Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
How to Trade Options Around Corporate Earnings / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
The hallmark of a professional option trader is the ability to use a wide variety of trade structures in order to exploit opportunities to profit from specific situations the market presents. One of the opportunities routinely presented multiple times yearly is the impending release of earnings.
Underlying the logic of earnings trades is the stereotypic pattern of increasing implied volatility of options as earnings approach. This pattern is so reliably present that experienced options traders can recognize the approximate date of an impending earnings release by simply perusing the implied volatility of the various series of upcoming options.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Uranium Stocks Want to Run, Again / Companies / Uranium
By: Submissions
Hypedu writes: Not so long ago European Uranium Resources was one sick pup. In fact if you checked the long-term chart and nothing but there would be only one verdict – it’s dead.
That first impressions is deceiving. The company actually have a decent story to tell and It is out there, only being quietly ignored.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Investing in South Korea Today Like Buying U.S. in 1990s, Brewing Tech Boom / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: If you're tired of the crisis a month routine we've seen with the United States and the Eurozone, there's always South Korea.
In fact, for demographic and budgetary reasons, South Korea is much like the United States was during the prosperous 1990s--not the deficit-ridden, slow-growing place the U.S. has become.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Don't Get Suckered by the Boeing Media Frenzy, Instead Potential Buying Opportunity / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Look for a chance to buy Boeing now.
You heard me right.
As someone who worked in the news business for nearly three decades, I've seen these kinds of media "feeding frenzies" take hold more times than I can count. They take on a life of their own - meaning that facts, logic and context can fall by the wayside.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Investors, You Need to Stick with the Cheap Retailers / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: The retail sector continues to show decent growth, which is encouraging given the lack of strong jobs growth. The improvement in the housing market is helping to add some confidence to consumer spending and the retail sector. Retail sales in December grew 0.5%, above the 0.4% estimate made by Briefing.com. On an ex-auto basis, sales grew at 0.3%, which was the same as November, but below the Briefining.com estimate of 0.5%.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
How You Can Profit from the Currency Wars / Companies / Investing 2013
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Recently, we have heard a lot about currency wars being waged by various nations around the world. To those who are unfamiliar, “currency war” is a term that refers to countries that are actively looking to devalue their currency to help stimulate export growth and their domestic economy.
Investing in stocks in this type of environment can be tricky, as one needs to add additional variables to the analysis. Having a strong market sector, solid long-term fundamentals of the individual stock, and a favorable currency direction can help when considering investing in stocks.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Facebook's Big Reveal is a Big Let Down - Graph Search Not Good Enough to Help Stock / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes: The excitement Tuesday among Facebook stock (Nasdaq: FB) investors and industry followers over the company's mysterious event was quickly doused after the social networking giant announced the launch of a Facebook graph search - a kind of closed social search engine.
Immediately following the statement from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the hyped media event at FB headquarters, shares of Facebook stock slipped more than 1% on extremely heavy volume. The news was a disappointment to many who had been hoping for something bigger, flashier and more tangible, like a Facebook phone.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Why The Uranium Sector Is Heating Up With Mergers and Acquisitions / Companies / Uranium
By: Jeb_Handwerger
At the end of 2012 I was interviewed on uranium and indicated to investors to accumulate as the uranium miners and the uranium price hit three year lows. The pullback in uranium miners and price coming into the year end was a potential buying opportunity as they reached important support levels historically indicative of a bullish reversal.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Why Apple Stock Faces Strong Headwinds / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: Have you seen the share price of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) lately? Since it traded at its record high of $705.07 on September 21, 2012, it has been a mess. Faced by rising competition, better products, and superior pricing, Apple has seen its price shaved by about 28.0% in what has been a trend reversal to the bearish side, according to my technical analysis. Apple is on the verge of breaking below $500.00, a move that was last encountered on February 16, 2012.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Who is Warren Buffett?, The Graham-Buffett Investing Strategy / Companies / Investing 2013
By: Submissions
J. Royden Ward writes: Warren Buffett is my hero. In my mind, he is the best investor ever. If you had invested in one share of his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) 25 years ago when it sold for a mere $3,030 per share, your one share would now be worth $143,000 today. The increase works out to a compound annual growth rate of 16.7%. You would have doubled your investment every four and a half years!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
How Far Will Apple Stock Price Fall? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: PhilStockWorld
I had to commit to AAPL as our "One Trade" for 2013. I didn't want to do it but there wasn't a stock I felt more sure about beating the market over the next 12 months. The icing on the cake was the drop to $485 (even as I write this, I can't believe the price) on the same afternoon I was scheduled to be on BNN to announce the trade (see full interview and all 3 trade ideas here).
