Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Why Weak Corporate Earnings Could Turn the Stock Market Bulls Loose / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
Everybody is hoping for a swell earnings season on the assumption that it will help the markets move higher.
However, if history is any guide, weaker earnings may be just what the doctor ordered.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Four Dividend Stocks to Put Money in Your Pocket / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Anxiety over the European debt crisis and distrust in the markets drove volatility in global stock markets to dizzying heights in 2011. The intense level of chaos, and record low bond yields, sent investors scrambling for stocks that deliver steady returns in the form of dividends.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Profit From the Next Computer Revolution, 3D Chips Yield Exponential Results / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
Forget about the "Tablet Wars." That's yesterday's news.
The same thing goes for the long-predicted "Death of the PC."
You see, the mainstream media has unleashed a torrent of technology predictions for 2012. They're all a mile wide and an inch deep.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Time to Take a Bite Out of Apple Stock? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: David_Grandey
And of course here is our AAPL chart for the day because an AAPL a day keeps the doctor away.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Amazon Stock Countertrend Rally / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Yesterday's plunge in Amazon (AMZN) changed my perception of the strength of the rally off of the Dec 29 low at 166.97. As of this moment, my pattern work argues that a complex corrective counter-trend rally is in progress that should propel AMZN to 190-193, but which likely will be followed by another loop to the downside that revisits the Dec 29 low.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
An Options Strategy That Will Save You Some Money / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
Whether you credit a Santa Claus rally, an early January Effect, or some other driving market force, there's no disputing the strong finish posted by stocks in 2011 - or the healthy 2012 opening advance added in the first week of January.
To be specific, stocks - as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index - rose from 1,204.00 at the close on Monday, Dec. 19, to 1,257.60 on Friday, Dec. 30, then jumped to 1,280.15 at midday yesterday (Monday), a gain of 6.32% in just three weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average did almost as well, climbing from 11,751.96 on Dec. 19 to 12,398.29 in Monday trading, a 21-day gain of 5.50%.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Five Stocks to Avoid Like the Plague / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
There's no better time to take a good hard look at your portfolio than the beginning of a new year.
I know this may not be your first rodeo and chances are you've already done at least a little thinking about how your investments came through 2011, and what you'd like to achieve in 2012.
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Friday, January 06, 2012
Finding Growth in a Flat Energy Market / Companies / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
Clean balance sheets, cash flow visibility and trading liquidity in oily stocks are the cornerstones of investment success in junior E&Ps, according to Oil and Gas Analyst Tim Murray of Desjardins Securities. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Murray lays out his risk/reward proposition for his very favorite names.
The Energy Report: Tim, what is your investment thesis right now?
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Friday, January 06, 2012
Bottoming Period for Amazon Stock / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My pattern and momentum work argue strongly that Amazon (AMZN) completed a major corrective process at its Dec 29 low at 16.97 off of its Sep 20 high at 244.30.
All of the action off of last week's low at 166.97 represents the initiation of a bottoming period that should morph into a powerful recovery upleg into the 200-210 initial target zone.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Is It Time to Buy These "Death Watch" Stocks? / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes: Money Morning's Keith Fitz-Gerald joined Fox Business's Stuart Varney yesterday (Wednesday) to discuss three stocks Varney said were on "death watch" - including Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK), rumored to be on the brink of filing for bankruptcy.
Varney asked Fitz-Gerald if any of these companies presented a buy-when-it's-cheap opportunity, or if investors should steer clear.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Foreign Investing Driving New Era of Profit Opportunities for U.S. Gas Companies / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: U.S. natural gas companies have found a convenient new way to boost their profits - by drawing in overseas companies to help fund their development projects.
The maneuver was illustrated yesterday (Tuesday), when two large foreign companies bought big stakes in major U.S. shale projects.
French oil major Total S.A. (NYSE ADR: TOT) said it would invest $2.3 billion in Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s (NYSE: CHK) Utica Shale operation in eastern Ohio. Within hours, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (NYSE ADR: SNP), also known as Sinopec, announced a $2.2 billion deal to buy a 30% stake in five Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE: DVN) shale projects.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Mind the Leveraged ETF's 2012, They Might Kill your Portfolio! / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Willem_Weytjens
In this article I will show you why it's wise to be careful with leveraged products, such as Proshares Ultra ETF's and Direxion 3x ETF etc... as they might KILL your portfolio!
