Turmoil isn’t done in lithium sector with volatility at SQM and ALB
The announcement of a deal between Sociedad QuÃmica y Minera de Chile (SQM) and Chile’s development agency CORFO that resolves a long-standing dispute on royalty rates and that would allow SQM to expand lithium production from the brines at government-owned...
On the fifth day of Christmas my stock pick is Applied Materials–and five golden rings
All the work by Nvidia, Intel, Applied Micro Devices, and Alphabet that I described in my fourth day of Christmas stock pick post means lots of orders for the companies that make the machines that make the chips for new markets in artificial intelligence, data mining,...
Time to clear away the brush in my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio–selling four stocks out of this portfolio ahead of January rebalancing
In the first week of January I’m going to rebalance, per the strategy I pursue with this portfolio, my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio. That means I’ll be taking profits in the big winners of 2017 and adding to positions in the laggards for the year ahead....
Apple gets a two-pronged roasting and the stock stumbles
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...
Lithium producer SQM soars after Chilean election
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...
On the third day of Christmas my stock pick for 2018 is Southern Copper–and three french hens
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...
On the first day of Christmas my first stock pick for 2018 is Amazon–and a partridge in a pear tree
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...
One less competitor for Corning in optical fiber
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...
Apple to buy Shazam: Now that’s one great move
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...
China’s Tencent Holdings buys a stake in Spotify before that company’s IPO
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,...
No signs of danger to HDFC Bank from India’s online revolution–in fact, on the contrary…
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...
Robots, robots everywhere: Good for long-term pick Fanuc
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...
Alibaba plans to use Singles’ Day shopping frenzy to lock in market dominance for years
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...
Rebalancing portfolios In January 2018 looks like a smart response to the momentum and concentration of winners in 2017
You don’t have to do anything now–but come January 2018, if 2017 finishes the way I outlined in my last post on this momentum market and end of the year selling/window dressing I think rebalancing a portfolio will be a very smart way to begin 2018....
Selling eBay out of my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio
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...
Johnson Controls moves closer–maybe–to breaking out of doldrums
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...
Alibaba’s core business is going great; worries are at the investment margins
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...
Facebook reports earnings beat; good set up for Apple earnings tomorrow
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...
Will PayPal be a FinTech winner?
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...
The heavy truck market takes a another big step toward recovery–and that’s good for Cummins
North American orders for Class 8 heavy trucks jumped 62% year over year in September and analysts and economists are predicting that a strong U.S. economy will push orders even higher in the fourth quarter. Net orders for heavy trucks, the semis that haul freight on...
How much risk and reward are there in Schlumberger’s new business model? Does this stock remain a long-term 50 Stocks portfolio pick?
Schlumberger’s (SLB) next quarterly earnings report on October 20 will be a major test of the company’s new business model. I hold the shares in my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio. For me the quarter will provide an early indication of how much volatility...
How will Apple’s new iPhone match up with the competition from Samsung’s Note 8? Here’s what we know
I’m on vacation until September 6. I wrote this post on August 25 before I left. Back on August 24 I wrote a post rating the snazz of the new Note 8, the top of the line smartphone that Samsung had just introduced. The Note 8, I wrote, set the bar for the high...
Cummins reports solid second quarter and shows progress in moving to electric truck market
I’m on vacation until September 7. I wrote this update on portfolio holding Cummins on August 22. Â On August 1 Cummins (CMI) reported second quarter earnings of $2.53 a share. That was 3 cents a share below Wall Street estimates. Revenue climbed 12% year over...
Tencent crushes revenue growth; margins slip
I’m on vacation until September 7. I wrote this update on portfolio holding Tencent Holdings on August 21. Â On August 16 Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) reported second quarter year over year revenue growth of 59%. That was the highest revenue growth in the last seven...
Pioneer earnings got the whole oil shale worry thing started
Back on August 1 Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) reported second quarter earnings of 21 cents a share, beating the Wall Street consensus by 10 cents a share. Revenue climbed 107% year over year to $1.63 billion, way ahead of the Wall Street consensus at $1.06 billion....
Chesapeake Energy beats and then shares drop–it’s tough being a natural gas stock right now
There’s really nothing wrong with Chesapeake Energy (CHK) that an increase in natural gas prices wouldn’t fix. Yesterday, August 3, Chesapeake reported second quarter earnings of 18 cents a share after subtracting one-time events. In the second quarter of...
Apple earnings solid enough to support tech sector
The big questions for Apple (AAPL) won’t be answered until this fall when investors get to see the new iPhone (and see how hot or not it is) and learn whether or not Apple’s suppliers are indeed having trouble manufacturing key components such as the OLED...
Long-term pick Bunge gets motivated
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” James Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson as saying upon the occasion of the hanging of William Dodd in 1777 for a loan scam. CEOs don’t...
Adding Nidec (NJDCY) to my long-term 50 stocks portfolio
Back on July 11 I wrote a Sector Monday post on the robotics sector on my subscription site JubakAM.com. I’ve already added Fanuc (FANUY) to my long-term 50 Stocks portfolio. And tomorrow with this post I will be adding Nidec (NJDCY) to that same long-term...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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