Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
Apple Stock is a 10-Year Short - Bear Market Environment / Companies / Apple
By: EconMatters
Holiday Melt Up in Stocks
Apple and most stocks do routinely well during the 4th quarter, and especially the last couple of months of trading after earnings are out, and the fund managers are pushing everything up with the goal of making their trading numbers by year end window dressing. It is amazing more people don`t realize this phenomenon and just buy December expiration calls on the SPY after the usual selloffs that happen in the third quarter, and wait for the holiday rally where stocks routinely melt up at year end.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Investors Watch Out For The Auto Industry… / Companies / US Auto's
By: Harry_Dent
If you’re looking into buying your dream car in the next few months – think twice!At the bottom of the stock crash in early 2009, I bought a dream car – a 2008 Maserati GranTurismo – at 22% off. I got the manufacturing margin and the dealer margin completely taken off. Six months earlier, I would’ve paid a slight premium. Instead, I got a discount.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Volkswagen - The Ultimate Insult / Companies / US Auto's
By: Rodney_Johnson
Ten years ago an airline ran a television ad showing weary business travelers, asking the question: “Why do they do it?” Eventually one of the travelers looks up and says: “For the miles!”At the time, I was part of the bleary-eyed crowd of travelers. I racked up tons of miles, mostly on American Airlines, hopping from one speaking engagement to another, along with conferences and general business meetings.
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Friday, November 20, 2015
A Secret New Government Tax -- Unveiled / Companies / Taxes
By: EWI
Dear Investor,
Did you know for one major financial sector the Great Recession never ended?
One look at this chart of the KBW Bank Index and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, and you can see it for yourself:
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Robotics Are Key to New Millennium Surgeries / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: TLSReport
Interventional radiology has been described as the surgery of the new millennium by Stanford Healthcare, offering less invasive procedures, more precise placement of catheters and, often, fewer complications for patients and higher throughput for healthcare facilities. Robotics is making this new area of medicine possible. Cary G. Vance, CEO of Hansen Medical Inc., tells The Life Sciences Report about disruptive advances in interventional radiology and Hansen's own revolutionary robotic catheters.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
How to Engineer a Strong Portfolio with Medtech and Biotech / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Zacks Small-Cap Research analyst Anita Dushyanth is a bioengineer with an R&D background, which comes in handy as she researches up-and-coming companies in the medtech and biotech sectors. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Dushyanth focuses on four small- and micro-cap specialty pharma and device names with engineering tie-ins, and she expects all to produce exciting results for investors.
Monday, November 09, 2015
Retired Investors: Apply a Value Investing Strategy and Earn More Income and Higher Returns / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Charles_Carnevale
Value investing produces safe, powerful long-term results, but it is often misunderstood. This is why most of the greatest investors that have ever lived have employed some form of value investing as an integral part of their overall stock investing strategy. However, the term, concept or strategy called value investing does not necessarily universally apply. Like many financial terms and concepts, there are many nuances that pertain to the general concept of investing for value in common stocks.
On the other hand, there is some common ground that theoretically applies to all value investing approaches. At the core, value investors are looking for investment opportunities in companies that they believe the market is currently undervaluing. Additionally, most value investing strategies are attempting to exploit disconnects that occasionally occur between a company’s stock price and its true underlying fundamental value.
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Thursday, November 05, 2015
Regenerating Biotech Portfolios with Cell Therapies, Antibodies and Small Molecules / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Reni Benjamin of Raymond James has watched biotechnology move into a new era in which cells and genes can be manipulated to produce true disease-modifying results. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Benjamin outlines the groundbreaking work being done by a number of companies with the potential to return multiples on investment over the next two to three years.
Biotech Index One Year. Courtesy Google Finance
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Elon Musk's Hyperloop Takes A Step Forward / Companies / Technology
By: OilPrice_Com
For the first time in close to a century, mankind may be about to give serious attention to a technology that has the potential to be a true game-changer in transportation.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
What Can’t Go On Won’t Go On, Part 1: Corporate Leverage / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: John_Rubino
By now everyone knows the corporate share repurchase story, about how major companies are engineering higher per-share profits and share prices by buying back their stock and raising their dividends. But just how much they’re spending may still come as a shock.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Apple Clever Business Strategy—But Is It Clever Enough? / Companies / Apple
By: John_Mauldin
Back when I was in business school, the PC manufacturers were go-go football stocks. Bull market, dude.
