Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, February 19, 2012
Apple Vs Gold, Silver and Past Market Bubbles / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Apple (Ticker: AAPL) is doing great these days. In January, the company reported that profits for the holiday quarter more than doubled.
The stock price shot up 8% on the news, and rallied all the way to over $526 per share in the days that followed.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
“No QE3″, Retracement Level Stalls Financial Stocks / Companies / Banking Stocks
Since financial stocks make up 14% of the S&P 500 Index, it is difficult to sustain a rally without strength in banks and financial services firms. With the Fed and ECB opening up the liquidity fire hydrant in late December 2011, bank stocks experienced another in a series of monster bailout rallies. As outlined below, the Financials Select Sector ETF (XLF) may be poised to give back some gains over the coming sessions based on numerous factors including reduced odds of QE3.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Emerging Market Dividend Stocks Give Investors the Best of Both Worlds / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: In today's market, dividend investing is the best way to achieve a decent income stream without taking on too much risk.
On the other hand, this is also true: emerging markets give investors the benefit of the world's fastest economic growth.
Investors would be wise then to combine these two strategies by buying emerging markets stocks that pay steady dividends.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Apple Stock Top / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
The leading stock in the leading stock index made a large inverted hammer candle following a recent parabolic rise that hit RSI 90, and this looks very much like a top (with US indices also making inverted hammers):
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Is Apple Stock On A Climax Run? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
WOW! How about that stick save into the close yesterday in this All AAPL 24/7 market we are in! What do the two charts below have in common with AAPL?
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
A Contrarian Oil & Gas Play That Could Spell Profits for Investors / Companies / Oil Companies
Jack Barnes writes: SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE: SD) is a company that I'm very familiar with - and yet it's an enigma even to me.
I mean that quite literally.
You see, I recently paid a visit to the SandRidge building during a trip to Oklahoma City. After getting my security badge, I began to make my way to the 12th floor.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Obama's Defense Cuts Mean More Mergers for Tech Stock Investors / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael Robinson writes: I can explain the impact of President Obama's new defense budget to investors in one word - mergers.
Indeed, the M&A field will remain a driving force in the defense sector for at least the next two years.
The good news for tech investors is that Obama's focus fits with the Pentagon's push for more high-tech breakthroughs.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Betting on Canada's Best Banks / Companies / Banking Stocks
Betting on Canada's Best Banks
Will Europe resolve its sovereign debt crisis and return to growth in 2012? Or will, as so many fear, the Continent’s economic unity dissolve and its banking system and common currency collapse, dragging the rest of the world into another recession?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Real Reason Mark Zuckerberg is Paying $2 Billion in Taxes on the Facebook IPO / Companies / Tech Stocks
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: As the much-ballyhooed Facebook IPO looms closer, there's a mountain being made out of a molehill.
Turns out 27-year-old founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have a $2 billion tax bill that, according to a variety of sources, he intends to pay in full.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Multi-Billion Dollar Water Services Industry / Companies / Water Sector
There is a multi-billion dollar water industry forming before investors’ eyes in the oil patch.It’s a huge opportunity for some great capital gains — but changing regulations, and a very attentive mainstream audience questioning business practises which have been in effect for decades, will will make it choppy water for investors.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Whiskey and Cigarettes: The Best Way to Profit From Sin Stocks / Companies / Investing 2012
Jason Simpkins writes: The common misconception is that so-called "sin stocks" only perform well when the economy tanks.
But the truth is that purveyors of alcohol and tobacco take their lumps during a recession just like everybody else.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Three Glencore Xstrata Metals and Mining Takeover Targets: TCK, AAL, FCX / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
Don Miller writes: The proposed mega-merger of Glencore International PLC and Xstrata PLC will create a global powerhouse with the potential to shake up the mining industry overnight.
If completed, the $90 billion deal will form a mining behemoth with control over one-third of the global market for thermal coal, and make it the world's largest producer of integrated zinc production. It will also rank as the world's third-largest copper producer and fourth-largest nickel producer.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
The Investment Lesson Behind the Kodak Bankruptcy / Companies / Learning to Invest
Martin Hutchinson writes: The recent bankruptcy of Eastman Kodak reminds investors they don't make companies like they used to.
Founded in 1892, Kodak shows that very few of these 19th century giants exist anymore.
Companies, like washing machines, just don't have the staying power they used to. Even the largest companies these days are unlikely to outlast a 40-year investing career.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Fuzzy Math, Greater Fools and the Facebook IPO / Companies / Tech Stocks
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: I have several friends who think the Facebook IPO is the next Microsoft.
I think it's more likely the next Research in Motion.
Or perhaps the next Sony, Kodak, or Eastern Airlines--all of which were once world-class brands that got sideswiped by hungry new competitors.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Apple Due for Profit-Taking / Companies / Tech Stocks
Apple (AAPL) has rocketed into a French Curve upside vertical assault right to its upper channel zone between 480.00 and 488.00, which should put a lid on the current up-leg from the Jan 24 low at 419.00.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Apple Stock Heading Over $600 on iTV and iPad3 / Companies / Tech Stocks
David Zeiler writes: Even with its share price at a lofty $470, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) still has startling upside potential, thanks to the iTV and iPad 3.
These younger iSiblings will provide the fuel to sustain Apple's amazing growth rates, which until now have been almost single-handedly driven by the iPhone.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Big-Cap Tech Stocks to Watch / Companies / Tech Stocks
Cisco (CSCO) reports earnings after today's close. With that in mind, let's have a look at the comparative patterns (and my intermediate-term analytics) on some big-cap technology names.
Intel (INTC) is on a technical buy signal (since Jan 4) and will remain so unless it breaks 26.30 (1st warning), but must break 24.97 to damage the chart structure. My next upside target is 27.50/80 and then 28.50.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
When Investors Should Buy FaceBook Shares / Companies / Tech Stocks
Jack Barnes writes: You might have heard....
Facebook Inc. (NYSE: FB) is the most awaited initial public offering (IPO) since Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG).
The recent registration of the company's IPO documents means it won't be long until Facebook shares begin trading freely.
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Monday, February 06, 2012
New Spy Technology Could Be Worth Billions / Companies / Tech Stocks
Michael A. Robinson writes: Using GPS to track a risky teenage driver or a cheating spouse is about to become old hat.
You see, we are actually on the verge of a revolution that will allow us to locate and track every physical object made in the world.
Not to mention literally every person on planet Earth.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
Carnival After the Costa Concordia Disaster, Buy, Sell or Hold? / Companies / Corporate News
Jack Barne writes: Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) is the world's largest provider of vacation cruises operating under the names Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn in North America; and AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Ibero Cruises, and P&O Cruises in Europe, Australia, and Asia.
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