The following video is from Wednesday's Motley Fool Money roundtable discussion, with host Chris Hill and analysts Ron Gross, Charly Travers, and James Early.
Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) dropped on Wednesday in the wake of the company's latest earnings. Apple posted better-than-expected sales numbers for its iPhones and iPads and announced a $50 billion share buyback. And�CEO Tim Cook said that the company is working on "amazing new hardware, software, and services" that will be released in autumn 2013 and in 2014. But investors weren't impressed. Should shareholders lower their expectations? Is Apple losing its innovative edge and becoming another Microsoft? In this installment of Motley Fool Money, our analysts talk about the future of Apple.
There's no doubt that Apple is at the center of technology's largest revolution ever and that longtime shareholders have been handsomely rewarded, with more than 1,000% gains. However, there is a debate raging as to whether Apple remains a buy. The Motley Fool's senior technology analyst and managing bureau chief, Eric Bleeker, is prepared to fill you in on both reasons to buy and reasons to sell Apple and what opportunities are left for the company (and your portfolio) going forward. To get instant access to his latest thinking on Apple, simply click here now.
Hot Paper Stocks For 2015: InterMune Inc.(ITMN)
InterMune, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, and commercialization of therapies in pulmonology and fibrotic diseases. In pulmonology, the company focuses on therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal lung disease. It markets pirfenidone, an orally active drug that inhibits the synthesis of TGF-beta under the Esbriet name in the European Union, as well as in a Phase III clinical trial in the United States. Pirfenidone is also approved for the treatment of IPF in Japan, where it is marketed by Shionogi & Co. Ltd. under the Pirespa trade name. The company?s research programs focus on the discovery of small-molecule therapeutics and biomarkers to treat and monitor serious pulmonary and fibrotic diseases. InterMune, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Brisbane, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Brian Pacampara]
What: Shares of biotechnology company Intermune (NASDAQ: ITMN ) surged 13% today after its quarterly results and outlook topped Wall Street expectations.
- [By Jake L'Ecuyer]
Shares of InterMune (NASDAQ: ITMN) got a boost, shooting up 14.31 percent to $39.22 after the company presented Phase 3 ASCEND study of Pirfenidone in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Leerink upgraded the stock from Market Perform to Outperform.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In 2014: Inphi Corporation (IPHI)
Inphi Corporation provides high-speed analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications, datacenter, and computing markets worldwide. Its analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions offer high signal integrity at data speeds while reducing system power consumption. The company�s semiconductor solutions are designed to address bandwidth bottlenecks in networks, maximize throughput and minimize latency in computing environments, and enable the rollout of next generation communications, datacenter, and computing infrastructures. Its solutions provide a high-speed interface between analog signals and digital information in high-performance systems, such as telecommunications transport systems, enterprise networking equipment, datacenters and enterprise servers, storage platforms, test and measurement equipment, and military systems. The company also provides 40G and 100G high-speed analog semiconductor solutions for the communications market and high- speed memory interface solutions for the computing market. Its products include amplifiers and modulator drivers, clock and data recovery, isolation memory buffer, register, and SerDes products that perform a range of functions, such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, retiming, and buffering data and clock signals at speeds up to 100 Gbps. Inphi Corporation sells its products directly through its sales force, as well as through a network of sales representatives and distributors to original equipment manufacturers. The company was formerly known as TCom Communications, Inc. and changed its name to Inphi Corporation in February 2001. Inphi Corporation was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Garrett Cook]
Inphi (NASDAQ: IPHI) shares were also up, gaining 26.11 percent to $16.14 after the company announced its plans to acquire Cortina Systems.
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- [By Roberto Pedone]
Inphi (IPHI) provides high-speed analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications, datacenter and computing markets. This stock closed up 4.7% at $13.25 in Monday's trading session.
