Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
An ETF for Latest Boom in Tech Stocks: Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Benjamin_Shepherd
As the broader markets turn in a stellar performance, technology has been far and away one of the hottest sectors. That’s driven a huge 17.5 percent gain in Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLK), just in the first quarter of 2012 alone.
Although highly commoditized, the semiconductor industry has been the top-performing industry group in the Technology Select Sector’s portfolio, with Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), LSI Corp (NYSE: LSI) and Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) all gaining on average about 40 percent so far this year.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Outperform the Stock Market with Covered Call Options / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: Jim_Fink
Today’s rock-bottom interest rates and overpriced financial assets have created a low-return investment world that requires proactive yield-enhancement techniques such as covered calls, to generate the additional investment rate of return needed to retire comfortably.Selling covered calls generates additional income and lowers the break-even cost basis of stock you already own, thus reducing the downside risk of stock ownership at all price points.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Worried that Stock Market is Overbought? Play Defense with Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Elliot_H_Gue
Conventional wisdom holds that consumer staples names such as food and beverage manufacturers are slow-growth stocks that hold up best when the market swoons and lag when equities rally.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
ETF's The Pesky Details of Prospectus Disclosure / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Casey_Research
Vedran Vuk, Casey Research : In the infamous case of the Goldman Sachs Abacus 2007 AC-1 fund, it doesn't take a whole lot to figure out the wrongdoing. Paulson & Co., a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, helped select the mortgage-backed securities held by Abacus while at the same time, Paulson was planning on shorting it. This was all unbeknownst to Abacus buyers, since Goldman Sachs conveniently left out the details of Abacus' creators and their bet against the fund in the investment marketing materials. Ultimately, the case was settled for $550 million.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Investing in Water Stocks: Three Names to Buy Right Now / Companies / Water Sector
By: Money_Morning
Patrick Vail writes:
You've no doubt heard about the building scarcity of water. It's the reason savvy shareholders have been busy investing in water stocks.
Here's why.
Water may be everywhere but only 3% of it is fresh or suitable for drinking. Two-thirds of that is locked in glaciers and polar icecaps, which means less than 1% of the world's fresh water is available for human use.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Is Apple Stock the short of a lifetime or the new widow maker? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
I have a confession to make.
I believe Apple stock (Nasdaq: AAPL) is going to be world's first trillion-dollar company yet I want to short the snot out of it.
Am I being compulsive?...impulsive?....or foolish?
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Monday, March 26, 2012
How to Buy Foreign Market Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Tim_Wood
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%.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
How to Pick Winning Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Charles_Carnevale
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.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Apples Do Fall From The Trees, Now Not the time to Buy AAPL or Silver / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
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.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Cameco and UEC Poised to Profit from a Nuclear Renaissance / Companies / Uranium
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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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