Below are the top 10 Consumer Electronics stocks with highest Return on Equity
(ROE) ratio for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making
profits from shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by
shareholders equity. One Chinese company (SGOC) is on the list. SGOCO Group Ltd
(NASDAQ:SGOC) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 49.26% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
8.50% for the same period. Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (USA) (AMEX:MCZ) has the
2nd highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 45.71%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 4.89% for the same period.
Koss Corporation (NASDAQ:KOSS) has the 3rd highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 31.65% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 10.53% for the same period. Emerson Radio Corp (AMEX:MSN) has the 4th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 26.43% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 7.22% for the same period.
hhgregg, Inc. (NYSE:HGG) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in this segment of
the market. Its ROE was 16.05% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
2.16% for the same period. DTS Inc. (NASDAQ:DTSI) has the 6th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 12.62% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 18.74% for the same period. Harman International
Industries Inc./DE/ (NYSE:HAR) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 10.62% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 3.60% for the same period. Universal Electronics Inc (NASDAQ:UEIC)
has the 8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
8.40% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 4.01% for the same
period. Audiovox Corporation (NASDAQ:VOXX) has the 9th highest Return on Equity
in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 6.40% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 4.09% for the same period. SRS Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRSL) has
the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
1.23% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 2.11% for the same
period.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sprint’s Race to Profit Becomes a Marathon
When Sprint (NYSE: S ) executives sat down with investors and analysts last
Friday, the news sounded pretty good: The carrier will start offering wireless
4G LTE service in the middle of 2012 and will finish building out its new
network by the end of the following year. At first, the stock rallied 12% on the
news. LTE is a version of next-generation 4G mobile networks, with the potential
to work several times faster than the 3G networks now in use. Sprint offers a 4G
service that relies on the Wimax technology of its partner Clearwire (NASDAQ:
CLWR ), but the extra investment would allow Sprint to rely more on its own
spectrum and less on Clearwires. Then came the bad news, and for investors it
far outweighed the good: Sprint said the network buildout would require $10
billion in capital expenses over the next two years. To raise that money, Sprint
would have to sell new shares – diluting the stakes of existing investors –
or take on new debt. Things got ugly fast. Within minutes, that 12% rise
vanished and Sprints stock sank for the rest of the day. On Monday, it continued
to sink as analysts furrowed their brows, wagged their fingers and revised their
estimates. At Mondays close, Sprint had lost 26% of the market value it had
before it made its announcement. For good measure, Clearwire, the partner Sprint
was throwing under the bus to build its own costly network, lost 37% of its
value in the same two-day period. It wasnt supposed to happen like this.
According to a report that appeared only a week earlier, Sprint was planning to
launch its LTE network in "early 2012" with no additional costs: "With the
costs already accounted for in its prior forecast, the LTE network wont require
any additional capital investment," CNET reported on Sept. 27. In late August,
Sprints CEO told Engadget he had a " great story around 4G " to tell this
fall. So far, only the Sprint bears are enjoying the story. Some analysts
attending the event werent so excited. The need to raise capital was bad enough,
but Sprint dodged questions about their own sales of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL )
iPhone or earnings forecasts. " Sprint is un-investible until they can provide
better clarity on EBTIDA, their 4G strategy and their capital structure,"
wrote Walter Piecyk of BTIG in a huffy note, which pointed out that Sprint had
dodged similar questions before, saying it would address them at last Fridays
event. The iPhone issue is also a sticky one. Carriers like AT&T (NYSE: T ) and
Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) saw their margins slim down after they began selling
iPhones, because of subsidies that carriers pay to sign up new subscribers. The
profit margin will increase over time, but in Sprints case the short-term profit
hit will coincide with the networks higher capital spending. Piecyks note came
on Friday. On Monday, things only got worse as six research houses downgraded
the stock, including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Kaufman Brothers. JPMs Philip
Cusick said the companys executive team "needs to re-prove itself to investors
before the stock can work." And not just to investors Standard & Poors warned
that it may downgrade the companys credit rating. The cocktail of lower margins
from iPhone subsidies and the new costs of upgrading its networks may be too
powerful for Sprint to stomach. Or as S&P put it, the mix "could lead to
near-term deterioration of profitability and key credit measures in the next few
years, including higher leverage and negative free operating cash flow in 2012
and 2013." Sprint is now worth a little more than a third (37%) than it was
only four months ago. Some contrarian-minded investors might imagine the stock
has been beaten down so hard that it could be a bargain, given the chance for
long-term growth thanks to iPhones and that new 4G network. But they might
consider that Sprint has $16 billion in long-term debt, several billion of which
will come due in the next few years. These risky bets the company is making
could hurt cash flows, which would making debt repayment tougher, as well as
hurt its credit rating, which would make interest payments higher. At the very
least, Sprints race to profit growth wont involve a sprint anymore. Its looking
more like a marathon.
Friday, the news sounded pretty good: The carrier will start offering wireless
4G LTE service in the middle of 2012 and will finish building out its new
network by the end of the following year. At first, the stock rallied 12% on the
news. LTE is a version of next-generation 4G mobile networks, with the potential
to work several times faster than the 3G networks now in use. Sprint offers a 4G
service that relies on the Wimax technology of its partner Clearwire (NASDAQ:
CLWR ), but the extra investment would allow Sprint to rely more on its own
spectrum and less on Clearwires. Then came the bad news, and for investors it
far outweighed the good: Sprint said the network buildout would require $10
billion in capital expenses over the next two years. To raise that money, Sprint
would have to sell new shares – diluting the stakes of existing investors –
or take on new debt. Things got ugly fast. Within minutes, that 12% rise
vanished and Sprints stock sank for the rest of the day. On Monday, it continued
to sink as analysts furrowed their brows, wagged their fingers and revised their
estimates. At Mondays close, Sprint had lost 26% of the market value it had
before it made its announcement. For good measure, Clearwire, the partner Sprint
was throwing under the bus to build its own costly network, lost 37% of its
value in the same two-day period. It wasnt supposed to happen like this.
According to a report that appeared only a week earlier, Sprint was planning to
launch its LTE network in "early 2012" with no additional costs: "With the
costs already accounted for in its prior forecast, the LTE network wont require
any additional capital investment," CNET reported on Sept. 27. In late August,
Sprints CEO told Engadget he had a " great story around 4G " to tell this
fall. So far, only the Sprint bears are enjoying the story. Some analysts
attending the event werent so excited. The need to raise capital was bad enough,
but Sprint dodged questions about their own sales of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL )
iPhone or earnings forecasts. " Sprint is un-investible until they can provide
better clarity on EBTIDA, their 4G strategy and their capital structure,"
wrote Walter Piecyk of BTIG in a huffy note, which pointed out that Sprint had
dodged similar questions before, saying it would address them at last Fridays
event. The iPhone issue is also a sticky one. Carriers like AT&T (NYSE: T ) and
Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) saw their margins slim down after they began selling
iPhones, because of subsidies that carriers pay to sign up new subscribers. The
profit margin will increase over time, but in Sprints case the short-term profit
hit will coincide with the networks higher capital spending. Piecyks note came
on Friday. On Monday, things only got worse as six research houses downgraded
the stock, including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Kaufman Brothers. JPMs Philip
Cusick said the companys executive team "needs to re-prove itself to investors
before the stock can work." And not just to investors Standard & Poors warned
that it may downgrade the companys credit rating. The cocktail of lower margins
from iPhone subsidies and the new costs of upgrading its networks may be too
powerful for Sprint to stomach. Or as S&P put it, the mix "could lead to
near-term deterioration of profitability and key credit measures in the next few
years, including higher leverage and negative free operating cash flow in 2012
and 2013." Sprint is now worth a little more than a third (37%) than it was
only four months ago. Some contrarian-minded investors might imagine the stock
has been beaten down so hard that it could be a bargain, given the chance for
long-term growth thanks to iPhones and that new 4G network. But they might
consider that Sprint has $16 billion in long-term debt, several billion of which
will come due in the next few years. These risky bets the company is making
could hurt cash flows, which would making debt repayment tougher, as well as
hurt its credit rating, which would make interest payments higher. At the very
least, Sprints race to profit growth wont involve a sprint anymore. Its looking
more like a marathon.
Here’s the Next Steve Jobs
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tdp2664 InvestorPlace With the death of Apple's ( NASDAQ : AAPL ) Steve Jobs, there is a huge void in the tech world. So now there is talk of who might emerge to achieve comparable success as a business leader and innovator. Some obvious candidates come to most people’s minds, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon 's ( NASDAQ : AMZN ) Jeff Bezos. They certainly are giants in their markets and have made a huge impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. Yet they still lack some key Jobsian qualities. For example, Zuckerberg and Bezos lead only one company apiece, whereas for a time Jobs ran both Apple and computer-animation studio Pixar. What's more, neither Zuckerberg nor Bezos has pulled a miraculous comeback from the brink of disaster like Jobs did after he returned to Apple in 1997. There is one person, however, who hasn't gotten much media attention but actually has these qualities: Elon Musk. Musk and Jobs actually demonstrated their talent for innovation at an early age. Musk got his first computer when he was 10 years old and wasted little time learning programming. He sold his first software for $500 — when he turned 12. It was a space game. It was not until the mid-1990s, however, that Musk made his fortune. He started Zip2, a content publisher, which was sold for more than $300 million. Musk then followed this up with PayPal, which he co-founded. At first, the company struggled. PayPal had to change its business model six times until Musk found the winning angle — providing online payment services.
Rare Earth Stocks — An Uncommonly Good Buy?
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tdp2664 InvestorPlace Rare earth stocks seem like a no-brainer. If you take the whole idea of supply and demand, the inherent scarcity in rare earths would imply that the companies in charge of these elements would be great investments right now. Unfortunately, buying rare earth stocks isn’t that simple. Investors need to understand the risks of this highly lucrative industry before considering dipping into rare earths. First, let's look at the biggest players. Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP ) is one of the most popular because its $3 billion market cap and 5 million shares traded daily make it relatively stable. Molycorp operates mines primarily in California. Smaller rare earth investments include Avalon Rare Metals (AMEX: AVL ), which mines Thor Lake in Canada, and Rare Element Resources (AMEX: REE ), which operates in both Canada and the U.S. Both rare earth stocks are worth around $300 million each, and both do upward of 1 million shares per day in stock volume. Another rare earth stock would be OTC-traded Lynas Corp. (PINK: LYSDY ), but despite its $2 billion market cap, investors should be wary of the mere 250,000 shares traded daily, as well as the fees and risks associated with trading a pink sheet stock like this. Lynas is headquartered in Australia and has operations in Malaysia. So which, if any, of these stocks is worth a look?
Top 10 Coal Stocks with Highest Return on Equity: AHGP, SCOK, ARLP, WLT, YZC, CLD, LLEN, NRP, HNRG, BTU (Oct 11, 2011)
Below are the top 10 Coal stocks with highest Return on Equity (ROE) ratio for
the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits from
shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders equity.
Two Chinese companies (SCOK, YZC) are on the list. Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.
(NASDAQ:AHGP) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 58.36% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
20.43% for the same period. SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chem Ind, Inc.
(NASDAQ:SCOK) has the 2nd highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 46.29% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
53.72% for the same period. Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:ARLP) has
the 3rd highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
35.44% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 20.71% for the same
period. Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT) has the 4th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 35.11% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 20.51% for the same period. Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. (ADR)
(NYSE:YZC) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 33.39% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 30.21% for
the same period. Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:CLD) has the 6th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 27.10% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 11.46% for the same period. L&L Energy, Inc.
(NASDAQ:LLEN) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 24.03% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
16.16% for the same period. Natural Resource Partners LP (NYSE:NRP) has the 8th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 21.75% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 53.91% for the same period.
Hallador Energy Co (NASDAQ:HNRG) has the 9th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 19.90% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 19.06% for the same period. Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) has
the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
19.48% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 12.45% for the same
period.
the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits from
shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders equity.
Two Chinese companies (SCOK, YZC) are on the list. Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.
(NASDAQ:AHGP) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 58.36% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
20.43% for the same period. SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chem Ind, Inc.
(NASDAQ:SCOK) has the 2nd highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 46.29% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
53.72% for the same period. Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:ARLP) has
the 3rd highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
35.44% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 20.71% for the same
period. Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT) has the 4th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 35.11% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 20.51% for the same period. Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. (ADR)
(NYSE:YZC) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 33.39% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 30.21% for
the same period. Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:CLD) has the 6th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 27.10% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 11.46% for the same period. L&L Energy, Inc.
(NASDAQ:LLEN) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 24.03% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
16.16% for the same period. Natural Resource Partners LP (NYSE:NRP) has the 8th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 21.75% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 53.91% for the same period.
Hallador Energy Co (NASDAQ:HNRG) has the 9th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 19.90% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 19.06% for the same period. Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) has
the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
19.48% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 12.45% for the same
period.
Fastenal — Third-Quarter Earnings Preview
Industrial and construction supply company Fastenal (NASDAQ: FAST ) reports
earnings for the quarter ending Sept. 30 on Thursday. With mixed signals coming
from the market and economic indicators, investors are right to be cautious
before the company reports results. Fastenal's results are directly impacted
by manufacturing activity. With manufacturing slowing in the third quarter, the
risk for an earnings disappointment increases. In addition, a stronger dollar
could negatively impact overseas sales. Fastenal is a global company, and its
fortunes are tied to the global economy. Despite the headwinds, Fastenal
reported strong sales in August . Wall Street firm Robert Baird downgraded
Fastenal to neutral late last week, putting a price target on the stock of $36
per share. With a strong rally Monday, Fastenal now trades for close to $35 per
share. The mixed signals make it difficult to read the tea leaves with respect
to the third-quarter report. During the past four quarters, Fastenal has met or
exceeded average Wall Street estimates: After Fastenal beat estimates by two
cents per share in the last quarter, expectations for the period ending Sept. 30
have increased. The average Wall Street estimate for the quarter is 33 cents per
share; 90 days ago, the estimate was for FAST to make 32 cents per share. In the
report for the second quarter, the company noted that it expected above-average
growth for the remainder of the year. Analyst estimates for the full year stand
at $1.21 per share. For the following year, Fastenals profits are expected to
grow by 20% to $1.45. At current prices, Fastenal trades for 29 times
current-year estimates of earnings. Click to Enlarge After the last report,
shares of Fastenal jumped, but ultimately that rally failed when the rest of the
market capitulated in mid-July. During the past 12 months, the stock has gained
nearly 30%: Fastenal has held up while stocks across the board have withered. As
a result, the valuation for the company is rich relative to expected earnings
growth from this year to next. The premium is justified as long as operating
performance continues to meet expectations. Monthly sales for the company in
July and August were solidly in double digits. With the company beating or
meeting estimates in each of the past four quarters, investors should expect
more of the same from the company when it reports results Thursday. Fastenal
needs a solid report to maintain its current premium valuation. More important
will be guidance. If that guidance is weak, shares are likely to suffer. There
is simply too much noise to get comfortable trading this stock in advance of
earnings. The most likely outcome is a share price reduction on a report that
simply meets expectations and includes lower guidance for the rest of the year.
