Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Monday, June 11, 2012
How "Shock Therapy" Could Make Us All Smarter / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael A. Robinson writes: Mention the term "shock treatment," and just about everyone recoils in horror.
Indeed, the practice of sending electrical currents through the brain has gotten some very bad press over the years.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Two Years From Now, You'll Wish You Bought eBay Stock / Companies / Tech Stocks
William Patalon III writes: You probably know this longstanding Internet company as an e-commerce pioneer - but most likely view it as one whose high-growth years are in the past.
But tech guru Michael A. Robinson sees this company as the tech sector's top possible turnaround play - a transformation he says that will turn it into a mobile-commerce stock that every investor will want to own.
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Saturday, June 09, 2012
Five Dividend Paying Tech Stocks for Investing 2012 / Companies / Dividends
Here are five technology-oriented companies that are currently trading at a price earnings ratio that implies that the stocks are attractively valued. Each of these five companies currently offers a dividend yield that is above-average as represented by the S&P 500.
The following table summarizes five technology-oriented companies that appear to be attractively valued, and lists them in order of dividend yield highest to lowest. From left to right, the table shows the company's stock symbol and name. Next the company's historical EPS growth followed by the estimated EPS growth. Next you will find the current PE ratio followed by the historical normal PE ratio for perspective. Then the 5-year estimated annual total return, followed by dividend yield for each company. The final three columns show the company sector, debt, and its market cap.
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Friday, June 08, 2012
Facebook Investors Believed Forecast Revenues Would Exceed GDP of the Whole World / Companies / Tech Stocks
There are two main elements to the litigation about the IPO. The first is about how last-minute-second-thoughts about the future earnings by an analyst should have been widely “shared”. It’s not a strong case, much of the communication was verbal and analysts change their minds all time. Sloppy management, yes…once the prospectus was up everyone should have shut up, but it will be hard to prove wrongdoing.
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Friday, June 08, 2012
Are European Blue Chip Stocks A Bargain? / Companies / European Stock Markets
Jonathan Yates writes: The legendary French financier, Baron von Rothschild famously once remarked, "When the streets of Paris run with blood, I buy!"
But this time it is not just Paris. It's Athens, Dublin, Madrid and most of the other major Old cities of the Eurozone, where the markets have taken a beating.
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
Is the Generational Divide in Technology Widening? / Companies / Technology
Alex Daley, Casey Research writes: My son doesn't know how to use a mouse.
He doesn't even know what one is. As far as he's concerned, it's a furry animal he's only seen in books and running around the floor of the Newark airport.
While I've known this for some time, it recently moved from the back of my mind to front and center following a brief car trip a few days ago. From the back seat, my eldest son – who for some inexplicable reason loves to watch the instructions tick by on the screen of the GPS unit sitting on the dashboard – requested that I program the unit to give us directions home. I politely declined, pointing out that I couldn't be messing around with the screen as I was already driving. He followed up with that well-known, youthful naïveté that borders on soul-piercing in its effectiveness to point our shortcomings in ourselves and our world by asking:
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
How To Profit From Stocks Forming Cup Patterns / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
We’ve shown you how to profit from short-sell set-ups the past two weeks. But the next pattern that will yield profits in the near future is the Coming Up The Right Side Of The Cup pattern which we’ll talk about and show you current and past examples of here.
When we talk about issues Coming Up The Right Side of a cup understand that there can be no cup until you have an actually bottom of a cup. Take a look at a few examples from the past of what we are talking about.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
How You Can Profit From the New "Code Wars" / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael A. Robinson writes: Iran loves to rattle its saber-especially when it comes to Israel.
But the country that would like to wipe Israel off the map now finds itself the target of a very different kind of war.
On the frontlines of cyberspace, Iran has become the victim of another massive attack on its computer networks.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Reports of BP Nabucco Pipeline's Death are Exaggerated / Companies / Oil Companies
The refining director at BP caused a stir last week in Berlin when he was interpreted as saying the full version of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline was no longer an option for the consortium working in the Shah Deniz natural gas field in Azerbaijan. Wire services had reported that his statements meant Nabucco was effectively dead despite years of political maneuvering. Not so, said the European Commission, and several other players involved in the 2,149-mile project. It makes sexy headlines to sink a $10 billion ship, but there are plenty of reserves to keep Nabucco at least on standby.
