks, you've had a great ride lately.
With demand for Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) products soaring, tech stocks will continue to do well.
Tech stocks have posted a whopping 16% return in 2012, the top performing sector in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. By comparison, the broader market has notched just a 9% gain year-to-date (YTD).
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Friday, March 16, 2012
The Real Truth About Goldman Sachs... / Companies / Banking Stocks
Shah Gilani writes: By now you've heard about Greg Smith.
He's the former executive director of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) who pulled a Jerry Maguire on Wednesday while resigning from the illustrious Vampire Squid.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Hecla Mining Co.'s Silver Moment / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
Jack Barnes writes: Shares of Hecla Mining Co. (NYSE:HL) have been beaten up during what should be extremely bullish conditions for the largest silver miner in the United States.
I think that presents some value for investors willing to take a contrarian view.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Goldman Sachs: Greed Is Good / Companies / Banking Stocks
Scandal and headlines seem to perpetually follow Goldman Sachs (GS), a firm that's simply doing "God's Work". On Wed. March 14, Goldman's name once again burnt up the Internet, and social media. This time it was from a resignation letter by one of its top executives published as an op-ed at the New York Times.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Three Ways to Profit from Rising Copper Prices in 2012 / Companies / Commodities Trading
MICHAEL ADAMS writes: Global economic uncertainty can create a volatile metals sector and lead some investors to bail on the industry altogether.
But doing so would mean missing the huge profit opportunities from rising copper prices in 2012.
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