Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, May 21, 2015
The Tech Portfolio Built to Beat the Market / Companies / Tech Stocks
MoneyMorning.com Michael A. Robinson writes: When I spoke with my Strategic Tech Investor readers last week, I illustrated how one of our Million-Dollar Tech Portfolio stocks had soared 53% in just a little over two months.
But Repligen Corp. (Nasdaq: RGEN) isn't the only big winner. In fact, six of our seven investments in the Million-Dollar Tech Portfolio are up – and the other is just a hair below breakeven.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
How to Cash in on Amazon Stock’s Amazing Cloud Success / Companies / Tech Stocks
MoneyMorning.com Michael A. Robinson writes: Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) made headlines a few days back when it revealed first-quarter cloud sales of $1.56 billion.
That’s a stunning year-over-year gain of 49%. And CEO Jeff Bezos says his company’s cloud-based Amazon Web Services will likely be a $5 billion business this year.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
How Stock Investors Could Profit from the Dark Net Pattern That Few Others See / Companies / Investing 2015
MoneyMorning.com Tom Gentile writes: In a moment I'm going to show you a chart for EOG Resources Inc. (NYSE: EOG).
As I looked at the chart for this oil and natural gas development company, and positioned myself for a possible trade, an old song happened to come on the radio. It's a catchy tune that my friends and I used to "try" to dance along with.
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Monday, May 18, 2015
Never Underestimate the Power of Local SEO / Companies / SME
Maria Taylor writes: Most business owners have aspirations of expanding their company from a local presence into a global corporation with numerous locations and outlets around the world. While global expansion may be the end goal for many small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs), every endeavour has to start somewhere, especially when the company does a lot of business in a brick and mortar shop.
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
You’ll Never See a Better Moment to Invest in China / Companies / China Stocks
MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: We recently talked about how analysts consistently create investing opportunities for you with their wrong-headed calls on individual companies they know very little about (click here to see that again).
But we haven’t talked about what happens when they create ideal entry points in whole sectors… or even entire nations… about which they know even less.
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
Is China Economy a Fire-Breathing Dragon or a Dragon on Fire? / Companies / China Stocks
MoneyMorning.com Shah Gilani writes: Over the last several weeks, I’ve been telling you about “Disruptors,” the economic catalysts that are serving as agents of change in every geographic market, business sector and asset class you can think of.
These Disruptors create winners in some situations, and dislocations in others. And every change brings with it identifiable profit plays.
And if there’s one Disruptor story that has dominated the headlines – and the global financial markets – over the past two decades… it’s China.
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Friday, May 15, 2015
McDonald's Future Is Hard to Digest (NYSE: MCD) / Companies / Corporate Earnings
MoneyMorning.com Shah Gilani writes: I love McDonald's burgers, fries, and shakes. What I don't love is its current stock price.
Don't get me wrong, the stock's been a huge gainer over the past decade. It's risen more than 230% in the past ten years while throwing off decent dividend income.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Ekso Stocks Set to Conquer the Most Valuable Unstoppable Trend of All / Companies / BioTech
MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Most investors consider themselves fortunate to latch on to one really big trend in their investing lifetime. But imagine what happens when you latch on to two, three, or even four…
… at the same time, with the same investment!
That’s the situation we’ve got right now with one of my favorite Total Wealth recommendations.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Fire Up the Immune System to Fight Cancers and Boost Stocks Portfolios / Companies / BioTech
An immunotherapy revolution is rocking biotechnology, and investors are searching for just the right way to play the new trend. Do you go with an unknown company where the upside could be unparalleled? Do you go with an older name that has established partnerships with major pharmas? John McCamant, editor of the Medical Technology Stock Letter, has performed some serious diligence, and tells The Life Sciences Report about a handful of names with a range of market caps and the potential to achieve significant investment upside.
The Life Sciences Report: You're quite well aware that investors are looking hard at immunotherapeutics in oncology today. Do you think these initiatives to employ cellular and humoral responses in cancer therapies could be the final frontier, to use a dramatic term?
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
The Ultimate Way to Invest in Companies Outside the Stock Market / Companies / Investing 2015
Brian Hunt writes: "Investing outside the stock market."
Since the 2008 stock market crash, this has become one of the hottest topics in the financial industry. Investors have gone wild for investing "outside the stock market."
