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Apple's stock collapsed below $400 during midday trading Wednesday, a decline of more than 6% on the day and the first time that the stock has fallen below that milestone since December 2011...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Apple To Investors: OK, OK, We'll Show You The Money
via readwrite.com
If you listen to a rising chorus of Apple investors, it seems increasingly clear that Cupertino will soon dance a Wall Street jig and offer either a share-buyback plan or a higher dividend. Either of which would help support the share price, even if neither move seems likely to restore much of the 40% haircut the stock has taken since September.
Yesterday, Bloomberg quoted fund managers at Gamco and Capital Advisors, both of which own Apple shares, saying they expect the company to announce new plans for deploying more of its $137 billion cash hoard in support of investors. Today, Quartz reported that Apple might buy back stock, hike the regular dividend or issue a special dividend as early as this spring, and has retained Goldman Sachs to review its options.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Apple Stock Just Crashed To A New Low
It was an up day for the market and most technology stocks, but not for Apple.
Apple stock fell another 2.5% to close at $430--its lowest closing price since the stock's slide began last September.
Apple is now down almost 40% from its peak.
And for the first time in forever, anyone who has bought Apple in the past year and held it has lost money on it.
What's going on with Apple's stock? How low could it go?
On the first question, there are several things going on with Apple's stock.
Some are fundamental, having to do with changes in Apple's business.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Apple Stock Tanks Again - Getting Close To A New Low
Apple stock fell another 2% yesterday to close at $442. It's down again this morning.
The stock is now closing in on its lowest closing price since it peaked just above $700 in September.
Apple is now down almost 40% from its peak.
Apple's market value has now lost about $250 billion. Thanks to Apple's massive size, that's more money than investors in Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion have ever lost in those two stocks combined.
Of course, Apple has only fallen to a level that it first breached in January last year. So long-term Apple investors are still in the money. At least for now.
(For the first time in forever, though, anyone who has bought Apple in the past year and held it has lost money on it).
What's going on with Apple's stock? How low could it go?
On the first question, there are several things going on with Apple's stock.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Pinterest Raises Another $200 Million and is Now Worth $2.5 Billion
Pinterest, a site for sharing and discovering images, has sold $200 million in stock to new and current investors for less than 10 percent of the company, valuing it at $2.5 billion, the company just confirmed to Business Insider.
The Wall Street Journal first reported rumors of a new financing earlier this month, placing the valuation between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher reported the financing earlier on Wednesday.
"Our focus is on helping millions of people discover things they love and get inspiration to go do those things in their life,” Pinterest cofounder and CEO Ben Silbermann said in a statement. "This investment gives us more resources to help realize that vision."
Valiant Capital Management, a hedge fund which owns large stakes in Apple and Google, is leading the round. Valiant founder Christopher Hansen was an early investor in Facebook as well.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Zynga Shows Investors It Has a Chance
via allthingsd.com
Zynga’s fourth-quarter earnings are just rolling in, and they look good compared to the company’s already lowered expectations for the period.
Minutes after the release went out, Zynga’s stock was up nearly 5 percent to $2.88 a share. During regular trading today, Zynga’s shares were already higher based on an analyst’s upgrade.
Here’s what it reported:
The social games company said bookings for the year totaled $1.15 billion to beat the company’s forecast of $1.1 billion (bookings account for the sales from virtual goods that occur in the fourth quarter).
Monday, January 14, 2013
Google’s latest green investment brings the total to over $1 billion
via techi.com
Everyone knows about Google’s search domination. Most are aware of their foray into social media and other internet-based engagements. Some know that they’ve ventured into hardware with driverless cars, nifty glasses, and various attempts at computers. What many do not realize is that Google is deeply embedded into renewable energy and has just invested in their 10th green venture, bringing the total to 10 with investments over $1 billion.
Their $200 million stake in Spinning Spur in the Texas panhandle makes 5 wind projects to match their 5 solar projects. They now have investments that can produce up to 2 gigawatts of power. That energy could power half a million homes for a year, more than enough to cover their massive server power consumption.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Here's How Smart Investors Made A Killing On IPOs In 2012
2012 turned out to be a very good year for investors who bet on new enterprise-tech companies.
This year, companies such as Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, and Workday had extremely successful opening days in spite of the Facebook IPO fiasco—or maybe because of it, as investors veered away from consumer Web plays.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Apple Stock Nears New Closing Low
Apple's stock has resumed its decline over the last few days, falling another 2% to $526 in afternoon trading.
This is only $1 above the lowest close in Apple's recent swoon, which was $525.62 back on November 15.
