Game Stop is a retailer with about 6,600 stores, mostly selling physical video games. Shrink-wrapped video games are becoming obsolete; it is only a matter of time before consumers stop buying them. So why buy the stock? Looking at Game Stop GME the stock has run up 25%, as show
A big recent move in Microsoft stock has been driven by the speculation that Microsoft will release Office for iPad on March 27, 2014; this was reported by several news sources including Reuters. If the speculation is true, there is certainly something to celebrate in that the new CEO, Satya
Microsoft MSFT has reportedly cut the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for tablets and low cost computers. Original equipment manufacturers will now pay only a $15 license for Windows 8.1 if they install it on devices that sell at retail for under $250, this compares to the previous license cost of
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