I would sit on the sidelines with this one. As of this writing, Jamie Dlugosch
did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.
earnings for the quarter ending Sept. 30 on Thursday. With mixed signals coming
from the market and economic indicators, investors are right to be cautious
before the company reports results. Fastenal's results are directly impacted
by manufacturing activity. With manufacturing slowing in the third quarter, the
risk for an earnings disappointment increases. In addition, a stronger dollar
could negatively impact overseas sales. Fastenal is a global company, and its
fortunes are tied to the global economy. Despite the headwinds, Fastenal
reported strong sales in August . Wall Street firm Robert Baird downgraded
Fastenal to neutral late last week, putting a price target on the stock of $36
per share. With a strong rally Monday, Fastenal now trades for close to $35 per
share. The mixed signals make it difficult to read the tea leaves with respect
to the third-quarter report. During the past four quarters, Fastenal has met or
exceeded average Wall Street estimates: After Fastenal beat estimates by two
cents per share in the last quarter, expectations for the period ending Sept. 30
have increased. The average Wall Street estimate for the quarter is 33 cents per
share; 90 days ago, the estimate was for FAST to make 32 cents per share. In the
report for the second quarter, the company noted that it expected above-average
growth for the remainder of the year. Analyst estimates for the full year stand
at $1.21 per share. For the following year, Fastenals profits are expected to
grow by 20% to $1.45. At current prices, Fastenal trades for 29 times
current-year estimates of earnings. Click to Enlarge After the last report,
shares of Fastenal jumped, but ultimately that rally failed when the rest of the
market capitulated in mid-July. During the past 12 months, the stock has gained
nearly 30%: Fastenal has held up while stocks across the board have withered. As
a result, the valuation for the company is rich relative to expected earnings
growth from this year to next. The premium is justified as long as operating
performance continues to meet expectations. Monthly sales for the company in
July and August were solidly in double digits. With the company beating or
meeting estimates in each of the past four quarters, investors should expect
more of the same from the company when it reports results Thursday. Fastenal
needs a solid report to maintain its current premium valuation. More important
will be guidance. If that guidance is weak, shares are likely to suffer. There
is simply too much noise to get comfortable trading this stock in advance of
earnings. The most likely outcome is a share price reduction on a report that
simply meets expectations and includes lower guidance for the rest of the year.
I would sit on the sidelines with this one. As of this writing, Jamie Dlugosch
did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.
Jobs Recovery Helping to Revive the Economy
As earnings season fast approaches, it is hard to be bearish when the S&P's
third-quarter earnings are expected to rise 13% above last year's third
quarter. Meanwhile, stocks are trading at historically low P/E ratios. Bloomberg
reported that the S&P 500 was trading at just 10.2 times 2012 forecasted
earnings last Monday, which is 25% below its average in the past nine recessions
and we're not even in a recession! This dramatic earnings compression, along
with positive job news released last week, fueled a market revival. After a
dismal Monday, the S&P rose 5.12% and the Nasdaq rose 6.14% since last Tuesday.
Jobs Reports A series of three positive job reports certainly helped lift the
market last week. First, on Wednesday, ADP reported the private sector created
91,000 new jobs in September 16,000 above economists' consensus estimate of
75,000 and virtually identical to August's revised 89,000 pace. The breakdown
by company size was dramatic: In September, big companies lost 5,000 jobs, while
small- and medium-sized businesses created 96,000 jobs proving once again that
small business is America's major growth engine. On Thursday, the Labor
Department reported that new weekly jobless claims came within 1,000 of the key
400,000 threshold, where job creation tends to pick up. The closely-watched
four-week moving average declined 4,000 to 414,000, so the job creation trend
clearly is moving in the right direction. Finally, on Friday, the Labor
Department reported that September payrolls rose by 103,000, substantially
better than economists' consensus estimate of 60,000. Even better, government
jobs are shrinking: The private sector created 137,000 new jobs in September,
while the government sector shed 34,000 jobs. An even bigger surprise was that
jobs created in the last two months were revised substantially higher, rising by
99,000 August was revised up to 57,000 from an initial estimate of zero !
Although the unemployment rate in September was unchanged at 9.1%, the pace of
new job creation clearly is improving.
third-quarter earnings are expected to rise 13% above last year's third
quarter. Meanwhile, stocks are trading at historically low P/E ratios. Bloomberg
reported that the S&P 500 was trading at just 10.2 times 2012 forecasted
earnings last Monday, which is 25% below its average in the past nine recessions
and we're not even in a recession! This dramatic earnings compression, along
with positive job news released last week, fueled a market revival. After a
dismal Monday, the S&P rose 5.12% and the Nasdaq rose 6.14% since last Tuesday.
Jobs Reports A series of three positive job reports certainly helped lift the
market last week. First, on Wednesday, ADP reported the private sector created
91,000 new jobs in September 16,000 above economists' consensus estimate of
75,000 and virtually identical to August's revised 89,000 pace. The breakdown
by company size was dramatic: In September, big companies lost 5,000 jobs, while
small- and medium-sized businesses created 96,000 jobs proving once again that
small business is America's major growth engine. On Thursday, the Labor
Department reported that new weekly jobless claims came within 1,000 of the key
400,000 threshold, where job creation tends to pick up. The closely-watched
four-week moving average declined 4,000 to 414,000, so the job creation trend
clearly is moving in the right direction. Finally, on Friday, the Labor
Department reported that September payrolls rose by 103,000, substantially
better than economists' consensus estimate of 60,000. Even better, government
jobs are shrinking: The private sector created 137,000 new jobs in September,
while the government sector shed 34,000 jobs. An even bigger surprise was that
jobs created in the last two months were revised substantially higher, rising by
99,000 August was revised up to 57,000 from an initial estimate of zero !
Although the unemployment rate in September was unchanged at 9.1%, the pace of
new job creation clearly is improving.
Smartphones Hacking Away at Telecoms’ Revenue Legs
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tdp2664 InvestorPlace At the beginning of the ’00s, instant text communication was both exciting in its ubiquity and for its profitability. Web companies like AOL (NYSE: AOL ) still were convincing people to spend money on instant messenger and email services while telecoms were making big money on mobile phone text messages that were only just coming into vogue. Today, text messages (or SMS services) represent $20 billion in annual revenue for the U.S. telecom industry. But now, text, email and chat technology — thanks to the proliferation of web-connected handhelds — have merged into one single service that consumers aren’t interested in paying for . So if users continue to flock to an increasing number of free alternatives, what will Verizon (NYSE: VZ ), AT&T (NYSE: T ), and Sprint (NYSE: S ) do when that money disappears? Well, the loss of SMS revenue won’t exactly cripple AT&T or Verizon. Sure, Verizon pulls in $7 billion from text messages by itself — nearly half of the total take in the U.S. — but that represents just the smallest portion of the company’s $107 billion in total annual revenue . AT&T pulls in $125 billion in annual revenue . Who cares, then, if free services on smartphones like Apple ‘s ( NASDAQ : AAPL ) iMessage, Research In Motion ‘s ( NASDAQ : RIMM ) BlackBerry Messenger, and the Microsoft -owned ( NASDAQ : MSFT ) Skype start offering free-to-use text, picture messaging and even video services? No, the greater threat is that these services merging email, texts and instant messaging into seamless, free services might also start to incorporate voice, as well. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) also is preparing a service for Android phones like those already mentioned, and that company has made no bones about its interest in taking on the VoIP industry , too. What happens to Verizon and AT&T when their collective 215 million subscribers feel they shouldn’t have to pay as much as $90 for a voice-and-text plan when $100 for the best data plan alone can give them all the service they want? If users demand to not pay for voice packages, that could mean another potential $120 billion to $240 billion in revenues (based on varying voice packages) vanishing from the mobile market. That’s clearly a much larger hunk of the pie. That lost revenue ultimately would have to be replaced by raised data plan pricing. AT&T and Verizon already have done away with unlimited data plan offerings in favor of tiered usage contracts that limit how much data mobile users can upload to or download from the Web. Sprint is the only major telecom left that offers unlimited data plans, and even that might not last . Presumably, if smartphone users try to use only iMessenger or a comparable service to communicate with people rather than texts, they’ll use up their data limits quicker and have to upgrade to a new package, thus benefiting Verizon, AT&T or whomever else. The question is: Will people pay it? If AT&T and Verizon start charging $200 for packages that just provide data, forcing customers to rely purely on secondary services like Skype and iMessenger, it’s possible that smaller telecoms like MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS ) and Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP ) could get a second lease on life if they could provide low-cost, big-data packages for users. Now that popular handsets like the iPhone aren’t restricted to a single provider anymore, smaller telecoms potentially could find their business in data-only plans. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint aren’t under pressure to meet these changes head-on in 2011. But in a few years, how these companies charge for their services is going to have to change dramatically. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
Alcoa Flops to Kick Off Earnings Season — Tuesday’s IP Market Recap
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tdp2664 InvestorPlace Among figures worthy of note in the annals of false-start history are Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, Usain Bolt in the 100-meter final at the 2011 World Track and Field Championships — and now, Alcoa (NYSE: AA ), which laid an egg to kick off this year's third-quarter earnings season. Alcoa had analysts hanging their heads after the bell Tuesday when it reported Q3 earnings of 15 cents per share — a loud cry short of Wall Street's 22-cent-per-share expectation, which actually was down 42% from estimates in April. The company's poor numbers — which were blamed on "lower metal prices, seasonal factors and weakness in Europe" — set a gloomy investing tone for the next few weeks, as the aluminum giant's report traditionally rings in the earnings season. The poor report also sent Alcoa's stock down about 4.5% in after-hours trading, continuing a sob story that includes an almost 42% loss since its year-to-date high of $18.13 in April. The silver lining was a slight beat in revenue expectations, with Alcoa bringing in $6.42 billion. Analysts had estimated revenues of $6.24 billion. Companies forced to follow that act include PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP ), Progressive (NYSE: PGR ), Host Hotels (NYSE: HST ) and Infosys ( NASDAQ : INFY ), which report earnings Wednesday. Also Tuesday, deep-discount retailer 99 Cents Only (NYSE: NDN ), long in the acquisition crosshairs, finally got hit. Private equity firm Ares Management LLC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will buy out the company for $1.6 billion, or $22 per share — about 7% higher than its Tuesday finish of $21.39. NDN previously was courted by Leonard Green & Partners LP and the Schiffer- Gold family for an offer of $1.3 billion, or $19.09 per share. Three Up Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S ): Up 7.21% (16 cents) to $2.38. Citigroup (NYSE: C ): Up 5.1% ($1.35) to $27.84. Research In Motion ( NASDAQ : RIMM ): Up 5.08% ($1.18) to $24.41. Three Down First Solar ( NASDAQ : FSLR ): Down 6.47% ($3.87) to $55.91. CME Group (NYSE: CME ): Down 3.41% ($9.06) to $257. Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR ): Down 3.13% ($1.71) to $52.91. As of this writing, Kyle Woodley did not own a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.
Energy Commodities Continued Their Rally –Daily Recap October 11
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DG365FD46564GFH654FU898 The financial market didn’t do much yesterday after it had recorded sharp gains on Monday: Major energy commodities increased yesterday, while precious metals’ prices recorded a mixed trend with gold price slightly slipping and silver price slightly rising. Here is a summary of the price movements of precious metals and energy commodities for October 11th: Oil and Gas prices: WTI oil price slightly increased yesterday by 0.47% to $85.81 per barrel; Brent oil price also increased by 0.66% to $109.35 per barrel; Due these gains, the difference between Brent and WTI slightly rose to $23.54/bbl. During October, WTI oil price rose by 4.8%, and Brent oil price increased by 3.7%. Natural gas Henry Hub future price (November delivery) sharply inclined again by 2.26% to $3.62/mmbtu. The Henry Hub spot price gained back 3.53% to its value and settled at $3.52/mmbtu; the gap between the spot and future price slipped to $0.10/mmbtu, i.e. contango. Precious Metals prices: Gold price slightly declined yesterday by 0.59% to $1,661; Silver price, on the other hand nearly didn’t change and added only 0.06% to its value to $32.00. During October, gold price inclined by 2.4% and silver price increased by 6.4%.
