This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. RBCN is a provider of sapphire crystals. A sapphire crystal covers the fingerprint reader in iPhone 5S. There is disappointment that Apple has not extended fingerprint readers to its iPad line. The new buy zone is $7.90 to $11.53. Because of
Carl Icahn, perhaps the most successful investor of recent times, has sent out a new letter to Tim Cook. However, much of the information that is crucial for investors is either not in the letter or not clear in the letter, but came out in an excellent interview on CNBC. Here
Earnings season is in full swing. In my backtesting, companies that report earnings above analysts’ consensus estimates tend to outperform the market. Here are three popular technology stocks that have reported blowout earnings so far this quarter. Only the data that is most important and has been historically reliable in the past is listed
Apple has scheduled a product-announcement event for tomorrow. My expectations are that the products announced will be mostly evolutionary, but there is a dark horse that can change the game for tablet computing. The dark horse is a 13-inch iPad that is a replacement for full-fledged laptops. If this dark
This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Yesterday evening, Twitter announced that it will list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This is a coup for NYSE as Twitter is the highest profile IPO of 2013. The road show is likely to begin on October 25th and
It was just last month that Apple released iPhone 5C with fanfare. It was the first time that Apple had introduced two iPhones at the same time. Also iPhone 5C was the first ever mid-market phone introduced by Apple. Two data points show that iPhone 5C has hastened a march
Apple AAPL has managed to attract the first woman to its top ten executive team. The woman is Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry Group Plc. The stock market clearly views Apple hiring Ahrendts as a loss for Burberry; as of this writing, Burberry stock in London is trading down about 5%. Ahrendts will become the
This morning Apple (AAPL) issued a press release with the title ‘First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record.’ On the surface, every word in this title is true but digging deeper shows that the record may not be as good as it seems. The previous record
Since 1982, when Adobe was founded in San Jose, Calif,. its design and publishing tools were sold as boxed software at retail or under perpetual licensing agreements. In 1989, Adobe introduced Photoshop which dominates the market for graphics editing. In 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia whose popular products were Dreamweaver for
Verizon just trumped Apple by orchestrating the world’s largest corporate-debt sale to date by selling $49 billion of bonds. In contrast, the previous largest corporate bond sale in the U. S. was Apple’s big bond sale in April, which, in hindsight, was a mere $17 billion. Verizon’s rush is investor’s