Embarq showed strong Q1 result
The company announced its quarterly result for the first quarter of 2008, including record earnings and cash flow. The company reported total revenues of $1.57 billion, operating income of $434 million, diluted earnings per share of $1.38 and cash flow before dividends of $286 million.
The company paid a dividend of $0.6875 per share in the first quarter, and repurchased approximately 3.35 million common shares at a cost of $135 million. Through April 25, 2008, the company purchased an additional 2.62 million shares at a cost of $104 million.
The company ended the quarter with net debt of $5.6 billion, a sequential reduction of $187 million.
The company reported a decline of 120,000 access lines in the first quarter, ending with 6.19 million access lines. During the quarter, the company added 63,000 high-speed Internet subscribers, bringing the total to 1.34 million. Video net additions totaled 17,000 during the quarter, resulting in the company ending the quarter with 217,000 of its customers subscribing to video services.
About Embarq Corporation
Embarq Corporation (NYSE: EQ), headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, offers a complete suite of common sense communications services. The company has approximately 19,000 employees and operates in 18 states. EMBARQ is included in the S&P 500.
For consumers, EMBARQ offers an innovative portfolio of services that includes reliable local and long distance home phone service, high-speed Internet, wireless, and satellite TV from DISH Network® - all on one monthly bill.
For businesses, EMBARQ has a comprehensive range of flexible and integrated services designed to help businesses of all sizes be more productive and communicate with their customers. This service portfolio includes local voice and data services, long distance, Business Class High-Speed Internet, wireless, enhanced data network services, voice and data communication equipment and managed network services. EMBARQ believes that by focusing on the communities the company serves and by employing common sense and practical ingenuity, it is able to provide customers with a committed partner, dedicated customer service and innovative products for work and home.
Technical Analysis
Technically, the stock shows strong support at $39, but at the same time has strong resistant at $42. Once the stock crosses $42 successfully with high volume, the stock can easily touch $48 with long term target of $65+.
Short Term Target: $48
Medium Term Target: $58
Long Term Target: $65+
Disclaimer: The views, investment and stock trading tips expressed on this online stock trading blog are solely from the blog owner. The blog owner advises users to check with certified experts before taking any stock trading or stock investing decision.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Stock Pick: Embarq
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Stock Pick – Tiffany And Co
TIFFANY AND CO
On Monday Tiffany & Co posted higher than expected quarterly result. The company has reported increased sales overseas and at the same the newly opened stores has helped to counterbalance the effects of a slowing US economy as that has put a strain on consumer spending.
The company reported that its net sales increased 15% in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 and rose 10% in the fourth quarter. Net earnings per diluted share from continuing operations excluding non-recurring items increased 22% to $2.33 in the year and increased 19% to $1.27 in the fourth quarter.
The company’s net sales in the fiscal year increased 15% to $2,938,771,000. On a constant-exchange-rate basis, which excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, net sales increased 13% and worldwide comparable store sales increased 7%.
The company’s sales rose 10% to $1.05 billion. The company is expecting, for the current year, the net earnings per share to rise by 11% to 15% to a range of $2.75 to $2.85.
The Company repurchased and retired 9,299,491 shares of its Common Stock in the fourth quarter at a total cost of $418,374,000, or an average cost of $44.99 per share. In the year, the Company spent $574,608,000 to repurchase 12,374,000 shares of its Common Stock at an average cost of $46.44 per share. In January 2008, the Board of Directors increased by $500 million the amount authorized for future repurchases through January 2011. At January 31, 2008, the Company had $621 million available for future repurchases.
About Tiffany And Co
Tiffany & Co. is a holding company that operates through its subsidiary companies. The Company's principal subsidiary, Tiffany and Company, is a jeweler and specialty retailer, whose merchandise offerings include an extensive selection of jewelry (83% of net sales in fiscal 2006), as well as timepieces, sterling silverware, china, crystal, stationery, fragrances and accessories.