The Silver and Gold Price Bull Market Has Not Near Ended, Lots More Time and Upside Left
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DG365FD46564GFH654FU898 Gold Price Close Today : 1669.60 Change : 35.10 or 2.1% Silver Price Close Today : 31.944 Change : 0.986 or 3.2% Gold Silver Ratio Today : 52.27 Change : -0.531 or -1.0% Silver Gold Ratio Today : 0.01913 Change : 0.000192 or 1.0% Platinum Price Close Today : 1520.70 Change : 0.40 or 0.0% Palladium Price Close Today : 613.75 Change : 0.00 or 0.0% S&P 500 : 1,194.89 Change : 39.43 or 3.4% Dow In GOLD$ : $141.56 Change : $ 1.15 or 0.8% Dow in GOLD oz : 6.848 Change : 0.056 or 0.8% Dow in SILVER oz : 357.91 Change : -0.74 or -0.2% Dow Industrial : 11,433.18 Change : 330.06 or 3.0% US Dollar Index : 77.53 Change : -1.210 or -1.5% I can’t avoid pointing out that the GOLD PRICE had yet another opportunity to pierce $1,675 today, and failed for the third time. Generally, third time’s the charm, and if it fails it won’t come back. Gold reached its flood tide at $1,681.57, but closed down $9.90 at $1,659.70. The GOLD PRICE has taken away one more reason to expect an immediate rally. O, and the SILVER PRICE close today! Silver rose one cent to close Comex at 3196.3, after a high of 3235c. That 3250c resistance held firm, and silver blinked. Possible it’s building a flat topped rising triangle, with the flat top at 3250c, because the lows have been higher. Still, a silver dip under 3150c, not to mention 3100c, will send the SILVER PRICE tumbling again. It’s easy to misunderstand my outlook. I sound very negative on SILVER and GOLD , but that’s a very short term view. I don’t think the European crisis has ended, and on top of that a silver and gold correction to a 34-month rise is taking place. Yet all that will pass. And what if it drove silver and gold down another 20%? I don’t care, because I am holding for the triple or quadruple we will see from that low. No, the SILVER and GOLD bull market has not near about ended. Lots more time and upside left. Don’t forget that. Logically — mathematically — the price of US government bonds ought to drop when the US dollar drops. Lower dollar means investors will demand more interest to make up for the lower dollar price, and bond prices move the opposite direction to their interest rates (yields). And as bonds have dropped, yields have risen. Maybe it’s only a blip on the screen as the US dollar corrects its rally, but still it contradicts the Fed’s Operation Twist that aims to lower long term rates, and the Fed’s stated goal of keeping all interest rates down. Why am I bothering with this? If ever a stampede develops out of US government debt because the public is repudiating the dollar, it will start this way, with the US government having to pay higher and higher interest to compensate for expected inflation and dollar instability. Not saying that’s happening now, just that its possible. The US DOLLAR index with a low at 77.34 today (closed 77.49, down 1.56%) right nearly touched the upper trading channel line of the channel the dollar broke out of to the upside. This classifies as that “Final Kiss Good-Bye” I mentioned yesterday. It’s a move markets often make, breaking out to a new high (or low), then trading back to the same support/resistance that marked the breakout point. Now the dollar might fall a little lower, maybe to 76.75, or even to the 200 day moving average at 76, but none of those moves will gainsay the dollar’s rally. Y’all will see soon the US dollar index priced in the 80s. Euro traded sideways, closed 1.36456, up — get out your electron microscope — 0.03%. The Japanese yen continues to torture its Nice Government Men and exporters by remaining stubbornly high. Closed today flat, up 0.02% at 130.45c/Y100 (Y76.65/$1). To set up the European bailout, 17 member states needed to agree unanimously. Today the last, Slovakia (population 5,429,763, fewer than Tennessee) voted AGAINST the bailout. The Germans have a word, “Schadenfreude” that means “gloating at someone’s fall.” Right now, I am fighting Schadenfreude over the eurocrats failure to bail out the banks. Probably, I am not fighting it hard enough. Good chance of that. Yep. Stocks today bounced off that bottom line of the Jaws of Death top I mentioned yesterday. Dow fell 16.88 (0.15%) to a 11,416.30 close. S&P flattened, up 0.65 [sic] to 1,195.54. I may not like stocks (and I don’t, no more’n y’all like a copperhead snake) but I try to tear off the top of the chart and read faithfully what it says. They may rally, but I don’t want any part of them. First off, that little rally shouldn’t carry too far, according to overbought/oversold indicators. But let’s say stocks go wild and shoot their biggest bolt and reach for that 200 dma way in the sky above at 11,968.90 — what then? Still don’t amount to a hill of beans, and they’re in a bear market to boot. On the other hand, stocks are a fine candidate to fail right here and fall more. Wall Street 2011 — what 250,000 Confederate soldiers died to prevent. Argentum et aurum comparenda sunt — – Gold and silver must be bought. – Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger The-MoneyChanger.com © 2011, The Moneychanger. May not be republished in any form, including electronically, without our express permission. To avoid confusion, please remember that the comments above have a very short time horizon. Always invest with the primary trend. Gold’s primary trend is up, targeting at least $3,130.00; silver’s primary is up targeting 16:1 gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stocks’ primary trend is down, targeting Dow under 2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold; US$ or US$-denominated assets, primary trend down; real estate in a bubble, primary trend way down. Whenever I write “Stay out of stocks” readers inevitably ask, “Do you mean precious metals mining stocks, too?” No, I don’t. WARNING AND DISCLAIMER. Be advised and warned: Do NOT use these commentaries to trade futures contracts. I don’t intend them for that or write them with that short term trading outlook. I write them for long-term investors in physical metals. Take them as entertainment, but not as a timing service for futures. NOR do I recommend investing in gold or silver Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs). Those are NOT physical metal and I fear one day one or another may go up in smoke. Unless you can breathe smoke, stay away. Call me paranoid, but the surviving rabbit is wary of traps. NOR do I recommend trading futures options or other leveraged paper gold and silver products. These are not for the inexperienced. NOR do I recommend buying gold and silver on margin or with debt. What DO I recommend? Physical gold and silver coins and bars in your own hands. One final warning: NEVER insert a 747 Jumbo Jet up your nose.
Gold Futures Drop, SocGen Cuts 2012 Forecast
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Tuesday Apple Rumors — Sprint iPhone 4S (Still) For Sale
Here are your daily Apple rumors and news items for Tuesday: Sprint iPhone 4S
Not Selling Out: The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone 4S, out on Friday, already is
selling well. More than 1 million consumers pre-ordered the device within its
first 24 hours of availability, crushing the previous record of 600,000
pre-orders held by the iPhone 4. Swift as sales have been, though, the iPhone 4S
pre-orders havent sold out everywhere . According to a report at All Things
Digital , three of the four new iPhone models still are available for pre-order
through Sprint (NYSE: S ). The first-tier iPhone 4S, a $199 machine with a 16GB
flash drive, has sold out at the third-place telecom, but the 32GB and 64GB
models as well as the new 8GB iPhone 4 still are available. This is by no
means a sign that the iPhone wont be a popular device for the company, but it is
surprising that the only telecom offering unlimited data plans for the iPhone
isnt selling out of its pre-order allotments faster than Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) or
AT&T (NYSE: T ). AT&T Bulks up Android Support: AT&T coasted on its exclusive
support of the iPhone for years. Since Apple started spreading the wealth to
Verizon and now Sprint, however, AT&T has been bulking up its support of phones
running Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android operating system. A Tuesday report at
Apple Insider detailed an announcement from AT&T that it will support Motorola s
(NYSE: MMI ) Atrix 2, Samsung s (PINK: SSNLF ) Captivate Glide and DoubleTime,
Pantechs Pocket, and its own Avail phone. This brings the total number of
Android phones on AT&Ts network to 19 far more than the 12 Android devices the
company originally planned to support in 2011. Facebook iPad App Released: Its a
few days late, but its finally out. Months after the worlds most profitable
social network said it would release an official app for Apples iPad, Facebook
finally has released its tablet specific app . What held up the apps release? No
one knows for sure, but former Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen, who left the
company for Google in September, indicated that inter-company conflicts were the
source of the problem . Apple and Facebook have clashed over integration with
each others products in the past, particularly over Apples failed iTunes social
network Ping . As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position
in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
Not Selling Out: The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone 4S, out on Friday, already is
selling well. More than 1 million consumers pre-ordered the device within its
first 24 hours of availability, crushing the previous record of 600,000
pre-orders held by the iPhone 4. Swift as sales have been, though, the iPhone 4S
pre-orders havent sold out everywhere . According to a report at All Things
Digital , three of the four new iPhone models still are available for pre-order
through Sprint (NYSE: S ). The first-tier iPhone 4S, a $199 machine with a 16GB
flash drive, has sold out at the third-place telecom, but the 32GB and 64GB
models as well as the new 8GB iPhone 4 still are available. This is by no
means a sign that the iPhone wont be a popular device for the company, but it is
surprising that the only telecom offering unlimited data plans for the iPhone
isnt selling out of its pre-order allotments faster than Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) or
AT&T (NYSE: T ). AT&T Bulks up Android Support: AT&T coasted on its exclusive
support of the iPhone for years. Since Apple started spreading the wealth to
Verizon and now Sprint, however, AT&T has been bulking up its support of phones
running Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android operating system. A Tuesday report at
Apple Insider detailed an announcement from AT&T that it will support Motorola s
(NYSE: MMI ) Atrix 2, Samsung s (PINK: SSNLF ) Captivate Glide and DoubleTime,
Pantechs Pocket, and its own Avail phone. This brings the total number of
Android phones on AT&Ts network to 19 far more than the 12 Android devices the
company originally planned to support in 2011. Facebook iPad App Released: Its a
few days late, but its finally out. Months after the worlds most profitable
social network said it would release an official app for Apples iPad, Facebook
finally has released its tablet specific app . What held up the apps release? No
one knows for sure, but former Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen, who left the
company for Google in September, indicated that inter-company conflicts were the
source of the problem . Apple and Facebook have clashed over integration with
each others products in the past, particularly over Apples failed iTunes social
network Ping . As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position
in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
Energy Commodities Continued Their Rally –Daily Recap October 11
The financial market didnt do much yesterday after it had recorded sharp gains
on Monday: Major energy commodities increased yesterday, while precious metals
prices recorded a mixed trend with gold price slightly slipping and silver price
slightly rising. Here is a summary of the price movements of precious metals and
energy commodities for October 11th: Oil and Gas prices: WTI oil price slightly
increased yesterday by 0.47% to $85.81 per barrel; Brent oil price also
increased by 0.66% to $109.35 per barrel; Due these gains, the difference
between Brent and WTI slightly rose to $23.54/bbl. During October, WTI oil price
rose by 4.8%, and Brent oil price increased by 3.7%. Natural gas Henry Hub
future price (November delivery) sharply inclined again by 2.26% to $3.62/mmbtu.
The Henry Hub spot price gained back 3.53% to its value and settled at
$3.52/mmbtu; the gap between the spot and future price slipped to $0.10/mmbtu,
i.e. contango. Precious Metals prices: Gold price slightly declined yesterday by
0.59% to $1,661; Silver price, on the other hand nearly didnt change and added
only 0.06% to its value to $32.00. During October, gold price inclined by 2.4%
and silver price increased by 6.4%.
on Monday: Major energy commodities increased yesterday, while precious metals
prices recorded a mixed trend with gold price slightly slipping and silver price
slightly rising. Here is a summary of the price movements of precious metals and
energy commodities for October 11th: Oil and Gas prices: WTI oil price slightly
increased yesterday by 0.47% to $85.81 per barrel; Brent oil price also
increased by 0.66% to $109.35 per barrel; Due these gains, the difference
between Brent and WTI slightly rose to $23.54/bbl. During October, WTI oil price
rose by 4.8%, and Brent oil price increased by 3.7%. Natural gas Henry Hub
future price (November delivery) sharply inclined again by 2.26% to $3.62/mmbtu.
The Henry Hub spot price gained back 3.53% to its value and settled at
$3.52/mmbtu; the gap between the spot and future price slipped to $0.10/mmbtu,
i.e. contango. Precious Metals prices: Gold price slightly declined yesterday by
0.59% to $1,661; Silver price, on the other hand nearly didnt change and added
only 0.06% to its value to $32.00. During October, gold price inclined by 2.4%
and silver price increased by 6.4%.
The Silver and Gold Price Bull Market Has Not Near Ended, Lots More Time and Upside Left
Gold Price Close Today : 1669.60 Change : 35.10 or 2.1% Silver Price Close
Today : 31.944 Change : 0.986 or 3.2% Gold Silver Ratio Today : 52.27 Change :
-0.531 or -1.0% Silver Gold Ratio Today : 0.01913 Change : 0.000192 or 1.0%
Platinum Price Close Today : 1520.70 Change : 0.40 or 0.0% Palladium Price Close
Today : 613.75 Change : 0.00 or 0.0% S&P 500 : 1,194.89 Change : 39.43 or 3.4%
Dow In GOLD$ : $141.56 Change : $ 1.15 or 0.8% Dow in GOLD oz : 6.848 Change :
0.056 or 0.8% Dow in SILVER oz : 357.91 Change : -0.74 or -0.2% Dow Industrial :
11,433.18 Change : 330.06 or 3.0% US Dollar Index : 77.53 Change : -1.210 or
-1.5% I can't avoid pointing out that the GOLD PRICE had yet another opportunity
to pierce $1,675 today, and failed for the third time. Generally, third time's
the charm, and if it fails it won't come back. Gold reached its flood tide at
$1,681.57, but closed down $9.90 at $1,659.70. The GOLD PRICE has taken away one
more reason to expect an immediate rally. O, and the SILVER PRICE close today!
Silver rose one cent to close Comex at 3196.3, after a high of 3235c. That 3250c
resistance held firm, and silver blinked. Possible it's building a flat topped
rising triangle, with the flat top at 3250c, because the lows have been higher.
Still, a silver dip under 3150c, not to mention 3100c, will send the SILVER
PRICE tumbling again. It's easy to misunderstand my outlook. I sound very
negative on SILVER and GOLD , but that's a very short term view. I don't think
the European crisis has ended, and on top of that a silver and gold correction
to a 34-month rise is taking place. Yet all that will pass. And what if it drove
silver and gold down another 20%? I don't care, because I am holding for the
triple or quadruple we will see from that low. No, the SILVER and GOLD bull
market has not near about ended. Lots more time and upside left. Don't forget
that. Logically -- mathematically -- the price of US government bonds ought to
drop when the US dollar drops. Lower dollar means investors will demand more
interest to make up for the lower dollar price, and bond prices move the
opposite direction to their interest rates (yields). And as bonds have dropped,
yields have risen. Maybe it's only a blip on the screen as the US dollar
corrects its rally, but still it contradicts the Fed's Operation Twist that aims
to lower long term rates, and the Fed's stated goal of keeping all interest
rates down. Why am I bothering with this? If ever a stampede develops out of US
government debt because the public is repudiating the dollar, it will start this
way, with the US government having to pay higher and higher interest to
compensate for expected inflation and dollar instability. Not saying that's
happening now, just that its possible. The US DOLLAR index with a low at 77.34
today (closed 77.49, down 1.56%) right nearly touched the upper trading channel
line of the channel the dollar broke out of to the upside. This classifies as
that "Final Kiss Good-Bye" I mentioned yesterday. It's a move markets often
make, breaking out to a new high (or low), then trading back to the same
support/resistance that marked the breakout point. Now the dollar might fall a
little lower, maybe to 76.75, or even to the 200 day moving average at 76, but
none of those moves will gainsay the dollar's rally. Y'all will see soon the US
dollar index priced in the 80s. Euro traded sideways, closed 1.36456, up -- get
out your electron microscope -- 0.03%. The Japanese yen continues to torture its
Nice Government Men and exporters by remaining stubbornly high. Closed today
flat, up 0.02% at 130.45c/Y100 (Y76.65/$1). To set up the European bailout, 17
member states needed to agree unanimously. Today the last, Slovakia (population
5,429,763, fewer than Tennessee) voted AGAINST the bailout. The Germans have a
word, "Schadenfreude" that means "gloating at someone's fall." Right now, I am
fighting Schadenfreude over the eurocrats failure to bail out the banks.
