Each week, I endeavor to report the results of the Big Idea Portfolio, a collection of five tech stocks that I believe will crush the market over a three-year period.
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May 20 - News
Another week, another record close for stock markets.
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May 19 - News
For the fourth week in a row, all three of the major U.S. stock indexes have risen.
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May 19 - News
The wireless communications company on Thursday had reported a fiscal third-quarter loss, said it was disappointed with its results and cautious about trends in technology spending...
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May 17 - News
Stocks treaded water most of the day before dipping late in the session on remarks from the Fed about cutting its stimulus program.
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May 17 - News
On a day when the markets received some poor economic data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 42 points, or 0.28%, and now rests at 15,233.
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May 17 - News
Yesterday, I suggested that Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was poised for an earnings-powered jump.
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May 16 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) is basically unchanged following some mixed economic reports, up six points as of 1:15 p.m.
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May 16 - News
If you ask me, just having a low price to earnings (PE) ratio doesn't make a stock cheap.
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May 16 - News
As earnings season draws to a close, the few late-reporting companies have the potential to make big impressions among news-starved investors.
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May 16 - News
The investment universe today is littered with CDs, bonds, and Treasury notes that produce yields slightly above 0% and don’t even come close to exceeding the rate of inflation...
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May 16 - News
With more than 90% of the S&P 500 companies having already reported earnings, and 67% of those companies having beaten estimates, we can almost certainly mark this season down...
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May 16 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average started off slow on a poor eurozone GDP report today but finished strong on continuing optimism again, ending the day up 60 points, or 0.4%.
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May 16 - News
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is set to report third-quarter earnings after tonight's closing bell.
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May 15 - News
Billionaire Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management has filed its quarterly 13F disclosure with the SEC, presenting its portfolio of equity holdings as of the end of the March ...
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May 15 - Hedge Funds
Tomorrow, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) will release its latest quarterly results.
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May 14 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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May 13 - News
In many of my previous writings, I recommended buying "old tech" companies -- mostly due to their cheap valuations and P/E ratio compression, great financial shape, and impressivedividend...
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May 13 - News
The world’s largest maker of computer networking products, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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May 10 - News
Comcast is reportedly killing off the premium Skype service that it tried to lump with XFINITY last year.
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May 10 - News
It's frustrating to be a saver right now. The traditional avenues of saving, CDs and U.S.
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May 7 - News
The stock market continues to linger at all-time record highs as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) climbed modestly...
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May 7 - News
When Cavium Inc (NASDAQ:CAVM), which supplies chips for networking and communication equipment, had released its fourth quarter report in February this year, I was quite confident...
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May 7 - News
I have been all over the Juniper Networks, Inc.
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May 6 - News
For those investors who are seeking both income and growth, the tech sector could offer a way to potentially achieve both.
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May 6 - News
With global mobile-data traffic expected to increase 13-fold by 2017, there will be an increasing pressure on carriers’ existing network infrastructure and limited spectrum...
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May 6 - News
As Monday dawned on the trading week, reports began to filter out about a joint bid by Bain Capital LLC (Mitt Romney's old stomping grounds) and Golden Gate Capital to take BMC...
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May 6 - News
As the calendar turns toward the second quarter of the year, it’s again time to revisit the popular investing adage, "Sell in May and go away." As the theory stipulates, investors...
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May 4 - News
Investors who have been around during the dot-com bubble remember it very well.
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May 4 - News
TTM Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTMI) makes the circuit boards in your favorite electronics.
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May 4 - News
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) are the giants of the technology world.
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May 3 - News
The difficult earnings season for technology continues, and Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) didn't disappoint to disappoint.
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May 3 - News
IDC, a tech research firm, estimates that revenue from public cloud services exceeded $30.5 billion in 2012 and will grow to a staggering $72.9 billion in 2015.
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May 2 - News
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has long been criticized for the $150 billion pile of cash on its balance sheet.
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May 2 - Hedge Funds
Investing in Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is like betting on a tennis player. The competition keeps putting him on the defense.
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May 2 - News
Maker of programmable chips Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) is up around 7% this year.
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May 1 - News
From the unveiling of a new gaming console to the long-awaited return of a cult fave television show on an unlikely platform, let's start looking out to some of the events that...
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May 1 - News
More specifically, the relatively small networking hardware specialist said it ran into trouble transitioning its new line of ReadyNAS network storage products.
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April 30 - News
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s cash hoard has been under attack for months.
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April 29 - News
There will always be stocks that do not trade like you would expect them.
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April 28 - News
While investors have been clamoring for the return of a portion of Apple Inc.
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April 27 - News
Nearly a year into a much-ballyhooed program to right its ship and save its business, the company's still losing money and burning cash like mad.
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April 27 - News
To the average investor, there are many indicators shareholders can use to analyze publicly traded companies.
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April 26 - News
NetGear, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTGR) is what I refer to as an “under the radar” stock.
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April 24 - News
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) designs, manufactures, and distributes networking equipment.
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April 24 - News
While French research firm Idate recently predicted femtocell (or small cells) shipments will reach 23 million units worldwide within 2017, generating revenues of €931 million...
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April 23 - News
Millions of Americans turn to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) as their sole gauge for how well the stock market is doing.
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April 20 - News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT), Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE:GD), Raytheon Company (NYSE...
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April 19 - News