Through Tiffany and Company and other subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in product design, manufacturing and retailing activities.
Company’s performance on stock market
After touching the January’s low, this stock had performed quite well on Wall Street. At current situation, after the quarterly result, it is expected the stock will resume its upward movement.
Technically the stock seems to have resistant at $45. Once the stock takes out $45 resistant successfully with huge volume, the immediate target seems at $50 and from mid to long term, the stock has potential to touch $60.
From long term investor’s point of view, I think systemic small-small accumulation of Tiffany stock will be a very good strategy at current market scenario. Even though the Wall Street has gained quite considerably after the two month’s turmoil, it certainly cannot be granted that Wall Street is now completely out of woods. There is lot of uncertainties out there, and any slight negative news from economy front can drag the market southward.
If the Dow Jones and NASDAQ tends to move southward then this stock will also follow their same direction, but at lower level of $35, this stock will be a very good buy with huge upward potential and very low downside risk.
Mid Term Target: $50
Long Term Target: $60
Disclaimer: The views, investment and stock trading tips expressed on this online stock trading blog are solely from the blog owner. The blog owner advises users to check with certified experts before taking any stock trading or stock investing decision.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Omnicell Ind - Fundamentally Looks Good
Omnicell, Inc. is a leading provider of various medication control and patient safety solutions for acute care health facilities.
The company's healthcare automation solutions enable healthcare facilities to acquire, manage, dispense, and administer medications and medical-surgical supplies. It offers medication-use product line for use in acute care nursing departments, central pharmacy automation, physician order management, and nursing workflow automation at the bedside.
The company had very recently announced on Feb 25th, repurchase of an aggregate of up to $40 million of its common stock over the next 12 months. The Company’s Board of Directors decided to pursue this course of action after a review of the Company’s financial position and investment alternatives. The Company expects the stock repurchase program to be accretive to earnings.
This move had leaded the Omnicell stock to remain isolated with ongoing carnage and turmoil in stock market. The stock show strong buy signal and downside risk also looks quite less.
Omnicell also announced that it expects 2008 earnings from operating income will be higher than previously estimated and expects the estimated return on cash investments to be reduced to an average of 3% as a result of recent Federal Reserve rate reductions, which will offset the increases in operating income. After these adjusted estimates, Omnicell reaffirms its previous 2008 earnings forecast of $0.85 to $0.88 per share, excluding stock compensation charges.
Technically the stock looks quite good. The stock is certainly giving buy signal and has very good potential to touch $30 on mid term basis.
Disclaimer: The views, investment and stock trading tips expressed on this online stock trading blog are solely from the blog owner. The blog owner advises users to check with certified experts before taking any stock trading or stock investing decision.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Stock Pick - Zebra Technologies Corp
Zebra Technologies Corp (ZBRA) posted a higher than street expected fourth-quarter profit on Monday.
The company’s net profit rose to $30.8 million or 45 cents a share from $21.4 million, or 30 cents a share, a year earlier. Company’s revenue increased 11.3% to $233.6 million from $209.9 million. Wall Street analysts had expected earnings of 43 cents a share on revenue of $226 million.
The company said it expected first-quarter earnings of 36 cents to 44 cents a share on sales of $238 million to $255 million. The forecast includes special items that will reduce profit by about 9 cents a share.
The company, with international headquarters in Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA, has an installed base of nearly five million printers worldwide. Zebra Technologies delivers innovative and reliable on-demand printing solutions for business improvement and security applications in 100 countries around the world. More than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Zebra-brand printers. A broad range of applications benefit from Zebra-brand bar code, "smart" label, receipt, and card printers, resulting in enhanced security, increased productivity, improved quality, lower costs, and better customer service. The company has sold nearly five million printers, including RFID printer/encoders and wireless mobile solutions, and also offers software, connectivity solutions, and printing supplies.
