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25 Breakout Stocks To Watch: Week Of September 14, 2009

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:14:51 GMT

In this post is a fresh list of 25 bullish stocks to watch for the week of September 14, 2009. I will be keeping my eye on all of these stocks this week, but chose only one to write a detailed option trade about this week.[More...]

More Cash, Less Debt = Stock Market Gains?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:41:32 GMT

Today there were a couple of posts about how tech stocks are currently especially attractive because they hold plenty of cash and tend to have little debt. Paul Kedrosky initially caught my eye with his post "Tech Cash is King" which in turn pointed me to a story on Bloomberg by Eric Martin. I ran a screen tonight that looked at both cash and debt. Specifically, I screened for a Price-to-Cash ratio under three, a Debt-to-Equity ratio under three and a Market Cap greater than $2.5 million. Based on these criteria, I obtained a list of 136 stocks. Judging from our list, it is absolutely true that many tech stocks do seem to have lots of cash and little debt. What also became apparent as I went through the list is that there[More...]

TRX Inc.: Traveling Towards Profits In Your Portfolio?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:12:00 GMT

TRX develops and hosts software applications to automate manual processes and track transaction data in the travel industry. Its suite of products and services that comprise TRAVELTRAX provides reporting through a Web-based data reporting tool; CORREX, which enables automated quality control, file finishing, and electronic ticketing, including low fare searches, seat assignments, upgrades, and alternate route and carrier searches. The company’s TRANXACT tool handles various activities for its clients, including exchanges, refunds, waivers and split payments, commission management, fare loading, document distribution, debit memo processing, and back office hosting and settlement TRX’s customers include travel agencies, corporations, travel suppliers, government agencies, credit card associations, credit card issuing banks, and third-party administrators. The Georgia-based company does business in Asia, Europe and North America. Competitors include[More...]

10 Ways The Financial Meltdown Impacts Tech

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:23:00 GMT

Can the problems impacting the financial sector impact technology companies? You bet they can!We know there is a credit crunch and that the economy is slowing. This is translating into falling revenues and a drop in new orders. Tech company management is hunkering down. So are consumers. IT budgets are stagnant or falling and cost cutting will be the order of the day. Below we look at some specific ways that the tech sector will be reacting to this situation.Surprisingly, there are some impacts that may turn out to be net positive for certain tech companies. As expected, though, there are also some seriously negative impacts.Positive Impacts --1. Increase in cloud computing - companies may look to avoid buying data center equipment and will instead look[More...]

Companies Reporting Earnings After Market Close (07/17/2008)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Ticker: FIZZ,MER,AMD,ATR,AVCT,BANF,BHLB,BRKL,BXS,CBST,CLMS,COF,CYT,FBC,FFIN,GILD,GOOG,IBM,ICUI,INDB,INFA,LEG,MBTF,MSFT,PBCT,PMCS,SWKS,SYK,TPX,VMI,WERN,WINA,WIT,ZION,BRO[More...]

Earnings, Oil, Inflation, & Fear

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:29:00 GMT

Good morning. Premarket futures have been volatile this morning as investors sort through a batch of earnings reports that were for the most part not as bad as previously feared (WFC, INTC, ABT, CSX) and another drop in oil prices. However, a much higher than expected CPI has restrained overall premarket sentiment. [More...]

Pre-Market - Apr 20 2008 2:29PM

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:24:18 GMT

Gapping down in reaction to weak earnings/guidance: TOMO -30.3%, GRRF -16.3%, ATRM -14.4%, ACO -10.6%, ISRG -8.2% (also downgraded to Accumulate at ThinkPanmure), USTR -7.3%, VASC -4.7%, ESLR -4.4%, CYN -3.9%, CBST -2.3%, SLB -2.0%, ICUI -1.8%... Select m[More...]

April Options Expiration

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:48:18 GMT

Good morning. Premarket futures indicate a very strong start to this options expiration day. According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, April's expiration day has been up 9 and of the last 11 years. At this point, there's little reason to believe we won't see another positive day again this year. A number of better than expected earnings reports from companies like Honeywell (HON), Caterpillar (CAT), Google (GOOG), Pmc-sierra (PMCS), Sandisk (SNDK)[More...]

Informatica Offers Data Migration Suite; Wipro to Leverage its Power

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:39:17 GMT

Informatica Corp. is addressing the crucial issue of data access by packaging its data integration software as Informatica Data Migration Suite, with an eye toward providing a solution for companies involved in mergers and acquisitions, consolidation, and outsourcing.With the shifting landscape of business today, as well as such innovations as service-oriented architecture (SOA), reliable data access is more important than ever to provide the organizational flexibility necessary to respond to internal demands and e[More...]

Business Intelligence consolidation - who's next?

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:45:16 GMT

We have seen a consolidation wave begin in the Business Intelligence space. IBM just bought Cognos and Oracle recently bought Hyperion. SAP just announced they are buying Business Objects after barely having time to digest their recent acquisition of Pilot Software.There are three major database vendors at this time: IBM with their DB2 product, Oracle with their flagship Oracle database and Microsoft with their SQL Server database. IBM and Oracle now have premier, industrial-strength data analysis and reporting products in their product portfolios that complement their core database products. Microsoft has what, Excel?Actually, Microsoft, like IBM and Oracle, has a suite of proprietary tools that do happen to integrate very well with Excel and SQL Server. Still, IT departments are not deploying the Microsoft tools for heavy-duty corporate use. Microsoft is unique among the big three by their lack of a premier reporting product. It seems[More...]

