Posts Tagged ‘ Earnings ’

Facebook "FB": DO NOT BUY

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February 1, 2012

Ok folks, it's not often that I issue a rank do not buy statement on an S-1 (in fact, since starting the Ticker I can't recall ever doing it) but this is one where I feel I need to.It's Facebook.I'm basing this on one, and only one, criteria -- the ...
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Howard Davidowitz: Consumers In TERRIBLE Shape and “It’s Going to Get Worse” (Reprise)

Howard Davidowitz: Consumers In TERRIBLE Shape and “It’s Going to Get Worse” (Reprise) By Aaron Task | Daily Ticker – 1 hour 31 minutes ago.. . Weak data on November retail sales and an earnings miss from Best Buy on Tuesday poured ice-cold w...
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You Can Rest Assured That The Insurance Industry Is In For Guaranteed Losses!

This is not a new post, but nobody has brought up the "I" in FIRE yet, and Mr. Middleton has been ahead of the curve on the banks & sovereign debt, so . . . You Can Rest Assured That The Insurance Industry Is In For Guaranteed Losses! The insurance...
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NFLX dumps again on news of 60-day DVD delay

NFLX dumps again on news of 60-day DVD delay

NFLX just can't get a break. It had a nice deadcat bounce going today on back of the market rally, but just a few minutes ago, there was this headline. 15:13 CSTR Coinstar followup: CSTR and NFLX under pressure after Bloomberg TV headline suggesting...
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NFLX beats by 22c, warns on revs, huge eps warning

16:15 NFLX Netflix beats by $0.22, beats on revs; guides Q4 EPS below consensus, revs below consensus (118.84 +1.80) Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $1.16 per share, $0.22 better than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.94; revenues rose 48.6% year/ye...
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CAT Earnings?

If things are so fundamentally bad, can someone please explain CAT earnings to me? The last 3 years for construction, worldwide, have NOT been good. I simply don't get it. Here in CA, contractors are trying to pay their debts with the barter of used...
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SPX and Apple Updates: Is Apple Finally Ripe to Fall?

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October 19, 2011
SPX and Apple Updates: Is Apple Finally Ripe to Fall?

By now, most traders know that Apple had its tree shaken yesterday.  It missed earnings and disappointed analysts, largely due to iPhone sales coming in much lower than expected.  After hitting a new all-time closing high ...
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Corruption through Lobbying is Extremely Profitable

MUCH as some businesses whine about government intrusion, others do pretty well out of it. An index based on the amount of lobbying that American firms do has outperformed the broader market since its creation in 2008; data going back to 1998 show t...
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"We’re in the Worst Depression since The Great Depression"

Rob Arnott says we're in the worst depression since the Great Depression and the Fed may be making things worse. Arnott, who oversees $80 billion at Research Affiliates, tells King World News: When real interest rates are 2%-4% and inflation rates ...
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Vistaprint Down to Underperform

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August 29, 2011
Vistaprint Down to Underperform

We recently downgraded our rating on Vistaprint N.V. (VPRT - Analyst Report) from Neutral to Underperform. The rating on this online supplier of graphic design services was downgraded on a host of factors including mute...
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New Fed paper: Boomers selling may depress stocks for next two decades…

Bloomberg link Stating the obvious. Love the author's contention that maybe the Asians will buy our (Boomers's) shares from us. Excerpt: Americans born between 1946 and 1964 are beginning to retire as the U.S. stock market is still recovering from ...
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CRM beat, mixed guidance

17:36 CRM Salesforce.com on Conference Call- Asked if Q3 guidance takes into account a softening environment; says they have not seen any softening in their business; demand remains strong (114.06 -12.25) -Update 16:08 CRM Salesforce.com beats by $0....
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Harmony Gold earnings plummet….

but who cares, it's a mining company and they appear to be run by misfits. The reason I posted is because I happened to notice that the HMY message board on Yahoo hasn't had a post since July... http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/mb/HMY (my linking is...
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Moody’s Warns Student Loans May Be The Next Financial Bubble To Burst

Moody's Warns Student Loans May Be The Next Financial Bubble To Burst First Posted: 8/9/11 06:25 PM ET Updated: 8/9/11 06:37 PM ET WASHINGTON -- Record borrowing by college students who are graduating without jobs may lead to the next financial cri...
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Time to Profit, Not Panic, from the Stock-Market Sell-Off

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August 8, 2011
Time to Profit, Not Panic, from the Stock-Market Sell-Off

Thursday's stock-market sell-off has injected investors with more fear and uncertainty - but this is not the time to panic.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday fell 513 points, or 4.3%, and regained only 0.54% Friday to close at 11,444.61. The Standard...
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Where to from here?

