By Willlaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat It seems like less than two weeks ago that Texas Instruments said there wasn’t a serious problem with excess inventory. Now, they say they are cutting…
Hewlett-Packard is saying the its reveues will top $100 billion in fiscal 2008. Their financial year ends in October. It does sound a bit like the predictions Dell used to make. Those did not…
Stocks: (YHOO)(GOOG)(NWS) Bill Miller, one of the world’s greatest money managers, had his worst year in over a decade. His investments in EBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! killed his performance in 2006. But, he justified…
Stocks: (YHOO)(MSFT)(GOOG) Yahoo! is opening it advertising search marketing system, Panama, to new customers in the hopes of getting business from its major rival in the industry, Google. Like Google’s CheckOut service going after…
According to NetRatings, Yahoo! Finance remained in first place of November with 12.8 million unique visitors compared to 10.7 million for MSN Money and 10.6 million for AOL Finance. Yahoo! kept a huge advantage…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Last week, when National Semiconductor (NSM), Xilinx (XLNX) and Broadcom (BRCM) all reduced their outlook, we noted the wireless industry connection between the companies and asked…
EMC entered the year at just under $14 and trades right about there now. It got all the way down it $9.50 when investors were upset about its purchase of RSA Security and it…
Conexant trades about 14 million shares a day. That’s about 3.5 billion shares a year. But the stock came into 2006 at $2.30 and now trades just above $2.25. A big round trip to…
It must be tough to fight though a whole year of trading and found yourself right where you started. Well, Broadcom did just that. It entered the year just below $32 and trades at…
From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Apparently we weren’t the only ones who noticed that LCD makers were teaming up as a way to ease the competitive intensity. LG.Philips says investigated by…
Stocks: (AAPL)(MOT)(NOK)(DELL)(HPQ) Investors who are fans of Apple’s stock are beginning to wonder what the company’s next act will be. While iPod sales are still strong, the product has been around for five years.…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We’d venture to guess that not too many people follow both small-cap headset maker Plantronics (PLT) and large-cap enterprise software vendor Oracle (ORCL.) We do, which…
Microsoft’s MSN and other online businesses used to be a pretty big deal. They sat at the top of the pack with AOL and Yahoo!. That was before social networking and video sharing and….…
DivX (DIVX) shareholders can take a breather if they were worrying about the state of the Google (GOOG) search and bundling pact. When DIVX came public and while it was being touted by Cramer…
Stocks: (INTC)(MOT)(QCOM)(S) There has been a growing body of evidence that Intel is planning to base much of its future growth on WiMax. It investment in Clearwire, a WiMax service firm, its alliance to…