Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Facebook Nation Unveils its New Currency / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Patrick_Henningsen
The 21st century has certainly witnessed a progression towards a ‘cashless society’, but social networking giant Facebook are taking things a step further, throwing their hat into the ring with the introduction of a new compulsory monetary policy that will initially govern its share of the multi-billion dollar online games industry.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Three Stocks To Avoid! / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Sy_Harding
I’m not saying sell them short, but here are three popular stocks I sure would neither buy nor hold at this point. They’ve had good runs, but are looking toppy on our technical charts and on their valuations and fundamentals.
Amazon (AMZN) is an amazing success story, one of the few dotcoms that not only survived the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 1999, when its stock lost 95% of its value, but recovered and has prospered.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Oil Companies Pumping Profits as Crude Continues to Climb / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
Despite political fallout from the Gulf oil spill, drilling and oil services companies made big waves in the waning months of 2010. And they're likely to carry that success through 2011 as higher oil prices and political gridlock keep the profits pumping.
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), Helmerich & Payne Inc. (NYSE: HP), and Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) are among the oil companies that produced outstanding results in the final three months of 2010.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Why Risk Management Is Critical to Success / Companies / Dividends
By: Profit_Confidential
George Leong writes: There is optimism on Wall Street, but be careful as there is also risk. You need to understand the concept of risk management as a key element to investing success. The reason why I want to discuss risk management is my sense that there are some of you who probably fail to incorporate some sort of risk-management strategy. If you do have one, that’s fantastic and you are probably sleeping well at night. If you have been delinquent in this area, be careful.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Dividends and Growth, the Two Go Hand in Hand in this Business Cycle / Companies / Dividends
By: Profit_Confidential
Mitchell Clark writes: The power of a few large-cap companies to sway stock market sentiment is great. As recent corporate events illustrate, not only does good earnings news move the market, but, increasingly, dividend news is moving share prices. This is big and it’s a sign of the new age of austerity among corporations and individual investors.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
U.S. Taxpayers Make $12.3 Billion Profit on Citigroup Bailout / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
The U.S. Treasury on Monday will complete the sale of warrants of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), allowing it to realize a $12.3 billion profit from its bailout of the banking giant.
The United States will record a net $312.2 million from the sale of its final 465.1 million warrants to purchase common shares of Citigroup, the Treasury Department said Wednesday. Last year, Treasury sold its 34% stake in Citigroup common shares.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Warning to Options Traders Looking at NetFlix Corporate Earnings / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
One of the hardest things for me to remember is not to believe everything I see. I am a sucker for the latest “can’t lose” strategy supported by the experts. This morning I ran across a trade that looked too good to be true. I think it is, but I think it is instructive to walk through the potential hidden land mine. The event is the Wednesday afternoon release of NFLX earnings but there is a hidden trap for option traders using one commonly used earnings play structure.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Food Prices Hurting McDonald’s, but Not This Stock / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Jared_Levy
If you have been reading Smart Investing Daily, you know that food trends, demand and subsequent food inflation have been on our radar (and trade ideas) for some time, including my Thanksgiving notes as well as my concerns here in early October.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Eyeing New Upleg in U.S. Steel / Companies / Articles
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My intermediate-term pattern work in U.S. Steel (X) argues strongly that last week's low at 51.33 ended the correction off of the January 3 high at 61.18. If proven accurate, that means the price structure held the top of its 8-month rounded base-like accumulation pattern ahead of another powerful upleg.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
2011 Corporate Earnings Off to a Strong Start, but Will it Last? / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Earnings season is well underway and the trend so far has been mostly positive. But as 2011 progresses, companies will be less and less likely to meet - much less surpass - Wall Street's lofty expectations.
That's because high unemployment, tight credit, an inability to further reduce cost structure and less favorable comparisons to 2010 will conspire to trip up the less nimble corporations.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Crude Oil's Headed for $150, Here's What You Need to do... / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Kent Moors writes:
Crude oil is about to skyrocket in price.
In fact, I believe we'll be looking at $150-a-barrel oil by mid-summer.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Amgen Pattern Calls for Bullish Outcome / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My work is telling me that Amgen (AMGN) has an extremely bullish near and intermediate term technical set-up. Call it a giant base pattern that started in early 2007, or call it a giant coil type of sideways consolidation period. Both patterns argue for possibly acute bullish outcomes that propel AMGN towards 62.50, and then 65.00 subsequently.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Why REITs Are The Top Sector for Income Investors Right Now / Companies / Housing Stocks
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: If you’re among the many millions of baby-boomers approaching retirement, there’s an excellent chance that you’ve focused your investment portfolio heavily towards one main investing theme: Income.
But the ballgame has changed significantly.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Truth About 'Leveraged ETFs' / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Jared_Levy
Back in early October, after a visit to the Texas State Fair, I wrote about inflation and the global food "problem" and how you can take advantage. Every stock I mentioned in the report has seen substantial runs since then.
Keeping all of our greed under control, Sara recently detailed why commodities and the agri-stocks climbing with them needed a nap, and why maybe it was time to take profits.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Russia's Kaspersky antivirus company to conquer US market / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Pravda
Russia's computer security company Kaspersky Lab, the fourth-largest global antivirus vendor, sold a large shareholding to US-based private equity firm General Atlantic. GA will become the second-largest shareholder of the Russian company, giving Kaspersky Lab an opportunity to improve its positions on the US market. The financial details of the deal have not been exposed yet, although it reportedly goes about 15-17 percent of the shares of the Russian company evaluated at $200 million.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Only Stocks I'm Telling My Retired Friends to Buy Right Now / Companies / Investing 2011
By: DailyWealth
Dr. David Eifrig writes: "I'm worried, Dave... There's so much talk everywhere about collapse and the end of the world. What should I do?"
Like many retirees, my mom is bombarded all day long on TV and radio with talk of financial collapse and how bad off America is. Many of these commentators expect a hyperinflation that will wipe out bonds and the value of the dollar. Their top recommendations are to stock up on bottled water, canned food, and gold bullion.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Where Can Investors Earn Yield? / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Mike_Larson
Municipal and state debt? Nope. Long-term U.S. Treasuries? Haha! Don’t make me laugh!
None of those are good places to generate income, for all the reasons I’ve discussed before — lousy economic fundamentals, the threat of rising interest rates, slumping investor demand for their bonds, and so on.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time To Play Defense Before Buying Stocks Again / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
Today’s buzzword is DEFENSE
As a lot of you football fans will find out this weekend, no matter how good your offense is you can not get to the Superbowl without a good defense!
We talked about the market being Over Extended, Overbought, Over and Over again not to mention and how at any time the monkey could flip the switch. Well guess what, the monkey flipped the switch!
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Germany, The One Economy Investors Can't Afford to Ignore / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
U.S. investors tend to regard the European Union as a region of low growth, an area of the world that has little to offer to non-EU investors.
For much of the EU, this is true (I've never found much of anything that's investment-worthy in Italy, for example).
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
BP and Toyota Motors bad stocks of 2010, maybe not ! / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: readtheticker
In 2010, we all remember BP and their horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We also remember Toyota Motors issue with their brake faults. Both stocks suffered mini crashes, however both companies can be regarded as high quality with plenty of cash, both took it on the chin and said they would fix it, in which they did and are.
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