The fundamental story of the stock looks bright, but technically the stock movement is not that encouraging. The stock has strong resistance at level of $34, but if stock crosses $34 resistance level successfully with huge volume then the stock can easily head to $42 and then $49. The stock seems to have strong support level at $27.50. The stock can be bought from median to long term perspective with price target of $42. From stock trading perspective once the stock takes out $34 resistance successfully the traders can go long with strict stoploss at $27.50. Any sharp fall in this stock should be taken as good opportunity to enter in this stock.
Median target: $42
High target: $49
Stoploss: $27.50
Disclaimer: The views, investment and stock trading tips expressed on this online stock trading blog are solely from the blog owner. The blog owner advises users to check with certified experts before taking any stock trading or stock investing decisions.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Stock Pick - Williams Companies Inc.
Williams Companies Inc. (WMB)
Williams Companies Inc through its subsidiaries engages in the production, gathering, processing, and transportation of natural gas.
The ongoing rise in energy prices has significantly boosted the company’s revenue. The company announced its quarterly result on Thursday. The company reported healthy 53% jump in its fourth-quarter profit.
Many of the research firm has upgraded this stock to outperform. Fundamentally as well as technically, the stock is positioned well. At present situation the overall Wall Street is going through significant volatile session, William Companies is showing strong uptrend. From stock trading perspective the stock is giving buy signal with a stoploss around $33.50. The median target for this stock can be around $42 to $45.
For fourth-quarter 2007, recurring income from continuing operations after mark-to-market adjustments was $358 million, or 59 cents per share, compared with $173 million, or 28 cents per share, for the same period in 2006.
Recurring income from continuing operations after mark-to-market adjustments was $1.05 billion, or $1.73 per share, for 2007, compared with $648 million, or $1.07 per share, for 2006.
For 2007, Williams' businesses reported consolidated segment profit of $2.16 billion, compared with $1.49 billion for 2006. In fourth-quarter 2007, the company reported consolidated segment profit of $539 million, compared with $375 million in the fourth quarter of 2006.
The profit was mainly driven by higher natural-gas liquid margins remaining at historically high levels, strong growth in domestic natural gas production volumes, and the positive effect of new rates on two pipeline systems. Moreover the company is expecting this trend to remain through the year.
Current price: $35.57
Target price: $42 to $45
Stoploss: $33.50
Disclaimer: The views, investment and stock trading tips expressed on this online stock trading blog are from the blog owner. The blog owner advises users to check with certified experts before taking any stock trading or stock investing decisions.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Stock Pick-Hewlett-Packard
February 20, 2008
In the midst of trouble economy of US, Hewlett-Packard has reported a strong set of quarterly numbers above Wall Street's expectations. The company announced its quarterly result yesterday. The company reported a strong healthy jump in net revenue of 13% to $28.5 billion, ahead of the $27.6 billion Wall Street expectation for its first quarter, which ended in January. The company reported strong gains in sales and earnings for its fiscal first quarter.
Looking from technical as well as fundamental point of view, Hewlett-Packard gives strong buy signal. The mid term and long term perspective of this stock looks quite great and certainly it is good stock pick for stock investing.
The company also issued revenue and profit guidance for its second quarter and full fiscal year that topped analysts' consensus estimates.
The company earned $2.1 billion, or 80 cents per share, up 38% from a year ago. Excluding certain one-time items, the company reported a profit of 86 cents per share, well ahead of analysts' forecasts of 81 cents per share.
The company also reported it expects second-quarter sales to be in the range of $27.7 billion to $27.9 billion, versus the $27.4 billion. For the full year, the company’s revenue should be between $113.5 billion and $114 billion, surpassing Wall Street's expectation of $111.7 billion.
The company said most of its revenue came from outside the United States. Revenue from emerging markets Brazil, Russia, China and India grew 35% from a year ago.
