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ETF Preview: Transportation Funds Get Boost From BNI Deal - Banking Funds Drop On European News

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:52:36 GMT

Major market ETFs, including the SPY, DIA, UYG and others, are lower in reaction to sharp downside futures trading. European banking declines are weighing on financial markets. An Australian interest-rate hike is seen as a sign of more tightening to come around the globe, the timing of which will be crucial in keeping the recovery on track.[More...]

Financially Healthy Stocks With Attractive Valuations

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:39 GMT

Value Expectations teaches professional investors how to make more informed investment decision evaluating stocks on the basis of corporate performance, valuation, management quality, earnings quality, and other proprietary variables. These variables inevitably help identify companies that are potential long-term investments while avoiding potential torpedoes. However, during the financial crisis, leverage and a week balance sheet played a significant part when investors evaluated a holding. To help our institutional clients navigate the environment The Applied Finance Group (AFG) developed the risk analysis template specifically to model the healthiness of a company’s balance sheet. In addition to the risk analysis template we also developed a template that calculated an Altman Z-Score developed to identify companies that are most likely to go bankrupt. As professional[More...]

Hillbent Sevens Focus List (08-17-2009)

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:01:43 GMT

Hillbent Sevens Focus List (August-17-2009) Property & Casualty Insurance: American International Group (AIG) @ 23.42 was down -3.90% on volume 67% below its average daily volume. Internet Information Providers: Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) @ 17.67 was down -1.89% on volume 62% below its average daily volume Oil Gas & Equipment Services: Baker Hughers ...[More...]

Spotlight On: Software And Programming

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:14:00 GMT

Spotlight On: Software and Programming The software industry is ever changing and subject to new mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and strategic alliances between vendors. The industry can be fairly described as consisting of tiers. Tier I vendors serve the upper end of the market. Their products are for the Fortune 500, multi-location, and multi-national companies. These companies have complex needs and rely upon ERP systems. The major Tier I players are SAP and Oracle. Tier II vendors focus on companies that are fairly complex and large and require significant work but are not as large as the the Fortune 500. This may be the sweet spot of the software industry. The market is fairly large and the customers require fairly sophisticated product and support. Leaders in this market are Lawson, Infor, and[More...]

Cognizant Technology: On A Tear And Still Undervalued

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:48:36 GMT

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) is in the business of information technology, or more specifically technology strategy consulting. Essentially, they consult other businesses on how to more efficiently run their current technology infrastructure. All companies are looking for ways to do more with less these days, as wringing out costs is the best way to boost the bottom line as revenue growth has been tough to come by in recent quarters. CTSH’s second quarter results announced Tuesday morning show that their business is growing in this environment and show no signs of slowing. [More...]

Cognizant (NasdaqGS: CTSH) Holding Up Strong - Analyst Blog

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:54:47 GMT

The current economic slowdown has hit the IT industry quite, hard resulting in lower to negative growth rates, pricing pressure, project delays and cancellations, and a volatile currency exchange environment. Companies in financial services, manufacturing, and retail industries account for a major portion of total outsourced business for IT companies and are suffering from bankruptcies and consumer confidence is shaken. This has led to a slowdown in IT services. Moreover, the volatility in exchange rates has badly hurt the top line for most service providers. ? Amidst all this, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), leading provider of custom information technology (IT) to Fortune 1000 customers, seems to have weathered the storm compared to its Indian peer Wipro Ltd ([More...]

Market Report For Friday: Apr 17, 2009

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:00:45 GMT

(7:11am ET) There was plenty of economic data released in the US during the day; however the equity market sidetracked until 2pm ET, when with prices at modest losing levels on the week until that point, suddenly, and for no discernable reason, there was a rally that left the indexes with small gains through Thursday. Perhaps traders were anticipating a positive quarterly report from Google (GOOG +2.4% on +151% of average daily trading volume)? After the close, the company did not disappoint, beating both revenue and EPS estimates. The company posted net income of $1.42 billion ($5.16/share), up +8% from the $1.31 billion ($4.84/share) recorded during the same period a year ago. Revenue for 1Q2009 increased +10% to $4.07 billion, from $3.7 billion, excluding traffic acquisition costs. On average, analysts had expected earnings per share of $4.93 and revenue of $4.08 billion, according to Yahoo Finance. For the first[More...]

