Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Why the Economics of the Airline Industry are Hopeless / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
American Airlines (NYSE:AMR) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Nov. 28, and the move reinforced once again what many have learned the hard way: The airline industry is an incredibly disappointing investment.
Previous airline flops like this prompted an old saying - possibly untrue - remarking that the airline industry has lost money since the Wright Brothers first flew.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Get Ahead of Semiconductor Industry Growth with These Seven Investments / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
The semiconductor industry struggled to maintain growth in 2011 - but that's starting to change.
The industry this year was stunted by slow global economic growth, reduced consumer demand, and supply-chain disruptions due to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Industry revenue was down 2.5 percentage points in the second quarter, mostly due to Japanese semiconductor companies that suffered facility damage.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
How Safe Are America's Biggest Banks? / Companies / Credit Crisis 2011
By: EWI
Lost in the clamor over the central banks' "let there be liquidity" pronouncement, Standard & Poor's just downgraded fifteen major U.S. and European banks.
The downgrade doesn't mean Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays, UBS, Wells Fargo and others will close shop tomorrow. But the long-term credit downgrade does raise questions about their stability.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Cheap Natural Gas Makes Old Technology Profitable / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Although natural gas has become plentiful and cheap in the United States, using it in ways that would make it a practical alternative to petroleum, such as vehicle fuel, has proven challenging.
It's not that it can't be done. German scientists figured out how to convert natural gas to liquid petroleum products back in the mid-1920s.
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Monday, December 05, 2011
Anadarko Petroleum is a "King" in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) has been a big player in U.S. onshore oil and gas production, and it's about to get significantly bigger, unlocking incredible profits for investors.
Anadarko has stakes in some of the most prolific U.S. oil fields in Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Pennsylvania. It's also an international leader in unconventional production, employing methods like horizontal drilling to increase productivity rates from deep wells.
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Friday, December 02, 2011
Credit Crisis Bailout Bandits: The Biggest Borrowers From the U.S. Federal Reserve / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Money Morning staff reports writes:
The Eurozone debt crisis has replaced the U.S. financial crisis as the disaster du jour. But make no mistake: U.S. taxpayers will be paying the tab for the U.S. crisis for years.
That's evidently not true of the banking sector, however, whose massive financial-crisis windfall is just now coming to light.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Leading Stocks Showing Bullish Action / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
At All About Trends we have a saying:
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Growth of Online Retailers Makes Internet the New Shopping Battleground / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
While online retailers have celebrated the growth of online shopping, conventional retailers determined not to lose customers have been ramping up their Internet efforts.
Forrester Research Inc. (NYSE: FORR) estimates that online shopping will increase by 15% to $59.5 billion this holiday season. And more Americans said they were planning to shop online yesterday, "Cyber Monday," this year - 122.9 million, according to a survey conducted by BIGresearch for Shop.org, up from 106.9 million in 2010.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Netflix: When It Rains, It Pours / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: EconMatters
Talk about bad things leading up to other bad things. Netflix stocks plunged yet another 8% to $68.50 on Nov. 23, two days after the company announced concurrent common equity and convertible notes financings totaling $400 million.
The company said it raised $200 million through the sale of about 2.86 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $70 per share, for gross proceeds of $200 million, and raised $200 million through the private placement of convertible notes to funds affiliated with TCV, a private equity firm.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Pigs 'R' Us - The Wall Street Groupon IPO / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Jesse
And it is...
When I play cards with the little girls, they make up new rules on the fly and sometimes cheat outrageously, palming cards and sneaking money from my pile of coins, so that we all laugh about it. They know that I know, and that I am being tolerant. They enjoy sneaking up on me, and jumping out of cupboards and behind doors. And I always act surprised, but never am.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Don't Let the Active IPO Stock Market Fool You / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Although last week was the most active for the initial public offering (IPO) market since 2010, don't expect it to be the start of a sustained wave of IPOs and a rally among volatile U.S. stocks.
Encouraged by Groupon Inc.'s (NYSE: GRPN) successful IPO Nov. 5 as well as the October rebound in the stock markets, eight stocks went public last week. They include such well-known names as Angie's List Inc. (Nasdaq: ANGI) and Delphi Automotive PLC (NYSE: DLPH).
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Buyback Fervor: Are CEOs Sending a Message to Investors? / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
American businesses appear to be more confident than ever that their future is brighter than the market suggests. Now that stocks are on fire-sale, according to some investors, companies are buying at an adjusted valuation 15% lower than the start of the credit crisis.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
U.S. Defense Stocks Under Fire From Super Committee Budget Cuts / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Defense stocks have become collateral damage in the battle raging in Congress over how to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
Any mix of cuts and tax increases will certainly include significant reductions in defense spending. And if the Congressional "super committee" fails to come up with a plan, an automatic "sequestration" will kick in, which calls for half of the money -- $600 billion - to come out of defense.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
PepsiCo the Perfect Buy-and-Hold Investment / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
If they aren't already, long-term investors should be digging up some solid defensive plays, like PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP).
Everyone is familiar with PepsiCo, one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of food and beverage products. And with a strong business model, steady bottom-line growth, and a healthy dividend, PepsiCo is one of those rare buy-and-hold investments.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
The Goldman Sachs Rule: Don't Let This Puppet Master Pull Your Strings / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein was really on a roll speaking at an investment conference in New York last week.
Among other things, he said there's no way we can conclude that a slowdown in banking and trading businesses is "secular, rather than cyclical."
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Global Systemic Crisis: Decimation of the Western Banks / Companies / Credit Crisis 2011
By: LEAP
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2011 is seeing the world continuing its unstoppable descent into global geopolitical dislocation characterized by the convergence of monetary, financial, economic, social, political and strategic crises. After 2010 and early 2011 which has seen the myth of a recovery and exit from the crisis shattered, it's now uncertainty that dominates the States’ decision-making processes just like businesses and individuals, inevitably generating increasing apprehension for the future. The context singularly lends itself: social explosions, political paralysis and / or instability, return to the global recession, fear over banks, currency war, the disappearance of more than ten trillion USD in ghost-assets in three months, widespread lasting and rising unemployment...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Intervening Pullback for Apple Stock / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
After a recovery of $12.75, or 3.4%, from Tuesday morning into early trading today, Apple (AAPL), as viewed on our intraday point-and-figure chart, is taking a breather. Based on my pattern and momentum work, any weakness off of this morning's high should be considered an intervening pullback prior to the resumption of strength that propels AAPL to 398-402 thereafter.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Five Stocks That Will Thrive After the Solar Energy Industry Shakeout / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
With as much as two-thirds of the struggling solar energy industry expected to either fail or be acquired over the next three years, the table will be set for the survivors to capitalize on a market with enormous growth potential.
The process has already begun, with three solar companies - Evergreen Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: ESLR), Spectra Watt Inc. and the notorious Solyndra LLC - having declared bankruptcy this year.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Five Stocks To Help You Fight Food Inflation Pain / Companies / Inflation
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Unless you've stocked up on enough food to hold you through next year, you won't be able to avoid the effects of food inflation.
According to the U.S. consumer price index, overall food prices rose 4.7% in September from the year before. That's more than the 4.6% increase in August and 4.2% jump in July.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
EOG Resources Inc.(NYSE: EOG) Is Looking to Lead U.S. Oil Production / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
EOG Resources Inc. (NYSE: EOG) has undergone a massive change in its business model - and it's paying off astoundingly.
EOG Resources used to be known as a leader in natural gas exploration and production.
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