Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Two Cheap Growth Stocks To Buy Now / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Money_Morning
Tim Melvin writes: Many investors know how to take their first profitable step in the search for ideal stocks to buy: Look for extraordinary growth potential selling at a significantly low valuation.
Even with markets up double-digits this year, there are still stocks to buy that are trading at a discount to what they're worth.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Why Companies Aren't Hiring Now / Companies / Employment
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: The stock market was rattled on Tuesday by underperforming manufacturing data.
The Richmond Federal Reserve Index, which measures manufacturing performance in the upper Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, fell to -11 in July, down from a 7 in June. This signals a significant drop in new orders and shipments.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Why Cybersecurity Stocks Are One of the Best Investments You Can Make Right Now / Companies / Cyber War
By: Money_Morning
Tara Clarke writes: or months now, we've been harping to our readers about why cybersecurity is one of the absolute best investments you can get involved with right now.
Now the rest of the financial media is catching on.
This weekend, Barron's profiled cybersecurity investing, detailing why it's one of the hottest sub-sectors of 2013.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
The Best Biotech Stocks for 2013 are Now Within Your Reach / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: Biotech stocks are soaring in 2013 as major innovations in healthcare have offered enormous breakthroughs on once-untreatable diseases and conditions.
But for years, it was tricky to invest in some of today's best biotech companies given their volatility and uncertainty in the industry. For the better part of five years, some of today's leading biotech stocks remained essentially flat.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Google Stock Price Slumps But Outlook Still Bright / Companies / Google
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes: Google Inc. (Nasdaq; GOOG) stock plunged after its earnings report missed estimates.
Thursday after the close, Google's posted Q2 profit of $9.71 billion, or $9.54 a share, up 19% from $8.54 billion, or $8.42 a share, in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue rose to $11.1 billion from $9.61 billion.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Highly Rated High Quality Equity Dividend Income Stocks / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Richard_Shaw
As of 07/18/2013, there are only 6 stocks traded in the US that have these attributes:
- highly rated for fair value
- highly rated for year ahead expected performance
- highly rated for earnings and dividend quality
- yield greater than that of the S&P 500
- paid and increased dividend for at least 5 years
- technical condition is neutral to attractive
Thursday, July 18, 2013
America's Banks Primed for Quantum Dawn 2 / Companies / Cyber War
By: DK_Matai
American Banks -- large and small -- are primed and ready for an elaborate simulated cyber attack today christened "Quantum Dawn 2" that will test how they would manage if teams of hackers unleashed a powerful and co-ordinated attack against them. A successful, widespread attack on the industry would end up shaking confidence in the banking system, and the possibility has banks and regulators more on edge now than ever before.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Goodbye Privacy: Big Data Is Coming to Town / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Just like the Christmas song, "He knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good..."
But nowadays it isn't Santa, it's Big Data. And it's becoming big business.
What can companies do with big data?
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Goldman Sachs Re-Writing History - Fabulous Fab And The Abacus 2007 Story / Companies / Banksters
By: Andrew_McKillop
OPEN HEART HONESTY FROM GOLDMAN SACHS
Goldman Sachs has an army of very smart contract writers, to drag in what Fabrice 'Fabulous Fab' Tourre might well call “les pigeons” in French. The easy hits.
Styled as an ace concocter of financial algorithms, like Abacus 2007, the heads of these creative contract writers are however nearly always close-linked to their really vital parts. The UK Daily Telegraph, 12 July, revealed that: “Emails between Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre and his girlfriend Marine Serres - a mix of pillow talk and fears over the future of the US mortgage market - have been released by Goldman Sachs in a bid to clear its name over US fraud allegations”.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Why Great Stocks Drop Hard and Reverse / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Banister
One thing that will always over rule charts and technical analysis is fundamentals in the long run. To be sure, I love technical analysis but I always combine my work there with fundamental research. I rarely if ever buy a stock just because the chart looks nice, that is almost always a recipe for disaster.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Tech Companies That Will Ride the Mobile Wave to Big Profits / Companies / Mobile Technology
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Companies that make CPU chips - the "brains" inside every kind of computing device - have a fresh catalyst within the mobile wave to help stimulate sales: "ultramobile" products.