Probably, I am not fighting it hard enough. Good chance of that. Yep. Stocks
today bounced off that bottom line of the Jaws of Death top I mentioned
yesterday. Dow fell 16.88 (0.15%) to a 11,416.30 close. S&P flattened, up 0.65
[sic] to 1,195.54. I may not like stocks (and I don't, no more'n y'all like a
copperhead snake) but I try to tear off the top of the chart and read faithfully
what it says. They may rally, but I don't want any part of them. First off, that
little rally shouldn't carry too far, according to overbought/oversold
indicators. But let's say stocks go wild and shoot their biggest bolt and reach
for that 200 dma way in the sky above at 11,968.90 -- what then? Still don't
amount to a hill of beans, and they're in a bear market to boot. On the other
hand, stocks are a fine candidate to fail right here and fall more. Wall Street
2011 -- what 250,000 Confederate soldiers died to prevent. Argentum et aurum
comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought. - Franklin Sanders, The
Moneychanger The-MoneyChanger.com © 2011, The Moneychanger. May not be
republished in any form, including electronically, without our express
permission. To avoid confusion, please remember that the comments above have a
very short time horizon. Always invest with the primary trend. Gold's primary
trend is up, targeting at least $3,130.00; silver's primary is up targeting 16:1
gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stocks' primary trend is down, targeting Dow under
2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold; US$ or US$-denominated assets, primary
trend down; real estate in a bubble, primary trend way down. Whenever I write
"Stay out of stocks" readers inevitably ask, "Do you mean precious metals mining
stocks, too?" No, I don't. WARNING AND DISCLAIMER. Be advised and warned: Do NOT
use these commentaries to trade futures contracts. I don't intend them for that
or write them with that short term trading outlook. I write them for long-term
investors in physical metals. Take them as entertainment, but not as a timing
service for futures. NOR do I recommend investing in gold or silver Exchange
Trade Funds (ETFs). Those are NOT physical metal and I fear one day one or
another may go up in smoke. Unless you can breathe smoke, stay away. Call me
paranoid, but the surviving rabbit is wary of traps. NOR do I recommend trading
futures options or other leveraged paper gold and silver products. These are not
for the inexperienced. NOR do I recommend buying gold and silver on margin or
with debt. What DO I recommend? Physical gold and silver coins and bars in your
own hands. One final warning: NEVER insert a 747 Jumbo Jet up your nose.
Today : 31.944 Change : 0.986 or 3.2% Gold Silver Ratio Today : 52.27 Change :
-0.531 or -1.0% Silver Gold Ratio Today : 0.01913 Change : 0.000192 or 1.0%
Platinum Price Close Today : 1520.70 Change : 0.40 or 0.0% Palladium Price Close
Today : 613.75 Change : 0.00 or 0.0% S&P 500 : 1,194.89 Change : 39.43 or 3.4%
Dow In GOLD$ : $141.56 Change : $ 1.15 or 0.8% Dow in GOLD oz : 6.848 Change :
0.056 or 0.8% Dow in SILVER oz : 357.91 Change : -0.74 or -0.2% Dow Industrial :
11,433.18 Change : 330.06 or 3.0% US Dollar Index : 77.53 Change : -1.210 or
-1.5% I can't avoid pointing out that the GOLD PRICE had yet another opportunity
to pierce $1,675 today, and failed for the third time. Generally, third time's
the charm, and if it fails it won't come back. Gold reached its flood tide at
$1,681.57, but closed down $9.90 at $1,659.70. The GOLD PRICE has taken away one
more reason to expect an immediate rally. O, and the SILVER PRICE close today!
Silver rose one cent to close Comex at 3196.3, after a high of 3235c. That 3250c
resistance held firm, and silver blinked. Possible it's building a flat topped
rising triangle, with the flat top at 3250c, because the lows have been higher.
Still, a silver dip under 3150c, not to mention 3100c, will send the SILVER
PRICE tumbling again. It's easy to misunderstand my outlook. I sound very
negative on SILVER and GOLD , but that's a very short term view. I don't think
the European crisis has ended, and on top of that a silver and gold correction
to a 34-month rise is taking place. Yet all that will pass. And what if it drove
silver and gold down another 20%? I don't care, because I am holding for the
triple or quadruple we will see from that low. No, the SILVER and GOLD bull
market has not near about ended. Lots more time and upside left. Don't forget
that. Logically -- mathematically -- the price of US government bonds ought to
drop when the US dollar drops. Lower dollar means investors will demand more
interest to make up for the lower dollar price, and bond prices move the
opposite direction to their interest rates (yields). And as bonds have dropped,
yields have risen. Maybe it's only a blip on the screen as the US dollar
corrects its rally, but still it contradicts the Fed's Operation Twist that aims
to lower long term rates, and the Fed's stated goal of keeping all interest
rates down. Why am I bothering with this? If ever a stampede develops out of US
government debt because the public is repudiating the dollar, it will start this
way, with the US government having to pay higher and higher interest to
compensate for expected inflation and dollar instability. Not saying that's
happening now, just that its possible. The US DOLLAR index with a low at 77.34
today (closed 77.49, down 1.56%) right nearly touched the upper trading channel
line of the channel the dollar broke out of to the upside. This classifies as
that "Final Kiss Good-Bye" I mentioned yesterday. It's a move markets often
make, breaking out to a new high (or low), then trading back to the same
support/resistance that marked the breakout point. Now the dollar might fall a
little lower, maybe to 76.75, or even to the 200 day moving average at 76, but
none of those moves will gainsay the dollar's rally. Y'all will see soon the US
dollar index priced in the 80s. Euro traded sideways, closed 1.36456, up -- get
out your electron microscope -- 0.03%. The Japanese yen continues to torture its
Nice Government Men and exporters by remaining stubbornly high. Closed today
flat, up 0.02% at 130.45c/Y100 (Y76.65/$1). To set up the European bailout, 17
member states needed to agree unanimously. Today the last, Slovakia (population
5,429,763, fewer than Tennessee) voted AGAINST the bailout. The Germans have a
word, "Schadenfreude" that means "gloating at someone's fall." Right now, I am
fighting Schadenfreude over the eurocrats failure to bail out the banks.
Probably, I am not fighting it hard enough. Good chance of that. Yep. Stocks
today bounced off that bottom line of the Jaws of Death top I mentioned
yesterday. Dow fell 16.88 (0.15%) to a 11,416.30 close. S&P flattened, up 0.65
[sic] to 1,195.54. I may not like stocks (and I don't, no more'n y'all like a
copperhead snake) but I try to tear off the top of the chart and read faithfully
what it says. They may rally, but I don't want any part of them. First off, that
little rally shouldn't carry too far, according to overbought/oversold
indicators. But let's say stocks go wild and shoot their biggest bolt and reach
for that 200 dma way in the sky above at 11,968.90 -- what then? Still don't
amount to a hill of beans, and they're in a bear market to boot. On the other
hand, stocks are a fine candidate to fail right here and fall more. Wall Street
2011 -- what 250,000 Confederate soldiers died to prevent. Argentum et aurum
comparenda sunt -- -- Gold and silver must be bought. - Franklin Sanders, The
Moneychanger The-MoneyChanger.com © 2011, The Moneychanger. May not be
republished in any form, including electronically, without our express
permission. To avoid confusion, please remember that the comments above have a
very short time horizon. Always invest with the primary trend. Gold's primary
trend is up, targeting at least $3,130.00; silver's primary is up targeting 16:1
gold/silver ratio or $195.66; stocks' primary trend is down, targeting Dow under
2,900 and worth only one ounce of gold; US$ or US$-denominated assets, primary
trend down; real estate in a bubble, primary trend way down. Whenever I write
"Stay out of stocks" readers inevitably ask, "Do you mean precious metals mining
stocks, too?" No, I don't. WARNING AND DISCLAIMER. Be advised and warned: Do NOT
use these commentaries to trade futures contracts. I don't intend them for that
or write them with that short term trading outlook. I write them for long-term
investors in physical metals. Take them as entertainment, but not as a timing
service for futures. NOR do I recommend investing in gold or silver Exchange
Trade Funds (ETFs). Those are NOT physical metal and I fear one day one or
another may go up in smoke. Unless you can breathe smoke, stay away. Call me
paranoid, but the surviving rabbit is wary of traps. NOR do I recommend trading
futures options or other leveraged paper gold and silver products. These are not
for the inexperienced. NOR do I recommend buying gold and silver on margin or
with debt. What DO I recommend? Physical gold and silver coins and bars in your
own hands. One final warning: NEVER insert a 747 Jumbo Jet up your nose.
Top 10 Chemical Stocks with Highest Return on Equity: TNH, OMN, GPRC, SCEI, CE, KOP, KEYP, POL, CMP, NEU (Oct 11, 2011)
Below are the top 10 Chemical stocks with highest Return on Equity (ROE) ratio
for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits from
shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders equity.
Three Chinese companies (GPRC, SCEI, KEYP) are on the list. Terra Nitrogen
Company, L.P. (NYSE:TNH) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of
the market. Its ROE was 97.43% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
52.09% for the same period. OMNOVA Solutions Inc. (NYSE:OMN) has the 2nd highest
Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 91.23% for the last
12 months. Its net profit margin was 7.70% for the same period. Guanwei
Recycling Corp. (NASDAQ:GPRC) has the 3rd highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 63.43% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 20.77% for the same period. Sino Clean Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:SCEI) has
the 4th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
59.57% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 37.93% for the same
period. Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 57.52% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 9.33% for the same period. Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP)
has the 6th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
55.51% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 3.57% for the same
period. Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KEYP) has the 7th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 49.06% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 4.63% for the same period. PolyOne Corporation
(NYSE:POL) has the 8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 45.32% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 8.44% for
the same period. Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE:CMP) has the 9th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 43.80% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 13.68% for the same period.
NewMarket Corporation (NYSE:NEU) has the 10th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 39.37% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 9.76% for the same period.
for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits from
shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders equity.
Three Chinese companies (GPRC, SCEI, KEYP) are on the list. Terra Nitrogen
Company, L.P. (NYSE:TNH) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of
the market. Its ROE was 97.43% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
52.09% for the same period. OMNOVA Solutions Inc. (NYSE:OMN) has the 2nd highest
Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 91.23% for the last
12 months. Its net profit margin was 7.70% for the same period. Guanwei
Recycling Corp. (NASDAQ:GPRC) has the 3rd highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 63.43% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 20.77% for the same period. Sino Clean Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:SCEI) has
the 4th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
59.57% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 37.93% for the same
period. Celanese Corporation (NYSE:CE) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 57.52% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 9.33% for the same period. Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KOP)
has the 6th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
55.51% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 3.57% for the same
period. Keyuan Petrochemicals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KEYP) has the 7th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 49.06% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 4.63% for the same period. PolyOne Corporation
(NYSE:POL) has the 8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 45.32% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 8.44% for
the same period. Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE:CMP) has the 9th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 43.80% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 13.68% for the same period.
NewMarket Corporation (NYSE:NEU) has the 10th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 39.37% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 9.76% for the same period.
Top 10 Broadcasting Stocks with Highest Return on Equity: MBND, SIRI, ETM, BLC, SNI, TIVO, CTCM, TWC, STV, TV (Oct 11, 2011)
Below are the top 10 Broadcasting stocks with highest Return on Equity (ROE)
ratio for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits
from shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders
equity. One Chinese company (STV) is on the list. Multiband Corporation
(NASDAQ:MBND) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 109.50% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
5.50% for the same period. Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) has the 2nd
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 70.41% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 8.13% for the same period.
Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE:ETM) has the 3rd highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 42.46% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 19.83% for the same period. Belo Corp. (NYSE:BLC) has the 4th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 35.61% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 9.83% for the same period. Scripps
Networks Interactive, Inc. (NYSE:SNI) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 28.91% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 29.26% for the same period. TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO) has the
6th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 24.84%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 30.18% for the same period.
CTC Media, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTCM) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 20.29% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 23.29% for the same period. Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE:TWC) has the
8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 17.28%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 7.79% for the same period.
China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd.(ADR) (NYSE:STV) has the 9th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 17.21% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 39.38% for the same period. Grupo Televisa, S.A. (ADR)
(NYSE:TV) has the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 17.18% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 14.35% for
the same period.
ratio for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits
from shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders
equity. One Chinese company (STV) is on the list. Multiband Corporation
(NASDAQ:MBND) has the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 109.50% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
5.50% for the same period. Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) has the 2nd
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 70.41% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 8.13% for the same period.
Entercom Communications Corp. (NYSE:ETM) has the 3rd highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 42.46% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 19.83% for the same period. Belo Corp. (NYSE:BLC) has the 4th
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 35.61% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 9.83% for the same period. Scripps
Networks Interactive, Inc. (NYSE:SNI) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 28.91% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 29.26% for the same period. TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO) has the
6th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 24.84%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 30.18% for the same period.
CTC Media, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTCM) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 20.29% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 23.29% for the same period. Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE:TWC) has the
8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 17.28%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 7.79% for the same period.
China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd.(ADR) (NYSE:STV) has the 9th highest Return on
Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 17.21% for the last 12 months.
Its net profit margin was 39.38% for the same period. Grupo Televisa, S.A. (ADR)
(NYSE:TV) has the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 17.18% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 14.35% for
the same period.
Alcoa Flops to Kick Off Earnings Season — Tuesday’s IP Market Recap
Among figures worthy of note in the annals of false-start history are Kentucky
Derby winner Barbaro in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, Usain Bolt in the 100-meter
final at the 2011 World Track and Field Championships and now, Alcoa (NYSE: AA
), which laid an egg to kick off this year's third-quarter earnings season.
Alcoa had analysts hanging their heads after the bell Tuesday when it reported
Q3 earnings of 15 cents per share a loud cry short of Wall Street's
22-cent-per-share expectation, which actually was down 42% from estimates in
April. The company's poor numbers which were blamed on "lower metal prices,
seasonal factors and weakness in Europe" set a gloomy investing tone for the
next few weeks, as the aluminum giant's report traditionally rings in the
earnings season. The poor report also sent Alcoa's stock down about 4.5% in
after-hours trading, continuing a sob story that includes an almost 42% loss
since its year-to-date high of $18.13 in April. The silver lining was a slight
beat in revenue expectations, with Alcoa bringing in $6.42 billion. Analysts had
estimated revenues of $6.24 billion. Companies forced to follow that act include
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP ), Progressive (NYSE: PGR ), Host Hotels (NYSE: HST ) and
Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY ), which report earnings Wednesday. Also Tuesday,
deep-discount retailer 99 Cents Only (NYSE: NDN ), long in the acquisition
crosshairs, finally got hit. Private equity firm Ares Management LLC and the
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will buy out the company for $1.6 billion,
or $22 per share about 7% higher than its Tuesday finish of $21.39. NDN
previously was courted by Leonard Green & Partners LP and the Schiffer-Gold
family for an offer of $1.3 billion, or $19.09 per share. Three Up Sprint Nextel
(NYSE: S ): Up 7.21% (16 cents) to $2.38. Citigroup (NYSE: C ): Up 5.1% ($1.35)
to $27.84. Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ): Up 5.08% ($1.18) to $24.41. Three
Down First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR ): Down 6.47% ($3.87) to $55.91. CME Group (NYSE:
CME ): Down 3.41% ($9.06) to $257. Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR ): Down 3.13%
($1.71) to $52.91. As of this writing, Kyle Woodley did not own a position in
any of the aforementioned stocks.
