Starbucks Earnings In-Line, Revenues Miss Expectations
(Video length 00:00:50) CNBC’s Susan Li reports Starbucks’ quarterly earnings.
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Puzzling Evidence
The Nasdaq big cap techs have powered up to a new all time high. Looking a little parabolic there guys, even if the prospects of repatriating all that cash stashed in overseas tax havens can come back to your pockets for acquisitions, dividends, and stock buybacks. Alphabet, the behemoth formerly known as Google, has about […]
Who Really Controls The Gold Price? The Answer Is Quite Surprising
There’s this notion put forth by the majority in the precious metals community that the Fed and Central Banks control the market price of gold. I have even heard that some analysts believe the Fed could push the gold price anywhere they saw fit…. even to zero. While I agree that the Central Banks do play […]
Leading Stock Market Indicator Still Bullish
U.S. stock markets are hitting new highs this week. The Nasdaq Composite index broke through the psychologically important level of 6,000 points while the small cap index Russell 2000 broke above 1400 points. The Dow Jones index briefly touched 21,000 points, and the S&P 500 was inches away yesterday from 2,400 points. It seems that the stock […]
Amazon.com, Inc. Stock Skyrockets After Smashing Earnings Estimates
Amazon released its latest earnings report after closing bell tonight, posting GAAP earnings of $1.48 per share per share on $35.7 billion in revenue. Analysts had been expecting GAAP earnings of $1.08 per share and $35.3 billion in revenue. In last year’s first quarter, the Internet firm reported $29.1 billion in sales and $1.07 per […]
Recent Dividend Increases III
Hey guys, again it is time to have a look at the recent dividend increases, in March and April there have been a couple of them :). As you all know the advantages of a dividend investor and especially of a dividend growth investor should be that the companies increase their dividends every year. This […]
Earnings-Palooza – AMZN & GOOGL Beat, MSFT & SBUX Miss
Amazon and Alphabet are surging after hours after big beats but Microsoft is fading (missed on revenues and capex) and Starbucks is sliding on a disappointing same store sales comp. Alphabet Big Beat *ALPHABET 1Q EPS $7.73, GAAP EST. $7.42 *ALPHABET 1Q PAID CLICKS +44% Q1 Revs. $24.75B vs. $24.22B Est. Major decoupling from 2017 expectation still Amazon Big Beat: […]
The Progress Of Facebook’s 10-Year Masterplan
The Details of Facebook’s 10-Year Masterplan In the company’s first 10 years, Mark Zuckerberg transformed Facebook from a college side-project into a multi-billion dollar platform. Along the way, Zuckerberg was given many opportunities to exit. He was offered $75 million from Viacom in the very early days, and then $1.5 billion later on (including $800 million cash […]
Your Smartphone Helped Disrupt One Of The Biggest Sectors Markets Have Ever Known – Here’s How
In 2015, online apparel sales took the number one spot in total online sales from the computer hardware sector (personal computers and tablets), which had been the undisputed online sales leader for a decade. With the growth of online shopping and increasing online apparel sales starting to explode, it’s no wonder America’s bricks-and-mortar apparel retailers […]