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
iPhone Becomes Apple Stock's Big Vulnerability / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: We hear one tidbit of bad news about Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) cutting orders for iPhone 5 components and - boom! - Apple stock drops more than 6%.
The reason for the stark cause-and-effect on Apple stock is that the iPhone contributes about 53% of Apple's vast revenue. [In fact, were the iPhone a standalone company, it would rank 29th in the Fortune 500.]
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Helium Filled Hard Drives Could Turn Western Digital Into a Big Winner / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: With the commodities boom still in full swing you are probably aware the advantages of owning stocks related to gold, silver or other hard assets.
But when was the last time you heard someone extolling the investment virtues of helium?
And I'm not talking about helium as most folks think of it - in those giant (and comically overpriced) party balloons.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
BioTech Bull Market's Next 1,000%-Plus Move Starts Now / Companies / BioTech
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Biotech stocks have an incredible history of delivering quadruple-digit runs about once a decade...
It's stunning, really. In the late 1980s, biotech stocks took off, returning 3,246% in just a couple years. In the late 1990s, biotech stocks took off again, returning 1,523% in an even shorter period of time.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Shiller PE Ratio Continues to Mislead Investors, S&P 500 Is Fairly Valued Early 2013 / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Charles_Carnevale
Allow me to start this article by emphatically stating that I have a real problem with forecasting stock markets in the general sense. Instead, I prefer to forecast the intrinsic values of individual businesses based on their earnings justified fundamental values. I hold this position because I believe that it is not only possible, but also quite practical to analyze a specific business and then make an intelligent forecast (not a guess) but a rational estimation, based on the assimilation of fundamental facts, as to its past, present and future intrinsic value. Importantly, I’m not suggesting this can be done with absolute perfect precision down to the precise penny, rather I am suggesting it can be done within a reasonable range of rational probabilities.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Bank Stocks at Crucial Crossroads 2013 / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Last year was a great year to be an investor in bank stocks. We’ve seen a dramatic rebound in the price of most major bank stocks in America as the earnings outlook has improved. Clearly, the earnings outlook at the beginning of last year was far too pessimistic for the majority of bank stocks.
The question: what’s in store for bank stocks in 2013?
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Why Apple Stock Needs to Refocus Its Energy / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Profit_Confidential
George Leong Writes: The share price of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) has been on a steady decline since trading at $705.07 on September 21, 2012. There are questions swirling around regarding the ability of Apple CEO Timothy Cook to deliver the superlative revenue growth traders have been accustomed to in the past. But with the rise of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and “Android”-based phones and tablets, the competitive environment has tightened; Apple will need a “Plan B,” according to my stock analysis.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Q4 Corporate Earnings Season: Stocks Likely to Disappoint / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Ben Gersten writes: The Q4 earnings season has started off on an unexpectedly good note.
Both Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) last week reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat estimates.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
AAPL - An Apple a Day May Not Keep Losses Away In 2013 / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Michael_Noonan
We deviate from our coverage of the futures markets to take a look at this popular stock. As we often say: A chart is a chart, composed of price, volume, and time. While fundamentals may be more prevalent in stocks, from an analysis perspective, they can be very subjective, depending upon how they are presented. The reason we view any analysis only from price, volume, and time, is that the charts reflect all the best fundamental views that are translated into buy/sell activity. Charts also include all the worst possible points of view, for they, too, are an integral part of the price/volume relationship.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Investing 2013 - Four Safe Banking Stocks You Can Buy Right Now / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Between the financial crash of 2008 and the Eurozone debt crisis, big Western banks have turned into pretty dodgy investments.
I'm talking about the banks that were "too big to fail."
These days the profits of these fine institutions are largely dependent on not writing off too many bad loans or incurring huge fines and lawsuits from various past misdeeds.
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