Derby winner Barbaro in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, Usain Bolt in the 100-meter
final at the 2011 World Track and Field Championships and now, Alcoa (NYSE: AA
), which laid an egg to kick off this year's third-quarter earnings season.
Alcoa had analysts hanging their heads after the bell Tuesday when it reported
Q3 earnings of 15 cents per share a loud cry short of Wall Street's
22-cent-per-share expectation, which actually was down 42% from estimates in
April. The company's poor numbers which were blamed on "lower metal prices,
seasonal factors and weakness in Europe" set a gloomy investing tone for the
next few weeks, as the aluminum giant's report traditionally rings in the
earnings season. The poor report also sent Alcoa's stock down about 4.5% in
after-hours trading, continuing a sob story that includes an almost 42% loss
since its year-to-date high of $18.13 in April. The silver lining was a slight
beat in revenue expectations, with Alcoa bringing in $6.42 billion. Analysts had
estimated revenues of $6.24 billion. Companies forced to follow that act include
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP ), Progressive (NYSE: PGR ), Host Hotels (NYSE: HST ) and
Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY ), which report earnings Wednesday. Also Tuesday,
deep-discount retailer 99 Cents Only (NYSE: NDN ), long in the acquisition
crosshairs, finally got hit. Private equity firm Ares Management LLC and the
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will buy out the company for $1.6 billion,
or $22 per share about 7% higher than its Tuesday finish of $21.39. NDN
previously was courted by Leonard Green & Partners LP and the Schiffer-Gold
family for an offer of $1.3 billion, or $19.09 per share. Three Up Sprint Nextel
(NYSE: S ): Up 7.21% (16 cents) to $2.38. Citigroup (NYSE: C ): Up 5.1% ($1.35)
to $27.84. Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ): Up 5.08% ($1.18) to $24.41. Three
Down First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR ): Down 6.47% ($3.87) to $55.91. CME Group (NYSE:
CME ): Down 3.41% ($9.06) to $257. Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR ): Down 3.13%
($1.71) to $52.91. As of this writing, Kyle Woodley did not own a position in
any of the aforementioned stocks.
Gold Futures Drop, SocGen Cuts 2012 Forecast
Gold futures dropped Tuesday, with the COMEX December 2011 contract settling
lower by $9.80, or 0.6%, at $1,661.00 per ounce.
lower by $9.80, or 0.6%, at $1,661.00 per ounce.
Here’s the Next Steve Jobs
With the death of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) Steve Jobs, there is a huge void in
the tech world. So now there is talk of who might emerge to achieve comparable
success as a business leader and innovator. Some obvious candidates come to most
peoples minds, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon 's (NASDAQ:
AMZN ) Jeff Bezos. They certainly are giants in their markets and have made a
huge impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. Yet they still lack
some key Jobsian qualities. For example, Zuckerberg and Bezos lead only one
company apiece, whereas for a time Jobs ran both Apple and computer-animation
studio Pixar. What's more, neither Zuckerberg nor Bezos has pulled a
miraculous comeback from the brink of disaster like Jobs did after he returned
to Apple in 1997. There is one person, however, who hasn't gotten much media
attention but actually has these qualities: Elon Musk. Musk and Jobs actually
demonstrated their talent for innovation at an early age. Musk got his first
computer when he was 10 years old and wasted little time learning programming.
He sold his first software for $500 when he turned 12. It was a space game. It
was not until the mid-1990s, however, that Musk made his fortune. He started
Zip2, a content publisher, which was sold for more than $300 million. Musk then
followed this up with PayPal, which he co-founded. At first, the company
struggled. PayPal had to change its business model six times until Musk found
the winning angle providing online payment services.
the tech world. So now there is talk of who might emerge to achieve comparable
success as a business leader and innovator. Some obvious candidates come to most
peoples minds, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon 's (NASDAQ:
AMZN ) Jeff Bezos. They certainly are giants in their markets and have made a
huge impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. Yet they still lack
some key Jobsian qualities. For example, Zuckerberg and Bezos lead only one
company apiece, whereas for a time Jobs ran both Apple and computer-animation
studio Pixar. What's more, neither Zuckerberg nor Bezos has pulled a
miraculous comeback from the brink of disaster like Jobs did after he returned
to Apple in 1997. There is one person, however, who hasn't gotten much media
attention but actually has these qualities: Elon Musk. Musk and Jobs actually
demonstrated their talent for innovation at an early age. Musk got his first
computer when he was 10 years old and wasted little time learning programming.
He sold his first software for $500 when he turned 12. It was a space game. It
was not until the mid-1990s, however, that Musk made his fortune. He started
Zip2, a content publisher, which was sold for more than $300 million. Musk then
followed this up with PayPal, which he co-founded. At first, the company
struggled. PayPal had to change its business model six times until Musk found
the winning angle providing online payment services.
Smartphones Hacking Away at Telecoms’ Revenue Legs
At the beginning of the 00s, instant text communication was both exciting in
its ubiquity and for its profitability. Web companies like AOL (NYSE: AOL )
still were convincing people to spend money on instant messenger and email
services while telecoms were making big money on mobile phone text messages that
were only just coming into vogue. Today, text messages (or SMS services)
represent $20 billion in annual revenue for the U.S. telecom industry. But now,
text, email and chat technology thanks to the proliferation of web-connected
handhelds have merged into one single service that consumers arent interested
in paying for . So if users continue to flock to an increasing number of free
alternatives, what will Verizon (NYSE: VZ ), AT&T (NYSE: T ), and Sprint (NYSE:
S ) do when that money disappears? Well, the loss of SMS revenue wont exactly
cripple AT&T or Verizon. Sure, Verizon pulls in $7 billion from text messages by
itself nearly half of the total take in the U.S. but that represents just the
smallest portion of the companys $107 billion in total annual revenue . AT&T
pulls in $125 billion in annual revenue . Who cares, then, if free services on
smartphones like Apple s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iMessage, Research In Motion s (NASDAQ:
RIMM ) BlackBerry Messenger, and the Microsoft -owned (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Skype
start offering free-to-use text, picture messaging and even video services? No,
the greater threat is that these services merging email, texts and instant
messaging into seamless, free services might also start to incorporate voice, as
well. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) also is preparing a service for Android phones like
those already mentioned, and that company has made no bones about its interest
in taking on the VoIP industry , too. What happens to Verizon and AT&T when
their collective 215 million subscribers feel they shouldnt have to pay as much
as $90 for a voice-and-text plan when $100 for the best data plan alone can give
them all the service they want? If users demand to not pay for voice packages,
that could mean another potential $120 billion to $240 billion in revenues
(based on varying voice packages) vanishing from the mobile market. Thats
clearly a much larger hunk of the pie. That lost revenue ultimately would have
to be replaced by raised data plan pricing. AT&T and Verizon already have done
away with unlimited data plan offerings in favor of tiered usage contracts that
limit how much data mobile users can upload to or download from the Web. Sprint
is the only major telecom left that offers unlimited data plans, and even that
might not last . Presumably, if smartphone users try to use only iMessenger or a
comparable service to communicate with people rather than texts, theyll use up
their data limits quicker and have to upgrade to a new package, thus benefiting
Verizon, AT&T or whomever else. The question is: Will people pay it? If AT&T and
Verizon start charging $200 for packages that just provide data, forcing
customers to rely purely on secondary services like Skype and iMessenger, its
possible that smaller telecoms like MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS ) and Leap Wireless
(NASDAQ: LEAP ) could get a second lease on life if they could provide low-cost,
big-data packages for users. Now that popular handsets like the iPhone arent
restricted to a single provider anymore, smaller telecoms potentially could find
their business in data-only plans. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint arent under pressure
to meet these changes head-on in 2011. But in a few years, how these companies
charge for their services is going to have to change dramatically. As of this
writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named
here. Follow him on Twitter at
its ubiquity and for its profitability. Web companies like AOL (NYSE: AOL )
still were convincing people to spend money on instant messenger and email
services while telecoms were making big money on mobile phone text messages that
were only just coming into vogue. Today, text messages (or SMS services)
represent $20 billion in annual revenue for the U.S. telecom industry. But now,
text, email and chat technology thanks to the proliferation of web-connected
handhelds have merged into one single service that consumers arent interested
in paying for . So if users continue to flock to an increasing number of free
alternatives, what will Verizon (NYSE: VZ ), AT&T (NYSE: T ), and Sprint (NYSE:
S ) do when that money disappears? Well, the loss of SMS revenue wont exactly
cripple AT&T or Verizon. Sure, Verizon pulls in $7 billion from text messages by
itself nearly half of the total take in the U.S. but that represents just the
smallest portion of the companys $107 billion in total annual revenue . AT&T
pulls in $125 billion in annual revenue . Who cares, then, if free services on
smartphones like Apple s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iMessage, Research In Motion s (NASDAQ:
RIMM ) BlackBerry Messenger, and the Microsoft -owned (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Skype
start offering free-to-use text, picture messaging and even video services? No,
the greater threat is that these services merging email, texts and instant
messaging into seamless, free services might also start to incorporate voice, as
well. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) also is preparing a service for Android phones like
those already mentioned, and that company has made no bones about its interest
in taking on the VoIP industry , too. What happens to Verizon and AT&T when
their collective 215 million subscribers feel they shouldnt have to pay as much
as $90 for a voice-and-text plan when $100 for the best data plan alone can give
them all the service they want? If users demand to not pay for voice packages,
that could mean another potential $120 billion to $240 billion in revenues
(based on varying voice packages) vanishing from the mobile market. Thats
clearly a much larger hunk of the pie. That lost revenue ultimately would have
to be replaced by raised data plan pricing. AT&T and Verizon already have done
away with unlimited data plan offerings in favor of tiered usage contracts that
limit how much data mobile users can upload to or download from the Web. Sprint
is the only major telecom left that offers unlimited data plans, and even that
might not last . Presumably, if smartphone users try to use only iMessenger or a
comparable service to communicate with people rather than texts, theyll use up
their data limits quicker and have to upgrade to a new package, thus benefiting
Verizon, AT&T or whomever else. The question is: Will people pay it? If AT&T and
Verizon start charging $200 for packages that just provide data, forcing
customers to rely purely on secondary services like Skype and iMessenger, its
possible that smaller telecoms like MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS ) and Leap Wireless
(NASDAQ: LEAP ) could get a second lease on life if they could provide low-cost,
big-data packages for users. Now that popular handsets like the iPhone arent
restricted to a single provider anymore, smaller telecoms potentially could find
their business in data-only plans. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint arent under pressure
to meet these changes head-on in 2011. But in a few years, how these companies
charge for their services is going to have to change dramatically. As of this
writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named
here. Follow him on Twitter at
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) To Make e-Commerce Investment
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has plans to invest $1.5m in Technion
e-commerce research. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) To Make e-Commerce
Investment Reports say that the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research
(MSR) division is planning to invest $1.5 million in a joint research program
with the Technion – the Israel Institute of Technology over the next five
years. The Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research (MSR) center will
promote research in artificial intelligence, games theory, computer science,
economics, and psychology and their applications in e-commerce. Officials at the
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) R&D Center in Israel, said that, The
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) center will finance and promote basic
research in artificial intelligence, games theory, computer science, economics,
and psychology, with a focus on the relations between them and their application
in e-commerce. Collaboration with the Technion would enable the Microsoft
Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) centers researchers to develop the scientific
understanding and technologies that will result in breakthroughs in e-commerce,
such as online advertising and the use of cloud computing and social networks
for commercial purposes". Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) stocks were at 26.25
at the end of the last days trading. Theres been a -2.5% movement in the stock
price over the past 3 months. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) Analyst Advice
Consensus Opinion: Moderate Buy Mean recommendation: 1.77 (1=Strong Buy,
5=Strong Sell) 3 Months Ago: 1.84 Zacks Rank: 20 out of 91 in the industry
e-commerce research. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) To Make e-Commerce
Investment Reports say that the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research
(MSR) division is planning to invest $1.5 million in a joint research program
with the Technion – the Israel Institute of Technology over the next five
years. The Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research (MSR) center will
promote research in artificial intelligence, games theory, computer science,
economics, and psychology and their applications in e-commerce. Officials at the
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) R&D Center in Israel, said that, The
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) center will finance and promote basic
research in artificial intelligence, games theory, computer science, economics,
and psychology, with a focus on the relations between them and their application
in e-commerce. Collaboration with the Technion would enable the Microsoft
Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) centers researchers to develop the scientific
understanding and technologies that will result in breakthroughs in e-commerce,
such as online advertising and the use of cloud computing and social networks
for commercial purposes". Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) stocks were at 26.25
at the end of the last days trading. Theres been a -2.5% movement in the stock
price over the past 3 months. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) Analyst Advice
Consensus Opinion: Moderate Buy Mean recommendation: 1.77 (1=Strong Buy,
5=Strong Sell) 3 Months Ago: 1.84 Zacks Rank: 20 out of 91 in the industry
“Sky High Euro Shorts May Prompt Gold Covering Rally”
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DG365FD46564GFH654FU898 Recent measures by European policymakers may help fuel a rally in the price of gold , according to TD Securities strategist Bart Melek. In a note to clients published on Tuesday, Melek wrote the following: The gold market went into correction mode at roughly the same time as specs started taking outsized short euro positions and boosted their gold shorts slightly. The uncertainty associated with the European sovereign debt crisis was the prime catalyst behind the move away from the euro and gold. With European governments becoming more committed to recapitalizing the European banking system and providing a plan to backstop highly indebted EZ (eur zone) nations, there may be less impetus to buy dollars in order to build cash positions. The required bond issuance to fund the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will very likely deepen the euro bond market and may very well lift euro demand, prompting short covering of euro positions and depressing the greenback. Gold could very well rally as traders cover their short euro and gold positions, and as there is less impetus to build dollar cash balances. Read More: "Sky High Euro Shorts May Prompt Gold Covering Rally"
Quantum Solar Power completes $ 1.974 Million Foreign Private Placement
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tdp2664 Epic Stock Picks On Monday October 10,2011, U.S. and Canada based, Quantum Solar Power Corp.