Proshares states on its website:
Read full article... Read full article...Each Short or Ultra ProShares ETF seeks a return that is either 3x, 2x, -1x, -2x or -3x of the return of an index or other benchmark (target) for a single day, as measured from one NAV calculation to the next. Due to the compounding of daily returns, ProShares' returns over periods other than one day will likely differ in amount and possibly direction from the target return for the same period. These effects may be more pronounced in funds with larger or inverse multiples and in funds with volatile benchmarks. Investors should monitor their ProShares holdings consistent with their strategies, as frequently as daily.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Banking Stocks Downtrend Still Dominant / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Despite last week's rally in the major trader/broker banks, let's notice that none of the upmoves in Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) inflicted significant damage to the still-dominant downtrends.
You can see the near- and intermediate-term resistance levels labeled on the enclosed charts. Only BAC made a new low (4.92) for the bear phase, and then staged a 15% multi-day rally to 5.65, but appears to have stalled right at its nearest-term hourly resistance line.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
End Your Exposure to this Eurozone Debt Crisis Victim / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
Around this time last year I warned you that the Eurozone debt crisis would trample the Italian economy and take carmaker Fiat S.p.A. (PINK: FIATY) down with it.
To profit from this debacle, I told you to short Fiat. Since then, the stock has tumbled 76%, from $19 a share to yesterday's (Wednesday's) closing price of $4.66.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
How the Pentagon Will Create Space Travel Profits / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
The mainstream media was all over Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen's recent announcement proclaiming he intends to "transform" the space industry.
But they missed the real story - one that will make a few savvy investors a small fortune.
If you want big profits from the next generation of space travel, keep an eye on new developments at a small but highly respected research arm of the Pentagon.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Catastrophic Success, Bio-Tec Breakthrough Technology Alert / Companies / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
New readers to my musings often find it interesting, when they meet me in person, to find me quite an optimistic person, given the nature of my current predictions about the economy. And regarding the short term, defined as less than five years, my writing is admittedly less than sanguine. We do have some problems that are not easily dealt with. And even longer-term, those of a bearish natural disposition can find reasons a-plenty to tone it down.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Bank of America Downtrend Still Intact / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Apart from the fact that Bank of America (BAC) is up 3% the day after it hit a low 4.93 yesterday, the lowest level since March 2009, let's notice that current strength has not inflicted any meaningful technical damage to the nearest-term downtrend -- at least not yet.
BAC must hurdle and sustain above 5.23 to inflict preliminary technical damage. However, upside continuation that climbs above 5.29/30 to hurdle my 30-period exponential moving average is needed to really get my attention on the long side of BAC.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Zynga IPO, What to Expect When the Stock Starts Trading / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Social-gaming giant Zynga Inc. starts trading today (Friday), capping off a rocky year for tech initial public offerings (IPOs). A strong performance from Zynga stock today and into the New Year would shed the "bubble" reputation surrounding the sector in 2011.
Here's what you need to know about this latest tech IPO:
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Apple Stock Elliott Wave Analysis Update / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: WavePatternTraders
An update from my previous article, Apple held the 200DMA, and still inside this trend channel however it's still showing signs of confusion, as well as the US markets, due to the sideways range for the past few months, there could be a triangle setting up for a move higher in a wave [5], the triangle would be wave [4].
The Current Elliott Wave count has this in a suspected 4th wave as its still holding form above the 200DMA.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Microsoft Is Not as Boring as it Appears / Companies / Microsoft
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
I am bored and exhausted. I am on my third cup of coffee, but my lack of excitement has not changed, as I am about to explain why the sleepiest, most boring stock in the universe—Microsoft Corp.—offers a very compelling reward with very reasonable risk.
Microsoft was the bright light in the tech firmament in the 1980s and ’90s. Then it got too successful, overconfident, lazy and uncreative, and started making bad products and wasteful acquisitions. Worthy competition eventually emerged from the likes of Apple and Google, and Microsoft had to fight for its existence and relevance.
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