Posted Jul 1st 2009 9:30AM by Steven Mallas
Filed under: Earnings reports, Products and services
Sealy (NYSE: ZZ) is another one of those cheap stocks that's up big from lows achieved earlier in the year. When I say cheap, I don't mean value. I'm talking about a low-priced equity. The kind of equity that is priced below $5 per share. In the case of Sealy, its shares could be had, as of the close of trading on Tuesday, for $1.96.
But wait, you could have gotten it even cheaper in the after-hours session, because shares of the bedding manufacturer traded down to $1.82 on its Q2 report. I have to agree with the market. Although there were some positive elements contained in the release, overall, I wasn't impressed enough by the numbers to become a buyer.
Continue reading Sealy's Q2 was not exciting enough for me
Posted Jun 30th 2009 4:40PM by Sheldon Liber
Filed under: Good news, Products and services, Industry, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Workspace
The federal government, for better or worse, has been increasing the money supply as fast as it can in an attempt to prevent a collapse of our financial system, stabilize the housing market, improve the employment outlook and rehabilitate our nations infrastructure.
Most economists have some fear of inflation as a result of this, even if the fear is not for three to five years. To combat the increase in money supply we need to balance it out with an increase in productivity.
Continue reading GE invests in Michigan, USA -- new technology center
Posted Jun 29th 2009 1:00PM by Daleela Farina
Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Consumer experience, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Palm Inc (PALM), iPhone, Smartphones, Stocks to Buy
Normally we think of revolutionary products created by start-ups or entrepreneurial minds just out of college, but the most talked about new projects of 2009 are being produced by some of the best known companies in the world.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN): With its massive online presence and a truly efficient business model, Amazon has become the largest online retailer in the world. It is now taking on a new business, web services, namely cloud computing (learn more HERE), called the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). While hosting this infrastructure and presenting e-commerce with a reasonably affordable alternative with no up-front costs, Amazon has taken an early lead in this space, with some believing its cloud computing business will one day overtake retailing. "Amazon will be like a book store that sells cocaine out the back door. Books will be just a front to sell storage and cloud computing." says Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic.
Continue reading Five blue-chip stocks with revolutionary new products
Posted Jun 28th 2009 2:40PM by Zac Bissonnette
Filed under: Products and services, Competitive strategy, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI)
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings says his biggest competitor isn't the one that his company is most often grouped with. It's not Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), the largest brick-and-mortar rental chain, and it's not the internet -- where technological gains are making streaming video the wave of the future.
No, according to Mr. Hastings, the biggest competitor is Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR), the coin counting business that also happens to own Redbox, the network of 15,400 vending machines that rent movies for $1 per night. Redbox is installing another machine every hour.
Continue reading Netflix says pesky little Redbox is its biggest competitor
Posted Jun 27th 2009 12:10PM by Joseph Lazzaro
Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Stocks to Buy
I'm reiterating my Buy rating for Stanley Works (NYSE: SWK), first recommended on February 10, 2009, at a price of $32.88.
New Britain, Conn.-based Stanley manufactures tools for professional, industrial, and consumer use, and has built a business model that's been successful for more than a hundred years. A security solutions unit accounts for about 30% of revenue, but the key revenue driver here is tools: hammers, screwdrivers, sockets, saws, and measuring tape, among other products.
Continue reading Reiterating: Stanley Works, on likely economic recovery
Posted Jun 26th 2009 4:30PM by Tom Barlow
Filed under: Products and services, Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Technology

This morning
Microsoft (NASDAQ:
MSFT) coerced me into finally upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, and now my Google Mail is scrambled. So forgive me if I feel ambivalent about the strong response the company is experiencing to the 50% -off-retail deal it is currently offering on the next great OS,
Windows 7.
According to
InformationWeek, retailers such as
Amazon (NASDAQ:
AMZN) are experiencing brisk business for the new software, which is due for official release on October 22nd . The special deal, which began today and ends on July 11th, will drop the price of Windows 7 Professional to under $100, while the Home Premium Upgrade will run $49. Amazon is offering free release-date delivery, as well.
Continue reading Windows 7 presales strong
Posted Jun 24th 2009 5:30PM by Michael Fowlkes
Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Products and services, Industry, Competitive strategy, Market matters, Lennar Corp'A' (LEN), Housing, Recession, Financial Crisis

We will get a little better idea of just what is happening with the real estate market tomorrow when home builder
Lennar Corporation (NYSE:
LEN)
reports its second quarter results.
Headed into tomorrow's earnings announcement, analysts are expecting another loss, but a much smaller loss than the company reported for its first quarter. Last quarter we saw a loss of
98 cents per share. This quarter analysts are predicting a loss of "only" 63 cents per share.
Continue reading Lennar second quarter earnings preview
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