10 Revved-Up Oil Companies to Buy
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tdp2664 InvestorPlace Oil prices have rebounded about $10, or nearly 15%, from recent lows to once again approach $90 a barrel. There has been a lot of volatility in the crude oil and energy sectors in recent weeks, but it appears the winners are now separating themselves from the losers. I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. This week, I have 10 oil, gas and consumable fuel companies to buy. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one of these stocks gets an "A" or "B" according to my research, meaning it is a "strong buy" or "buy." Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG ) works in the U.S. and develops, exploits and explores oil and gas across the country. COG has been the biggest winner on this list, gaining 78% since the beginning of January. Chevron (NYSE: CVX ) provides administrative, financial, management and technology support to its clients internationally. CVX has gained 8% year to date, compared to a loss of more than 1% for the Dow Jones . El Paso (NYSE: EP ) is a natural gas company that deals with transmission, exploration and production sectors. EP is one of the biggest winners on this list, with a 39% return since the beginning of the year.
Wal-Mart Is Making Friends With Facebook
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tdp2664 InvestorPlace The Internet has been a weight hanging on the necks of brick-and-mortar retailers. Online retail already has knocked off Circuit City and Borders. Even top operators like Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ) look shaky. The omnipresent threat is Amazon ( NASDAQ : AMZN ), which continues to relentlessly push forward. Its Kindle Fire tablet computer is selling at a rapid clip and should provide Amazon a strong platform to capture even more marketshare. Can the traditional players fight back? Well, they’re trying. Wal-Mart, which already is getting web traction from its video streaming service, Vudu — which hopes to elbow in on Netflix ‘s ( NASDAQ : NFLX ) world — now is hoping to make an online splash through social media. This week, the company launched a partnership with Facebook in which Wal-Mart will emphasize the “local” — namely, more than 3,500 stores will have their own individual Facebook pages. Now, this will be more than just a bulletin board for deals. Rather, Wal-Mart will leverage its 9 million Facebook fans to learn from their interests. The result should be more personalized offers, which are based on a user's social graph. Sounds kind of out-of-character for the dowdy Wal-Mart, right? Perhaps. But the company does have a long history of relying on sophisticated technologies, such as with its extensive logistics platform. And with the added data from social networking, Wal-Mart should be able to wield even more precision with its inventory and merchandising. After all, Americans spend lots of time on Facebook, and they definitely are willing to share their opinions. Still, the Facebook initiative is not a cure-all for Wal-Mart. If anything, social media still is in its relative infancy, and it’s hard to differentiate actual commercial potential from hype. How sustainable is the "like" button when it comes to branding and targeting? In the meanwhile, Wal-Mart still needs to worry about other brick-and-mortar rivals, including warehouse giant Costco ( NASDAQ : COST ) and deep discounters Dollar General (NYSE: DG ) and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR ). That said, it’s probably not a good idea to jump into WMT just because Wal-Mart jumped into cahoots with Mark Zuckerburg. The company has posted declines in same-store sales for the past nine quarters, and while Wal-Mart has plenty of motivation to get serious about its digital efforts, there’s no way of knowing whether this approach will grow Wal-Mart’s business again. Tom Taulli is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities." You can also find him at Twitter account @ttaulli. He does not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
Gold Stocks Open Lower, GDX Slides 1.4%
GOLD STOCKS NEWS – Gold stocks opened lower Tuesday as the Market Vectors
Gold Miners ETF (GDX) fell $0.81, or 1.4%, to $56.03 per share.
Gold Miners ETF (GDX) fell $0.81, or 1.4%, to $56.03 per share.
“Sky High Euro Shorts May Prompt Gold Covering Rally”
Recent measures by European policymakers may help fuel a rally in the price of
gold, according to TD Securities strategist Bart Melek. In a note to clients
published on Tuesday, Melek wrote the following: The gold market went into
correction mode at roughly the same time as specs started taking outsized short
euro positions and boosted their gold shorts slightly. The uncertainty
associated with the European sovereign debt crisis was the prime catalyst behind
the move away from the euro and gold. With European governments becoming more
committed to recapitalizing the European banking system and providing a plan to
backstop highly indebted EZ (eur zone) nations, there may be less impetus to buy
dollars in order to build cash positions. The required bond issuance to fund the
European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will very likely deepen the euro
bond market and may very well lift euro demand, prompting short covering of euro
positions and depressing the greenback. Gold could very well rally as traders
cover their short euro and gold positions, and as there is less impetus to build
dollar cash balances.
gold, according to TD Securities strategist Bart Melek. In a note to clients
published on Tuesday, Melek wrote the following: The gold market went into
correction mode at roughly the same time as specs started taking outsized short
euro positions and boosted their gold shorts slightly. The uncertainty
associated with the European sovereign debt crisis was the prime catalyst behind
the move away from the euro and gold. With European governments becoming more
committed to recapitalizing the European banking system and providing a plan to
backstop highly indebted EZ (eur zone) nations, there may be less impetus to buy
dollars in order to build cash positions. The required bond issuance to fund the
European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will very likely deepen the euro
bond market and may very well lift euro demand, prompting short covering of euro
positions and depressing the greenback. Gold could very well rally as traders
cover their short euro and gold positions, and as there is less impetus to build
dollar cash balances.
Wal-Mart Is Making Friends With Facebook
The Internet has been a weight hanging on the necks of brick-and-mortar
retailers. Online retail already has knocked off Circuit City and Borders. Even
top operators like Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ) look shaky.
The omnipresent threat is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ), which continues to
relentlessly push forward. Its Kindle Fire tablet computer is selling at a rapid
clip and should provide Amazon a strong platform to capture even more
marketshare. Can the traditional players fight back? Well, theyre trying.
Wal-Mart, which already is getting web traction from its video streaming
service, Vudu which hopes to elbow in on Netflix s (NASDAQ: NFLX ) world now
is hoping to make an online splash through social media. This week, the company
launched a partnership with Facebook in which Wal-Mart will emphasize the local
namely, more than 3,500 stores will have their own individual Facebook pages.
Now, this will be more than just a bulletin board for deals. Rather, Wal-Mart
will leverage its 9 million Facebook fans to learn from their interests. The
result should be more personalized offers, which are based on a user's social
graph. Sounds kind of out-of-character for the dowdy Wal-Mart, right? Perhaps.
But the company does have a long history of relying on sophisticated
technologies, such as with its extensive logistics platform. And with the added
data from social networking, Wal-Mart should be able to wield even more
precision with its inventory and merchandising. After all, Americans spend lots
of time on Facebook, and they definitely are willing to share their opinions.
Still, the Facebook initiative is not a cure-all for Wal-Mart. If anything,
social media still is in its relative infancy, and its hard to differentiate
actual commercial potential from hype. How sustainable is the "like" button
when it comes to branding and targeting? In the meanwhile, Wal-Mart still needs
to worry about other brick-and-mortar rivals, including warehouse giant Costco
(NASDAQ: COST ) and deep discounters Dollar General (NYSE: DG ) and Dollar Tree
(NASDAQ: DLTR ). That said, its probably not a good idea to jump into WMT just
because Wal-Mart jumped into cahoots with Mark Zuckerburg. The company has
posted declines in same-store sales for the past nine quarters, and while
Wal-Mart has plenty of motivation to get serious about its digital efforts,
theres no way of knowing whether this approach will grow Wal-Marts business
again. Tom Taulli is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All
About Commodities." You can also find him at Twitter account @ttaulli. He does
not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
retailers. Online retail already has knocked off Circuit City and Borders. Even
top operators like Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ) look shaky.
The omnipresent threat is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ), which continues to
relentlessly push forward. Its Kindle Fire tablet computer is selling at a rapid
clip and should provide Amazon a strong platform to capture even more
marketshare. Can the traditional players fight back? Well, theyre trying.
Wal-Mart, which already is getting web traction from its video streaming
service, Vudu which hopes to elbow in on Netflix s (NASDAQ: NFLX ) world now
is hoping to make an online splash through social media. This week, the company
launched a partnership with Facebook in which Wal-Mart will emphasize the local
namely, more than 3,500 stores will have their own individual Facebook pages.
Now, this will be more than just a bulletin board for deals. Rather, Wal-Mart
will leverage its 9 million Facebook fans to learn from their interests. The
result should be more personalized offers, which are based on a user's social
graph. Sounds kind of out-of-character for the dowdy Wal-Mart, right? Perhaps.
But the company does have a long history of relying on sophisticated
technologies, such as with its extensive logistics platform. And with the added
data from social networking, Wal-Mart should be able to wield even more
precision with its inventory and merchandising. After all, Americans spend lots
of time on Facebook, and they definitely are willing to share their opinions.
Still, the Facebook initiative is not a cure-all for Wal-Mart. If anything,
social media still is in its relative infancy, and its hard to differentiate
actual commercial potential from hype. How sustainable is the "like" button
when it comes to branding and targeting? In the meanwhile, Wal-Mart still needs
to worry about other brick-and-mortar rivals, including warehouse giant Costco
(NASDAQ: COST ) and deep discounters Dollar General (NYSE: DG ) and Dollar Tree
(NASDAQ: DLTR ). That said, its probably not a good idea to jump into WMT just
because Wal-Mart jumped into cahoots with Mark Zuckerburg. The company has
posted declines in same-store sales for the past nine quarters, and while
Wal-Mart has plenty of motivation to get serious about its digital efforts,
theres no way of knowing whether this approach will grow Wal-Marts business
again. Tom Taulli is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All
About Commodities." You can also find him at Twitter account @ttaulli. He does
not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) Signs Saudi Deal
Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) has inked a joint venture agreement Saudi Aramco. Dow
Chemical (NYSE:DOW) Signs Saudi Deal Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) announced that it
signed a joint venture agreement with Saudi Aramco for an integrated chemicals
complex named Sadara Chemical Company, which will comprise 26 manufacturing
units, several of which constitute mega projects in themselves. With this
completion, the joint venture complex will be one of the world's largest
integrated chemical facilities and the largest-ever built in one single phase.
Mr Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) and Chief Executive Officer, said
that, "Sadara is an extraordinary and unique venture that will build upon the
strengths of both Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) and Saudi Aramco to deliver the
diversified and specialty materials and chemicals needed to drive growth in the
entire region and beyond". Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) stocks are currently
standing at 24.76. Price History Last Price: 24.76 52 Week Low / High: 20.61 /
42.23 50 Day Moving Average: 27.24 6 Month Price Change %: -35.7% 12 Month Price
Change %: -15.1%
Chemical (NYSE:DOW) Signs Saudi Deal Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) announced that it
signed a joint venture agreement with Saudi Aramco for an integrated chemicals
complex named Sadara Chemical Company, which will comprise 26 manufacturing
units, several of which constitute mega projects in themselves. With this
completion, the joint venture complex will be one of the world's largest
integrated chemical facilities and the largest-ever built in one single phase.
Mr Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) and Chief Executive Officer, said
that, "Sadara is an extraordinary and unique venture that will build upon the
strengths of both Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) and Saudi Aramco to deliver the
diversified and specialty materials and chemicals needed to drive growth in the
entire region and beyond". Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) stocks are currently
standing at 24.76. Price History Last Price: 24.76 52 Week Low / High: 20.61 /
42.23 50 Day Moving Average: 27.24 6 Month Price Change %: -35.7% 12 Month Price
Change %: -15.1%
Momentum Stocks of The Day: CPX, CVV, LRN, IL, CJES, FBP, NOAH, BYI, SAIA, JOEZ (Oct 11, 2011)
Below are 10 momentum stocks that are attracting a lot of interest from
traders. One Chinese company (NOAH) is on the list. Complete Production
Services, Inc. (NYSE:CPX) is the first best stock on this list. Its daily price
change was 39.5% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 47%
based on brokerage analysts average target price of $42 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 73% of the 22 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 20% based on analysts average estimate. CVD Equipment
Corporation (NASDAQ:CVV) is the 2nd best stock on this list. Its daily price
change was 14.4% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is -3%
based on brokerage analysts average target price of $15 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 100% of the 1 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 25% based on analysts average estimate. K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN)
is the 3rd best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 14.1% in the
previous trading session. Its upside potential is 14% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $35 on the stock. It is rated positively by 70%
of the 10 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 26%
based on analysts average estimate. IntraLinks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:IL) is the
4th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 12.6% in the previous
trading session. Its upside potential is 123% based on brokerage analysts
average target price of $18 on the stock. It is rated positively by 57% of the 7
analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 22% based on
analysts average estimate. C&J Energy Services Inc (NYSE:CJES) is the 5th best
stock on this list. Its daily price change was 12.0% in the previous trading
session. Its upside potential is 132% based on brokerage analysts average target
price of $41 on the stock. It is rated positively by 100% of the 4 analyst(s)
covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 20% based on analysts
average estimate. First BanCorp. (NYSE:FBP) is the 6th best stock on this list.
Its daily price change was 10.3% in the previous trading session. Its upside
potential is 47% based on brokerage analysts average target price of $4 on the
stock. It is rated positively by 25% of the 4 analyst(s) covering it. Its
long-term annual earnings growth is 5% based on analysts average estimate. Noah
Holdings Limited (ADR) (NYSE:NOAH) is the 7th best stock on this list. Its daily
price change was 9.9% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is
144% based on brokerage analysts average target price of $20 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 80% of the 5 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 42% based on analysts average estimate. Bally Technologies
Inc. (NYSE:BYI) is the 8th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
9.8% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 23% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $40 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 50% of the 18 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 22% based on analysts average estimate. Saia Inc.
(NASDAQ:SAIA) is the 9th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
9.8% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 53% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $18 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 44% of the 9 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings
growth is 15% based on analysts average estimate. Joes Jeans Inc. (NASDAQ:JOEZ)
is the 10th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 9.3% in the
previous trading session. Its upside potential is 56% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $1 on the stock. It is rated positively by 0%
of the 3 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 50%
based on analysts average estimate.
traders. One Chinese company (NOAH) is on the list. Complete Production
Services, Inc. (NYSE:CPX) is the first best stock on this list. Its daily price
change was 39.5% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 47%
based on brokerage analysts average target price of $42 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 73% of the 22 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 20% based on analysts average estimate. CVD Equipment
Corporation (NASDAQ:CVV) is the 2nd best stock on this list. Its daily price
change was 14.4% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is -3%
based on brokerage analysts average target price of $15 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 100% of the 1 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 25% based on analysts average estimate. K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN)
is the 3rd best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 14.1% in the
previous trading session. Its upside potential is 14% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $35 on the stock. It is rated positively by 70%
of the 10 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 26%
based on analysts average estimate. IntraLinks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:IL) is the
4th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 12.6% in the previous
trading session. Its upside potential is 123% based on brokerage analysts
average target price of $18 on the stock. It is rated positively by 57% of the 7
analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 22% based on
analysts average estimate. C&J Energy Services Inc (NYSE:CJES) is the 5th best
stock on this list. Its daily price change was 12.0% in the previous trading
session. Its upside potential is 132% based on brokerage analysts average target
price of $41 on the stock. It is rated positively by 100% of the 4 analyst(s)
covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 20% based on analysts
average estimate. First BanCorp. (NYSE:FBP) is the 6th best stock on this list.
