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Most analysts had expected a big quarter for Apple, propelled by big holiday sales numbers. They were right; they just didn’t go high enough with their estimates. Apple reported revenue of $26.7 billion for its first-quarter which ended on December 25th. (The company uses a fiscal year for its earnings and reporting.) That’s earnings of [...]
IBM reported its 2010 third-quarter earnings today. The company reported earnings per share of $2.82 which is up 18 percent. The company did not announce any increase in the dividend paid per share, although that was not unexpected. The company continues to use share buybacks as the primary method to "return money to shareholders." The [...]
People are always asking me if I think certain stocks are a good investment. There is a flaw in the question, but we’ll get to that in a minute. Right now, let’s get right to the real question people are always asking me these days. Is Apple Stock a good investment? What people mean when [...]
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IBM released their quarterly earnings. As is customary, the company announced various financial numbers like how much it earned per share and how much revenue it generated for the quarter, and so on. As is customary for IBM, the company also announced yet another giant share repurchase using shareholder money to buyback IBM shares of [...]
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On the heals of recent negative job numbers reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, comes news that bankruptcy filings increased by 14 percent during the first half of 2010. Does this bode well for the economy or is this one of the signals of a recession coming back to haunt us? Unfortunately, as is [...]
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There are plenty of other things Yahoo gets from buying Associated Content, not the least of which is a big fat swath of Internet real estate that ranks obscenely high in Google search results and Bing search results. A great deal of the traffic generated from these high ranking searches is monetized via, you guessed it, Google AdSense which pays content publishers based upon ads placed by Google on those websites. Yahoo, can now switch out those Google Ads and replace them with their own Yahoo Ads.
Dow Jones Indexes publishes lot of averages and indexes. They are best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Down Jones Transportation Average. Personal financial planning on FinanceGourmet.com The Dow Jones Industrial Average is featured on most stock market news reports and makes an appearance on the nightly news. It is often referred to [...]
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