Over the next week 24/7 Wall St. will set mid-year price targets (June, 30, 2007) for the sixty most widely traded stocks. These targets will be based on past price performance, industry activity, forward…
Stocks: (F)(MSFT)(SIRI) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is from Detroit. But, the software company’s plan to help Ford put services like e-mail into cars seems a bit off. The new system will allow Ford customers…
From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We recently took profits on our Adobe (ADBE) position because we have noticed the stock tends to trade down following the release of a major new…
From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat While Oracle (ORCL) has been buying up applications software makers to grow, rival SAP has been bulking up its sales force. Now it expects them to…
What happens when the inconceivable becomes the possible? The Linux open source group and several allies asked the Supreme Court to invalidate all software patenets. Every last one. The group has its motives. There…
Microsoft has had a resurgence of sorts. The stock trades near $30, up from a 52-week low of $21.46. There is excitement in some quarters that Xbox has gained enough traction to challenge Sony’s…
Stocks: (AAPL)(MSFT)(BELL)(HPQ) Vista is coming to town. Its strengths as a operating system seem to be considerable, even when when compared to the best version of Linux destop and Apple’s Tiger OS. Research firm…
Stocks: (MSFT)(NOVL)(RHAT) RedHat was supposed to be on its way out. The largest supplier of Linux open source products to corporations was going to be crushed by rival Novell after its signed a deal…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Oracle (ORCL) is trading down after reporting numbers that met earnings estimates but were weak with regard to sales. On the conference call, Chief Financial Officer…
Out of the ‘Horsemen’ stocks, Oracle (ORCL) is the only on that has actually pulled back more than 10% from its recent post-earnings highs. ORCL is up 2.3% today to $18.09, but shares closed…
Someone forgot to tell the programmers at Microsoft that the new Vista operating system had to work with current version of SQL server database management software. The database management interface is critical if Micorosft…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Last week Intuit (INTU) offered about $1.35 billion for online banking services provider Digital Insight (DGIN), based in Calabasas, Calif. The deal, expected to close in…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Adobe (ADBE) reported revenue and earnings ahead of consensus expectations and guided for slightly better than expected performance in the January quarter. This is rather impressive,…
Stocks: (MSFT)(ORCL)(IBM)(VZ)(T)(BT)(DT) Microsoft has begun trials of a new VoIP system that will work on its server software and be intergrated into its Office suite of business software. It is probably safe to say…
Part of Wall St. thinks Symantec owns the computer security business, especially on the PC platfrom. And, part of Wall St. thinks that Microsoft Vista is going to take that market away. Symantec entered…