Monday's Volume: 838,000
Three-Month Average Volume: 202,080
Volume % Change: 378%From a technical perspective, IPHI jumped higher here right above some near-term support at $12.44 with heavy upside volume. This stock has been uptrending strong for the last five months, with shares soaring higher from its low of $8.62 to its intraday high of $13.85. During that uptrend, shares of IPHI have been consistently making higher lows and higher highs, which is bullish technical price action. That move briefly pushed shares of IPHI into breakout territory, since the stock flirted with some near-term overhead resistance at $13.50.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in IPHI as long as it's trending above some near-term support at $12.44 and then once it sustains a move or close above its new 52-week high at $13.85 with volume that hits near or above 202,080 shares. If we get that move soon, then IPHI will set up to enter new 52-week-high territory, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that move are its next major overhead resistance levels at $14.79 to $16.94, or possibly even $18.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In 2014: Merck & Company Inc.(MRK)
Merck & Co., Inc. provides various health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, animal health, and consumer care products. The company?s Pharmaceutical segment provides human health pharmaceutical products, such as therapeutic and preventive agents for the treatment of human disorders in the areas of bone, respiratory, immunology, dermatology, cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity, infectious diseases, neurosciences and ophthalmology, oncology, vaccines, and women's health and endocrine. This segment also offers human health vaccines, such as preventive pediatric, adolescent, and adult vaccines. Its Animal Health segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets animal health products. This segment offers antibiotics, anti-inflammatory products, vaccines, products for the treatment of fertility disorders, and parasiticides for cattle, swine, horses, poultry, dogs, cats, salmons, and fish. The Consumer Care segment develops, manufac tures, and markets over-the-counter, foot care, and sun care products. Its over-the-counter product line includes non-drowsy antihistamines; treatment for occasional constipation; decongestant-free cold/flu medicine for people with high blood pressure; nasal decongestant spray; and treatment for frequent heartburn. This segment?s foot care products comprise topical antifungal, and foot and sneaker odor/wetness products; and sun care products include sun care lotions, sprays and dry oils; and sunburn relief products. The company serves drug wholesalers and retailers, hospitals, government agencies, physicians, physician distributors, veterinarians, animal producers, and managed health care providers, as well as food chain and mass merchandiser outlets in the United States and Canada. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jim Lowell, Partner and Chief Investment Strategist, Adviser Investments]
He owns names that have global imprint, but pretty much, are domestically based, so his international equity stake is under 8% of the overall portfolio, but the companies that he owns—Apple (AAPL), GE (GE), Wells Fargo (WFC), Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), he also owns Merck (MRK), JP Morgan (JPM)—they've got a global footprint, so I like the safety in numbers.
- [By Jayson Derrick]
Merck & Company (NYSE: MRK) reported its third quarter results this morning. The company earned $0.90 per share, beating the consensus estimate of $0.88. Revenue of $10.60 billion missed the consensus estimate of $10.68 billion. Shares lost 2.01 percent, closing at $56.45.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In 2014: Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications"(VIP)
VimpelCom Ltd. operates as an integrated telecommunications services provider, offering voice and data services through a range of wireless, fixed, and broadband technologies. It provides its services under the Beeline, Kyivstar, djuice, Wind, Infostrada Mobilink, Leo, Banglalink, Telecel, Mobinil, koryolink, Allo, and Djezzy brands. The company also offers roaming services that allows its subscribers and the customers of other mobile operators to receive and make international, local, and long distance calls while outside of their home network. In addition, it provides mobile telecommunications, as well as fixed-line, data, and long distance licenses. As of December 31, 2010, the company had 92.7 million mobile subscribers. It offers its services in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Central African Republic, Italy, and Canada. VimpelCom Ltd. is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Eric Volkman]
VimpelCom (NASDAQ: VIP ) is to pass along a pair of payouts for its shareholders. Simultaneously, the company declared both a regular and a special dividend. For the former, the telecom will distribute $0.35, and for the latter, $0.79 per American depositary share. The company expects to pay both by May 15 to shareholders of record as of April 29.
