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SFLY’s Q4 Orders Tracking Ahead Of The Estimates
Monday, December 28, 2009 - 12:26pm | 142Analysts at Piper Jaffray maintain their "neutral" rating on Shutterfly Inc (NASDAQ: SFLY). The target price for SFLY has been raised from $15 to $18. According to Piper Jaffray, the ComScore data suggests that SFLY’s Q4 orders are likely to have been tracking ahead of the estimates. Total unique...
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AMZN to Post Robust Results for Q4
Monday, December 28, 2009 - 12:24pm | 153Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch maintain their "buy" rating on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). The target price for AMZN has been raised from $140 to $150. Amazon.com, in its post-Christmas press release, highlighted that its peak day orders rose 51% YoY to more than 9.5 million units, while...
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IBD: Mercadolibre (MELI) - E-commerce Sales Soar as Latin America's Households Get Wired
Thursday, December 24, 2009 - 10:06am | 1258As I peruse our archives, I noticed I have not spoken about former fund holding Mercadolibre (MELI) once in year 2009; so with time running out on the year, we should sneak one in. We last owned this name in 2008, but in a year like that - a high valuation foreign growth stock is not exactly a...
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Benzinga’s Top Pre- Market Gainers (NCTY, QCOR, DRYS, ACHN, RINO, AMZN)
Thursday, December 24, 2009 - 9:22am | 278The9 Limited (ADR) (NASDAQ: NCTY) has jumped 17% to $8.25 in the pre-market session. The 52-week trading range for NCTY is $6.28 - $16.64. In the last trading session, The9 Limited closed at $7.05. So far in 2009, NCTY declined by over 45%. Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) has moved up...
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Ebay (Ebay) Saves The Day For Last Minute Shoppers
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 12:10pm | 141Ebay (NASDAQ: EBAY), has come to the rescue of all people who want their gifts delivered in time for Christmas. Ebay, shedding its image of second-hand goods marketplace, is pushing hard to fulfill the delivery deadlines for its products. With a decline of used good sales and the emergence of...
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Best And Worst Performers Of 2009 (AMZN, SBUX, GOOG, CLB, GE)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 8:41am | 154Toby Shute of seekingalpha has picked the best and the worst performing stocks for the year 2009. The best performed are Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which returned 160.82% YTD; Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) that returned 150.74%; Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) that returned 95.39% and Core...
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Top 5 Mid-Cap NASDAQ Stocks with Highest Gross Margins (INTU, PCLN, LIFE, APOL, DISCA)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 8:26am | 194Below are the top 5 mid-cap stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of highest gross margins. The trailing-twelve-month gross margins of Intuit Inc (NASDAQ: INTU) are 66.35%. INTU’s market capitalization is $990.3 billion. Broadpoint AmTech Research initiated coverage of INTU with a “buy” rating. The...
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Top 5 Mid-Cap NASDAQ Stocks with Highest Gross Margins (INTU, PCLN, LIFE, APOL, DISCA)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 8:25am | 194Below are the top 5 mid-cap stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of highest gross margins. The trailing-twelve-month gross margins of Intuit Inc (NASDAQ: INTU) are 66.35%. INTU’s market capitalization is $990.3 billion. Broadpoint AmTech Research initiated coverage of INTU with a “buy” rating. The...
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Cramer’s Calls On Mad Money (V, PFE, AMZN, BAC, APOL)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 2:06pm | 343Mad Money’s Jim Cramer has issued calls on quite a few stocks via the Lightning Round in the last few days. Visa (NYSE: V) and Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) are stocks that he is quite bullish on, and he expects them to reach the $100 mark without too much difficulty. MarkWest Energy (NYSE: MWE)...
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Rho Ventures Agrees To Take A 33% Stake In Bluefly Inc (BFLY)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 9:06am | 112Investment firm Rho Ventures has reached an agreement with online retailer Bluefly Inc (NASDAQ: BFLY) to buy $15 million of newly issued common stock in the company. This would make Rho Ventures the company’s biggest investor with a 33% stake. Rho has invested $4.7 million so far of the total...
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Amazon (AMZN) Electronics Bestsellers For Holiday Cheer
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 8:58am | 138With just a few days to go for Christmas, Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) bestseller electronics list looks every bit the gadget junkie’s holiday wish list. Topping the list is Amazon’s Kindle Wireless Reading Device, a platform developed for displaying e-books and other digital media. Quite...
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Joe Terranova Sees Support For Amazon (AMZN) At $125
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 7:19pm | 84CNBC's Fast Money Joe Terranova thinks that $125 is a support for Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), which gained 3.35% today as storms forced people to stay at home. Joe Terranova thinks that other retailers will start to play catch up and, in his opinion, $125 is the right price to pay for Amazon (AMZN...
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Holiday Party May Be Starting As Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA), Amazon.com, Inc. (NasdaqGS: AMZN) Jump
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 3:41pm | 565The markets are moving higher today on the back of solid moves from Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA), Amazon.com, Inc. (NasdaqGS: AMZN), Intel Corporation (NasdaqGS: INTC) and JP Morgan Chase Co (NYSE: JPM). Volume has started to trail off and is expected to starting around 10:30am ET each day this week. This...
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Barron’s: IPO Wave In The Offing?
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 3:41pm | 124Bankers and venture capitalists expect a surge of IPO offerings in 2010, particularly of the tech and tech-media variety. There are close to 50 potential entrants queued up at the IPO window, and venture capitalist Todd Chaffee expects Facebook to form part of the class of 2010. Chaffee’s past...
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RadioShack (RSH) And Walmart (WMT) To Remain Strong
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 3:27pm | 143The retail sector, fueled by a solid online sales trend, is likely to fare well in the coming year. Talking to CNBC, Style File Group analyst Hitha Prabhakar placed her bets on value stocks such as WalMart (NYSE: WMT) and J Crew (NYSE: JCG). She stated that she would stay away from luxury stocks...