The company is expecting profit for second quarter, excluding charges, of 83 cents to 84 cents a share, slightly higher than the 82 cents per share that analysts were predicting. The company is also expecting for the full year, profits should come in at a range of $3.50 to $3.54 a share, much higher than analysis’s expectation of $3.36 per share.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Stock pick - Credicorp
February 09, 2008
The technical as well as fundamental story of Credicrop (NYSE: BAP) looks quite strong. Credicrop seems to outperform the overall stock market, and can be a good stock pick at present situation from stock trading as well as stock investing perspective.
Since the starting of year 2008, the Dow Jones and NASDAQ are showing poor performance. Maximum of the index stocks are beaten down sharply, however Peru’s Credicrop has been showing strong defense and has been performing quite well as compared to other peer stocks.
Credicorp reported 4.1% increase in 4Q07 earnings reaching US$ 94 million, consolidating its outstanding performance with total earnings for the year 2007 of US$ 350.7 million.
• Loan growth of its banking business exceeded expectations again this quarter with total net loans up 10.5% QoQ and consolidating an astounding annual growth of 40.7%.
• Interest income followed this trend with a robust 20.6% QoQ growth, contributing to annual growth of 36.3% despite the persistent competition and pressure on rates.
• NII however, increased a more modest 27.2% during 2007.
• Strong non financial income growth of 8.1% QoQ and annual growth of 21% reveals further increases in bank transactional activity and the fee expansion at the pension fund business.
• Despite the competitive pressures and increased funding costs, the impact on Net Interest Margin could be contained given the better earnings structure resulting from the continuing change in loan mix showing NIM of 5.11% in 4Q07 vs. 5.16% in 3Q07. However, NIM for 2007 was better at 5.21% improving from 2006’s NIM at 5.06%.
Company’s information
Credicorp is listed in the New York Stock Exchange and fully complies with the Sarbanes Oxley Act in force in the United States since July 2002. The Sarbanes Oxley Act has become the international standard against which Corporate Governance practices are rated.
Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE: BAP) is the leading financial services holding company in Peru. It primarily operates via its four principal subsidiaries:
• Banco de Credito del Peru (BCP)
• Atlantic Security Holding Corporation (ASHC)
• El Pacífico-Peruano Suiza Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros (PPS)
• Grupo Credito
Credicorp is engaged principally in commercial banking (including trade finance, corporate finance and leasing services), insurance (including commercial property, transportation and marine hull, automobile, life, health and pension fund underwriting insurance) and investment banking (including brokerage services, asset management, trust, custody and securitization services, trading and investment). BCP is the Company's primary subsidiary; as of the period ended December 31, 2005, it contributed 97.0% of Credicorp's total revenues.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Stock Idea - Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc
Stock trading as well as stock investing point of view I think Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc looks quite promising. The fundamental story of this stock looks quite good. At current situation when heavy carnage is going on Wall Street, this stock seems more a like of defensive stock and holding this stock is quite profitable. It looks like there is very low downward risk and upward move looks quite bright. From long term stock investing perspective this stock can give high returns. At current situation this stock seems to be in trading zone of $46 to $54 but any descent rally on Wall Street can easily break its 52-weeks high level.
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient as of 1-Feb-08 is better than 54.3% of S&P 500 companies and 86.3% of Food Beverage & Tobacco companies.
The company reported fourth quarter 2007 net sales increased 7.9 percent and diluted earnings per share increased 16 percent. For the full year 2007, net sales increased 6.2 percent and diluted earnings per share (excluding normalization items in both years) improved 10.3 percent.
Business Summary of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and distribution of beer. The company operates in four segments: Domestic Beer, International Beer, Packaging, and Entertainment. The Domestic Beer segment offers beer under the Budweiser, Michelob, Busch, and Natural brand names.
The segment also offers specialty beers, non-alcohol brews, malt liquors, specialty malt beverages, energy drinks, ale, and malt-based products, such as caffeine, gingseng, and guarana. The International Beer segment markets and sells Budweiser and various brands outside the United States; and operates breweries in the United Kingdom and China. This segment also negotiates and administers license and contract brewing agreements with various foreign brewers; and negotiates and manages equity investments in foreign brewing partners. In addition, this segment owns and sells beer under the Harbin and various brand names.
