Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Apple Stock Market Investors Forgetting the Past / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Doug_Wakefield
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.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tech Stocks Soar on "Off the Charts" Demand for Apple Products / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: EconMatters
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.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Three Ways to Profit from Rising Copper Prices in 2012 / Companies / Commodities Trading
By: Money_Morning
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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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
How Apple Inc. Became the Vampire Squid of Tech Stocks / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Business partnerships with Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) produce abundant profits - but usually only for Apple.
Using its clout as a vendor of highly desirable consumer technology, Apple secures extremely favorable deals with suppliers, providers of goods and services, and retailers.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Investor Alert: Xerox is a Cash Machine / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
On the surface Xerox Corp. smells a lot like its Nifty 50 brethren, once-hotter-than-the-sun-but-now-bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. and Polaroid Corp. Its stock has gone nowhere since forever. But Xerox was not your typical overvalued blue chip of the 1990s, like Cisco Systems, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft Corp., whose earnings have tripled or quadrupled since then — the kind of stocks I have advocated in this column. Xerox was very pricey in the late ’90s, but its revenue and earnings per share have since declined. And to make matters worse, printing and copying is just so analog, so last century. It is hard to get excited about a company making equipment whose main trick is putting ink on paper. However, all these negative optics have resulted in one misunderstood company and a very mispriced stock.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Goldman Sachs Bullish on Oil and Gas Pipeline Companies / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
James Baldwin writes:
Nothing like having Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) confirm what we've already been saying for a year.
But last week, Goldman Sachs reminded us that they are bullish on the oil and gas pipeline sector by upgrading a number of portfolio stocks that have been prominent features of our portfolios and discussion on the sector.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Five Cheap Stocks for an Undervalued Market: KCG, AWP, WLP, MT, CNBKA / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Last week marked the third anniversary of the bear market low, and there is compelling evidence that we still have an undervalued market - meaning investors can find cheap stocks.
Even though the S&P 500 Index has nearly doubled off its lows of March 9, 2009, it is still trading at only about 14.1 times earnings, well below its 15-year average of 20.2.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
The Best Way Investors Can Turn High Gas Prices into High Octane Profits / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
Average gas prices currently are about $3.75 according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report.
That's higher than the average for all of 2011, which was the priciest year ever for gasoline. And what's worse is they're only going higher from here.
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Friday, March 09, 2012
Augme Technologies and the Yahoo Vs Facebook War / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
I love to find asymmetric risk/reward scenarios in the market.
You can do that with a small company which has the ability to unlock a large payday - and I believe I have found one with Augme Technologies Inc. (OTC: AUGT ).
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Thursday, March 08, 2012
How Desktop 3D Printing Factories Will Create the Next $1 Trillion Industry / Companies / Technology
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
Don't worry if you've never heard of 3D printing. It's so new it's not on many radar screens yet.
But soon everyone will know about it.
Still in its very early stages, 3D printing is destined to have a huge impact on the entire world economy.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Buffett's Bursting Berkshire Bubble / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Peter_Schiff
The gold doomsayers have found their champion in the media's favorite financial advisor and one of the world's richest men. Warren Buffett, the man dubbed the "Oracle of Omaha," has repeatedly and publicly denied that gold is an investment, and called gold buyers "speculators" and people "who fear almost all other assets." In fact, Buffett claims that gold's rise has the same characteristics as the housing and dot-com bubbles, and it is only a matter of time before it reverses course. He doesn't mean that the price will decline because of austerity measures and a free-market interest rate, mind you. He just asserts that because he's deemed it a bubble, it will inevitably burst.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Stuxnet Virus Triggers New Era of Cyber Attacks, Are You Ready? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Due to threatening cyber attacks like the Stuxnet virus, the United States has made cybersecurity a top priority.
But are we still too vulnerable?
After all, cyber attacks have gotten more sophisticated, and more targeted to specific operations in the past couple of years.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Microsoft Strikes Back at Apple and Google With Windows 8 / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has radically retooled its flagship product, Windows 8, to fight for a bigger piece of a mobile computing market currently dominated by its rivals.
Microsoft unveiled a beta version of Windows 8 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
I'm an Apple Stock Investor, I Want a Dividend / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson wries: Now that their stock is up more than 20-fold in the last ten years, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) investors have had a wonderful ride.
On top of that the company has amassed a $97.5 billion cash hoard that would be the envy of any small nation.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
Invest in Apple Incorporated or Silver Wheaton Corporation? / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Bob_Kirtley
Apple Incorporated (AAPL) or Silver Wheaton Corporation (SLW) some would say its a little like David and Goliath or Bambi meets Godzilla. Apple is currently the darling of technology sector and Silver Wheaton is hugely popular in the precious metals space.
As investors we need to continually ask the following question:
Is this the best investment vehicle for my hard earned cash?
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Is Apple Stock Price a Blow Off? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: WavePatternTraders
Anyone that has studied the markets for a length of time, should really have seen many examples of a blow offs over the past 10 years or so, there appears to be a characteristic that you see just before the eventual reversal.
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Friday, March 02, 2012
Three Ways to Ride the Rally in Small Cap Stocks / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A recent surge in small cap stocks - companies with a market capitalization of under $1 billion - means individual investors should be placing at least a few of their chips in the small-cap arena.
In fact, the rally has pushed the Russell 2000, an index of 2,000 small cap stocks, to within shouting distance of record highs.
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