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FeedPosted Mar 16th 2010 3:30PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Deals, Initial Public Offerings

This week, telecom software provider, BroadSoft,
filed for an IPO to raise $103.5 million. And the company will certainly need the capital. After all, competitors include biggies like Cisco (
CSCO) and Huawei Technologies.
Founded more than ten years ago, BroadSoft is now a top-provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) applications for residential and business customers. Services include things like: private branch exchanges (PBXs), video calling, unified communications and converged mobile and fixed-line services.
Continue reading BroadSoft Calls Up an IPO
Posted Mar 8th 2010 10:40AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Yahoo! (YHOO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Research in Motion (RIMM), TD AmeriTrade Holding (AMTD), Analyst Initiations
Analyst Upgrades
- JMP Securities views Yahoo!'s (YHOO) risk-reward as compelling, especially as cyclical and secular growth of online advertising improves. The firm upgraded shares to outperform from market perform and has a $21 target.
- FBR Capital upgraded PNC Financial (PNC) to outperform from market perform, citing an attractive valuation and better risk profile following the company's capital raise. The firm raised its target price on shares to $65 fro $55.
- Janney Montgomery upgraded SEI Investments (SEIC) to buy from neutral on expectations the company's revenues will accelerate in 2011. The firm has a $28 price target on shares.
- Research in Motion (RIMM) was upgraded to outperform from market perform at BMO Capital.
- Cisco (CSCO) was upgraded to overweight from neutral at JPMorgan.
- Macy's (M) was upgraded to buy from hold at Soleil.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: AMTD, CSCO, M, PALM, PNC, RIMM, YHOO ...
Posted Feb 27th 2010 10:30AM by Ted Allrich (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Home Depot (HD), Nordstrom, Inc (JWN), Comfort Zone Investing, Polo Ralph Lauren'A' (RL)
Let's see now. Consumers are more pessimistic this month than last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 100 points on the news. Unemployment is better in one month, worse in another. The DJIA goes up on the good news, down on the bad. Home Depot has a good quarter, raises its dividend, and forecasts a better year for 2010. The stock goes up 50 cents on a day when the market is down 100 points. Other stocks are light on revenues. They go down 10% or more.
The market always sends mixed messages. There has never been a time when all the news is good. That's impossible. If all the news is all good, it means the economy is really thriving. Then investors worry about things being too strong, afraid that inflation will come back, so they sell stocks. When things seem totally awful (see 2008 and 2009 as examples), some investors see nothing but upside potential (see Warren Buffett and General Electric (GE) purchases), and they buy stocks. Most of the time, however, the news is good and bad. There is never a straight upward or downward line for the DJIA or for any stock for a long period of time unless the stock goes out of business, then the line is flat.
Continue reading Comfort Zone Investing: Keeping Cool with the Market's Mixed Messages
Posted Feb 6th 2010 11:40AM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Time Warner (TWX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AFLAC Inc (AFL), Avon Products (AVP), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), News Corp'B' (NWS), Western Union (WU), Unilever ADR (UL), Visa Inc. (V)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage on BloggingStocks:
- Aflac Inc. (AFL) posted better-than-expected Q4 earnings, though revenue fell short, and offered rosy guidance.
- Avon Products Inc. (AVP) posted Q4 earnings growth that met analysts' expectations but shares sold off.
- Cisco Systems inc. (CSCO) higher Q2 earnings topped the consensus estimate but cash flow fell.
- CME Group Inc. (CME) fell short of analysts' Q4 profit expectations, resulting in price-target cuts.
- ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM) posted better-than-expected Q4 earnings and revenue that boosted shares.
Continue reading Earnings Highlights: Aflac, Cisco, Exxon, MasterCard, Shell, Time Warner ...
Posted Feb 5th 2010 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Cisco Systems (CSCO)

A late day rally kept the fear mongers from winning hand over fist today. We were down as much as 160 points and a buying spree came in rapidly. The 9.7% unemployment left more questions when you consider that the jobs creation lost another 20,000 jobs. Today's late-day rally seemed like bargain hunting at the end of the day or short sellers closing out of positions ahead of the weekend after big selling all week. The huge loss that it looked like was suddenly a day where the positive or negative close was not going to known until the final minutes.
Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:
Dow 10,012.23 +10.05 (0.10%)
S&P 500 1,066.18 +3.07 (0.29%)
Nasdaq 2,141.12 +15.69 (0.74%)
Top Stock & Market Rumors
Top Analyst Upgrades/DowngradesContinue reading Closing Bell: The Awful Day That Wasn't So Awful (ARG, APD, JPM, CSCO, N, BIDU, BIIB)
Posted Feb 4th 2010 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Alcoa Inc (AA), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Yum Brands (YUM)