The Packaging segment manufactures beverage cans and beverage can lids; pressure sensitive, metalized, plastic, and paper labels; crown and closure liner materials; and glass bottles. This segment also engages in buying, recycling, and selling aluminum and plastic beverage containers.
The Entertainment segment owns and operates theme parks in Tampa and Orlando, Florida; Williamsburg, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas; Langhorne, Pennsylvania; and San Diego, California. In addition, the company, through its subsidiaries, engages in real estate development; and owns and operates The Kingsmill Resort and Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia. The company also owns and operates transportation service businesses. Anheuser-Busch Companies was founded in 1852 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Ascending Tops and Ascending Bottoms
Ascending tops and ascending bottoms plays a very important role as a technical analysis in selling and buying of stock for stock investing as well as for stock trading.
Ascending tops and ascending bottoms are technical indicators shown in stock chart pattern. They clearly demonstrate the performance of a given stock over a period of time.
Ascending tops is applied to gauge the development of the price of a stock over a given period of time. This style of technical analysis is more concentrated on the high price of the stock, taking note of the highest point in the complete performance of the stock. The stock chart pattern comes into view when a stock frequently tries to make new highs. This frequent new high clearly identifies that the stock is in bull market condition.
In contrary, ascending bottoms takes a different view of the technical analysis. This style of technical analysis is more concentrated on the low price of the stock, taking note of lowest point of the stock. The stock chart pattern comes into view when lows of the stock trading range get progressively higher over a given time frame, and it is considered as a bullish indicator.
Both ascending tops and ascending bottoms are useful in evaluating the performance of any type of stock. The use of ascending tops and ascending bottoms permits the stock trader as well as stock investor to have a clear picture of any trends that seem to be occurring with the stock. Therefore, monitoring both ascending tops and ascending bottoms of a stock helps the stock trader and stock investor to understand whether it is a time to sell a stock, or to buy a stock or to hold on.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Online stock broker
Online stockbroker is one of the most important aspects of your online stock trading business. Trading stocks without the help of stock broker is entirely impossible but one should also understand that choosing the best stock broker is also that essentially important. There are tons of online stockbrokers who provides you the platform for executing online stock trading but not all are good enough that will help you to make consistent profit from online stock trading or stock investing.
An online stockbroker should provide you all the basic resources that are needful for a stock investor or a stock trader for doing online stock trading or stock investing in more profitable way…mean the stock broker needs to provide variety of educational material like real–time stock charts, streaming news, various high–quality tools and a user–friendly stock trading platform.
There are also some other important things that need to be evaluated while choosing a perfect online stock broker and that is listed below but not limited to following.
• Brokerage fees – Lower the brokerage fees and commissions more you will be able to benefit. Many online stock brokers provide various brokerage schemes depending on your account balance and the number of trades you make per day or per week or per month. The more the transaction happens from your side, the lower the brokerage fees becomes which helps you to gain more profit in less trade margins.
• Many of the best online stockbroker offer multiple options for your investment such as stocks, stock future and options, mutual funds, IPO’s, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and fixed income investments that helps you to branch out your investment portfolio.
• Customer service is also one of the useful attributes while choosing online stock broker. It happens many time that you are caught in an unsuitable situation where you are not able to execute your trade or you have very important query which needs to be resolve as soon as possible and then in such a case good customer service is very mush important to get your issue resolved within minimum timeframe.
• Online stock broker should provide easy to use and highly compatible web structure for you to execute your trade in more efficient and easy way. The structure of the website should be easy to understand along with all the needful resources at minimal approachable clicks.
