It is 2011 and we have our outlook target pieces for sectors and for indexes for the year ahead. After taking a look at the implied upside to one-year price targets for…
Can the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise 12.65% more in 2011 after gaining about 11% in 2010?  Our calculations show the the DJIA is likely to hit 13,042.06 in 2011. That’s a…
We have already introduced the 2011 Dogs of the Dow for investors looking into 2011. The term “dogs” might imply that they are the worst performers when they are actually just the…
Rumors are still running rampant despite the upcoming slow period around the holidays. The biggest macroeconomic issue surrounds the chatter around China, first with it saying it will buy more sovereign debt…
We published a story earlier on projections from Goldman Sachs that tablets are rapidly cannibalizing PC sales. Â That story focused on the possible winners from such a shift in the market. More…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Chinese firm Lenovo had a surge in sales of their personal computers last month. Most of the rest of the industry did not. NPD Group, the research organization, reported…
There have been two standout research calls this morning in two of the darlings of tech and internet investors. Goldman Sachs, in a broader technology group call, put a Conviction Buy List…
How many ways are there to cause a company’s share price to fall -15%? PC maker Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and storage provider Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CML) may have found a…
Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) CEO Jeff Kindler resigned because he was tired, he says. “The combination of meeting the requirements of our many stakeholders around the world and the 24/7 nature of my…
Following on its observations that tablet devices and smartphones would hurt PC sales, Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) has lowered its forecast for worldwide PC sales for this year. The IT research company …
The craze of late-2008 into 2009 was the netbook. The new craze is the tablet PC, and you do not need to be told about the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). …
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) raised its earnings outlook for 2011. (Reuters) J Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) is close to a $2.8 billion takeover by private equity interests. (Reuters) Oil fell to near $81…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with earnings and the IT and PC giant reported $1.33 EPS on $33.28 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $1.27 EPS on revenue of…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings this afternoon, after the market closes. Non-GAAP EPS is expected to be $1.27 on revenue of $32.75 billion. That’s substantially better than the EPS of $1.08…
Dell (NYSE: DELL) reported especially strong earnings for its last quarter. Revenue was up 19% to $15.4 billion. Net income rose 144% to $822 million. CEO Michael Dell was bold to say “Our…
