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September 18 - News - Comments
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable...
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September 17 - News - Comments
Over the past couple of years, Paris-based Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) has been going down a rocky road, struggling to put its finances in the...
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September 17 - News - Comments
Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ:OCLR) will release its quarterly report on Monday, and investors have generally been downbeat about the tiny tech company’...
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September 16 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines...
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September 12 - News - Comments
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long...
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September 10 - News - Comments
After losing 50% of their business and seeing their stock increase 35%, is Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) still a buy? Also, how is this deal fundamentally...
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September 9 - News - Comments
“Lose your focus, lose your shirt.” I once had a marketing professor who uttered these words almost daily. What he meant is this: if a business...
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September 5 - News - Comments
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)‘s acquisition of Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:VOD)‘s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless for a...
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September 4 - News - Comments
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) finally pulled the trigger on a deal that’s been long in the making. The software giant will acquire the mobile...
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September 3 - News - Comments
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) went down 7% after the latest earnings call on August 14. Considering that Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)’...
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August 27 - News - Comments
Operating in two segments, Platform Systems Division and Software Solutions Division, Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR) caters to the networking requirements...
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August 6 - News - Comments
With the recent announcement that QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) will be investing with French telecommunications equipment company Alcatel Lucent SA (...
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August 2 - News - Comments
French telecom equipment company Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) is in the midst of a major corporate restructure, has bad debts, and its share value...
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August 1 - News - Comments
The technology sector has seen a lot of changes in the past five years, characterized by an era of cloud computing, virtualization, and smartphones. Cloud...
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July 29 - News - Comments
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has been doing well so far in its fiscal year (the third quarter of which ended in April 2013). In its most recent 10...
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July 19 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the architect of the internet. It produces the routers and switches without which there would be no internet. With...
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July 9 - News - Comments
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) reported earnings and showed higher than expected revenue growth. Earnings growth was impressive as well, but it is...
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July 7 - News - Comments
Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU)’s newly appointed CEO, Michel Combes, recently announced plans to cut costs. Combes said he aims to raise 2 billion...
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July 3 - News - Comments
The joint venture between Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) and Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) may end soon with the acquisition of Siemens’ stake in Nokia Siemens...
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July 1 - News - Comments
The new plan may sound like more of the same at Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) since the last chief also had a restructuring plan. However, the execution...
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July 1 - News - Comments
It’s easy for a stock to see a multi-month rally after years of poor performance — but long and consistent gains indicate true change on behalf...
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June 28 - News - Comments
Tuesday, I wrote an article entitled, “Cutting Costs Should Not Be Part of This Company’s Plan!” after a report that Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE...
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June 20 - News - Comments
The telecom industry is one of the most promising in the market mainly due to the rapid growth in sales and usage of smart devices. Network equipment...
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June 20 - News - Comments
Telecom equipment company Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) is on pace to post its first year of gains since 2009. In 2013, the stock has rallied 35...
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June 19 - News - Comments
The Motley Fool CAPS is a place where you can test your wits against fellow retail and professional investors. I began playing in the fourth quarter of...
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June 18 - News - Comments
Networking has been having a tough time. 2012 was just an awful year, and 2013 was off to a slow start. I took my time writing an earnings article, because...
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June 14 - News - Comments
Well, that reverse split wasn’t so painful. Jamba, Inc. (NASDAQ:JMBA) shares moved 14% higher last week after kicking off the week with a 1-for-...
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June 11 - News - Comments
Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE:RAD) has been my favorite stock for the better part of the last year. I first began covering the stock when it was at $1.00...
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June 4 - News - Comments
Since January 2012, Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) has been one of the best performing midcap stocks, with a gain of 220%. While these gains are large...
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June 3 - News - Comments
Tellabs, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLAB) has been quite an ugly stock for investors as it has lost more than 77.7% of its value on the market over the past three years...
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May 30 - News - Comments
At one point in the late 90’s, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was the biggest company in the world by market cap. However, when the dot-com...
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May 24 - News - Comments
Born to address the need of a husband and wife located in different office buildings to communicate with each other, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO...
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May 23 - News - Comments
Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE:ALU) is going through a rough period. The company faces tough challenges ahead. Its cash flows and income are declining. The last...
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May 23 - News - Comments
Studies show that 75% of all stock market statistics are useless at best — and dangerous at worst. Sifting through analysis can be tough for individual...
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May 20 - News - Comments
Yesterday, I suggested that Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was poised for an earnings-powered jump. The stock had moved nowhere in three months, even...
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May 16 - News - Comments
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is set to report third-quarter earnings after tonight’s closing bell. Shares have gained 28% over the last year...
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May 15 - News - Comments
401(k) plans are a vital tool for workers to save for their retirement. But they’ve also received a lot of criticism from financial-protection advocates...
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May 8 - News - Comments
I have been all over the Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR) site looking at routers, because I had heard an offhand comment that Juniper had a router...
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May 6 - News - Comments
With global mobile-data traffic expected to increase 13-fold by 2017, there will be an increasing pressure on carriers’ existing network infrastructure...
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May 6 - News - Comments
Investing in Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is like betting on a tennis player. The competition keeps putting him on the defense. However, the player...
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May 2 - News - Comments
Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU) reported Q1 2013 earnings Friday and — there’s no sugarcoating this — the news was not good. Nearly...
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April 27 - News - Comments
On this day in economic and business history… The New York Stock Exchange — the larger part of NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) — moved into...
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April 25 - News - Comments
After completing its latest health check on the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund revealed some encouraging results. Apparently...
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April 23 - News - Comments
Small cell technology is already the next big thing in the IT & telecom industry. While French research firm Idate recently predicted femtocell (or...
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April 23 - News - Comments
Japan risks sparking sharply higher inflation, devaluation of its currency, and untenable debt levels by injecting trillions of dollars into its economy...
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April 8 - News - Comments
Billionaire Steve Cohen added a number of stocks to his portfolio last quarter. He manages some $14 billion via his SAC Capital hedge fund, with over...
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March 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and “initiating coverage at neutral...
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March 24 - News - Comments
Back towards the end of December I wrote an article and looked at two stocks priced at $1.40, and made a prediction that both would cross $2.00. Now,...
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March 20 - News - Comments
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced new innovations that enable providers to acquire intelligence about mobile internet networks and maximize...
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March 20 - News - Comments