• User’s security is also extreme importance while it happens to transferring private information over the web. An encrypted password protected secure website, fraud protection and a Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) membership are highly indispensable.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Stock Chart - Technical Analysis Tool
A stock chart is a string plotted on a graph for stock prices versus specific time frame. Once you are familiar with technical analysis, a concept used in identifying stock movements, then you could find the technical stock chart a more useful tool used in technical analysis, in-fact chart formation is most important aspect of technical analysis.
If you want to make stock investing, or to do day trading or online stock trading you definitely need to thinks about stock price chart formation technical pattern for your above help in making a vice decision. There is a big community in stock market who strongly believes in stock chart pattern in-fact maximum of them use it on day-to-day basis.
Stock price chart helps in many way giving you a perfect view of price movement on per hour, per day, per week, per month, and so on basis to make a exact decision.
The above chart represents the Dow Jones index chart for the period of six months. The vertical line i.e. y-axis represents the price scale and horizontal line i.e. x-axis represents the time scale. One can find an easy method to detect the support level for Dow Jones index just by viewing the previous supported price at which point the Dow Jones was bounce back.
There are also various methods by which the stock trader can get broader idea about the support level and resistance level of stock by gaining detail knowledge of stock chart pattern study, which I will put in front of you in more details in my coming postings. In short there are various stock charts which a stock trader needs to know and they are
Line chart
Bar chart
Candlestick chart
Point and figure chart
Price scaling
Monday, December 31, 2007
Wall Street Showed Resilience
January 1, 2008
Wall Street ended in mixed and showed resilience in a year of economic turmoil.
After a year of high up and down swings, the Wall Street managed to finish 2007 with a modest gain regardless of crises in credit and housing market and concerns about an economy possibly headed for recession. Probably it was a mixed year of bull and bear and many analyses predict that the same will continue in year 2008 also.
The US stock market started 2007 with a short-lived rally and plunged in late February, with the Dow cracking almost 416 points in one day as concerns about subprime mortgages swept through the market, but within weeks, the stock investor were optimism about a strong global economy and solid domestic employment began pushing the stock price higher and on May 30, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high, surpassing its record reached at the end of the tech bubble seven years earlier, but all that distorted almost overnight in mid-summer with the subprime concern morphing into a credit freeze..
Financial stocks took a hard hit as their earnings outlook fogged up as well as shares of automakers, consumer goods that produce household goods, textiles, etc were also beaten down as stock market investors doubted the aptitude of consumers, who fuel two-thirds of the economy, to keep spending.
Even though the stock market gain was skimpy at best. Most of the analysts and stock traders noted that initial public offering activity was high, share buybacks were at record highs and investors in certain sectors were handsomely rewarded.
At the end of the year, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 13,264.82, up 6.4% for the year. The broader Standard & Poor's 500-stock index closed at 1468.36, up 3.5 % for the year.
According to me for stock investing I will look for sectors such as energy and healthcare and specific stock pick from power sector, internet companies and might take some risk in financial related stocks also, however for stock trading there are lot of stocks hanging around which could be good bet on a short term basis.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Rise on Wall Street ahead of Fed’s meeting
December 11, 2007
Strong rally was seen on Dow Jones and NASDAQ on Monday with an expectation of interest rate cut by Federal Reserve in coming meeting.
Investors hang about ahead of the Federal Reserve decision on interest rate cut on Tuesday, but majority of policymakers are still split over whether there will be a 0.25 basis or 0.50 basis cut. The National Association of Realtors bestows stock investors about their forward-looking index of U.S. home sales rose in October for the second month in a line, but still investors expect the housing market to remain weak well into 2008, the association is forecasting sales and prices to start recovering modestly next year.
According to UBS the financial stocks have already discounted the worst case scenario and may be a good stock investing opportunity on a longer term.
As compared to last month which was worse volatile month for Wall Street, this month the Wall Street has showed excellent performance as investors gained more confident in the Fed's directness to loosening its policy again. The Dow Jones has rose more than 740 points over the last two weeks, a rally that has brought the blue-chip index to about 3% below the record close it reached Oct 9.