- [By Lisa Levin]
VimpelCom (NASDAQ: VIP) shares reached a new 52-week low of $9.05. VimpelCom is expected to release its Q4 results on March 6, 2014.
Westport Innovations (NASDAQ: WPRT) shares touched a new 52-week low of $15.22 after the company and Delphi Automotive (NYSE: DLPH) signed a joint development agreement to commercialize natural gas injector technology.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In 2014: Prima BioMed Ltd (PBMD)
Prima BioMed Ltd is a biotechnology company is engaged in the development and commercialization of medical therapies with a focus on oncology. Its product candidates in development include Cvac, an autologous dendritic cell vaccine for ovarian cancer, monoclonal antibodies for multiple tumour types, and an oral formulation for the human papilloma virus (HPV), vaccine. Its product candidate Cvac is a dendritic cell therapy, for which it is conducting a Phase IIb trial for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Cvac is designed to target the tumour antigen mucin-1, which is expressed at high levels on different tumour types. It also has two preclinical product development programs. In May 2011, Prima BioMed GmbH, a 100 % owned subsidiary of Prima BioMed Ltd, was incorporated in Germany. In May 2011, Prima BioMed Middle East FZLLC, a 100 % owned subsidiary of Prima BioMed Ltd, was incorporated in the United Arab Emirates. Advisors' Opinion:- [By Bryan Murphy]
Were it the first time, or even the second time, it happened, it might be dismissible. A third time though? As they say, the third time is the charm. If the old saying applies in the worlds of small cap stocks (and it usually does), then Prima Biomed Ltd. (NASDAQ:PBMD) just kick-started what could be a trade-worthy rally.
- [By Monica Gerson]
Prima Biomed (NASDAQ: PBMD) shares dipped 38.59% to touch a new 52-week low of $1.44 after the company reported top-line analysis of CVac Phase 2 trial.
- [By Monica Gerson]
Prima Biomed (NASDAQ: PBMD) dropped 38.17% to $1.45 after the company reported top-line analysis of CVac Phase 2 trial.
Tower Group International (NASDAQ: TWGP) plummeted 24.31% to $10.49. Tower Group announced its plans to release its Q2 results during the week of October 7, 2013. FBR Capital downgraded the stock from Outperform to Market Perform.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In 2014: King Digital Entertainment PLC (KING)
King Digital Entertainment plc, incorporated on July 3, 2013, is an interactive entertainment company. The Company�� games include Candy Crush Saga, Pet Rescue Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Papa Pear Saga and Bubble Witch Saga. As of December 31, 2013, an average of 128 million DAUs played its games more than 1.2 billion times per day. The Company makes casual games, which appeal to a wide and growing audience. Users access its games for free anywhere and anytime they wish to, either on their mobile devices, through social networks or via its Website, king.com. The combination of wide game appeal, accessibility, and its multi-platform capabilities enables to attract a broad user base, foster viral growth, and create a compelling, fun and social experience.
The Company operates in developing and monetizing casual online and mobile games. As of December 31, 2013, the Company had a massive network of 324 million monthly users and a track record of long-term retention driven by game longevity and ability to cross-promote new games to its audience. The Company launches new game IPs on its royalgames.com Website, where it receives feedback from its core user base of VIP customers. The Company then identifies the games based on deep performance analytics and its historical experience, and enhance them with additional features and capabilities in its Saga format before releasing them on other distribution channels, such as the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, the Amazon Appstore and Facebook.
The Company develops and publishes casual games on royalgames.com, its tournament portal, and on mobile and social platforms. Casual games typically include a puzzle element, are easy to learn but hard to master, and can be played with or against others. It builds games across a variety of sub-genres, including switcher (moving pieces to create matches), bubble shooter (building clusters of pieces), clicker (clearing clusters of pieces), card games and several others.