Ultramobile is the term that research firm Gartner is using to describe very small and light notebooks, as well as tablet/laptop hybrids like the Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Surface.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Why the Microsoft Reorganization Plan Won't Fix What's Wrong / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: With a Microsoft reorganization plan expected to be announced on Thursday, investors at this point must be wondering: will it matter?
Shareholders of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have only recently gotten a glimmer of hope. Microsoft stock had languished in the $25-$30 range for more than a decade until this year, which has seen MSFT pop about 30%.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
How to Ride the Biotech Boom / Companies / BioTech
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: hope you had a great Fourth of July. I had a blast hanging out with family and friends. However, we had a long drive home so we missed the fireworks.
That’s OK, though. I’ve seen plenty of fireworks in the past two weeks in the biotech sector.
Since June 24, the Amex Biotech Index (NYSE: BTK) is up over 11%. That’s a solid year for most indexes. Year to date, the group is up over 34%.
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Five Reasons Apple Stock is a Buy / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: With Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) bears feeling vindicated by the company's fall from grace and shares hovering in the $400 range, it might sound like a stretch to say Apple stock is a buy.
But given all that's happened, AAPL at $400 is a better deal than it may appear.
"It's obviously been hit, but it's bounced. It's held up," said Money Morning Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani. Pointing to the recent volatility in the markets, Gilani said, "The markets have been hit really hard and Apple has held up beautifully."
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013
The Only Tech Stock You'll Ever Need / Companies / Google
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: When it comes to cutting-edge science that will redefine how we live and work in coming years, there's no shortage of fascinating breakthroughs.
Every week brings dozens of new developments covering everything from bionic eyes to drones the size of humming birds.
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Monday, July 08, 2013
How McDonald’s and JPMorgan Chase Help Keep America Poor / Companies / Social Issues
By: Money_Morning
Greg Madison writes: Natalie Gunshannon, a McDonald's worker from Pennsylvania, has just won the right to... draw a paycheck. Work-for-pay is a fairly straightforward system that the Western World has been using for the past six or seven centuries, give or take.
Ms. Gunshannon was an hourly employee at a McDonald's franchise in Shavertown, Pennsylvania. Her degree is in massage therapy, but jobs in that field are scarce. A single mother, she took whatever work was available, which brought her to McDonalds, where she worked the line for $7.44 an hour, 30 to 70 hours per week.
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Friday, July 05, 2013
How to Profit From Africa’s $300 Billion Electricity Boom / Companies / Electricity
By: Money_Morning
Greg Madison writes: President Obama is wrapping up a wide-ranging trip to Africa this week, one in which he talked about everything from human rights, the triumphs of Nelson Mandela, a return to growth in Zimbabwe and the prospects of an African renaissance.
But it was his comments about access to electricity that should have drawn the most attention. The President is setting the stage for a huge leap in Africa's standard of living - and most people probably didn't notice.
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Friday, July 05, 2013
"Ultra" ETF Investing: The Newest Portfolio Killer / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have changed the face of investing for individuals as well as institutions.
These relatively new investment tools have made it easier to play sector rotations, go short the market or even leverage positions.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Nike - The One Stock that Always Seems to Keep on Rising / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Profit_Confidential
Mitchell Clark writes:
There are lots of benchmark stocks, but NIKE, Inc. (NKE) is an incredibly important one in retail.
It’s actually quite surprising that such a mature brand can continue to do as well as it does. Not only is the company succeeding operationally, but it continues to be an excellent stock market investment.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Why Natural Gas Stocks are Poised to Take Off / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Tony Daltorio writes: Everyone likes a good comeback story where large obstacles are overcome on the way to a favorable outcome.
And we're about to see one in the investment world...
The shale gas boom seemed to be a disaster for the natural gas industry as the price of natural gas plummeted over a five-tear period to reach a multi-year low below $2 per million BTU in April 2012.
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