After that, Apple briefly took off like a rocket, spiking back to $590 in a week.
But since then, the selloff that started last summer has resumed.
What's going on?
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
LinkedIn CEO: The Biggest Mistake People Make Is Chasing A 'Hot Company' Or Promotion
At Business Insider's Ignition 2012 conference today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner spoke about how his father always told him that he could do anything he put his mind to. "I assumed every kid got told the same thing," Weiner told Business Insider's Henry Blodget. "It didn't occur to me until much later how much of an influence that had on me."
According to Weiner, the big career mistake most people make is not having a real destination or goal in mind.
That feeds into the one question he asks the young graduates and professionals that come to him for advice. "It always starts with asking, 'In 30 years, what do you want to have accomplished?'" Weiner said. "It's OK not to have an answer, but you need to start thinking about it. Once you know that, things start to become clear. The people you meet, the opportunities and situations you find are often a function of that objective."
Monday, August 13, 2012
17 Must Have Mobile Apps For Investors
Investors are generally advised to ignore the day-to-day noise that dominates the financial headlines.
But given the increasing mobile availability of information, most investors can't resist.
We went through more than 90 finance-related mobile apps and these are the best ones we found.
Everyone from novice investors to veterans of the market will find these apps handy–these days, you can trade virtual portfolios, draw on stock charts, get real-time streaming price and economic data, and chart FRED data series, all from your smartphone or tablet.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
10 Bizarre Investment Strategies
via forbes.com
There are plenty of options for people who’d prefer to avoid traditional plans—but tread carefully.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Facebook Is Getting Crushed, Now At An All-Time Low
Facebook's stock is getting hammered in extended trading today after it reported its second-quarter earnings.
Facebook just barely beat consensus estimates for revenue from Wall Street, and was in-line on earnings. But the stock is cratering anyway, now floating at around $24.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
How The Richest 400 People in America MadeTheir Money - Breakdown
Inc.'s Jeff Haden recently published an article, How the Rich Got Rich, and examined an annual IRS report, 400 Individual Tax Returns Reporting The Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes.
According to the IRS report, here's how the top 400 made their fortunes (their average earnings in 2009 were $202.4 million)...
Wages and salaries: 8.6%
Interest: 6.6%
Dividends: 13%
Partnerships and corporations: 19.9%
Capital gains: 45.8%
Thursday, June 21, 2012
In Pictures: 10 Bizarre Investment Strategies
via forbes.com
There are plenty of options for people who’d prefer to avoid traditional plans—but tread carefully.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Why Did Facebook's Stock Fall?
Facebook's stock had been in a free fall since it hit the public markets.
This morning, it's actually up, but the company isn't out of the woods just yet.
What exactly is happening here? Why was the stock still falling? And why does the IPO suddenly look like a disaster?
Some of you already know the answers to those questions. For the rest of you, we have this simple guide, which tries to the best of our ability to explain everything that's going on in clear, plain English.
The once sentence explanation of all that's gone wrong: Facebook's stock fell almost immediately after it hit the public markets because investors just didn't think it was a $100 billion company, and this has led to all sorts of other problems.
Monday, May 21, 2012
FACEBOOK COLLAPSES OVER 12.5% AND BREAKS THE IPO PRICE
As we wrote about in the original post below, Facebook plunged below the IPO price in the early going, and the route continues now that the official start of trading has begun.
It's now off over eight percent to around $35/share, well below the $38/share IPO price.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Facebook Opens at $42, Valued at $116.6 Billion
via mashable.com
Facebook shares started trading at $42 a share on Nasdaq around 11:30 a.m. Friday morning under the symbol “FB.”
The company’s 421.2 million shares offered to the public will now raise $17.7 billion, bringing its valuation to $116.6 billion.
The opening price comes after Business Insider reported earlier this morning that bids for the company’s stock were as high as €58.20, or $74 a share. Facebook’s stock had also occasionally traded higher in the secondary markets than its planned $38 opening price.
So Who Actually Got Rich Off Of Facebook Today?
via buzzfeed.com
As you may have heard, a bunch of people just acquired Scrooge-McDuck quantities of cash thanks to this morning's Facebook IPO. So exactly who is walking around with an extra billion dollars in their bank account? Here's a visual breakdown of everyone who sold their shares today, and how much they made.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Interesting facts about the IPO that everyone is discussing
via techi.com
While there is definitely a lot of interest in Jimmy’s Fish Stick Company’s upcoming IPO, the main focus is on Facebook. The social networking giant has the most anticipated initial public offering in history that will likely value the company in the 12-digits. Whenever something is this big, someone is bound to make a fact-sheet on them.
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