Cand! y Crush Saga
The Company�� popular game, Candy Crush Saga, had 93 million average DAUs and 1,085 million average daily games played across all platforms as of December 31, 2013 . Candy Crush Saga is a switcher game in which players match candies in combinations of three or more to win points and defeat obstacles. Players progress through a colorful candy world with over 500 levels, each offering a different puzzle challenge. Players progress through a colorful candy world with over 500 levels, each offering a different puzzle challenge. The levels get progressively more difficult, with obstacles such as chocolate machines adding further layers of complexity to the game. If players enjoy a specific level, they can return to play it again to see if they can achieve the three star rating. Candy Crush Saga is synchronized across platforms, allowing players to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms and continue their game wherever they left off.
Pet Rescue Saga
Pet Rescue Saga is a clicker game in which players click on groups of similarly colored blocks in order to clear them from the screen. The game offers over 440 levels of play in an animal themed adventure where players have to rescue a range of cute pets from the evil Pet Snatchers. Pet Rescue Saga had 15 million average DAUs and 129 million average daily games played across all platforms in as of December 31, 2013. The aim is to clear enough blocks to guide pets to safety at the bottom of the screen while also achieving the minimum score required. Players also need to think through the consequences of removing any one set of block as this will cause other blocks to move sideways or fall into play. Pet Rescue Saga offers additional challenges in the form of caged pets, stony floors that require a key to unlock and diamonds that can only be removed by landing them on a stony floor. As with the other Saga format games, players can continue through the game without losing lives as long as they complete e! ach level! . Players can also return to specific levels in order to achieve the three star rating. Pet Rescue Saga is synchronized across platforms, allowing players to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms and continue their game wherever they left off.
Farm Heroes Saga
Like Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga uses a switcher format, but unlike Candy Crush Saga, it focuses on a collection mechanic. The game is set in a fantasy farmland world with over 380 levels. The game requires players to collect different farm elements, such as carrots, apples, onions and water by matching at least three in a row. To progress, players need to collect sufficient quantities of each element within a limited number of moves. The game requires players to collect different farm elements such as carrots, apples, onions and water by matching at least three in a row. To progress, players need to collect sufficient quantities of each element within a limited number of moves. Once a player has collected enough of each element, the game goes into Hero Mode enabling the player to boost the score through careful use of the remaining moves.
Papa Pear Saga
Papa Pear Saga is a physics-based game with a tropical theme and contains over 290 levels. Papa Pear Saga had five million average DAUs and 37 million average daily games played across all platforms as of December 31, 2013 . The game format features elements of pinball and pachinko. Players have to shoot Papa Pear from a cannon at the top of the screen in order to have him fall into buckets at the bottom of the screen. If players select the right trajectory and power, Papa Pear will hit different elements such as acorns, berries and carrots. This will help clear the screen, making it easier to hit the buckets, and improve the score for the level. If a player uses too much power in the shot or gets the trajectory wrong, Papa Pear will bounce wildly. Different levels also have additional objectives, such as eliminating the right! number o! f acorns or carrots within the allocated number of shots. Once Papa Pear has met the objective, the level ends in a Papa Fiesta, as all remaining Papa Pears dive into play.
Bubble Witch Saga
Bubble Witch Saga is a bubble shooter game in which players need to pick their shots carefully in order to get through a field of bubbles and then clear at least nine spaces at the top of the screen. Over 520 levels of play are offered in this witch-themed game featuring cats, spiders and spirits. Bubble Witch Saga had three million average DAUs and 23 million average daily games played across all platforms as of December 31, 2013, . To make it challenging, each level limits the number of bubbles players can shoot and also sets a minimum score requirement. Points are earned as bubbles fall into cauldrons at the bottom of the screen, bouncing off spiders to increase their value. Through successive accurate shots, players can increase the number of spiders on screen and their score potential. In order to succeed, players not only need to aim accurately but also to plan their shots in advance. As typical in the Saga format, the levels become more difficult as the game progresses. Puzzle challenges include bubbles locked in crystal, bubbles that infect their neighbors with a virus and bubbles of doom that explode upon contact. As with its other games, players can return to specific levels again in order to achieve the three star rating. Bubble Witch Saga is synchronized across platforms, allowing players to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms and continue their game wherever they left off.
