Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Which Player to Back in the Fast Food Wars / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: Investors fought over the IPO shares of Shake Shack Inc. (NYSE: SHAK) like kids fighting over a McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) Happy Meal.
Initially priced at $21.00 per share, SHAK stock ended its first day of trading up over 100% at $45.90, moved to just north of $52 per share, and even after an inevitable pull back is still ahead nearly 95%.
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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Airline Stocks Continue to Nickel and Dime Passengers With Bag Fees / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Investment_U
Rachel Gearhart writes: In 2008, airlines justified the raise in baggage fees by blaming rising fuel costs. But in recent months, oil prices have been halved. And yet, baggage fees remain lofty.
This week's chart looks at the amount of baggage-fee revenue collected by airlines compared to the price of Brent crude over the past eight years.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The "Smart Money's" Next Big Profitable Investing Contrarian Move / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: In our 1998 book, Contrarian Investing: How to Buy and Sell When Others Won't and Make Money Doing It, coauthor Anthony Gallea and I made an astounding discovery: When looking at beaten-down stocks, the single-best "Buy" signal is so-called "insider buying."
You know what I'm talking about – the "legal" insider buying when C-level officers or board members snap up shares of the company they're overseeing.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Cheap Oil and a Strong Dollar Mean Big Gains for This Stock / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: Massive new oil supply has led Saudi Arabia to compete for market share by dramatically cutting prices. The impact of this cheap oil in North America is mixed. But certain regions are clear beneficiaries, such as those surrounding auto-reliant Detroit.
Just across the roughly 1.5 mile expanse of the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit is Windsor, Canada. Its fortunes are tightly interwoven with those of the Motor City. One Canadian firm with operations in Windsor is sure to benefit from the glut of cheap oil.
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Sunday, February 08, 2015
A TOP Formation In Apple Inc. - Crash Condition Signal Recorded / Companies / Apple
By: Submissions
David Harris writes:
SUMMARY:
- In June 2014, a new market timing model recorded that a significant US market top was near and would be reached in the next few weeks or months.
- A new and more accurate market timing tool predicted in mid-2014 that the market top was likely to occur in either late July, October, early November or at year end.
- On Friday 26, December the DJIA recorded a new all time closing high as predicted by the tool.
- The same market timing tool shows that Apple has a single 7 week window of opportunity ending February 13, and so a significant top is about to be recorded for Apple Inc.
- A mathematical model has been developed by the author to predict and identify stock market bubbles and crashes.
- The identification model shows a current score of 100% for Apple Inc. indicating that the top of the bubble has been reached, and a crash condition is now in effect.
- The model predicts that all bubbles must deflate back to the point where the bubble started to grow, which will mean a drop of at least 20% to 30% in Apple Inc. over the coming months.
Sunday, February 08, 2015
Goldman Sachs Stock Chart Technical Analysis / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Austin_Galt
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP (GS)
Goldman Sachs Group (GS) is a global investment banking group and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a market capitalisation of around $75billion. Price last traded at $183.43. To learn more about the company, please visit its website at www.goldmansachs.com
Let’s begin with the small picture and work our way up from there.
Sunday, February 08, 2015
Berkshire Hathaway Stock Chart Technical Analysis / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Austin_Galt
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC (BRK.A)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRK.A) is involved in many diverse businesses including insurance, freight rail transportation, utilities and energy. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a market capitalisation of around $350billion. Price last traded at $224,880. To learn more about the company, please visit its website at www.berkshirehathaway.com
Let’s take a bottom up approach beginning with the daily chart.
Saturday, February 07, 2015
Here’s How We’ll Profit From Elon Musk’s “Space Internet” / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: While you’re checking your stocks on your iPhone and daydreaming about what Frank Underwood will be up to on House of Cards later this month, consider this: More than 3 billion people on Earth still have no or poor access to the Internet.
Whoever figures out a way to get those billions online will likely have created a profit gold mine.
Elon Musk, of Tesla electric vehicles and SpaceX rockets fame, thinks he has the solution: a network of hundreds of low-orbiting satellites that will deliver high-speed, low-cost Internet to the most remote places on Earth.
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Friday, February 06, 2015
Why Corporate Earnings Reports Are Overrated / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: What I am about to share with you today won’t win me any friends on Wall Street. But, that’s how it goes.
This is important information to you as an investor and that’s why you need to know what it’s telling you. So I’m happy to take my lumps and show it to you anyway…
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Friday, February 06, 2015
How to Profit as a Conservative, Aggressive Investor 2015 / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Sid Riggs writes: Be conservative when investing aggressively.
That might sound like a contradiction – but I guarantee it's not.
It's actually a key to why most professional traders outperform individual investors year after year.
