Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Truth About Corporate Earnings and How They Drive Stock Values and Shareholder Returns / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Charles_Carnevale
I want to start this article out with the positioning statement, that I am a fundamental investor, and that I believe in conducting a comprehensive fundamental evaluation on any Company (common stock) that I buy, or for that matter, hold or sell. My own personal core investing philosophy is about investing in businesses and not the stock market. Consequently, it is only through a comprehensive analysis of the company’s fundamentals that the investment merits of an operating business can be analyzed and evaluated.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Apples Do Fall From The Trees, Now Not the time to Buy AAPL or Silver / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
Question we are pondering today is whether or not investors do learn from their prior mistakes. Small children learn lessons, such as not to touch the hot stove again. They remember that lesson all of their lives. Humans spend a considerable part of their lives learning and remembering such lessons. However, when some well learned children grow into investors they seem to develop a mental block that prevents learning. Chart below of the price of Apple's stock over the past year suggests that something, perhaps it is greed, has interfered again with the learning process. Trees do not grow to the sky, and apples do ultimately fall from the trees.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Cameco and UEC Poised to Profit from a Nuclear Renaissance / Companies / Uranium
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
Uranium stocks got hammered last year in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
But now, roughly one year later, uranium mining stocks have finally begun to bounce back... just like we told you they would.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Germany Set to Invest $260 Billion in a Renewable Revolution / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes:
The moment Germany announced its highly publicized decision to phase out nuclear energy in the wake of the Japanese triple disaster; observers began to ask one very important question.
Just what energy source would replace such a huge swath of power in Europe's dominant economy?
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
New Apple Dividend Will Help Push Share Prices Higher / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
A new Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) dividend will make the stock even more attractive while expanding the pool of potential investors.
Apple announced Monday that starting in September, it will pay a $2.65 quarterly dividend.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Here is What's Wrong With Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
If you have a mortgage with Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and want to refinance, don't bother.
You are not worth the bank's time. Or at least I wasn't.
That's what I learned first-hand last week when I called Bank of America to refinance a home mortgage I've had with them for years.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Higher Bank Dividend Payments Would Relieve Shareholder Stress / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The real winner in last week's bank stress tests should have been the shareholders.
But after the stress test results on 19 top financial institutions were announced last week and all but four of them passed, shareholders with bank dividends were left wanting more.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Growth in Google's Android Pays Off for InvenSense / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
The exploding number of Google Android devices has become a cash machine for microchip maker InvenSense Inc. (NYSE: INVN).
InvenSense makes the tiny motion sensors used in 70% of Android phones and 90% of motion-sensing Android tablets.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
iRobot's Timing Couldn't Be Better For Investors / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) made the right decision.
And the Pentagon just proved it.
The small-cap robotics leader knows only too well it needs to increase its private sector sales as America works to cut defense spending.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Apple Stock Market Investors Forgetting the Past / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Doug_Wakefield
Life is good. Today, Apple's new Ipad went on sale, and yesterday, March 15th, its stock topped $600 a share. The company's market size is larger than the entire US retail sector, Exxon (formerly America's most valuable company), all 526 NFL franchises, or the total of the cash holdings of the US government (app $73 billion). There is even talk, that since the company has moved past half a trillion in market size, climbing from $500 a share to $600 a share in only 24 trading days, maybe it is not so outrageous to think that the stock could hit $1 trillion in market size.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tech Stocks Soar on "Off the Charts" Demand for Apple Products / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
If you're invested in technology stocks, you've had a great ride lately.
With demand for Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) products soaring, tech stocks will continue to do well.
Tech stocks have posted a whopping 16% return in 2012, the top performing sector in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. By comparison, the broader market has notched just a 9% gain year-to-date (YTD).
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Friday, March 16, 2012
The Real Truth About Goldman Sachs... / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
By now you've heard about Greg Smith.
He's the former executive director of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) who pulled a Jerry Maguire on Wednesday while resigning from the illustrious Vampire Squid.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Hecla Mining Co.'s Silver Moment / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
Shares of Hecla Mining Co. (NYSE:HL) have been beaten up during what should be extremely bullish conditions for the largest silver miner in the United States.
I think that presents some value for investors willing to take a contrarian view.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Goldman Sachs: Greed Is Good / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: EconMatters
Scandal and headlines seem to perpetually follow Goldman Sachs (GS), a firm that's simply doing "God's Work". On Wed. March 14, Goldman's name once again burnt up the Internet, and social media. This time it was from a resignation letter by one of its top executives published as an op-ed at the New York Times.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Three Ways to Profit from Rising Copper Prices in 2012 / Companies / Commodities Trading
By: Money_Morning
MICHAEL ADAMS writes:
Global economic uncertainty can create a volatile metals sector and lead some investors to bail on the industry altogether.
But doing so would mean missing the huge profit opportunities from rising copper prices in 2012.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
How Apple Inc. Became the Vampire Squid of Tech Stocks / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Business partnerships with Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) produce abundant profits - but usually only for Apple.
Using its clout as a vendor of highly desirable consumer technology, Apple secures extremely favorable deals with suppliers, providers of goods and services, and retailers.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Investor Alert: Xerox is a Cash Machine / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
On the surface Xerox Corp. smells a lot like its Nifty 50 brethren, once-hotter-than-the-sun-but-now-bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. and Polaroid Corp. Its stock has gone nowhere since forever. But Xerox was not your typical overvalued blue chip of the 1990s, like Cisco Systems, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft Corp., whose earnings have tripled or quadrupled since then — the kind of stocks I have advocated in this column. Xerox was very pricey in the late ’90s, but its revenue and earnings per share have since declined. And to make matters worse, printing and copying is just so analog, so last century. It is hard to get excited about a company making equipment whose main trick is putting ink on paper. However, all these negative optics have resulted in one misunderstood company and a very mispriced stock.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Goldman Sachs Bullish on Oil and Gas Pipeline Companies / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
James Baldwin writes:
Nothing like having Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) confirm what we've already been saying for a year.
But last week, Goldman Sachs reminded us that they are bullish on the oil and gas pipeline sector by upgrading a number of portfolio stocks that have been prominent features of our portfolios and discussion on the sector.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Five Cheap Stocks for an Undervalued Market: KCG, AWP, WLP, MT, CNBKA / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Last week marked the third anniversary of the bear market low, and there is compelling evidence that we still have an undervalued market - meaning investors can find cheap stocks.
Even though the S&P 500 Index has nearly doubled off its lows of March 9, 2009, it is still trading at only about 14.1 times earnings, well below its 15-year average of 20.2.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
The Best Way Investors Can Turn High Gas Prices into High Octane Profits / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
Average gas prices currently are about $3.75 according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report.
That's higher than the average for all of 2011, which was the priciest year ever for gasoline. And what's worse is they're only going higher from here.
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