Informatica and Intel Team to Support Customers Using SWIFT in SOA

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:52:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation, a provider of data integration software, has partnered with Intel to embed Informatica B2B Data Transformation software as an integral part of the Intel SOA Expressway, a software appliance that uses industry standard technologies to simplify, accelerate and secure message based B2B and system to system solutions.
Informatica claims that its software will enhance service-oriented architectures (SOA) Expressway with pre-built data transformation plug-ins for integrating and transforming data from legacy and proprietary formats to SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) and other payment networks, thus accelerating integration and messaging of financial industry information across disparate formats and systems.
Informatica B2B Data Transformation extends the capabilities and value of SOA Expressway by enabling it to access and convert data from almost any source and deliver it to target systems in any format including SWIFT, NACHA, BAI, FpML, FIX and Telekurs VDF. The embedded Informatica software supports structured, semi-structured and unstructured including unique support for documents like Word, Excel, PDF and other formats.

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Movers: Google, IBM, Schlumberger, Ambac, AIG, Honeywell

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Google (GOOG) posts $4.24, vs. $3.38 a year ago, third quarter EPS on 31% revenue rise.
Posts $4.92 third quarter 2008 non-GAAP EPS.
IBM (IBM) posts $2.05, vs. $1.68, third quarter EPS on 5% revenue rise.

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Endeca and Informatica Partner to Provide Greater Visibility Across Enterprise Data and Content for Daily Decision-Making

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:00 GMT

Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced a partnership with Informatica to OEM PowerCenter and PowerExchange from Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software.
Endeca will integrate Informatica's PowerCenter and PowerExchange, part of the industry-leading Informatica Platform, with the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform.
Alliances like this one between Endeca and Informatica will accelerate the development and adoption of applications that blend structured and unstructured information to give the business a better handle on decision-making."

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Informatica Launches B2b Data Exchange Solution for Healthcare Payers; Automates Electronic Claims Handling and Addresses HIPAA Compliance Challenges

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:46:00 GMT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Today, Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, announced availability of the B2B Data Exchange solution for Healthcare Payers.
B2B Data Exchange meets healthcare payer data requirements for HIPAA data validation and HIPAA 5010 migration needs.

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Informatica's Free Data Quality Checkup Tool Quickly Assesses Data's 'Health'

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:55:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced the availability of a free Data Quality Checkup Tool. Aimed at the business user and designed and developed to help existing and prospective customers quickly and easily assess the health of their data, users can try Informatica's Data Quality products at no cost. With the results of the checkup organizations can start to build a business case, or strengthen current discussions for investing in data quality.[More...]

Informatica to Present At Oppenheimer Annual Communications, Technology & Internet Conference

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:01:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that Earl Fry, executive vice president and CFO, and Tony Young, senior vice president and CIO, will present a corporate overview at Oppenheimer's Annual Communications, Technology & Internet Conference in Boston on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 9:10 a.m. EDT.[More...]

Informatica to Present At 11th Annual Pacific Crest Leadership Forum

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that Girish Pancha, executive vice president and general manager data integration, and Mark Pellowski, senior vice president of finance, will present a corporate overview at the 11th Annual Pacific Crest Leadership Forum in Vail on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. MDT.[More...]

Dutch Ministry of Defence Focuses On Data in Key Modernization Project

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:56:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , a leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that the Ministry of Defence has selected the Informatica Data Integration Platform to enable the integration of 70 legacy IT systems into a centralized SAP-based ERP environment.[More...]

Informatica Advances Cloud Data Integration With Support for Amazon Web Services

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:08:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , a leading provider of data integration software, today announced the beta release of Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition, an innovative cloud computing data integration product running on Amazon EC2. Complementing this new product is the latest Informatica On Demand offering, PowerCenter Service, to enable IT and business users to remotely execute and manage data integration jobs on Amazon EC2, simply by using an Internet browser.[More...]

Informatica Reports Record Second Quarter Revenues and Earnings

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:58:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , the leading independent provider of enterprise data integration software and services, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009.[More...]

Informatica Sets Date to Announce Second Quarter Results

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:25:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , the leading independent provider of data integration software, today announced it will release its second quarter results on July 23, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. EDT. The company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. EDT to discuss the results. The call will be hosted by Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO, and Earl Fry, executive vice president and CFO, and can be accessed on the company's Web site at http://www.informatica.com/investor.[More...]

Informatica CFO Earl Fry Wins 2009 Stevie(r) Award in 7th Annual American Business Awards(sm)

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:57:00 GMT

Informatica Corporation , the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that Earl Fry, executive vice president and chief financial officer , won the 2009 American Business Stevie Award for Finance Executive of the Year category. Over 200 executives across the country determined the Finalists and the Stevie Award winners.[More...]