Tag: Technology
UK growth stocks: Buy Spice (SPI), Pace (PIC) and Domino’s UK (DOM)
Published on September 15, 2008
“We look for firms with strong fundamentals, such as experienced management, a competitive business model and a financial position that allows for sustainable growth. We aim to find firms that we expect to perform well over the cycle, rather than trying to chase short-term gains.” — Catherine Stanley
Blogger’s note: Each week, the UK’s MoneyWeek asks [...]
Profit from the Biotech Boom
Published on August 7, 2008
“Biotechs offer investors with opportunities to get in on breakthrough technologies, while they are still in the lab… So why have investors stopped investing in these ground-floor companies?” — Jim Nelson
Blogger’s note: Pharmaceutical companies are a well-known haven during a recession. The logic being that, while people may cut back on a [...]
Earnings Season Starts with Alcoa (AA)
Published on July 7, 2008
“Of course, financials will lead the charge in terms of these dire expectations, followed closely behind by consumer discretionary (which reflects the lagging confidence measures). Technology is also expected to struggle; these days management must think long and hard about investing in any major systems upgrades.” — William Patalon
by William [...]
This Week’s Financial News: Paulson has an idea, Bear Stearns ain’t a cheap floozy and mind the overspray
Published on March 29, 2008
"At least the U.S. economy has started to look more like a soap opera and less like a Greek tragedy this week. Maybe we can get out of the current market situation without having to watch every player die a bloody, violent death, afterall… or maybe not. Either way, I’d bring a an umbrella to [...]
Technology Investing: The best tech stocks for the recession
Published on February 28, 2008
“Avoiding tech stocks this time around would be a classic case of learning the wrong lesson.” — Andrew Gordon
by Andrew Gordon
Baltimore – (TFN): If you had invested $1,000 in semiconductors, you would have lost $840 in the last recession (2000 through 2002). Mobile telecoms would [...]
Market Rebound: Merger mania is back
Published on February 1, 2008
"If you understand how companies grow and evolve, you can predict when they will falter and die. Microsoft achieved its maximum efficient size over a decade ago. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN): A Wall Street titan is dead. It grew so large and its weight got so cumbersome its knees buckled. As I write, the [...]
Technology Investment: Google wins
Published on January 31, 2008
“The credit collapse had Google & Friends worried. They, and the rest of us, feared that, with the mood decidedly sour and debt no longer easy to procure, Verizon and AT&T would be less likely to drive the price up as high or as fast as they would have otherwise.” — Stephanie [...]
Technology Small-Caps: Safe growth through cutting costs
Published on November 15, 2007
“Its that kind of market penetration domination that creates safe winners in the technology sector like Concur. Right now, Concur is still cranking away at growing its customer base and has plenty of years of solid growth ahead of it.” — Andrew Mickey
by Andrew Mickey, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Friday, November 16, 2007
Baltimore — (TFN): I initially [...]
New Personal Finance Video: Safe small cap stock set to soar
Published on November 15, 2007
Today’sFinancialNews.com
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Baltimore — (TFN): Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have already partnered up. Dell, Texas Instruments, Eaton and JC Penney are already customers. Bank of America, Bank One, and Citibank have joined up too. They’re all turning to this small-cap company to cut costs dramatically.
It’s that kind of market [...]