Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
The Dangers of Holding Overvalued Stocks / Companies / Stock Market Valuations
By: Charles_Carnevale
We often write about valuation because we believe it is one of the most misunderstood aspects of investing in common stocks. This causes many people to hold what we consider to be unjustified biases that are based primarily on price action. For example, the concept of the lost decade, which many almost gleefully point to as evidence validating that stocks are poor investments, fail to recognize that the true culprit was overvaluation during the appropriately labeled “irrational exuberance” days.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Your Credit Card May Soon be Worthless, Visa's Days Are Numbered / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Casey_Research
Alex Daley, Chief Technology Investment Strategist: "Your credit card may soon be worthless."
That's the notion being promoted by many in the investment industry these days. They are referring to a new technology that is supposedly Visa's worst nightmare and a threat to the status quo of the credit-card industry worth billions. And they are positioning one small company as the holder of the secret keys to cash in on what is promised to be a multibillion-dollar shift in the way we pay for everything from a candy bar to an oil change. But is it really true? Will this technology really turn the credit-card industry on its head?
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Huge Investor Opportunity in This "Left for Dead" Stocks Sector / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: DailyWealth
Paul Mampilly: John Fredriksen just made the biggest bet of his career...
Just weeks ago, John called the bottom in the shipping industry. He's backing his call by spending $11 billion to add more ships to his fleet. It's the biggest bet he's ever made in an extraordinary career.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Nasty Surprise Coming for Japanese Stock Investors / Companies / Japanese Stock Market
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
[Kyoto]-September's anti-Japanese protests in China over the disputed Senkaku/Daioyu Islands may have come and gone in the Western press, but the real damage is only just beginning for investors who have piled into Japan in recent years.
With their focus on the U.S. fiscal cliff and ongoing EU banking problems, many investors just don't understand how interlinked trade between China and Japan has become, nor the breadth of the damage this strained relationship can do to their portfolios.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Why Gordon Gekko Was Wrong, Greed is Not Always Good / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
As longtime readers know, I have a real affinity for old investing adages - in large part because of the very real lessons the best ones convey.
And one of my favorites tells us that "Bulls make money, bears make money - and pigs get slaughtered."
Friday, October 26, 2012
Healthcare Sector, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Election… / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: A funny thing happened on the way to the election – healthcare stocks are trading near their all-time highs, having come off those top levels in the sell-off of the past few weeks.
You’d think that with the uncertainty surrounding the election and its impact on healthcare, the sector would be down in the dumps.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Apple Stock Earnings Must Deliver in December / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Even though Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) earnings for Q4 aren't yet out - they'll be announced after Thursday's market close - the company is much more concerned with beating last year's spectacular December quarter, the company's fiscal first quarter.
Apple's Q1 earnings last year blew past all expectations. Apple earned $13.87 per share - more than doubling the profit from the year-earlier quarter -- by selling a record 37 million iPhones and 11 million iPads.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
New Life Saving "Smart Bra" Worth $2 Billion a Year / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes:
You need to hear Nedra Lindsay's story.
It's the tale about how a chance event saved her life and signaled the start of an exciting "biodata" investment story that may finally come to fruition in 2013.
It started in 1993, when Lindsay was just 24 year old nurse at an Ohio hospital.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Here's What Really Happened to Citigroup's CEO Vikram Pandit / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
The only big deal about Vikram Pandit "stepping down" as Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) CEO and his removal from the board is that it didn't happen sooner.
The truth is he didn't leave voluntarily. He was given an ultimatum by the "new" board of directors: resign or be fired.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Chinese Stocks Looking Like a Bargain / Companies / China Stocks
By: Frank_Holmes
With negative sentiment toward China reaching an extreme in recent months, patient investors have been rewarded with recent news of improving data from the Asian giant.
CLSA Sinology’s Andy Rothman reported that in September, retail sales growth rose 13.2 percent, which was the fastest pace of the year. Real urban disposable income grew nearly 10 percent and real rural disposable income rose more than 12 percent during the first three quarters of the year. And, while export numbers are weak, China has “so far avoided the large-scale export-sector layoffs that led to 2009’s massive stimulus,” says Andy.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Adult Stem Cells: Investors can Cash in on the New Fountain of Youth / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes:
It's flat-out amazing how fast the science of adult stem cells is moving.
