In this series, we'll highlight four companies in an industry and compare their "cash king margins" over time, trying to determine which has the greatest likelihood of putting...
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March 24 - News
Most investors know to look for dividend payouts in familiar sectors, such as utilities or consumer staples.
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March 22 - News
Even with the recent decline Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has more than tripled in the last five years, going back to March 2008.
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March 21 - News
Always one to go low, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) may be about to go even lower with its popular Kindle Fire tablet.
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March 21 - News
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." Today, we'll show you ...
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March 20 - News
The warning signs of a dividend cut should always be in the back of your mind.
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March 20 - News
Since the beginning of the year shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), the world leading PC processor maker, have increased by 4.7%.
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March 19 - News
As an investor that favors large cap stocks with huge buybacks, the recent news from the WSJ that stock buyback authorizations hit a record in February should garner attention...
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March 19 - News
I follow quite a lot of companies, so the usefulness of a watchlist to me cannot be overstated.
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March 14 - News
As your parents might have told you once, when a company loves its shareholders very much, it sometimes offers a periodic dividend to show it.
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March 13 - News
Investors caught in the fight for mobile device supremacy between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung can fall prey to the ups and downs of product cycles.
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March 12 - News
Steve Jobs once said, "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has always innovated on this premise.
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March 6 - News
A high-yield investment provides investors with more safety and security versus those that do not.
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February 25 - News
One thing's for sure: You'll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them.
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February 24 - News
Say what you want about the tech sector, but it's never boring.
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February 24 - News
A couple of days after NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) essentially declared an all-out war on the chip sector with its Tegra 4i chip, QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) answered.
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February 24 - News
Calling the bottom is great hobby in this business. And I don't think analysts, aka "bears" who spot ceilings early, receive enough credit for doing so.
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February 23 - News
With no economic news on the table, and following two days of heavy losses, investors came out in a buying mood today.
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February 22 - News
After a heated start to the year that saw major indices reach five-year highs, a two day losing streak has shaved off more than 150 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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February 21 - News
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) invented the first transistor radio in 1954 and invented the first integrated circuit in 1958.
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February 20 - News
Last week, the Inflation-Protected Income Growth portfolio received its first dividend payment, $9.87 worth of dividends on 47 shares of Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ...
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February 20 - News
Wall Street sometimes seems unreasonable or unfair. The reaction to Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM)'s Q4 results serves as a perfect example.
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February 20 - News
Even though the device has yet to make it stateside, Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)'s BlackBerry Z10 has now spilled its guts.
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February 20 - News
The chip market has been facing several headwinds ranging from competitive supply pressure to market transitions.
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February 19 - News
One thing's for sure: You'll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them.
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February 13 - News
It's hard to fault anyone for feeling a bit apprehensive about NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s future.
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February 13 - News
The stock market has an uncanny way of forcing you to second-guess your own convictions.
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February 12 - News
Why does Einhorn still believe in Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL)? After breaking down what billionaire David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital is betting on for 2013 it is time...
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February 9 - Hedge Funds
In my previous article on semiconductor giant QUALCOMM, Inc.
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February 7 - News
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the rise of mobile devices have disturbed computer component makers.
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February 5 - News
While semiconductors offer a great way to diversify in technology, they are suffering from a plethora of problems right now.
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February 4 - News
With smartphone and tablet sales through the roof, and lagging laptop sales that don’t show signs of resurgence any time soon, some companies are taking the hit—namely, PC...
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February 1 - News
The shift in consumer patterns away from PCs and towards smartphones and tablets has been a big trend in the last few years.
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December 26 - Stock Analysis
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) provides manufacturing equipment for semiconductor companies. The tech company offers products for front-end and computing applications.
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December 26 - Stock Analysis
At the beginning of October, billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group owned 3.3 million shares of Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE:FCS), a $1.9 billion ...
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December 20 - Hedge Funds
Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) came in tenth on our list of top ten tech stocks loved by hedge funds (see all 10 here).
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December 17 - Stock Analysis
There were five finance and insurance companies on our list of the ten most popular stocks among hedge funds for the third quarter of the year.
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December 3 - Stock Analysis
Hedge funds liked QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) during the second quarter, as at the end of June the company made our list of the ten most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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October 29 - Stock Analysis
Michael Platt, the co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, was on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers" today making the case that "Europe has no credible plan for growth...
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October 24 - Hedge Funds
Texas Instruments Inc (NASDAQ:TXN) is quite the global economic bellwether, with products that are used in virtually all electronics equipment, from cellphones to calculators.
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October 24 - Stock Analysis
During the second quarter, billionaire David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital bought 7.2 million shares of Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
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October 22 - Stock Analysis
With PC sales falling (market researchers have estimated an 8% drop over the last year, we certainly wouldn’t say it’s a good time to be Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC).
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October 17 - Stock Analysis
Warren Buffett may be the most emulated money manager in the history of finance, let alone the past century.
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October 11 - Hedge Funds
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) joined the NASDAQ 100 index earlier this year, but the stock isn’t seeing much of a boost: at the time it was trading up from the...
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September 28 - Stock Analysis
Earlier today the NASDAQ announced that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) did not make the grade for being included in the NASDAQ 100 Index, just yet.
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September 18 - News
Bill Miller was on top of the investment world just 5 years ago.
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February 20 - News
Insider selling usually doesn't mean that stocks will decline. The stocks insiders sell as a group don't underperform the market.
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January 20 - Insider Trading
You may know who David Tepper is. In case you don't, he's a hedge fund manager. He made $4 Billion last year and currently ranks as the 258th richest person in the world.
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November 13 - Hedge Funds