Instead of stocks, the regular Joe is far more interested in Silicon Valley venture capital, gold IRAs, real estate, and websites that allow him to loan money to small businesses. After getting burned badly in the crash, the average investor is interested in just about anything but the stock market.
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Friday, May 08, 2015
Get Your Investing Tactics Ready to Profit from This Supreme Healthcare Event / Companies / Healthcare Sector
MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is one of the biggest single wealth creation opportunities of the next 50 years. But you can’t just pile in like many investors have. That’s a recipe for disaster.
The biggest profits will belong – like they always do – to those who make a “smart entry.”
Fortunately, this isn’t difficult. The entire sector is tailor-made for one of our favorite Total Wealth Tactics – the lowball order.
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Friday, May 08, 2015
Tesla Powerwall Übermensch / Companies / Solar Energy
By Jared Dillian
Elon Musk just unveiled something called the “Tesla Powerwall,” a means to store solar-created electricity in people’s homes… with the potential to put the entire utility industry out of business.
As you probably know, Musk also has these electric cars that people seem to like to drive… with the potential to put all the major car manufacturers out of business. Oh, and the dealerships too.
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Thursday, May 07, 2015
Twitter Earnings Leak Fiasco: A Payday for Wall Street's Relentless Data Pursuit / Companies / Corporate Earnings
Twitter's had a very bad week when its stock tanked ~ 27% in 5 trading days. It all started when its weak 1Q earnings was posted early by Nasdaq on Twitter's IR web page. Twitter originally planned to release earnings after market close on Tuesday (so investors may have time to digest the not-so-impressive 1Q numbers to perhaps arrive at a more rational course of action).
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Corporations Are The Ultimate Dumb Money / Companies / Global Debt Crisis 2015
David Stockman just published a chart so compelling that he didn't feel the need to add any commentary.
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Friday, May 01, 2015
Your Best Stock Investment in the "Cloud" Is Right Here / Companies / Microsoft
Michael E. Lewitt writes: Last week, investors drove up the market valuations of both Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) by tens of billions of dollars based on excitement over the companies' "cloud computing" hosting businesses.
For both companies, cloud revenues and growth were the catalyst of the big moves.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Why The US Should Worry About Oil Sector Jobs / Companies / Oil Companies
Outside of individual's holding oil stocks, damage to the economy from the fall in oil has been pretty minimal so far. Indeed, the price cut in home heating oil and gasoline has probably outweighed the damage from lower oil prices… so far. Unfortunately, this situation may not last.Analysts are starting to look beyond the boost to the economy from low oil prices and see the damage that is being done by worker layoffs, slowing business, and falling home prices in oil producing states. Indeed, one recent estimate suggested that up to four jobs could ultimately disappear for every one job lost in the oil sector.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Tesla Could Be Changing The Dynamics Of Global Energy / Companies / Technology
Tesla's announcement last week about creating a new line of batteries for use by businesses, consumers, and the electrical grid at large is a game-changer for the industry. Currently, when individuals or companies need back-up power, they usually rely on generators. Effective battery storage for large amounts of energy would be a game changer in that it would enable a separation of generation and use of energy produced through clean fuels like solar and wind power.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Why Investors Should Avoid IBM / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael A. Robinson writes: Over the last two years we’ve talked many times about how to make money on high-tech stocks.
Nearly all of our talks have focused on finding winners that offer a lot of upside. As I’ve been telling you, the road to wealth is paved by tech.
But that doesn’t mean you can blindly invest in just any tech stock. To ensure that you make money in the long run, you must avoid losses in the short run.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Whether to Invest in McDonald's Future / Companies / Corporate Earnings
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported earnings last week, it missed terribly by almost every metric possible.
Yet traders are taking the stock higher, leading many investors to conclude that they should be along for the ride.
Unless you like Vegas-style odds, that's not a bet I'd recommend you make. Here's why…
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Insurance "Game" Has Changed – and Investors Can Profit / Companies / Investing 2015
Shah Gilani writes: It's a great day when a mega-profitable industry that sucks money out of us for services we can't live without has to change how it lines its pockets.
That day has come for insurance companies.
We've been talking at length about the new economic Disruptors that are forcing change in everything from public policy to the financial markets.
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