On Monday The Dow Jones closed at 101.45 points higher, or 0.74% to 13,727.03. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.30, or 0.75% to 1,515.96. The Nasdaq composite index rose 12.79, or 0.47%, to 2,718.95.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Myths of Stock Market
Many peoples who are unknown to stock market believe that stock market is a gambling place and there is always a high risk of losing money, and real fact is “yes” and also “no”. “Yes” because investing in stock or stock investing is like putting your hard money in a mysterious thing where returns are not known, and “no” because if you have stock market knowledge and knows the basic thing how to detect perfect stock then chance of never ending up in losing money is very much possible infact it will take you towards the wealth and end up you in high returns.
There are lots of people who have lost considerable amount of their hard earned money in stock market and also there are lots of peoples who have created wealth through stock market, so it definitely gives you a difference! Why some people are loosing money and how some people are making money?
The above picture clearly tells you that there is considerable amount of risk of losing money and also there is considerable amount of winning money in stock market, and to be on winner side you definitely need to put efforts and hard work and to gain stock market knowledge.
It is having said that since the invention of internet and its advance technology, the average person's interest in online stock trading has grown substantially. What was once a model of only rich people has now turned into the favorite destination of an ordinary individual for growing wealth. The advance technology of internet has now opened a door for ordinary individual to do online stock trading and so that nowadays nearly anybody can own stocks.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Vivendi in plan to acquire major Activision Inc. stake
Vivendi the Game Makers is in plans to obtain a controlling stake in Activision Inc. and unite the company with Vivendi Games in a contract that would form a competitor to Electronic Arts Inc. as the world's largest video game publisher.
After the acquisition of Activision Ind the Vivendi Games will hold 52% stake in a new company to be called Activision Blizzard. On that basis, Activision and Vivendi valued the combined company at $18.9 billion.
The combined company is targeting pro forma operating income of $1.1 billion and pro forma earnings per share of more than $1.20 in calendar year 2009. The acquisition will make available Activision Blizzard with the most consolidate and broadest collection of interactive entertainment assets in the industry.
Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker ATVI.
The offer price is a 24 percent premium to Activision's closing price Friday of $22.15 per share.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Investment
Investments or investing is an efficient and stronger tool mostly used for prosperous future financial by an entity or a retail individual, in broader term it can be differentiated in many different ways but the end result should be to increase your asset in longer term.
For an individual the investment should be more important because this is the only credible way where an individual can make their future financial situation protected. There are many different ways where one can look to invest their money to have consistent, sustainable and convincing returns in their future life. Some of the favorite and stronger investment classes could be insurance, real estate, stocks or shares, mutual funds, gold, etc.
Investing in stock or share is said to be quite risky as compared to other investing portfolio but it is also having said that returns on stock can be many more stronger than other investment classes, however just making an stock investing could not be the answer for it but executing it wisely and intelligently only could be worth otherwise chances of investment crisis is also possible.
Real estate is also a very good destination to invest money but this class also includes risk. 2007 year was worst performer year for
Maximum of the peoples choose insurance as their most favorite class to invest their money as risk appetite in this class is extremely low or negligible and returns are also clearly visible depending upon the insurance plan they choose, however return on investment in this class could not be as worth as in other classes.
Gold is also said to be the best place to invest money but maximum of the individual does not buy gold as an investment but they buy gold for showing their wealth enhancement, for prosperity and it also shows a great sign of richness.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Online stock trading tips
Here are some of the online stock trading tips that online stock trader can use in their stock trading strategy. There are certain parameters that need to be taken into account by the stock trader while doing stock trading. These parameters help significantly for stock trader to make a successful stock trade.
Momentum – Stock momentum illustrates you the velocity at which stock prices move happens over a certain period of time. High momentum stocks are highly preferable for trading stock on short term basis.
