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
On Oct. 16, 2013, I made an unhedged call to consider backing up the truck and buying Twitter shares upon its IPO — for a trade, though, not as an investment. After the stock begins trading in the open market, only skilled traders should consider entering a position. Now, I would
Thursday after the close, Microsoft MSFT reported earnings. One conclusion that jumps out from the report and conference call is that Microsoft has overcome the so-called ‘death of the PC.’ Microsoft is generating about 70% of its profits from its commercial business, which is growing at about a 10% rate, yet Microsoft is
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
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Consider taking profits on NOK in the zone of $6.60 to $6.75 and exiting the position. The stock closed at $6.73. A part of the rise since NOK sold its device business to MSFT has been due to short covering. Our algorithms show that the
(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
This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. NOK has agreed to sell its device business to MSFT and licence IP to MSFT. Congratulations to those holding NOK the stock is up 43% in the pre-market. NOK is attractive after the sale as it will end up with substantial
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