Few companies have a true monopoly in any market. More common are “virtual monopolies” or “near-monopolies” that exist due to geography or brand recognition. When consumers hear the term monopoly, the first…
Good For the first time in a wretch history of poor management, Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) finally got something right. The company has 67,000 miles of broadband backbone used to for VoIP, data,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is confirming what we already knew… Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) selected the wholesale data carrier to serve as a primary content delivery network provider for streaming…
The most common method of valuing stocks is the good old P/E ratio that measures the share price versus the trailing 12-months earnings. For many tech and biotech stocks, that means that…
The print industry is dead. That has been the conventional wisdom for years, and it is becoming increasing clear that the conventional wisdom is correct. What may be news is that network…
Douglas A. McIntyre Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has been declared dead so many times that CEO Brian Roberts might want to dress up like a vampire for Halloween. First, the media declared Comcast its…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is in the middle of the oldest dilemma on the Interne: how to make money doing cool stuff. It’s the old “why buy the cow when you can get…
Active traders have several big moves this morning that are on the trading radar screens. We are tracking key moves in shares of Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN),…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Some of the most active stocks or largest moves…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
E-commerce sales are still below 10% of all retail sales in the US, but the category has posted a better growth rate than bricks-and-mortar revenue for some time. comScore reported that between…
A gangbusters earnings report from Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is no surprise, which makes the video rental giant’s decision to disclose less about its operations puzzling. Net income at the Los Gatos,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is out with its earnings and the film rental giant reported earnings of $0.78 EPS and $553.2 million in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $0.72 EPS and…
Jon C. Ogg There is an interesting theme that has been worth looking deeper into so far this earnings season. High-priced stocks that have seen significant runs higher have a bias against the stocks after…
It had been weeks that Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) was sitting on the pole position as the #1 stock chart in the Investors Business Daily 100. In fact, it had been #1…
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