Just last week, I told you about two scientists who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for creating this field.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
What's Going on in Customer Relationship Management? / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Casey Research Writes: In Mike Judge's wicked 1999 satire of corporate culture, Office Space, there's a delightful character named Milton. Poor Milton. He's all but invisible. No one likes him, no one talks to him, and coworkers are forever stealing his stapler. Management doesn't notice him enough to fire him. Instead, Milton is shunted from desk to desk, each time losing more of that precious commodity denoted by the film's title, until he finally winds up alone in the basement, where he plots the delicious revenge he'll take on the company.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Stocks to Buy and Sell if Romney Wins U.S. Presodential Election 2012 / Companies / US Presidential Election 2012
By: Money_Morning
Diane Alter writes:
Over the past several weeks, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's momentum has spiked. Recent polls place him running neck-and-neck with or even edging ahead of President Barack Obama.
Besides strong debate performances, key factors have turned in Romney's favor.
Myriad surveys in a dozen crucial swing states show voter's concerns are increasing regarding the mushrooming fiscal deficit, debt issues and the depressed job market, issues that favor Romney.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Adult Stem Cell Miracle Will Generate Investor Profits / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes:
Recently, I was in a meeting at our headquarters in Baltimore, explaining to my editor how excited I was to tell readers about a whole new range of adult stem-cell breakthroughs.
This field of medicine is so exciting it was easy to show how these adult stem cell lines will someday play a vital role in the future of the human race.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Uranium Stocks at Two-Year Lows, Investors Pounce Now and Ride the Upswing / Companies / Uranium
By: The_Energy_Report
Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades editor, says coal and natural gas lobbyists are kicking the uranium industry while it's down in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear accident. It's still stormy out there, but the sector may prove be the pot at the end of the rainbow for contrarian investors. In this interview with The Energy Report, Jeb Handwerger challenges investors to take a calculated risk on a sector with major potential.
The Energy Report: Jeb, in a September post on www.goldstocktrades.com, you opined that nuclear energy is essentially being kicked while it's down. Can you explain that for our readers?
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Trading Apple Stock Using Options Short Strangles / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
My last missive dealt with a simple trading plan for XOM using the straightforward easily managed and easily understood strategy of selling naked puts and either allowing assignment of the stock and entering a covered call campaign or closing the position after extracting most of the premium initially received. Continuing on the theme of basic strategies, I would like to look at a different high probability strategy applicable to AAPL.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Was CEO Pandit Pushed Out of Citigroup? / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Bloomberg
Sheila Bair, former chairman of the FDIC, spoke with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt on "Bloomberg Surveillance" today about Vikram Pandit's departure as CEO of Citigroup. Bair said that "this was a very positive move and the board discharged its responsibilities and I think they should be commended."
Bair went on to say: "I did have concerns about Mr. Pandit's qualifications to serve as the CEO of the largest commercial bank, because he had never been a commercial banker."
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Will Facebook Stock Price Crash to $5? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Will Facebook soon be a $5 stock?
Facebook has seen a tsunami of selling by insiders since May 17 when its IPO raised $16 billion for insiders, early investors and the firm. Its share price nosedived from $38 to $19.52, around half its IPO price, as of close of business on October 15. There will be even stronger downward price pressures on the stock before year-end.
Investors who bought when Facebook was still private sold enough shares at the IPO to make many multiples of their original investments: Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partner, and Microsoft combined sold 38.5 million shares for more than $1.4 billion. Peter Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook; since the IPO he's sold all but 5.6 million of his original 44 million in stages to cash out around $1 billion.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Is Wal-Mart's Bluebird Brilliant or an Invitation to the Slippery Slope? / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
Don't look now, but Wal-Mart is getting into the banking business.
The retail giant has recently teamed up with American Express to offer a new account called the "Bluebird." Typical of the famed discounter, the account offers customers no minimum monthly balance requirements, no monthly maintenance fees, no annual fees, and no activation fees.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Forecasting Explosive Biotech Growth, Investor Patience / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
The myth of technology, whether for smartphones or cancer treatments, is that the next big thing appears suddenly and magically. Casey Research Analyst Alex Daley sets the record straight in this exclusive interview with The Life Sciences Report. While the science of genetic medicine has accelerated the process of turning magical thinking into practical medicine, Daley cautions investors in biotech and medical device companies to be patient, and names companies with innovative technologies poised for explosive growth.
The Life Sciences Report: At Casey Research's "Navigating the Politicized Economy" summit, you talked about the difference between the speed of science and the speed of technology, and how quickly the time to market and cost of products in the life sciences space is decreasing. Can you provide some examples?
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