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Monday, June 04, 2012
The Secret to Apple's Patent Wars / Companies / Tech Stocks
David Zeiler writes: In a single stroke, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) could gain the upper hand in its seemingly endless patent wars with Samsung Electronics (PINK: SSNLF) and others.
Or the tech giant could blow its chance and wind up paying billions of dollars in licensing fees.
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Monday, June 04, 2012
SpaceX Rocket Opens the Door to a New Age / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael A. Robinson writes: Commercial space travel was long confined to the realm of science fiction.
But no more.
With SpaceX's successful rocket launch on May 22, commercial space travel is now a concrete, viable reality... and one that will yield lots of investment opportunities in the very near future.
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Saturday, June 02, 2012
Is Microsoft About to Get Left in the Dust? / Companies / Microsoft
Michael A. Robinson writes: Boy, Microsoft should have paid more attention to all those bright young hackers. A lot more.
Back in November 2010, when Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled its Kinect product to the public.
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Friday, June 01, 2012
My Best Investment Advice - Watch Your Fellow Investors Then Do The Opposite / Companies / Corporate Earnings
In my opinion, the recent selloff in stocks defies commonsense and logic, but in truth and fact it usually does. In other words, it's not uncommon to see investors selling at precisely the time they should be buying and vice versa. Moreover, when investor pessimism is at a high, like it is today, stocks become cheap causing people to panic and sell. Of course, the more people sell the worse it gets and simultaneously the cheaper stocks get.
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Inside JPMorgan's Magical Fun Palace / Companies / Banking Stocks
Martin Hutchinson writes: The financial system wasn't fixed after 2008, and it won't be fixed anytime soon.
The unexpected $2 billion - or is it $5 billion? -- loss incurred by JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) "whale" trader Bruno Iksil shows only too clearly the flaws in Dodd-Frank and other regulatory activity.
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Facebook Thanks Heaven for Dumb Money! / Companies / Market Manipulation
Thank God for dumb money!
What would the world be without chumps? Suckers? Bagmen and patsies?
Who would buy a ladies handbag for $1,500? Or blue-jeans for $150? Who would buy an oversized show-off pickup…or a $4 million McMansion?
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Facebook IPO Was a Success and Wall Street Got What It Deserved / Companies / Corporate News
Being politically correct has never been my strongest quality; therefore I’ll say this: I don’t feel sorry for Facebook’s new shareholders. Despite Nasdaq technical glitches and analysts sharing changes in estimates for the near quarter only with big clients, the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) was a success.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Why Apple is Too Rich For the Dow Jones Stocks Index / Companies / Tech Stocks
David Zeiler writes: Assuming the Dow Jones Industrial Average represents the biggest, most influential companies in America, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) easily qualifies.
With its massive market cap, trend-setting products, and global brand recognition, it is easy to argue Apple belongs as much or more than any of the current tech companies in the index.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
FaceBook Investors Zuckerberged, 36% Crash, Clueless Telegraph Implies Cheap at $38 But Expensive at $29 / Companies / Mainstream Media
Facebook Investors have most definitely been Zuckerberged as the Facebook stock price has crashed by 36% since its first day trading high of $45, currently down about 25% on its $38 IPO with more losses to come.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The 152-Year-Old Brain That Changed the Course of Science / Companies / Healthcare Sector
Michael Robinson writes: The most infamous man in the complex field of neuroscience died 152 years ago.
Yet just last week, railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage made headlines again, reaching out from the grave to offer crucial new insights about the how the brain works.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Five Ways Investors Not to Get "Facebooked" / Companies / Investing 2012
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: On the heels of the Facebook IPO fiasco, many investors are wondering how they can find the next best thing and avoid getting "facebooked" in the process.
Tall order? Not really.
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