There was Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Gateway, which used to sell its computers in a Holstein cow-pattern box. Apple was making Macs but had a much smaller market share than it does today.
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Fed Just Whacked Corporate Earnings / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: John_Rubino
The markets seemed to like what the Fed had to say yesterday, including the part about definitely, for sure, no kidding around this time raising interest rates in December. Especially elated were currency traders, who bid the US dollar up on the news.
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Small-Cap Biotech Stocks Bull Market / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
SeeThruEquity's Ajay Tandon and Jay Albany are riding the biotech bull by harnessing the huge upside potential of micro-cap companies working in multiple subsectors, particularly in the rapidly advancing cancer immunotherapy sector. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Tandon and Albany toss the names of several companies into the arena for investors' consideration.
The Life Sciences Report: Given the current healthcare market, how does the future look for small-cap biotechs versus large-cap companies?
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Retirees: I Did Not Buy IBM to Sell, It’s About The Dividend Income Stupid / Companies / Dividends
By: Charles_Carnevale
There are many investing strategies and principles that retired investors can utilize to reduce the risk associated with investing in equities (stocks) for their retirement portfolios. Choosing to invest in the highest quality stocks your mind can conceive sits at the top of the list. There are many components that investors can analyze and examine to determine whether a company is high quality or not.
The primary determinant of high quality is superior financial strength. Financially strong companies possess the staying power and resources to weather the occasional bad storms that will inevitably occur. Every business will on occasion face challenges and difficulties. Meeting those challenges requires a strong balance sheet and an adaptive and competent management team to guide the company across troubled waters.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Wal-Mart Symbol of U.S. Economic Condition / Companies / Retail Sector
By: BATR
Whether you love it or hate it, Wal-Mart is a goliath among giants. It employs 1.4 Million Americans or 1% of the work force. As a gauge of economic activity, financial analyses weigh the performance, sales and consumer attitudes closely. So with the historic stock crash of 10% in one trading day and 22% overall, quite a lot of attention was reported. Most noteworthy comes from The Street; Did Wal-Mart’s CEO Just Drop a Major Bombshell?
Monday, October 19, 2015
Banking Stocks Sector Now Looking in the Money / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Sol_Palha
A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push. -
Anonymous
The financial sector has pulled back nicely during the market sell off in August, setting up a nice opportunity for the contrarian player. The masses are fixating on whether or not the Fed will raise interest rates by a minuscule 0.25%. While they fixate on this issue opportunity could be at hand;now might be the time to put some money into banks. One simple way to achieve this would be via KBW Nasdaq Bank Index (BKN).
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Monday, October 19, 2015
Transformational Technology - The “Age” Age / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: John_Mauldin
As I mentioned in last week’s letter, I traveled to San Francisco last Monday with my friend Patrick Cox, who writes our Transformational Technology Alert newsletter. We had dinner with Dr. Mike West of Biotime and then spent the next morning at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Pat and I decided we would jointly report on what we learned. He has already written his part, which was published last week. I am going to reproduce portions of that letter, which highlight the conversation with Brian Kennedy and his team at the Buck Institute, and then add my own thoughts about our conversation with Mike West the previous night.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
This Unique Oil Stock is Offering A Huge Dividend Yield / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
One of Casey Research's biggest calls this year is paying off…
In early August, E.B. Tucker, editor of The Casey Report, told subscribers how to profit from the world’s oversupply of oil.
If you read financial newspapers for more than a week, you’ll notice that global oil production is near record highs. Last year, global oil output reached its highest level in at least twenty-five years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
How Can Bank of America Drive Better Efficiency? / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Bloomberg
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, spoke with Bloomberg TV’s Erik Schatzker about the bank's earnings and performance.
Moynihan said that the efficiency ratio should be 500 BPS lower and the company has a plan to get it there. When asked about how he will do it, Moynihan said: "The headcount will come down because there were 60 percent people costs. There's not enough other costs to save a lot of money, but question is how you do that."
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Walmart Stock Craters On Profit Warning - The Fatal Blindness of Greed / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Jesse
"America's great now -- it's never been greater.
Our kids are going to live so much better than we do now." Warren Buffett
“Among 21 countries in the study the U.S. ranks second-to-last in the percentage of its GDP spent on benefits for families, despite one of the highest relative child poverty rates of the comparable high-income countries. [only Turkey was worse because it failed to provide any data]” Child Trends, World Family Map 2015
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