Wednesday after the close, Facebook released earnings. Of the many details, the statistic that stood out was the fact that Facebook is charging 92% more per ad impression year on year. At The Arora Report, we follow 3,000 U. S. companies and 1,000 international companies. We cannot point to any other company
On Wednesday after the close, eBay disclosed that Carl Icahn has proposed a spin-off of PayPal from eBay. The initial reaction of the stock market was euphoric, with eBay stock jumping to $61.30 in after-hours trading from its closing price of $54.41. Not so fast, even though in my view Icahn is
Earnings season is in full swing, providing new data points for investors to reassess positions. After a careful review of IBM‘s latest report Tuesday afternoon, I see no reason to buy the stock at current prices. The risk-reward trade off is simply not favorable. IBM reported Q4 earnings per share of
Today, Apple is continuing its move higher. The trigger is a report in the Wall Street Journal that Apple has signed a deal with China Mobile. The WSJ report shows that the traders were correct in looking forward yesterday and not reacting negatively to a subsidiary of China Mobile pulling iPhones from
Click here for a bigger chart. After Apple AAPL stock had lost its momentum in recent months, it has spiked higher in the past two weeks and outperformed the S&P 500 by 8.8%. Here are seven reasons that Apple is moving higher again. The Incredible iPad Buzz It all started on November
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
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
(Subscribers to ZYX Buy Change Alert have been provided a precise zone where to buy and how much to buy.) On Tuesday, Microsoft MSFT announced that it is buying Nokia NOK ’s device business and also licensing certain intellectual property from Nokia. There has been much negative commentary. For example Morgan Stanley MS downgraded Microsoft, and investors voted with their money
Pandora, the popular Web radio service, reported impressive earnings after the close Thursday, recording second quarter EPS of $0.04 vs. consensus forecast for $0.02. Revenues of $157.4 million topped analysts’ consensus expectation for $156.24 million. For the third quarter, Pandora projects Q3 EPS of $0.03 to $0.06 vs. $0.08 previously