Its daily price change was 10.3% in the previous trading session. Its upside
potential is 47% based on brokerage analysts average target price of $4 on the
stock. It is rated positively by 25% of the 4 analyst(s) covering it. Its
long-term annual earnings growth is 5% based on analysts average estimate. Noah
Holdings Limited (ADR) (NYSE:NOAH) is the 7th best stock on this list. Its daily
price change was 9.9% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is
144% based on brokerage analysts average target price of $20 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 80% of the 5 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 42% based on analysts average estimate. Bally Technologies
Inc. (NYSE:BYI) is the 8th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
9.8% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 23% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $40 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 50% of the 18 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 22% based on analysts average estimate. Saia Inc.
(NASDAQ:SAIA) is the 9th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
9.8% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 53% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $18 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 44% of the 9 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings
growth is 15% based on analysts average estimate. Joes Jeans Inc. (NASDAQ:JOEZ)
is the 10th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 9.3% in the
previous trading session. Its upside potential is 56% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $1 on the stock. It is rated positively by 0%
of the 3 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 50%
based on analysts average estimate.
Gold Price Per Ounce; MSN Money Stock Quotes; Alacer Gold Stock ALIAF; Silver price per ounce; Spot gold price per gram Mid-Day
The dollar was gaining strength today versus other major currencies. The dollar
was gaining strength versus the euro, British pound and Japanese yen. Gold can
be more expensive in this environment. Gold prices were about flat lined through
the first half of the trading session today. At the halfway point of todays
trading session, contract gold was about even and contract silver prices were
trending positively. Contract gold for December delivery was higher by .01
percent at 1671 per troy ounce. Electronic price for contract silver for
December delivery was higher by .23 percent at 32.06 per troy ounce. Both gold
and silver continue to be negative overall however over the course of the past
month. Gold prices are still negative over this course of time by 8.34 percent.
Silver is still negative over this course of time by a much more significant
19.85 percent. Spot gold and spot silver prices were mixed at the mid-day point.
Spot gold price per gram was red by .23 at 53.49 and spot silver price per ounce
was green by .14 at 32.12. Alacer gold is making headlines today. Alacer gold,
ALIAF, is posting in the green through the first half of the trading session
today according to MSN Money Stock Quotes. ALIAF was trending higher by 5.79
percent or positive .58 at 10.66. Previous close for Alacer gold Corp. was
10.08.
was gaining strength versus the euro, British pound and Japanese yen. Gold can
be more expensive in this environment. Gold prices were about flat lined through
the first half of the trading session today. At the halfway point of todays
trading session, contract gold was about even and contract silver prices were
trending positively. Contract gold for December delivery was higher by .01
percent at 1671 per troy ounce. Electronic price for contract silver for
December delivery was higher by .23 percent at 32.06 per troy ounce. Both gold
and silver continue to be negative overall however over the course of the past
month. Gold prices are still negative over this course of time by 8.34 percent.
Silver is still negative over this course of time by a much more significant
19.85 percent. Spot gold and spot silver prices were mixed at the mid-day point.
Spot gold price per gram was red by .23 at 53.49 and spot silver price per ounce
was green by .14 at 32.12. Alacer gold is making headlines today. Alacer gold,
ALIAF, is posting in the green through the first half of the trading session
today according to MSN Money Stock Quotes. ALIAF was trending higher by 5.79
percent or positive .58 at 10.66. Previous close for Alacer gold Corp. was
10.08.
10 Revved-Up Oil Companies to Buy
Oil prices have rebounded about $10, or nearly 15%, from recent lows to once
again approach $90 a barrel. There has been a lot of volatility in the crude oil
and energy sectors in recent weeks, but it appears the winners are now
separating themselves from the losers. I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded
companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of
fundamental and quantitative measures. This week, I have 10 oil, gas and
consumable fuel companies to buy. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one
of these stocks gets an "A" or "B" according to my research, meaning it
is a "strong buy" or "buy." Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG ) works in the
U.S. and develops, exploits and explores oil and gas across the country. COG has
been the biggest winner on this list, gaining 78% since the beginning of
January. Chevron (NYSE: CVX ) provides administrative, financial, management and
technology support to its clients internationally. CVX has gained 8% year to
date, compared to a loss of more than 1% for the Dow Jones. El Paso (NYSE: EP )
is a natural gas company that deals with transmission, exploration and
production sectors. EP is one of the biggest winners on this list, with a 39%
return since the beginning of the year.
again approach $90 a barrel. There has been a lot of volatility in the crude oil
and energy sectors in recent weeks, but it appears the winners are now
separating themselves from the losers. I watch more than 5,000 publicly traded
companies with my Portfolio Grader tool, ranking companies by a number of
fundamental and quantitative measures. This week, I have 10 oil, gas and
consumable fuel companies to buy. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Each one
of these stocks gets an "A" or "B" according to my research, meaning it
is a "strong buy" or "buy." Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG ) works in the
U.S. and develops, exploits and explores oil and gas across the country. COG has
been the biggest winner on this list, gaining 78% since the beginning of
January. Chevron (NYSE: CVX ) provides administrative, financial, management and
technology support to its clients internationally. CVX has gained 8% year to
date, compared to a loss of more than 1% for the Dow Jones. El Paso (NYSE: EP )
is a natural gas company that deals with transmission, exploration and
production sectors. EP is one of the biggest winners on this list, with a 39%
return since the beginning of the year.
Gold & Silver Prices – Daily Outlook October 11
Gold and silver prices sharply inclined yesterday along with other major
commodities, U.S. stock markets while US dollar sharply weakened over major risk
currencies such as CAD, EURO and AUD over the renewed optimism in the financial
markets over the promise that Merkel and Sarkozy will manage to reach an
agreement. I think its still premature to assume an agreement between these
countries.
commodities, U.S. stock markets while US dollar sharply weakened over major risk
currencies such as CAD, EURO and AUD over the renewed optimism in the financial
markets over the promise that Merkel and Sarkozy will manage to reach an
agreement. I think its still premature to assume an agreement between these
countries.
Old Man IBM Is Showing Up Tech Whippersnappers
As financial media talk about big tech companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) and
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) for growth, one name usually gets left out: IBM (NYSE:
IBM ). Why? Because it doesnt have pizzazz, its not sexy, its not hip. But so
what? IBM is positioned to benefit from some of technology's biggest trends,
such as cloud computing and mobile. And investors who dont necessarily care
about flash already are taking notice. This week, the stock of century-old IBM
hit an all-time high, reaching $186.63. And its market capitalization is now at
about $222 billion, making it the No. 2 most valuable tech company in the world.
During the past five years, IBM shares have generated an average annual return
of 18.55%. This compares to Microsoft 's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) 1.25% and Intel's
(NASDAQ: INTC ) 4.26%. Despite being 100 years old, IBM still looks like a
scrappy startup. So why all the success? Perhaps the most critical factor is
IBM's rock-solid management team. Essentially, it understands its strategic
goals but also realizes the importance of execution. A great example: In 2005,
IBM realized that the PC business was not the right place to be. As a result,
the company sold its once-mighty division to Lenovo. However, IBM's rivals
still are grappling with these types of decisions. Just look at Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE: HPQ ), whose stock price has been a disaster, yet it still is unclear
whether it will unload its PC business. IBM's management also has been quite
savvy with acquisitions. To this end, the companys dealmaking has been focused
on smaller transactions that provide lots of potential. Often, this means
looking at software technologies that can help companies with security, device
management and business intelligence. The strategy has been spot-on, and again,
IBM's rivals still can't seem to understand it, with many instead pursuing
blockbuster deals. This was the case with Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of
Skype and HP's $10 billion acquisition of Autonomy two transactions that
could prove difficult to wring value from. So in the meantime, IBM continues to
move forward and build its powerful platform. For the year, the company will
generate about $100 billion in annual revenues and more than $19 billion in
profits. But with its stock price at an all-time high, is IBM still an
attractive investment? For the most part, its price-to-earnings ratio is
reasonable, at about 15. IBM has a 1.6% dividend yield, and the company should
generate huge cash flows. And IBMs management team has proven capable of finding
ways to grow and evolve. So Big Blue still looks like Old Reliable. Tom Taulli
is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities."
You can also find him at Twitter account @ttaulli. He does not own a position in
any of the stocks named here.
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) for growth, one name usually gets left out: IBM (NYSE:
IBM ). Why? Because it doesnt have pizzazz, its not sexy, its not hip. But so
what? IBM is positioned to benefit from some of technology's biggest trends,
such as cloud computing and mobile. And investors who dont necessarily care
about flash already are taking notice. This week, the stock of century-old IBM
hit an all-time high, reaching $186.63. And its market capitalization is now at
about $222 billion, making it the No. 2 most valuable tech company in the world.
During the past five years, IBM shares have generated an average annual return
of 18.55%. This compares to Microsoft 's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) 1.25% and Intel's
(NASDAQ: INTC ) 4.26%. Despite being 100 years old, IBM still looks like a
scrappy startup. So why all the success? Perhaps the most critical factor is
IBM's rock-solid management team. Essentially, it understands its strategic
goals but also realizes the importance of execution. A great example: In 2005,
IBM realized that the PC business was not the right place to be. As a result,
the company sold its once-mighty division to Lenovo. However, IBM's rivals
still are grappling with these types of decisions. Just look at Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE: HPQ ), whose stock price has been a disaster, yet it still is unclear
whether it will unload its PC business. IBM's management also has been quite
savvy with acquisitions. To this end, the companys dealmaking has been focused
on smaller transactions that provide lots of potential. Often, this means
looking at software technologies that can help companies with security, device
management and business intelligence. The strategy has been spot-on, and again,
IBM's rivals still can't seem to understand it, with many instead pursuing
blockbuster deals. This was the case with Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of
Skype and HP's $10 billion acquisition of Autonomy two transactions that
could prove difficult to wring value from. So in the meantime, IBM continues to
move forward and build its powerful platform. For the year, the company will
generate about $100 billion in annual revenues and more than $19 billion in
profits. But with its stock price at an all-time high, is IBM still an
attractive investment? For the most part, its price-to-earnings ratio is
reasonable, at about 15. IBM has a 1.6% dividend yield, and the company should
generate huge cash flows. And IBMs management team has proven capable of finding
ways to grow and evolve. So Big Blue still looks like Old Reliable. Tom Taulli
is the author of "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities."
You can also find him at Twitter account @ttaulli. He does not own a position in
any of the stocks named here.
Gold ETFs Dip, GLD Remains Range-Bound
GOLD ETFS & GLD NEWS – Gold ETFs dipped Tuesday, with the SPDR Gold Trust
(GLD) lower by $1.30, or 0.8%, at $161.97 per share in late morning trading.
(GLD) lower by $1.30, or 0.8%, at $161.97 per share in late morning trading.
Alacer Gold to Exceed Full-Year Production Guidance
Alacer Gold (ASR.TSX) announced third quarter 2011 mine production from its
four mines in Australia and Turkey.
four mines in Australia and Turkey.
Momentum Stocks of The Day: TTM, MMYT, CYNO, PRX, EJ, CLB, ISS, SHFL, GBCI, GVA (Oct 11, 2011)
Below are 10 momentum stocks that are attracting a lot of interest from
traders. Two Chinese companies (EJ, ISS) are on the list. Tata Motors Limited
(ADR) (NYSE:TTM) is the first best stock on this list. Its daily price change
was 9.1% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 81% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $32 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 100% of the 1 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 35% based on analysts average estimate. MakeMyTrip Limited
(NASDAQ:MMYT) is the 2nd best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
8.8% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 7% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $29 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 67% of the 6 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings
growth is 83% based on analysts average estimate. Cynosure, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYNO)
is the 3rd best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.8% in the
previous trading session. Its upside potential is 43% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $17 on the stock. It is rated positively by 60%
of the 5 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 50%
based on analysts average estimate. Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.
(NYSE:PRX) is the 4th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.6%
in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 23% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $37 on the stock. It is rated positively by 60%
of the 10 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 6%
based on analysts average estimate. E-House (China) Holdings Limited (ADR)
(NYSE:EJ) is the 5th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.3% in
the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 83% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $11 on the stock. It is rated positively by 63%
of the 8 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 33%
based on analysts average estimate. Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE:CLB) is the 6th
best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.0% in the previous trading
session. Its upside potential is 22% based on brokerage analysts average target
price of $121 on the stock. It is rated positively by 50% of the 10 analyst(s)
covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 21% based on analysts
average estimate. iSoftStone Holdings Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:ISS) is the 7th best stock
on this list. Its daily price change was 7.7% in the previous trading session.
Its upside potential is 151% based on brokerage analysts average target price of
$18 on the stock. It is rated positively by 80% of the 5 analyst(s) covering it.
Its long-term annual earnings growth is 38% based on analysts average estimate.
Shuffle Master, Inc. (NASDAQ:SHFL) is the 8th best stock on this list. Its daily
price change was 7.2% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is
40% based on brokerage analysts average target price of $13 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 57% of the 7 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 25% based on analysts average estimate. Glacier Bancorp, Inc.
(NASDAQ:GBCI) is the 9th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
7.1% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 27% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $14 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 40% of the 10 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 10% based on analysts average estimate. Granite Construction
Inc. (NYSE:GVA) is the 10th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
7.1% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 23% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $26 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 33% of the 12 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 9% based on analysts average estimate.
traders. Two Chinese companies (EJ, ISS) are on the list. Tata Motors Limited
(ADR) (NYSE:TTM) is the first best stock on this list. Its daily price change
was 9.1% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 81% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $32 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 100% of the 1 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 35% based on analysts average estimate. MakeMyTrip Limited
(NASDAQ:MMYT) is the 2nd best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
8.8% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 7% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $29 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 67% of the 6 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings
growth is 83% based on analysts average estimate. Cynosure, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYNO)
is the 3rd best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.8% in the
previous trading session. Its upside potential is 43% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $17 on the stock. It is rated positively by 60%
of the 5 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 50%
based on analysts average estimate. Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.
