Alibaba plans to use Singles’ Day shopping frenzy to lock in market dominance for years
Alibaba (BABA) generated $1 billion in gross merchandise volume in just the first three minutes of the Singles’ Day shopping event in China today. By the end of two hours the sales volume was just shy of $12 billion. The company’s Alibaba Cloud unit...
Tech breakdown starts to look serious
The conventional wisdom at the end of last week was that we were witnessing a rotation out of tech shares and into financials and small cap stocks. In other words, nothing to get  too concerned about. Apple (AAPL) was a special case as surveys of retail channels...
Market goes from worried to freaked out today
U.S. President Donald Trump threatening North Korea with fire and fury was certainly enough to worry global stock markets yesterday. Taunts from North Korea overnight and a promise from that country to drop four missiles into the waters off Guam sometime around the...
Apple earnings solid enough to support tech sector
The big questions for Apple (AAPL) won’t be answered until this fall when investors get to see the new iPhone (and see how hot or not it is) and learn whether or not Apple’s suppliers are indeed having trouble manufacturing key components such as the OLED...
Yesterday’s tech stock rally evaporates this morning
Yesterday’s rally in technology stocks and the NASDAQ Composite has disappeared this morning. At 12:30 New York time the NASDAQ was off 1.6%; the Technology Sector Select SPDR (XLK) was down 1.72%; and individual technology stocks were also in the red. Amazon...
Familiar downside pattern for technology stocks and NASDAQ–is worry spreading to the wider market?
Once again the technology sector moved up, very modestly, in morning trading and then fell into the close. The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) saw its high for the dy around 11 a.m. New York time and then dropped into the close at $55.08, a loss of 1.64% for...
Up out of the gate, technology stocks then stall
What to make of this morning’s action in the technology and financial sectors? The two sectors raced ahead right after the opening bell, helping drive the Standard & Poor’s 500 to an early 0.5% gain. But that gain quickly faded as these...
Skyworks gains big on earnings beat: What does this mean for the rest of the Apple ecosystem?
After the close today, January 19, Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), a supplier of chips for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone announced that December quarter earnings had beaten analyst estimates by 3 cents a share. The results also beat on revenue. The company guided Wall Street...
Qualcomm’s really, really small chip is a big, big deal
Update January 4, 2017. Qualcomm (QCOM) announced a new Snapdragon chip (Snapdragon 835) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, January 3. The chip will take up about 35% less space than last year’s Snapdragon chip in devices such as...
Apple earnings, revenue, and iPhone sales disappoint almost exactly as Wall Street had projected
Unfortunately for the price of Apple (AAPL) shares and for Apple shareholders, Wall Street estimates for the September quarter that Apple reported last night, October 25, were almost precisely on track. Apple beat earnings estimates by a penny, reporting $1.67 a...
Big test for Apple–and much of the rest of the tech sector–tomorrow with earnings
Apple (AAPL) is set to report earnings for the quarter that ended on September 30 (fiscal fourth quarter earnings for Apple) tomorrow after the market’s close. The stakes are higher than usual. Wall Street is forecasting that iPhone sales will be just 45 million...
Looking for a tech stock for earnings season: Think Qualcomm
Update September 20, 2016 Going into the third quarter earnings season, Wall Street analysts had pegged the information technology sector of the Standard & Poor’s 500 as the only sector where estimates for the third quarter had climbed since June 30. That...
Intel raises third quarter guidance; now up 94% since I added it to my Dividend portfolio
Update September 16, 2016 In new guidance today Intel raised its outlook for third quarter revenue to $15.6 billion, $300 million above previous guidance. The midpoint forecast for gross margin climbed to 63% versus the earlier midpoint forecast of 62%. None of this...
Qualcomm: Now that’s a surprise
Update July 21. After the close of the market yesterday, July 20, Qualcomm (QCOM), the biggest maker of chips that run mobile phones, reported net income of 97 cent a share for the quarter that ended on June 26. That beat the 73 cents a share earned in June quarter of...
