Archive for January, 2010
Will the iPad Take Market Share Away From Google?
The buzz of the iPad’s game-changing potential is still going strong … maybe even getting louder. And, Google (GOOG) has been named as the next victim in waiting, based on the idea that applications and mobility are more important than content and search. The former favors Apple’s (AAPL) latest gizmo, [...]
The Disruptive Power of the iPad Varies With its Purpose
Before assuming the rest of the tech world should just go ahead and close shop – due to obsoleteness - now that Apple’s (AAPL) iPad is here, Apple fans may want to take a closer look at just how well the device will actually impact the arenas in which it competes. [...]
Is Apple’s iPad Really Going to Save Old Media?
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has finally done it. The computer/gizmo company has finally prodded its way into the media’s delivery system the way it did with wireless phones [via the iPhone] and music [via the iPod]. The latest Apple tentacle is reaching straight into the news media world with the recently-launched iPad, [...]
Investing Idea: Regional Banks, USB, MTB
Sometimes, great companies see their stocks inexplicably move lower. Other times, stocks of terrible companies seem to move higher (even if not permanently). Every now and then though – like now – bullish charts are actually supported by real corporate results Such is the case right now with the regional banks such as U.S. Bancorp. [...]
Investment Ideas: NPBC, CEDC, HF, COP
In defiance of the marketwide selling, and despite the terrible performance over the past twelve months, investors are flowing into National Penn Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:NPBC). Perhaps these buyers are focused on - and rightfully so - the projected next twelve months.
National Penn Bancshares is expected to return to profitability again in 2010, earning $0.27 per [...]
Market, SPDRs (SPY) Now Taking on Water
The S&P 500 SPDR ETF (NYSE:SPY), though not yet even close to falling out of its recent bullish trading range, may have just done something far more alarming. The support line that extends back to July (and arguably to March’s bottom) failed to act as a floor today. The ETF is under it for the [...]
Tuesday’s Unusual Volume Activity
Rallying is one thing, but rallying on high volume is altogether different - and much more bullish. That’s what makes Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM), American Medical Systems Holding Co. (Nasdaq:AMMD), IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCM), Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq:AMED), and Vivo Participacoes S.A. (NYSE:VIV) are Tuesday’s standouts…. big gains, on massive volume. The reason for the [...]
Tuesday’s Market Round-Up: All You Really Need to Know
Slow down a minute Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ENDP) - there’s already a generic Lipoderm skin patch like the one you just submitted an NDA (new drug application for). At least that’s the story from Watson Laboratories Inc. (NYSE:WPI), which recently notified Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings of the overlap.
Watson Laboratories Inc. invoked a ‘paragraph IV’ [...]
The Pros Picks, and Why: T, IBM, KFT, HPQ, MSFT
He gets zero points for creativity, but a few points for being bold enough to be boring. Tom Forester - portfolio manager of the Forester Value Fund has recommended Microsoft Inc. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) as his top tech picks right now…. a sector he’s keen on as a way of avoiding [...]
Volume Alerts: Today’s Heaviest Selling
They may or may not be Wall Street’s biggest gainers today (they are, in some cases), but a handful of stocks are being bought up on massive volume increases. It’s a potential sign of a breakout, and/or institutional buying. Those stocks are:
Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU)
Taleo Corporation (Nasdaq: TLEO)
Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc (Nasdaq: CHSI)
Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. [...]
