ThinkstockWe have entered the second half of August, a period of the year where there are fewer earnings and economic reports than normal. The long and short of it is that earnings…
ThinkstockEarnings season can sometimes be good for bad-performing stocks, and bad for good-performing ones. If things have been going bad and earnings surprise to the upside, a stock can get a big…
courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) reported fourth quarter and fiscal year 2014 results after markets closed Thursday. The software and server company reported quarterly adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.92…
ThinkstockEver since the momentum stocks rolled over in March and got torched, with the exception of the truly big high-profile names, most have continued to languish and have trailed the overall market.…
Armed with new data from their Global Technology conference, the server and enterprise software analysts from Merrill Lynch came away feeling very good about five stocks they feel still have room to…
The announcement of a strategic partnership between Microsoft and Salesforce.com after markets closed on Thursday boosted the latter's shares in after-hours trading, but investor enthusiasm had waned by Friday morning.
ThinkstockThe after-hours and pre-market trading sessions are often far more volatile and far less liquid when they are compared to normal market hours between 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. each day of…
One good way for inquiring minds on Wall Street to find out what companies plan on spending is to ask them. That is exactly what the analysts and research team at Merrill…
Salesforce.com Inc.Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) reported first quarter 2015 results after the markets closed Tuesday. The customer relationship management software company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.11 on revenues…
Paul Ausick These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. They include Allergan, Rackspace, Baker Hughes and Time Warner.
Tech stocks had an absolute field day Monday, with Internet stocks up around 2%. One of the most heavily traded of the techs, Facebook, was up about 3.5% and was the morning's…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday, May 5, 2014. They include ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Disney, FireEye, L-3 Communications and SINA.
ThinkstockThe software as a service (SaaS) business has absolutely exploded over the last five years, and after meetings with three of the top players in the industry, the analysts at Oppenheimer are…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking a few lumps today in a new report from Greenpeace that claims that the some firms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) base their electrical power…
Wikimedia CommonsOne good thing about momentum corrections and sell-offs is they often give investors anxious to own some of the top names a far better entry point. While the market gyrations lately…