Looking at the Microsoft earnings beat that wasn’t
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) closed up 5.31% today after the company announced earnings that beat Wall Street projections. It’s always worth taking a look at what “beating Wall Street projections” actually means in any specific case. Lowering...
U.S. stocks pause ahead of earnings
Not terribly surprising that U.S. stocks are meandering in slightly negative territory today after busting out to new all-time highs. (The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index was off 0.09% at the close in New York.) We’re about to head into the meat of...
Economy and financial markets point in different directions ahead of Wednesday’s Fed meeting
Pity the poor Federal Reserve. In making decisions about interest rates–in this case about whether or not to raise interest rates at its June, July or September meetings–it has to consider the condition of both the real economy and the financial markets. And right now...
UK voters decide to leave European Union–What’s next (Part 1 short term effects)?
By a surprisingly large margin of 52% to 48% the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in Thursday’s Brexit referendum. Global financial markets plunged in a decline all the more dramatic because traders and investors had decided on Wednesday that the...Update ASML Holding (ASML)
The semiconductor equipment race is heating up even faster than I laid out in my January 14 post on Intel https://jubakpicks.com/2011/01/18/the-chip-war-thats-bad-for-intel-is-good-for-the-shares-of-chip-equipment-makers/ Samsung Electronics, perhaps Intel’s biggest...The chip war that's bad for Intel is good for the shares of chip equipment makers
The same logic that has pushed shares of chipmaker Intel (INTC) down despite record earnings and revenue is pushing up the shares of semiconductor equipment makers Look what happened on January 14, the day after Intel announced its earnings. For the day Intel fell by...Update Aixtron (AIXG)
Shares of Aixtron (AIXG) have moved up quite nicely since mid-December on reports that China’s LED industry will install 700 to 800 units of the metal organic chemical vapor deposition machines (known as MOCVD to their friends) that Aixtron makes. That, according to...Buy Aixtron (AIXG)
I’ve been looking to buy Aixtron (AIXG) on a dip to $32 or lower. Well, today I got my price. As I’m writing this at 12:30 New York time, the ADRs of the maker of equipment for depositing the thin layers that make up chips, display screens, LEDs, and solar cells are...Update ASML Holding (ASML)
No real surprise that shares of ASML Holding (ASML) have paused in the last few days. European stocks—and ASML is headquartered in Veldhoven Netherlands, have been under pressure from the renewal of the euro debt crisis. Cisco Systems (CSCO) disappointing guidance on...Update Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Can Cisco Systems (CSCO) stage a comeback? At first (and probably second and third glances too) that seems a ludicrous question. We’re talking Cisco here. The gorilla so big that other gorillas make room in the bamboo. But Cisco’s results for the first quarter of...Intel's earnings bring a sigh of relief, if not excitement, to technology stocks
Solid. I’d say Intel’s (INTC) third quarter earnings report, released after the market close yesterday, October 12, is more likely to be greeted with a sigh of relief than a gasp of pleased surprise. Earnings for the third quarter came to 52 cents a share. That’s 2...Update ASML Holdings (ASML)
I’ve been waiting to see what ASML Holdings (ASML) competitor Veeco Instruments (VECO) would report on July 26. ASML Holdings reported on July 14, the same day as Intel (INTC) and I didn’t want to up my target for ASML Holdings simply out of enthusiasm for Intel’s...EMC earnings show continued strength in technology hardware
Not the home run that Intel (INTC) hit with its earnings but EMC’s (EMC) results back up my theory that technology hardware companies with new products offering more power at lower prices and lower operating costs will show strength in 2010 even if the economy...There's less bad news in IBM's earnings than Wall Street thinks
IBM’s (IBM) second quarter revenue miss yesterday (July 19)—the company reported revenue grow of just 2% instead of the 4% to 5% that Wall Street had expected—undermined the entire technology sector. Last week after Intel (INTC) reported earnings of 51 cents a share...Update Intel (INTC)
Sales of server chips were up 170% in the second quarter of 2010 from the second quarter of 2009, Intel (INTC) announced last night (July 13) when the company reported earnings. When I last updated this stock back in April after the company announced first quarter...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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