December 27, 2017 @ 6:18 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Apple (AAPL) is getting hit from two directions in the closing days of 2017. On the negative news Apple fell 2.5% yesterday, December 26. The shares rebounded very slightly–0.02%–today. The first bad news came yesterday as analysts cut their estimates for...
December 20, 2017 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SQM, Update |
Quite a good two days for Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile or SQM for short. The Chilean producer of lithium climbed almost 8% yesterday and tacked on another 2.8% today. The shares (SQM) are now up 11.47% since I added them to my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio back...
December 20, 2017 @ 7:15 pm | Breaking News, Buy, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SCCO |
Way back on August 17 I finished off a bullish story on the copper sector with the promise of some stock picks. My apologies: I left that string dangling. But today I’m using the third of my 12 Stock Picks of Christmas to add Southern Copper (SCCO) to my...
December 19, 2017 @ 6:51 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NKTR |
No point in hoping that Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) will match this year’s gain of 364% as of the close on December 18. But I think the stock could easily climb another 30% or more in 2018 as the company de-risks its very promising drug candidates in the opioid...
December 18, 2017 @ 6:35 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
I think 2018 will be the year that Amazon (AMZN) finally starts motoring on all cylinders. Not that the stock has done all that badly in 2017–up 56.5% year-to-date as of December 15–on its dominance of the e-commerce economy and it’s leading position...
December 13, 2017 @ 7:07 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, MGM |
The first ten days of December have been strong for gaming revenue in Macao. That has led investment company Sanford Bernstein to project that gaming revenue in Macao will climb 21% to 23% for the month. That would be stronger than expected–and bodes well for...
December 12, 2017 @ 6:54 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, SYNA, Update |
This is the kind of news that the very patient investors in Synaptics (SYNA) have been waiting for. The specialist in touch-screen display technologies have announced that a top OEM will put its in-display fingerprint sensors into mass production. The phone maker will...
December 12, 2017 @ 6:43 pm | Breaking News, GLW, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Corning (GLW) will buy the Communication Markets Division of 3M (MMM) for $900 million. The 3M division has approximately $400 million in annual sales of high bandwidth and optical fiber products. Corning expects the acquisition to add 7 cents to 9 cents to its fiscal...
December 12, 2017 @ 6:35 pm | ALV, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
No surprise really, which is why shares of Autoliv (ALV) climbed only 0.75% on the news today. Â But it’s still good to have a formal decision: After completing its review of the business, the company’s board has decided to spin off Autoliv’s auto...
December 11, 2017 @ 7:14 pm | AAPL, Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Today Apple (AAPL) announced that it would buy Shazam for a price that Recode estimates is around $400 million. How do I like this deal? Let me count the ways. (Apple is a member of my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio.) First, in acquiring Shazam, Apple will get a huge...
December 11, 2017 @ 2:23 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, TCEHY, Update, You May Have Missed |
China’s leading Internet gaming and entertainment company Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) has swapped stakes with music streaming company Spotify. Tencent Music Entertainment (TME), the unit of Tencent Holdings that manages its music streaming and karaoke services,...
December 6, 2017 @ 7:55 pm | Breaking News, INCY, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
On December 4 MacroGenics (MGNX) announced that it had closed on its previously announced (October 25) license agreement with Incyte (INCY). For an upfront payment of $150 million and up to $420 million in milestone payments Incyte gained the exclusive global rights...
December 4, 2017 @ 6:37 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD |
When West Texas Intermediate crude was struggling to stay above $50 a barrel, the important issues for a U.S. oil shale producer such as Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) were How much of production in 2018 was hedged above $50 a barrel? and How quickly the company...
November 29, 2017 @ 7:03 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, SQM |
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) were down 3.15% in today’s (November 29) session on a report from Reuters that up to 90% of its Model S and Model X vehicles showed defects during quality checks. (Tesla disputes the Reuters story.) On the news, though, lithium stocks fell...
November 28, 2017 @ 7:51 pm | Breaking News, INCY, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Update |
Maybe you didn’t even know there was a biotech dip. If all you’ve been following in the sector is a stock like Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), a Jubak Picks member (and the call options are a holding in my Volatility Portfolio), you’re likely to respond...
November 28, 2017 @ 7:42 pm | Breaking News, HDB, Update |
It’s only sensible to worry about numbers like these–they’re just so deliciously good. For the last 10 years, India’s HDFC Bank has been able to grow its loan portfolio by 31% annually. It’s deposit base has expanded at almost the same...