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Friday, February 06, 2015
Stock Buybacks and Sears’ Death Spiral / Companies / Retail Sector
By: LewRockwell
Eric Englund writes On November 17, 2004, big news hit the retail world. Attention Kmart shareholders, your company announced that it was going to purchase Sears, Roebuck for $11 billion. In a November 18, 2004 New York Times article, it was stated: “The takeover is a triumph for Kmart’s largest shareholder, Edward S. Lampert, a billionaire investor who pushed the company to emerge from bankruptcy barely 18 months ago, shut many stores and sold dozens of others to Sears as he presided over a run-up in Kmart’s value on Wall Street.” It was further reported, in this article, that: “’This is going to be an enormous undertaking,’ said Mr. Lampert, who is Kmart’s chairman and will become chairman of the new company, to be called Sears Holdings. ‘We’re really not looking to have two separate cultures. We’re hoping to blend these into one great culture.’” To be sure, it is wonderful to have a great corporate culture; however, culture doesn’t matter if a company is broke. Under the chairmanship of Eddie Lampert, Sears has been driven to financial insolvency. I firmly believe Sears will declare bankruptcy and Eddie Lampert’s penchant for stock buybacks will have played a key role in breaking this company.
Friday, February 06, 2015
U.S. Department of Justice and the Corruption of the “Innocent” / Companies / Government Intervention
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: It’s time to rate the Justice Department.
But before we grade it, I want to go on record with a serious proposal.
I think its name should be changed.
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Friday, February 06, 2015
Four Top Stock Picks for the Coming Uranium Upswing / Companies / Uranium
By: The_Energy_Report
Uranium spot prices have shown more life recently, says David Sadowski, mining equity research analyst at Raymond James, and he expects upward pressure to continue as utilities resume buying to meet future needs. In this interview, he tells The Energy Report the time is ripe to invest in uranium company stocks. In addition to his four top picks in the space, Sadowski identifies other companies whose takeout potential will be enhanced by the rising value of their properties, including one he thinks the market has undervalued.
The Energy Report: David, the price of uranium has been volatile recently. What's behind that?
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Thursday, February 05, 2015
Adidas - We're Not Gonna Compete With Our Dumbest Competitor / Companies / Corporate News
By: Bloomberg
Kevin Plank, Under Armour CEO, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Stephanie Ruhle this morning to discuss the company's acquisition of the MyFitnessPal and Endomondo apps.
When asked about the Adidas strategy of signing on athletes, Plank said: "Spending more money is no strategy, right? And we're not going to compete with our dumbest competitor either."
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Thursday, February 05, 2015
Big Oil, Big Headaches, and Big Opportunities / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: A three-day rally in crude prices last week is giving investors hope that the collapse in oil prices is over, and the market is reacting with strong moves to the upside in "Big Oil" stocks.
However, it may be too soon to draw either a correlation or conclusion; oil inventories and futures markets suggest that oil prices could easily head back down before stabilizing later this year (we saw a glimpse of this early Wednesday). The share price drops have significantly affected the "Oil Patch" sector, with the Energy Select SPDR ETF (NYSE Arca: XLE) down 26% since peaking at $100.93 on June 20, 2014.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015
The Only Way McDonald’s New CEO Can Turn Things Around / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Just over two months ago I unceremoniously kicked McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD) off my “buy” list noting that for the first time in more than 10 years that the company was no longer tapped into any of our globally “unstoppable trends.” Now, with the stock down another 7% since then, the Board has just kicked CEO Don Thompson off the menu, too.
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
This “Hydrogen Battery” Might Overcome Energy’s Biggest Roadblock / Companies / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Hydrogen has always been an intriguing alternative energy source.
Pound for pound, it contains almost three times as much energy as natural gas, and when consumed, its only emission is pure, plain water.
The problem with this “miracle fuel” has always been the price.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Here’s Why Microsoft Stock Is Poised to Bounce Back / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Last week’s second-quarter earnings report from Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) disappointed Wall Street and plenty of other investors – and they punished the company by slashing its share price by 10% in one day, on Jan. 26.
However, that just makes the Microsoft story – which I began two weeks ago – more interesting.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
The 3 Big Reasons My Apple Stock Price Prediction Is Still Coming True / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) just reported the biggest quarterly profit ever for a public company – $18 billion in net income over the last three months of 2014. And CEO Tim Cook says his company made a “staggering” number of iPhone sales during that time – 74.5 million.
And already a lot of folks in the media and on Wall Street are asking this question: What’s next?
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Why Microsoft Stock Will Provide Major Investing Returns / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: On January 26, software giant Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced a disappointing quarter that sent Microsoft stock reeling by 10% on three times its normal trading volume.
It was the second major technology "miss" Wall Street had to digest in the last week's time, coming after a disastrous earnings release by IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM).
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