(NYSE:PRX) is the 4th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.6%
in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 23% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $37 on the stock. It is rated positively by 60%
of the 10 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 6%
based on analysts average estimate. E-House (China) Holdings Limited (ADR)
(NYSE:EJ) is the 5th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.3% in
the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 83% based on brokerage
analysts average target price of $11 on the stock. It is rated positively by 63%
of the 8 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 33%
based on analysts average estimate. Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE:CLB) is the 6th
best stock on this list. Its daily price change was 8.0% in the previous trading
session. Its upside potential is 22% based on brokerage analysts average target
price of $121 on the stock. It is rated positively by 50% of the 10 analyst(s)
covering it. Its long-term annual earnings growth is 21% based on analysts
average estimate. iSoftStone Holdings Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:ISS) is the 7th best stock
on this list. Its daily price change was 7.7% in the previous trading session.
Its upside potential is 151% based on brokerage analysts average target price of
$18 on the stock. It is rated positively by 80% of the 5 analyst(s) covering it.
Its long-term annual earnings growth is 38% based on analysts average estimate.
Shuffle Master, Inc. (NASDAQ:SHFL) is the 8th best stock on this list. Its daily
price change was 7.2% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is
40% based on brokerage analysts average target price of $13 on the stock. It is
rated positively by 57% of the 7 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 25% based on analysts average estimate. Glacier Bancorp, Inc.
(NASDAQ:GBCI) is the 9th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
7.1% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 27% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $14 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 40% of the 10 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 10% based on analysts average estimate. Granite Construction
Inc. (NYSE:GVA) is the 10th best stock on this list. Its daily price change was
7.1% in the previous trading session. Its upside potential is 23% based on
brokerage analysts average target price of $26 on the stock. It is rated
positively by 33% of the 12 analyst(s) covering it. Its long-term annual
earnings growth is 9% based on analysts average estimate.
Colossus Minerals Readies Expansion at “Robust Rate”
Colossus Minerals (CSI.TSX) announced that effective October 17, 2011, Ari
Sussman – current Chairman, President and CEO – will take on the position of
Executive Chairman.
Sussman – current Chairman, President and CEO – will take on the position of
Executive Chairman.
Gold Price Retreats 1%, Silver Falls
GOLD PRICE NEWS – The gold price retreated Tuesday, falling nearly 1.1% to
$1,659 per ounce.
$1,659 per ounce.
Claude Demonstrates Growth Potential of Amisk Gold Project
Claude Resources (CRJ.TSX, AMEX: CGR) provided an update from its 2011
exploration program at the 15,400 hectare Amisk Gold Project in northeastern
Saskatchewan, Canada. The Amisk Gold Project is located 20 kilometers southwest
of Flin Flon, Manitoba and is a 65:35 Joint Venture between Claude and St.
Eugene Mining Corporation. Claude is the operator of the Joint Venture. The
Canadian-based gold producer reported that 18 holes in total and 5,500 meters
have been drilled to date in 2011, with assays returned for 14 of the holes.
exploration program at the 15,400 hectare Amisk Gold Project in northeastern
Saskatchewan, Canada. The Amisk Gold Project is located 20 kilometers southwest
of Flin Flon, Manitoba and is a 65:35 Joint Venture between Claude and St.
Eugene Mining Corporation. Claude is the operator of the Joint Venture. The
Canadian-based gold producer reported that 18 holes in total and 5,500 meters
have been drilled to date in 2011, with assays returned for 14 of the holes.
Top 10 Apparel Stocks with Highest Return on Equity: VRA, CHKE, HBI, LULU, KGJI, CROX, FOSL, DECK, MFB, EVK (Oct 11, 2011)
Below are the top 10 Apparel stocks with highest Return on Equity (ROE) ratio
for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits from
shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders equity.
One Chinese company (KGJI) is on the list. Vera Bradley, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRA) has
the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
51.60% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 11.10% for the same
period. Cherokee Inc. (NASDAQ:CHKE) has the 2nd highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 46.95% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 25.31% for the same period. Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE:HBI) has the 3rd
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 40.04% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 4.89% for the same period.
Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) has the 4th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 38.79% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 18.66% for the same period. Kingold Jewelry Inc.,
(NASDAQ:KGJI) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 28.16% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
3.24% for the same period. Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) has the 6th highest Return
on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 26.53% for the last 12
months. Its net profit margin was 11.64% for the same period. Fossil, Inc.
(NASDAQ:FOSL) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 26.30% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
12.19% for the same period. Deckers Outdoor Corporation (NASDAQ:DECK) has the
8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 24.46%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 13.65% for the same period.
Maidenform Brands, Inc. (NYSE:MFB) has the 9th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 23.68% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 7.62% for the same period. Ever-Glory International Group, Inc.
(AMEX:EVK) has the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 23.17% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 5.05% for
the same period.
for the last 12 months. ROE shows a companys efficiency in making profits from
shareholders equity. It is equal to net profits divided by shareholders equity.
One Chinese company (KGJI) is on the list. Vera Bradley, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRA) has
the 1st highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was
51.60% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 11.10% for the same
period. Cherokee Inc. (NASDAQ:CHKE) has the 2nd highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 46.95% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 25.31% for the same period. Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE:HBI) has the 3rd
highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 40.04% for
the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 4.89% for the same period.
Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) has the 4th highest Return on Equity in
this segment of the market. Its ROE was 38.79% for the last 12 months. Its net
profit margin was 18.66% for the same period. Kingold Jewelry Inc.,
(NASDAQ:KGJI) has the 5th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 28.16% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
3.24% for the same period. Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) has the 6th highest Return
on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 26.53% for the last 12
months. Its net profit margin was 11.64% for the same period. Fossil, Inc.
(NASDAQ:FOSL) has the 7th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the
market. Its ROE was 26.30% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was
12.19% for the same period. Deckers Outdoor Corporation (NASDAQ:DECK) has the
8th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market. Its ROE was 24.46%
for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 13.65% for the same period.
Maidenform Brands, Inc. (NYSE:MFB) has the 9th highest Return on Equity in this
segment of the market. Its ROE was 23.68% for the last 12 months. Its net profit
margin was 7.62% for the same period. Ever-Glory International Group, Inc.
(AMEX:EVK) has the 10th highest Return on Equity in this segment of the market.
Its ROE was 23.17% for the last 12 months. Its net profit margin was 5.05% for
the same period.
Stocks to Sell in 2011 — 3 Big Names to Ditch Before January
After a very volatile year, finding stocks to sell in 2011 sounds like a pretty
easy task. But don't kid yourself some good companies have been unfairly
oversold, and there are a lot of bargains out there. And now that the market has
seen a sharp selloff this summer, there is a chance that many picks already have
seen the bad news "priced in." So how do you decide between stocks to sell
in 2011 and stocks to hold in the hopes of a rebound? Simple: Think of yourself
as an investor who doesn't own a thing, then look at your current holdings as
if for the very first time. Would you buy those stocks based on the current
news, at the current price? If so, then the picks are worth holding onto no
matter how bad your losses. But if you look impartially at your portfolio and
find yourself turned off by the idea of ownership, it's time to sell these
stocks in 2011 before it's too late. Here are three stocks to sell in 2011
before the turn of the new year: Chipotle I know, you like their burritos. I do
too. But Chipotle (NYSE: CMG ) shares are overcooked, and this company is a
stock to sell in 2011. Chipotle is in the vein of Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD ) or
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ), both of which hit walls after overexpansion. Right
now, Chipotle has a forward P/E that is a nosebleed 35.5. On the margins front,
almost every ingredient the company uses is suffering rampant inflation for
instance, nationwide beef prices are up 8% to 9% in 2011. To boot, while
companies like McDonald's (NYSE: MCD ) are well-oiled food manufacturing
machines, Chipotle hasn't even heard of portion control to protect margins. On
the growth front, there are no menu innovations or promotions to spur growth,
just opening more stores. Also throw in the fact that a 900-calorie burrito is
hardly health food and the fact that an $8 lunch is hardly a bargain given value
menus at competitors. The stock is off about 9% from its Sept. 20 peak near $350
per share, and there's a good chance it only has farther to fall.
easy task. But don't kid yourself some good companies have been unfairly
oversold, and there are a lot of bargains out there. And now that the market has
seen a sharp selloff this summer, there is a chance that many picks already have
seen the bad news "priced in." So how do you decide between stocks to sell
in 2011 and stocks to hold in the hopes of a rebound? Simple: Think of yourself
as an investor who doesn't own a thing, then look at your current holdings as
if for the very first time. Would you buy those stocks based on the current
news, at the current price? If so, then the picks are worth holding onto no
matter how bad your losses. But if you look impartially at your portfolio and
find yourself turned off by the idea of ownership, it's time to sell these
stocks in 2011 before it's too late. Here are three stocks to sell in 2011
before the turn of the new year: Chipotle I know, you like their burritos. I do
too. But Chipotle (NYSE: CMG ) shares are overcooked, and this company is a
stock to sell in 2011. Chipotle is in the vein of Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD ) or
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ), both of which hit walls after overexpansion. Right
now, Chipotle has a forward P/E that is a nosebleed 35.5. On the margins front,
almost every ingredient the company uses is suffering rampant inflation for
instance, nationwide beef prices are up 8% to 9% in 2011. To boot, while
companies like McDonald's (NYSE: MCD ) are well-oiled food manufacturing
machines, Chipotle hasn't even heard of portion control to protect margins. On
the growth front, there are no menu innovations or promotions to spur growth,
just opening more stores. Also throw in the fact that a 900-calorie burrito is
hardly health food and the fact that an $8 lunch is hardly a bargain given value
menus at competitors. The stock is off about 9% from its Sept. 20 peak near $350
per share, and there's a good chance it only has farther to fall.
Extorre Gold Mines Releases “Stronger” Results at Zoe Discovery
Extorre Gold Mines (XG.TSX, AMEX: XG) announce that all assays are in hand for
the first National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Zoe
zone at its Cerro Moro project in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
the first National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Zoe
zone at its Cerro Moro project in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
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Todays gold price per ounce, spot gold price per gram; silver price per ounce, spot silver price per ounce rates; Gold prices today
Gold price per ounce and silver price per ounce experienced some positive
action during the last trading session. Precious metal commodities received
positive attention as did the primary stock indices in the U.S. Investors were
feeling more confident as the day proceeded due to positively skewed news
pertaining to the European debt crisis. The wave of confidence felt by investors
was due to a potential action plan to ameliorate the debt crisis in the
eurozone. This news helped push some market trends higher. Stocks finished
stronger as did precious metal gold and silver contracts. December contract gold
finished the day stronger by 2.14 percent or 35.00 to close out at 1670.80 per
troy ounce. Silver price per ounce rates closed out on the positive side of
break-even as well. Silver contract for December delivery closed out higher by
3.18 percent or .987 to finish at 31.98 per troy ounce. Although the two
precious metals closed out in the green last session, both metal prices are
still moving below break-even over the course of the past month. Spot gold and
spot silver price were trending higher as well. During the interval between last
sessions close and todays session open, spot gold and spot silver prices moved
higher. Spot gold price per gram was higher by 1.30 at 53.89 and spot silver
price per ounce was higher by 1.17 at 32.16. Camillo Zucari
action during the last trading session. Precious metal commodities received
positive attention as did the primary stock indices in the U.S. Investors were
feeling more confident as the day proceeded due to positively skewed news
pertaining to the European debt crisis. The wave of confidence felt by investors
was due to a potential action plan to ameliorate the debt crisis in the
eurozone. This news helped push some market trends higher. Stocks finished
stronger as did precious metal gold and silver contracts. December contract gold
finished the day stronger by 2.14 percent or 35.00 to close out at 1670.80 per
troy ounce. Silver price per ounce rates closed out on the positive side of
break-even as well. Silver contract for December delivery closed out higher by
3.18 percent or .987 to finish at 31.98 per troy ounce. Although the two
precious metals closed out in the green last session, both metal prices are
still moving below break-even over the course of the past month. Spot gold and
spot silver price were trending higher as well. During the interval between last
sessions close and todays session open, spot gold and spot silver prices moved
higher. Spot gold price per gram was higher by 1.30 at 53.89 and spot silver
price per ounce was higher by 1.17 at 32.16. Camillo Zucari
The Squeeze Is on for Venture Capitalists
At a recent event in Silicon Valley, I asked a venture capitalist, "Do you
think the market volatility and lack of IPOs will hurt your business?" While
it was clear he had too much to drink, his answer was clear: "We are focused
on the long term. So we'll win in the end." You have to love VCs optimism.
It's what has led to the emergence of great companies. Yet my venture
capitalist friend should be somewhat worried. You see, it really does not matter
what he thinks about the future. What matters is what his own investors think.
These include pensions, endowments and institutions that are looking for strong
returns. For the most part, they make up most of the funding for VC funds. And
unfortunately, they are getting careful with their wallets. Just look at the
latest VC report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital
Association. In the third quarter, 52 operators raised $1.72 billion, which was
down 53% from the same quarter a year ago. Now it's true that 2011 still has
seen a strong gain of 26% in capital raised, for a total of $12.2 billion. But
the Q3 figure it was the worst quarterly performance since 2003 could be a
turning point. Keep in mind that since the middle of August, the IPO market has
slammed shut. Even high-profile companies, like Zynga and Groupon, have had to
pull back their offerings. At the same time, this year's deals have been
mostly duds. Take a look at Pandora (NYSE: P ), Demand Media (NYSE: DMD ) and
Skullcandy (NASDAQ: SKUL ), which are all well below their IPO prices. Some IPOs
have hung around, including LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD ) and
think the market volatility and lack of IPOs will hurt your business?" While
it was clear he had too much to drink, his answer was clear: "We are focused
on the long term. So we'll win in the end." You have to love VCs optimism.
It's what has led to the emergence of great companies. Yet my venture
capitalist friend should be somewhat worried. You see, it really does not matter
what he thinks about the future. What matters is what his own investors think.
These include pensions, endowments and institutions that are looking for strong
returns. For the most part, they make up most of the funding for VC funds. And
unfortunately, they are getting careful with their wallets. Just look at the
latest VC report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital
Association. In the third quarter, 52 operators raised $1.72 billion, which was
down 53% from the same quarter a year ago. Now it's true that 2011 still has
seen a strong gain of 26% in capital raised, for a total of $12.2 billion. But
the Q3 figure it was the worst quarterly performance since 2003 could be a
turning point. Keep in mind that since the middle of August, the IPO market has
slammed shut. Even high-profile companies, like Zynga and Groupon, have had to
pull back their offerings. At the same time, this year's deals have been
mostly duds. Take a look at Pandora (NYSE: P ), Demand Media (NYSE: DMD ) and
Skullcandy (NASDAQ: SKUL ), which are all well below their IPO prices. Some IPOs
have hung around, including LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD ) and
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