Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Google Takeover of Motorola Mobility is for Patents Protection In Global Battle for Intellectual Property Rights / Companies / Google
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
By announcing its plans to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) yesterday (Monday), Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) is forcing me to make a statement that I never thought I would make: It's time to buy Google.
The $12.5 billion deal will see Google acquire the phone-making half of the Motorola Inc. spin-off that took effect in January. Google is paying $40 a share in cash - about a 63% premium to Motorola Mobility's closing price on Friday. The deal - which Google says will help it "supercharge" its Android smartphone business - will close late this year or early in 2012.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Kraft Foods Spin-off Strategy Will Unlock Value for Investors / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is about to unlock a lot of value for patient investors.
I chose Kraft Foods as my first "Buy, Sell or Hold" pick of 2011 as a hedge against inflation. At the time the world was looking at food inflation caused by fires in Russia, rains in Australia, and droughts in China.
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Friday, August 12, 2011
Canadian Natural Gas Stocks: Intriguing Plays in a Divided Market / Companies / Dividends
By: Keith_Schaefer
August is often one of the best months to buy natural gas stocks; gas prices and the commodities stocks overall are at a low. There is often (but not last year!) a run up in gas prices in the fall – and stocks follow – as heating homes across North America use natural gas.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Apple Surges Ahead of Exxon Mobil to Become World's Most Valuable Company / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
For the second day in a row, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) passed Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) in market capitalization, making it just the 11th company in history to hold the title of "World's Most Valuable Company."
But although Exxon managed to squeak back ahead of Apple by the end of trading Tuesday, it could not hold on to its lead yesterday. Apple ended the day at $363.69, giving it a market cap of $337.17 billion, while Exxon finished at $68.03, making its market cap $330.77 billion.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Three Stocks to Profit From Market Mayhem / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
There's never been a better time to invest in "safety stocks."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 14% since July 22 and the Standard Poor's 500 Index is down 15% in that time. The U.S. economy is grinding to a halt, and a double-dip recession could be in the offing. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve continues to undermine the dollar with expansive monetary policy.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Renewable Energy Shares Could Bounce Off 52-week Lows / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: The_Energy_Report
Renewable energy stocks have not been the darlings of Wall Street, but that's just the angle Senior Vice President for Research John McIlveen of Jacob Securities is playing for his institutional investor clientele. He sees renewables as the classic unloved value sector that could pay off big for investors over the next decade. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, John shares his best ideas, including some that could offer surprise upside given the right set of deals, power purchasing agreements and joint ventures.
Friday, August 05, 2011
More Downside for Amazon Stock / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My near and intermediate-term work in Amazon (AMZN) has the right look of a price structure that has completed a significant upleg from its June low at 181.59 to its July high at 229.25.
Let's notice that the most recent upleg traversed its 5-month bullish channel and popped above the upper channel line, only to reverse back into the confines of the channel.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Venezuela to Compensate American Oil Companies for Nationalization? / Companies / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
If Cuba's Fidel Castro is America's favorite Latin American bête noire, then Venezuela's Hugo Chavez qualifies as Washington's reigning Prince of Darkness.In 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized US business interests without compensation, bringing down on impoverished benighted country 51 years of sanctions that continue to the present day.
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Thursday, August 04, 2011
Protect Your Wealth with Large-Cap Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Congressional leaders yesterday (Tuesday) finally settled on a debt deal, but the ineffective compromise is not enough to prevent a blow to the U.S. markets and the dollar - meaning it's time to preserve your wealth with large-cap dividend stocks.
While the coming period of market uncertainty could be a great opportunity for rational investors to explore newly created investing options, there must also be a focus on wealth preservation.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Forget Commodity Prices; Invest in Undervalued / Companies / Investing 2011
By: The_Energy_Report
Oil and gas prices may go up or down, but that doesn't bother Josh Young, portfolio manager and founder of Young Capital Management. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, he tells us why his key to finding potential winners in the oil and gas (O&G) business is based on finding stocks with attractive assets trading at a large discount to their intrinsic values rather than particular commodity prices.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Fighting Cancer Ourselves / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Casey_Research
Chris Wood, Casey Extraordinary Technology writes: Worldwide, tens of thousands of researchers are working feverishly on a cure for cancer, testing countless new drugs and dozens of novel approaches. Most will end up in the dustbin. But among the most promising of that small group likely to make it to market is a new type of monoclonal antibody therapy.