November 15, 2017 @ 7:43 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, LNG, Update |
Yesterday Cheniere Energy (LNG) reported a loss for the third quarter of $1.24 a share, 74 cents a share worse that the Wall Street consensus. Revenue climbed 202% hear over year to $1.4 billion against Wall Street projections of $1.27 billion. Â The company also...
November 14, 2017 @ 7:04 pm | Breaking News, FANUY, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
The International Federation for Robotics latest report forecasts a 15% compounded annual growth rate for global shipments of industrial robots through 2020. That would follow 16% to 18% annual growth in 2016-2017. By 2020 annual unit shipments are estimated to reach...
November 14, 2017 @ 6:55 pm | ALV, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
On October 26 Autoliv (ALV) reported third quarter earnings of $1.47 a share, 12 cents a share above the Wall Street consensus. Revenue climbed just 1.6% year over year to match the analyst projection at $2.5 billion. Â The problem in the quarter was revenue...
November 13, 2017 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News, Buy, Jubak Picks Portfolio, NKTR, Volatility |
Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) shares finished the day up 14.15% on fairly preliminary, but very important data from the trials of the company’s lead cancer drug. Those results go a long way to validating the company’s entire pipeline of drug candidates to...
November 10, 2017 @ 7:42 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, SYNA, Update |
Synaptics (SYNA) announced September quarter (first fiscal 2018 quarter) earnings after the market close on November 7. Earnings of $1.03 a share were 7 cents a share above the Wall Street consensus. Revenue climbed 8.1% year over year to $417 million against the $399...
November 10, 2017 @ 6:33 pm | BABA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Alibaba (BABA) generated $1 billion in gross merchandise volume in just the first three minutes of the Singles’ Day shopping event in China today. By the end of two hours the sales volume was just shy of $12 billion. The company’s Alibaba Cloud unit...
November 8, 2017 @ 6:28 pm | Breaking News, EBAY, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Sell |
When eBay (EBAy) and PayPal (PYPL) split up in July 2015 (with eBay shareholders getting one share of eBay and one share of PayPal) I told myself (and readers) that I wanted to keep PayPal in my long term 50 Stocks Portfolio but would one day sell eBay out of that...
November 6, 2017 @ 7:28 pm | Breaking News, JCI, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Johnson Controls (JCI), a member of my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio, hasn’t done much of anything for a year now. Over the last 12 months the shares are up just 0.66% and in 2017 to date they’re down 0.1%. That performance isn’t surprising. The...
November 3, 2017 @ 6:58 pm | BABA, Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Yesterday before the market opened in New York China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) reported September quarter earnings of $1.29 a share (excluding one-time items.) That was 26 cents a share better than Wall Street projections. Revenue climbed 61% to $8.63...
November 1, 2017 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, FB, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Facebook (FB) announced third quarter earnings of $1.59 a share today after the market closed. That was 31 cents a share better than the Wall Street consensus. Revenue climbed 47.3% year over year to $10.33 billion, ahead of projections for $9.84 billion. Last quarter...
October 31, 2017 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PYPL, Update |
When eBay (EBAy) and PayPal (PYPL) split up in July 2015 (with eBay shareholders getting one share of eBay and one share of PayPal) I told myself (and readers) that I wanted to keep PayPal in my long term 50 Stocks Portfolio but would one day sell eBay out of that...
October 26, 2017 @ 5:20 pm | AMZN, Breaking News, GOOG, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Just the bare facts. And on the bare facts of earnings from Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel it’s hard to see the market doing anything but climbing tomorrow. Â Alphabet (GOOG) beats by $1.17 a share on earnings. Revenue climbed 23.7% yer over year to...
October 25, 2017 @ 7:28 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Update, V |
Today October 25 Visa (V) reported September quarter earnings of 90 cents a share, 5 cents a share above Wall Street projections. Revenue climbed 13.9% year over year to $4.86 billion vs. Wall Street projections of $4.63 billion. Â Payments volume, on a constant...
October 24, 2017 @ 6:26 pm | Breaking News, DHR, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Update |
On October 16 Jubak Picks Danaher (DHR) reported third quarter earnings of $1.00 a share, five cents a share above Wall Street expectations. Revenue grew by 9.7% year over year to $4.53 billion, above Wall Street projections of $4.47 billion. The company raised its...