By Helix Investment Management: The hype surrounding the Facebook (FB) IPO resembled something seen in the heyday of the dot-com era, with the fervor reaching a fever pitch on Thursday, May 17, the day before Facebook started trading on the NASDAQ. The IPO was priced almost perfectly, as the stock did not see a huge [...]
By Value in Stock Market: Earlier, I wrote that Facebook’s (FB) IPO is becoming a sucker’s bet. On its IPO debut, Facebook started at $42, hit a high of $45 for a brief moment, and then turned south quickly. It hovered around the round number psychological price of $40, and went directly to $38 at [...]
By Steven Vincent: Let me start by clarifying something. I am not saying that the market could crash spectacularly in the next few days and that in that event the Facebook (FB) IPO would be a major contributing factor. I am not saying that. The market is saying it. Facebook boosts IPO size by 25 [...]
By Chuck Carnevale: There is a confluence of factors that are painting a very odd picture of current investor behavior. Common sense and a careful analysis of the market dynamics between equities and bonds today would indicate that investors should be acting in the exact opposite manner than they are. Interest rates are hovering at [...]
By Sami J. Karam: Expectations of a robust housing recovery are not well supported by US demographics. From Bloomberg News (February 8, 2012): Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told investors and analysts in a January conference call that housing is “getting closer” to a bottom. “We’re going to add 3 million Americans every year for [...]
By Helix Investment Management: Of all the companies we cover, none provides as much drama as Clearwire (CLWR). The wireless company is constantly in the news for some sort of reason, and the attention it receives in the press often manifests itself in the company’s stock price. In the past 2 weeks or so, however, [...]
By Dana Blankenhorn: Seeking Alpha readers obsess over Apple (AAPL) and perhaps rightly so. Writing about Apple here is, in fact, the easiest dollar one can make. So easy that the editors recently restricted us all to three Apple stories per month. It’s like regulating an oil well’s flow so it won’t play out prematurely. [...]
By Herr Hansa : The desire to access information anywhere and anytime will be met with a variety of mobile devices, through the small screens of smartphones and the slightly larger to much larger screens of tablets. Netbooks and laptops may be the losers in this shift toward mobile. While many consider this an app-centric [...]
By Martin Redfield: Introduction Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) has provided a lot of fascinating action over the past six months. One aspect of the company that bears have been emphasizing is that in September 2012, the patents protecting GMCR’s K-Cup will expire, and the resulting competition will result in lower sales and margins. In [...]
By Ploutos: Since the groundwork behind Modern Portfolio Theory was laid fifty years ago, it has been axiomatic that riskier portfolios should expect to be compensate with higher returns. In recent articles, I have shown that a portfolio of long tenured dividend payers in both the United States and Canada have experienced higher trailing returns [...]