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Apple (AAPL) Hits The Skids. Compared to the S&P 500 It May Be A Bargain.
Forbes - 5 May 2016 06:42
Technically speaking, Apple, Inc. has been quite a loser recently. Between earnings and analysts’ reports, Apple has clearly grown out of favor. With a 52 week high of 132.97, its current trading price of $94.19 is tra...
Apple: It's Not What Management Says, It's What They Do
Forbes - 5 May 2016 10:43
Apple management seems to have their fingers stuck on the sell button
Yelp's Solid Quarterly Results Push Stock Higher
Forbes - 5 May 2016 22:30
The local business ratings and reviews site beat Wall Street estimates on both the top and bottom line.
GoPro shares swing after results; sales fall 50%
CNBC - 5 May 2016 23:47
Battered wearable-camera maker GoPro posted mixed quarterly results as its sales beat expectations but plunged from the previous year.
Schuuush! Is this the world's quietest Ferrari 308?
CNN - 5 May 2016 23:01
The look is unmistakably Ferrari. The sound? That's another story.
GoPro Reports First Quarter Earnings As Sales Slide
Forbes - 5 May 2016 22:05
GoPro continues to spiral into irrelevancy. Can even a drone save it?
China Life Insurance Enters Oversold Territory
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:59
The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — ...
Sell The Rallies, Buy The Dips
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:53
For investors, continued focus on dividends and assets that have large cash throw offs, selling at highs and buying the dips in a range bound market, appears to be the best strategy in the current anti-growth policy envi...
How To Profit When Bank Of Japan Doubles Down On Easing Policy
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:51
After surprising the global financial markets in late January with an unprecedented shift (i.e. unprecedented for Japan) to a negative interest rate policy, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) surprised the market yet again late las...
SEC Starting To Worry About Non-GAAP Earnings
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:45
We’ve been sounding the alarm on non-GAAP earnings for several years now. Companies exploited the wide leeway granted by the SEC to present their business in a more favorable light. What was originally intended to be a...
The Jobs Report: Gauging Underappreciated Strength
Wall Street Journal - 5 May 2016 21:41
The labor market's momentum shouldn't be overlooked by investors and the Federal Reserve ahead of Friday's jobs report.
Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: WFT, CL, DPZ
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:40
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Weatherford International plc (NYSE: WFT), where a total volume of 79,059 contracts has been traded th...
Buy Writes on Electricity and Amusement Parks
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:33
Buy write trades involve the simultaneous purchase of a stock and the sale of an equivalent number of out-of-the-money call options. Buy writes reduce your cost basis in long positions, but they cap your upside by requir...
China's love-hate relationship with bubbles
livemint.com - 5 May 2016 21:10
Last year, it was China's overheating equities market that caused grief to investors. Now, it's China's commodity futures market that is on fire, pulling up commodity shares in its wake
Spirit Realty Capital (SRC) Passes Through 6% Yield Mark
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:08
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of Spirit Realty Capital, Inc (NYSE: SRC) were yielding above the 6% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.7...
Is Apple The Next Polaroid, Xerox, Syntex, Intel, IBM, Maybe Microsoft or Gilead?
Forbes - 5 May 2016 21:02
“Nobody knows the future. You can only create the future.” – Alibaba’s Jack Ma.
A New Way To Invest In How Millennials Spend
Forbes - 5 May 2016 20:41
Global X Funds has launched an exchange traded fund designed to take advantage of Millennials' growing spending power.
Thursday Sector Leaders: Energy, Healthcare
Forbes - 5 May 2016 20:34
The best performing sector as of midday Thursday is the Energy sector, up 0.7%. Within the sector, Cimarex Energy Co (NYSE: XEC) and Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 5.1% a...
Daily Dividend Report: PSX, CAH, CA, KHC, KMB, COF
Forbes - 5 May 2016 20:29
Phillips 66 (PSX) has declared a quarterly dividend of 63 cents per share on Phillips 66 common stock, representing a 12.5 percent increase. The dividend is payable on June 1, 2016, to shareholders of record as of the cl...
Notable Thursday Option Activity: RHT, WYNN, CTL
Forbes - 5 May 2016 20:25
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Red Hat Inc (NYSE: RHT), where a total of 9,633 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 963,300 und...
Top Buys by Top Brass: Chief Executive Officer Brown's $201.7K Bet on ALLY
Forbes - 5 May 2016 20:20
A company's own top management tend to have the best inside view into the business, so when company officers make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard...
Thursday's ETF with Unusual Volume: VV
Forbes - 5 May 2016 20:18
The Vanguard Large-Cap ETF (VV) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Thursday, with over 4.4 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 315,000. Shares of VV were down about 0.1% on ...