Daily Report For Thursday, Apr 16, 2009

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:36:24 GMT

(8:25am ET) The main focus of traders today will be the 1Q2009 earnings report from JP Morgan (JPM), and the close scrutiny of the data and hype that will follow. After hitting a low of $14.93 in early March, JPM has rallied +118.1% to yesterday’s close of $32.56. There was a high of $34.15 on Tuesday. http://tinyurl.com/da6dcv JP Morgan reported Q1 net income of $2.14 billion, or $0.40/share, down -10% from a year earlier, but beat analysts' expectations. Revenue increased +48% to $25.03 billion. WSJ reported that CEO Jamie Dimon said the firm extended about $150 billion in new credit to consumer and corporate customers during the quarter. With a last hour rally spurred by the real estate investment trusts (REITS) ($DJR +8.7%) and Banks ($BKX +5.1%) in the Financial sector (XLF +4.8%), the US equity[More...]

Daily Report For Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:59 GMT

(9:30am ET) Stocks in NY sank at the open following various negative reports from TV talking heads, though trade volume was weak on the Easter Monday. After the close, Goldman Sachs surprised with unusually positive revenue and earnings. Today, President Obama will be making a speech on the state of the economy. Traders are confused. Yesterday was pretty much a lost day in the market. Very little of consequence happened. By the close, the DJIA’s small loss (-25.57 -0.32% to 8057.81) offset the small gain in the S&P (+2.17 +0.25% to 858.73), while the NASDAQ (+0.77 +0.05% to 1653.31) was flat. The Toronto Composite (+98.50 +1.07% to 9285.6) and the Toronto Venture Board (+11.89 +1.23% to 980.86) were stronger as the metal miners and goldminers enjoyed a good day. Except for Japan’s Nikkei 225 index (-0.92% to 8842.7), prices today were strong in the major international equity markets: Australia (+2.22% to[More...]

Business Process Outsourcing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:13:23 GMT

The current global economic and market downturn has taken its toll on the IT Services group as a whole. The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies were all under significant pressure even before the economic malaise, with a slowdown in its growth trajectory. In other words, the BPO companies were all trading with an early 2009 growth/recovery story in mind. However, this thesis is now undergoing some re-evaluation, given that overall recovery prospects are being pushed towards the latter half of 2009 or early-2010. The current financial market fallout adds further uncertainty to their growth picture, with roughly 50% of market cap already shaved off for the BPO companies since the fallout -- relative to its 52-week high, Cognizant Tech (CTSH, Hold) is down approx. 38%, [More...]

Poor Earnings Hurt N.J. Index

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:17:00 GMT

May 17--The Asbury Park Press/Bloomberg 75 index fell 5.74 percent last week after some companies reported disappointing earnings.
The index, made up of 75 companies that are either headquartered at the Shore or have significant operations in New Jersey, was at 88.83 Friday at 5 p.m., down 5.41 points.
Sixty-two companies declined and 13 companies advanced.

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ETF Preview: Transportation Funds Get Boost From BNI Deal - Banking Funds Drop On European News

Financially Healthy Stocks With Attractive Valuations

Hillbent Sevens Focus List (08-17-2009)

Spotlight On: Software And Programming

Cognizant Technology: On A Tear And Still Undervalued

Cognizant (NasdaqGS: CTSH) Holding Up Strong - Analyst Blog

Market Report For Friday: Apr 17, 2009

Daily Report For Thursday, Apr 16, 2009

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