Volume – Volume is another parameter where one can easily make out to select stock for trading. Significant increase in volume against average volume in stock over the last 7 days can give you clear picture that there is more number of stock traders as well as stock investor’s interest in this stock and with the knowing of direction one can easily buy or can short that stock.
Direction – Direction is one of the most important things for trading stock. Stock volume, trend and direction moves hand in hand. Increase in volume and change in direction tells you to buy or to sell the stock.
Trends – Trend illustrates the pushiness of prices to move in a particular direction over a certain period of time.
Stock strength – Stock strength tells you the intensity of interest in a stock. High volumes specify more participants and therefore more strength.
Volatility – Volatility describes the degree of day-to-day stock price fluctuations. More volatility arise nervousness to stock investors but there is some community in stock trader who likes to do stock trading in highly volatile stock. Volatility increases the risk but also gives high returns.
Support and Resistance – Support and Resistance represent the occurrence of stock prices repeatedly rising and falling between certain prices levels. When stock prices breakout support or resistance levels, they tend to create new support and resistance levels.
Stock chart patterns – Chart patterns provides you hits of identifiable shapes on a stock chart. Certain stock chart patterns preempt changes in stock direction and price.
Cycles – Many a time some stock sectors show a propensity to move in cycle patterns. For example after a good participation in technology sector, the stock investor turns their attention towards any other stock sector say energy sector and after the momentum in finished in energy section their tends to move their attention in steel sectors and so on and this gives an opportunity for stock investors as well as stock investor to monitor closely the sectors which are presently performing well and tries to do stock trading or stock investing in such sectors as these sectors are in momentum chances of making money is good enough that sectors which are not showing any strength or momentum.
The above following online stock trading tips can be highly useful for online stock traders as well as stock investor to make vice decision to conduct any stock trading or stock investing.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Growing fad of online stock trading in Europe
Online stock trading has now been in crazy stage now in Europe. After the worst carnage of dotcom bubble in 2001, many European individual stock investor’s money were completely washed out, while many of the brokerages lost out their multimillion dollar gamble that Europeans would embrace online trading, but recent survey done by to market researcher IDC (Internal Data Corporation) only about 14% of the 318 million people in Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden owing stock/share. In the U.S., by comparison, nearly 55% of the population of 300 million owns stock, but this trend is changing now. Europe's online brokerage sector, which is now adding customer accounts at a 7% annual growth rate vs. 4% in the U.S.
With the recent development of increase in number of personal computer use along with internet and use of employee-directed pension plans and a shift in responsibility for retirement from governments to individuals, Europeans are paying more attention to stock investing and to online stock trading. It clearly seems like European are gradually becoming aware of the benefits of electronic trading and changing their attitude toward their financial responsibilities.
According to the survey made by IDC there were about 17.5 million online stock trading accounts in Western Europe as of the end of last year and that could jump to 23.5 million accounts, and online trading will represent nearly a quarter of all retail transactions.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Late stock trade burst the Wall Street
November 27, 2007
Fresh credit concerns, banking made the Wall Street to sell off sharply on Monday’s stock trading session. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 240 points giving a rise to new lows. The Dow's fell its mid-October closing high is now 10.03%. The collapse to Wall Street comes as stock investors were nervy by more incoming statements that pointed to enduring problems in the credit, home loan debt going bad under the weight of a vacillating housing market; however Fed said it would inject $8 billion into the banking system on Wednesday to handle the credit market situation.
The present fact looking at the Wall Street clearly demonstrates stock investors are becoming too sentimental and caution and trying to pull out their cash at every rise. I will be waiting for Dow Jones to hold 12,500 marks but this possibility is also very less for me. At this point I would like to stay on a sideline and will wait for few days how the market pans out from stock investor as well as from stock trader points of view, however I would be monitoring my favorite internet as well as energy related stocks and if I find any good opportunity I would like to do stock trading but will avoid to do any kind of stock investing.
Friday, November 23, 2007
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