The Company competes with Activision Blizzard, Inc.; DeNA Co., Ltd.; Electronic Arts Inc.; Gree International, Inc.; GungHo Online Entertainment America, Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nexon Co. Ltd.; NHN Entertainment Corp.; Supercell Oy; Tencent Holdings Limited; Zynga Inc.; Amazon.com, Inc., Apple, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Google Inc., The Walt Disney Company and Yahoo! Inc. Advisors' Opinion:
- [By Evan Niu, CFA and Erin Kennedy]
This week, King (NYSE: KING ) , maker of the smash hit mobile game Candy Crush Saga, went public at $22.50 per share. This was a widely anticipated IPO, yet shares immediately pulled back. Investors have been concerned at how heavily dependent the company is on its one single hit, with its second and third top performers falling way behind the success of Candy Crush, despite all being very similar variations of the same game.
- [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]
www.glu.com Shares of Glu Mobile (GLUU) opened sharply lower on Thursday after it reported disappointing quarterly results. The mobile gaming company that raced into market fancy this summer as its "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" game raced up the mobile apps charts is now going the other way. It seems like a monster quarter at first glance. Adjusted revenue soared 270 percent to $83.6 million when pitted against last year's third quarter, fueled largely by the success of the Kardashian celebrity simulator, in which players create a character that rubs elbows with the rich and famous as they plot their way to stardom in an interactive adventure. Glu's adjusted profit clocked in at 17 cents a share, well ahead of the 11 cents a share that analysts were targeting. Glu had posted a quarterly loss a year earlier. Glu also boosted its guidance higher for all of 2014 in Wednesday night's report. This is often the recipe for a surging stock, but Glu took a hit because analysts were holding out for more than a 270 percent pop on the top line. Wall Street was banking on $85.2 million in revenue. As for that improved outlook for this year -- with Glu now eyeing between $225.5 million and $230.5 million in revenue in 2014 -- analysts were modeling $232.6 million on the top line. Glu may be in a better place than it was three months ago, but the market overshot on the potential of a single hot franchise. Rubber Meets Glu Glu Mobile has been one of this year's most volatile stocks. It began the year at $3.88, rarely mentioned in the same circles as casual-gaming leaders King Digital (KING) and Zynga (ZNGA). However, the stock had doubled by this summer when Kardashian's game took the mobile gaming market by storm. In a stunning run this summer, Glu shares posted four consecutive weeks of double-digit percentage gains, soaring with weekly pops of 19 percent, 13 percent, 14 percent and 13 percent. It's been all downhill after that. As soon as Kardashian's game began to sl
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In 2014: Ascent Solar Technologies Inc.(ASTI)
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on commercializing flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules using its proprietary technology. The company intends to manufacture roll-format PV modules that use copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) on a plastic substrate. Its proprietary manufacturing process deposits multiple layers of materials, including a thin-film of CIGS semiconductor material on a plastic substrate and laser patterns the layers to create interconnected PV cells or PV modules through monolithic integration process. The company would serve the building applied photovoltaic (BAPV) and building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) market, as well as specialty markets, such as defense, portable power, transportation, electronic integrated photovoltaic, and space and near-space. It has a strategic relationship with Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS to access customers in the BIPV/BAPV markets worldwide. Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. was founded in 200 5 and is based in Thornton, Colorado.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Udovich]
Solar stocks have not exactly given buy and hold investors a smooth ride, but small cap�GT Advanced Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: GTAT) could be an interesting materials play on the solar sector���meaning its worth taking a closer look at the stock along with potential peers like Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ: ASTI) and STR Holdings, Inc (NYSE: STRI) plus solar ETF Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSEARCA: TAN). I should mention that just last week, we added GT Advanced Technologies to our�SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity (SCN EO) portfolio for both�fundamentals and technical reasons and we are already up almost 9%.
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