Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
The Ultimate Way to Invest in Companies Outside the Stock Market / Companies / Investing 2015
By: DailyWealth
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
By: ...
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: John_Mauldin
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
By: EconMatters
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).
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Corporations Are The Ultimate Dumb Money / Companies / Global Debt Crisis 2015
By: John_Rubino
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: OilPrice_Com
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
By: OilPrice_Com
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Money_Morning
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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Friday, April 24, 2015
Greedy Insurers Are in for a Nasty Surprise – Positioning You for Big Profits / Companies / Insurance
By: Money_Morning
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.
And 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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Thursday, April 23, 2015
How to Grow a Regenerative Medicine Industry / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: TLSReport
There's a new kind of incubator in town. The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) is a Canadian nonprofit that fosters hands-on association between academia, government, industry and investors to grow stem cell and regenerative medicine companies from the ground up. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, CCRM President and CEO Michael May guides us through the process that brings ideas out of academia and adds the essential nurturing elements to get startups off the ground and into commercial development. Along the way, he mentions a few names that may interest investors.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
What McDonald’s Corporate Earnings Report Is Really Telling You / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD) reported earnings before the bell Wednesday morning, and 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.
Our Total Wealth Principles are built around companies with proven results that are gained by virtue of the fact that they’re tapped into globally unstoppable trends backed by trillions of dollars. McDonald’s is a turnaround situation, and this rally is powered by optimism that is anything but proven.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Apple Watch Means Apple Will Become Worlds First $1 Trillion Stock / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: s much as I love to research tech investments and share my finds with you, I also get a charge out of trying out all the new gadgets that come out every year.
The Apple Watch will be one of the catalysts that drives Apple Inc. to a $1 trillion market cap. Today, I predict how long it will take to get there – and how much that will boost Apple’s share price.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
GE's Restructuring Pleases Investors and Avoids Other Risks / Companies / Corporate News
By: John_Browne
On April 10, General Electric, which for 123 years has been one of America's best known and most highly respected companies, announced a radical return to its basic industrial roots. After years of disappointing share performance, and a campaign of criticism by frustrated investors, Chief Executive Jeff Immelt decided to spin off most of its $500 billion GE Capital arm which, if taken as a stand-alone company, would have been the seventh largest bank in the U.S.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Two Stocks Offering Investors High Yields and Profits / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: It was the spring of 1985, and I was in my second year as a reporter for The Record, a small weekly published in my home county an hour north of Baltimore.
A state-chartered thrift, Old Court Savings and Loan, failed – spotlighting all sorts of unseemly behavior about the institution's insiders, as well as folks who "did business" with it. The collapse – which resulted in 35,000 depositors having their accounts frozen (some wouldn't be paid back until the 1990s) and cost the state of Maryland millions of dollars – also highlighted the dark side of financial regulation.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
How to Profit from Australia's Healthiest Biotech Stocks / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Australia will always be known as a trove of natural resources, but its most precious treasure is the abundance of entrepreneurs who are all too happy to develop the country's intellectual assets. Shane Storey, head of research at Australia-based Wilson HTM Investment Group, observes that as the market value of resource commodities declines, investors are diverting investment capital to healthcare stocks, especially in the medical technology sector. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Storey presents three names that don't come close to their long-term fair valuation potential. The upside, he believes, could be quite dramatic.
Friday, April 17, 2015
Investor Opportunities in the New Lending Market / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: The new lending Disruptors are marching – make that rampaging – over the traditional fields and fortifications once commanded by banks.
Today I’m bringing you further proof of the powerful changes these Disruptors are driving, as well as the opportunities they are creating. And I’m also answering some pretty good questions readers posed in response to our recent reports on Lending Disruptors.
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Blackstone is like Apple, Google, Hermes, Boeing / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Bloomberg
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman appeared on Bloomberg TV with Betty Liu and Erik Schatzker to discuss the firm’s earnings, saying: "You can be a buyer and a seller at almost the same time and do well doing both...The firm keeps growing at a really good clip."
Schwarzman said: "I think that the world is going to recognize that we have a really differentiated model. We are really more like a great branded company…We dominate our market. We are more like an Apple, a Google, a Boeing, a CAT, an Hermes. We have customers who need us, just like those companies do."