Has Wall Street finally lost faith in the story they told themselves would unfold? -> Low interest rates + credit infusion = growth at xxx% rate base on previous cases in 1992, 1998, 2002 etc etc etc? (ie curve fitting with no real qualitative unde...
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U.S. Income Plummeted 15.2% in 2009

U.S. incomes plummeted again in 2009, with total income down 15.2% in real terms since 2007, new tax data showed on Wednesday. The data showed an alarming drop in the number of taxpayers reporting any earnings from a job -- down by nearly 4.2 million f...
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Are Stocks the Risk-Off Trade? It’s The Debt, Stupid!

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July 21, 2011
Are Stocks the Risk-Off Trade? It’s The Debt, Stupid!

Russ Winter of Winter Watch and Aaron Krowne of ML-Implode.com join the Wall Street Examiner’s Lee Adler as they continue their regular brief updates on the markets and economic/financial scene. Today they go around the table, on the debt issue again, bank earnings and other market drivers, the liquidity flows driving the rally and...
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BofA: Here’s Why the S&P Is Going To 1400 This Year

The S&P closed today at 1267, and a feeling of doom has come over many investors. Yet Bank of America equity strategist David Bianco is sticking with his guns, calling for the index to hit 1400 by the end of the year. Here's some of his reasoning: ...
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TXN lowers guidance

TXN lowering guidance. PE is only 12.3 X and dividend yield is 1.6%. Semiconductors/Semiequip are cyclical industries, and often the cyclical top in a stock after peak earnings are achieved for the cycle, and vice versa for the cyclical low. The stock...
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The Once and Future Dips of the U.S. Economy

Last week, it looked as though a tide might have turned. The Dow fell another 97 points on Friday. And the 10-year US Treasury note rose to yield less than 3%. What will happen next? We don’t know. But it wouldn’t be a bad thing if investors too...
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Market Valuation Indicators Continue to Signal Caution

Market Valuation Indicators Continue to Signal Caution

June 2, 2011 Here is an overview and summary of the four market valuation indicators I regularly follow: The Crestmont Research P/E Ratio (more) The cyclical P/E ratio using the trailing 10-year earnings as the divisor (more) The Q Ratio — t...
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Minack n- On a higher plane

Minack n- On a higher plane

Might be a reason for that what the f@#$ rally from hell Lime Juice 2 opined in the post below.  DUD110526.pdf (140.37K) : 5 QuoteForeign-sourced earnings have pushed developed-market profits to above-average levels. Part of this reflects the ...
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Three Market Valuation Indicators Continue to Signal Caution

Three Market Valuation Indicators Continue to Signal Caution

May 2, 2011 Here is an combined perspective on three market valuation indicators I routinely follow: The relationship of the S&P Composite to a regression trendline (more) The cyclical P/E ratio using the trailing 10-year earnings as the divisor (mo...
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Ge’s earnings…

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April 21, 2011

are up but stock is down?? What am I missing?
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The 10 Industries That Pay Women The Least

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April 20, 2011

Women continue to struggle for equal rights in the workplace. For at least two decades, they have earned 80% of the wages of men doing equivalent jobs. That should be a shock to most people since the feminist movement is several decades old. Sadly...
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HPQ down 12% in AH after warning

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February 23, 2011

Hewlett-Packard beats by $0.07, misses on revs; guides Q2 EPS, revs below consensus; raises FY11 EPS in-line, lowers revs below consensus (48.23 -0.44) ...
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Ben Bernanke’s Hot Money

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February 9, 2011

Bill Bonner's latest.... As anticipated, “higher commodities shrink profit margins,” reports Barron’s. Some analysts were justifying high stock prices on the grounds that earnings were at record highs. Of course, if they were at record highs,...
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2011 – Inflation Will Play the Role of Wrecking Ball

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February 5, 2011

The year 2011 is the year when inflation will play the role of wrecking ball. It seems to threaten everything from emerging markets to the pretty earnings narrative of the market as a whole. I use the term “inflation” here as the man on the st...
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Steve Jobs health announcement yesterday?

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January 18, 2011

why did he do it yesterday and not after the close with earnings today? was it his way of warning his beloved followers and giving them 1 last daily candlestick to sell in to? http://mauibear.maui.net sideways for another month, bounce t...
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