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Cramer takes GOOG target to $560

Posted Oct 19th 2006 6:03PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: After the Bell, Major Movement, Analyst Reports, Internet, Google (GOOG)

Jim Cramer isn't shy about his expectations. Some of us on BloggingStocks pooh-poohed his earlier calls but it seems he knows of what he speaks! Today's third quarter earnings have Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) up big and, in comments on MAD MONEY tonight, Cramer touted his Google call. It's up $35 in after-hours trading, and he raised his target from $500 to $560, based on $14 per share and a 40x multiple.

GOOG traded up 7% to $457+ in after-hours trading after blowing away the street expectations.

Cramer, ever the showman, came out in the show's opening wearing GOOG in black marker on his forehead and on his knuckles.

Earnings, get them while they're HOT: IBM up 47%, Motorola down 45%

Posted Oct 17th 2006 4:26PM by Sarah Gilbert (RSS feed)
Filed under: After the Bell, Earnings Reports, Good news, Bad News, Motorola (MOT), International Business Machines (IBM)

In breaking after-market-close results, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM)'s third-quarter earnings were up 47% with a 5.1% increase in sales to $22.62 billion; a huge bit of good news for Big Blue.

On the other side of the coin was Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT). Oh, how the mighty mobile company has fallen. Third quarter 2006 earnings for Motorola were down 45%, to 39 cents a share, although you could barely tell from the rosy picture painted by the earnings release; full of optimism about sales at $10.7 billion, up 17% from Q3 2005. We're waiting to see how investors react.

Update: investors were thrilled with IBM and sent stock up after hours to $91.32 from a close of $86.95. Motorola was terrible news and investors sent the stock tumbling to $22.90 from its already-lower close of $24.85.