Infineon’s acquisition of Cypress will create new No. 1 among auto chip suppliers
I added shares of Infineon (IFNNY) to my Jubak Picks Portfolio on May 7. The chip maker hasn’t exactly been tearing up the track since then, scoring a 26.59% loss. But on June 3 Infineon acquired another chip maker Cypress Semiconductor (CY) for $10.1 billion in...
Down yesterday, up today–traders buy the chip stocks they sold yesterday on Huawei headlines
Stocks–especially chip stocks–have rallied strongly today on headlines saying that the Department of Commerce has granted a 90-day license for U.S. companies to do business with China’s Huawei Technologies in order to service existing networks. This...
What Intel’s guidance cut says about Intel, chip stocks
Shares of Intel (INTC) continued their post-earnings slide today, dropping about 2.52% to $51.11. On April 24, the day before there company reported first quarter 2019 earnings, the stock closed at $58.72. That’s a drop of 12.96% in less than a week. I think...
Nvidia wins the bidding to acquire key data center chip technology
Nvidia (NVDA) has won the bidding to acquire Mellanox Tech (MLNX). Nvidia has said that it expects the acquisition, which will be funded through cash on the Nvidia’s balance sheet, to be accretive to non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP EPS, and free cash flow...
Great day for chip stocks–and then Intel misses
Today’s regular session was great for chip stocks. The Vance Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) was up nearly 6% on the day powered by earnings beats for the quarter from Texas Instruments (TXN) up 6.5%; Xilinx (XLNX) up 17.5%; and Lam Research (LRCX) up 14.8%. And...
Stocks that led the market up are now leading it down
Today Apple (AAPL) fell 3.96%. Facebook (FB) was down 5.72%. Amazon (AMZN) lost 5.09%. Netflix (NFLX) tumbled 5.45%. The big technology stocks that led the market up to historic highs are leading this fall off on a combination of general market nervousness and...
Synaptics reports earnings: So how’s that transition going?
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...
AMD earnings were supposed to be a bellwether for Nvidia–let’s hope not
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported third quarter earnings yesterday, October 24, of 10 cents a share (excluding one-time items). That was better than the Wall Street consensus of 8 cents for the quarter. Revenue grew 257% to $1.64 billion in the quarter, surpassing...
Qualcomm acquisition of NXP Semiconductor looks to be moving ahead
Talks between Qualcomm (QCOM) and NXP Semiconductor (NXPI) are showing significant progress, according to a Bloomberg. Reporting by Bloomberg indicates that Qualcomm is the only company in talks with NXP about an acquisition. That is no rival suitors have emerged so...
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