How do you account for sovereign debt risk outside of the credit default swap markets? That is what traders were asking themselves today over fears of Portugal, Greece, and other issues. A growing China-U.S. tension and the reality of lower consumer after-tax monies in 2011, and on. The jobs data today was going further and further away from anything decent, and the fears of Friday's unemployment value of most assets fell... stocks and commodities hit skid row.
Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:
Dow 9,999.84 -270.71 (-2.64%)
S&P 500 1,062.86 -34.42 (-3.14%)
Nasdaq 2,125.43 -65.48 (-2.99%)
Top Stock & Market Rumors
Top Analyst Upgrades/DowngradesContinue reading Closing Bell: When Bulls Hear the Flush (GLD, FXI, AA, CSCO, ANF, YUM, GS, NBG, TM)
Posted Jan 30th 2010 12:10PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Ford Motor (F), Halliburton (HAL), Boeing Co (BA), Mattel, Inc (MAT), US Airways Group (LCC), Eastman Kodak (EK), U.S. Steel (X), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), Nintendo (NTDOY)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage on BloggingStocks:
- Apple Inc. (AAPL) posted its highest quarterly revenue ever, easily beating estimates, as iPhone sales doubled.
- Boeing Co. (BA) swung to a larger-than-expected Q4 profit but guidance fell short of analysts' estimates.
- Chevron Corp. (CVX) fell short of analysts' earnings estimates for Q4, sending shares lower.
- Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) shares rose after optimistic statements by the CEO ahead of Q2 results.
- Eastman Kodak Co. (EK) shares surged after it beat Q4 expectations by a wide margin and cash flow improved.
- Ford Motor Co. (F) reported its first annual profit in four years due to cost-cutting and improved market share.
- Halliburton Co. (HAL) reported lower Q4 earnings but beat estimates by a penny, and revenue also fell.
Continue reading Earnings Highlights: Apple, Boeing, Cisco, Ford, Kodak, Microsoft, Yahoo! ...
Posted Jan 18th 2010 12:30PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Amazon.com (AMZN), Private Equity, salesforce.com inc (CRM), Initial Public Offerings
A new book, The Prince of Silicon Valley
, chronicles the dealmaking of the IPO king of the 1990s: Frank Quattrone. He made a fortune as he helped more than 100 tech companies go public, which included marquee names like Cisco (CSCO), Netscape and Amazon.com (AMZN).
But those days seem quaint. In fact, the tech IPO market has been a backwater for the past decade, even though there have been some big deals -- like the offerings of Google (GOOG) and Salesforce.com (CRM).
Continue reading Are Tech IPOs Passe?
Posted Dec 30th 2009 10:00AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2010
This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation's leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here.
"EZchip Semiconductor (EZCH), a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in network processors, is my top pick for the coming year," says technology sector guru Paul McWilliams.
In his Next Inning newsletter, designed for sophisticated tech investors, he suggests, "I think the upside potential here in 2010 and beyond is significant.
Continue reading Top Picks for 2010: EZchip (EZCH)
Posted Dec 8th 2009 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Cisco Systems (CSCO), McDonald's (MCD), 3M Corporation (MMM)

Today was effectively a boring day in the stock market. At least there was a real index level change. The major overseas markets were all lower, and that sealed the direction for Tuesday. The yo-yo in the dollar and overall demand issues have oil lower and gold lower yet again today.
Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:
Dow 10,285.59 -104.52 (-1.01%)
S&P 500 1,092.02 -11.23 (-1.02%)
Nasdaq 2,172.79 -16.82 (-0.77%)
Top 10 Analyst CallsTop Stock Rumors Top Day Trader AlertsContinue reading Closing Bell: The dollar yo-yo (CSCO, NBG, XLNX, TLB, MCD, MMM)
Posted Nov 24th 2009 9:00AM by Steven Mallas (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), International Business Machines (IBM), Technology
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), the famous maker of printers and PCs, and a colleague of entities such as Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), and International Business Machines (IBM), issued Q4 results on Monday after the end of the trading day. Revenues didn't impress me, as sales saw a decline of 8%. Net income, however, was better. On an adjusted basis, earnings per share increased 11% to $1.14.
Also doing well was the operating margin. The adjusted metric increased 170 basis points during the quarter. The annual statement of cash flows should look good to any long-term shareholder. Management still had cash left over from operations after share repurchases, dividend obligations, and capital spending.
Continue reading Hewlett-Packard reports growth in profit and operating margin in Q4
Posted Nov 17th 2009 4:40PM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Internet, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Amazon.com (AMZN), EMC Corp (EMC), Technology
Amazon, Inc. (AMZN) is in the clouds. So are Google, Inc. (GOOG), EMC (EMC) and Cisco (CSCO). Now, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is joining them, having announced on Tuesday its new Windows Azure cloud computing system. The new product will be released on January 1, 2010 -- a new solution for a new year.
Azure will deliver an online platform for the software development set to build their own mousetraps and provide plenty of storage space for users. Testing began a year ago, and full live version will be celebrated next year. For the first month, Azure will be free. The charges start in February.
Continue reading Microsoft latest to head into the sky: New cloud solution announced
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