Friday, July 29, 2011
JPM Carving Bottom Formation / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Lately, with the debt ceiling negotiations usurping everyone's thought processes, excitement about last week's powerful upmove in the financials and banks has faded into the background. Purely from a technical perspective, however, JP Morgan (JPM) is acting very well as it continues to carve out an intermediate term bottom formation, presumably ahead of a thrust that projects to 45.00-46.00.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Corporate Earnings Prove "Glocal" Companies are the Best Investments / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
The second-quarter earnings season has delivered some healthy activity, but the true standouts are the big U.S. companies that have learned to profit from emerging markets.
These are what Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald refers to as "glocal" companies - firms that have a global and local presence. And they offer investors a way to profit from emerging-market growth, while also safeguarding against turbulence at home.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Lynas: A Gray Swan For The Rare Earths Sector? / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Jeb_Handwerger
"Goldman Sachs recently based there rare earth recommendations on a limited universe consisting of only two stocks, Molycorp (MCP) and Lynas. .. Gold Stock Trades has a broader view."
Those of us who delve into the markets are referred to politely as investors. That is a Madison Avenue spin on what should in essence be a more accurate description. We are speculators, which is a more precise appellation. We assume business risks in hopes of gain. We buy and sell in the expectation of profiting from market fluctuations.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Escalating Battle Between Amazon and California / Companies / Taxes
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD writes: My local newspaper ran a story about the escalating battle between Amazon.com and the state of California. At issue is the collection of sales tax: Governor Jerry Brown signed a law requiring online retailers to collect state sales tax on purchases made by CA residents.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
How To Buy Stocks During Corporate Earnings Season / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
IT’S EARNINGS SEASON
True to form with thrills (IBM, AAPL, VMW) and spills (RVBD, FTNT) earnings season is here in all its glory. So how do you go about buying a stock in the volatile climate? Let’s take a look at a couple of examples from the watch list in our newsletter — starting with an example of what not to buy, then an example of what we did buy and a stock that is setting up to be another good buy should conditions hold up.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
U.S. Steel to Retest Resistance / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Despite some soft China PMI data overnight, U.S. Steel (X) is up nearly 1% as it climbs towards a retest of key trendline resistance at 45.25, which if hurdled should trigger upside continuation towards the top of its May-July base formation (46.40-47.10).
A sustained hurdle of 47.10 will complete the base pattern and trigger upside projections of 50 and 52 thereafter.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
NDX/NAZ and AAPL Tech Stocks Analysis / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Tony_Caldaro
We updated both the NDX and NAZ charts today to the most obvious pattern: Primary wave V underway. If we review the NDX since 2009 we have quite a clear pattern. A 13 month rally, which subdivided into five Major waves and we labeled Primary I. Then a sharp 3 month 17% zigzag correction, which we labeled Primary II. Next comes a 7 month rally, no OEW subdivisions, into a February high. This is followed a 4 month 9% irregular flat correction that completed well above the Primary I high.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Amazon Stock Price Hurdles Key Resistance / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Yesterday we noted that Amazon (AMZN)'s failure to follow through to the downside multiple times in the session followed by a recovery rally effort intraday suggested it had ended its two-week correction. AMZN's thrust today has hurdled key resistance at 214.45-215.00, and has followed through to an intraday high so far at 217.82, which is very close to a full-fledged test of the all-time high at 218.36.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Summarizing Bank Earnings With Two Charts / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Tony_Pallotta
Now that the big banks have reported below are two charts that sum up how they are doing aside from the noise of "beating expectations."
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