As All Eyes Focus on Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores, While Apple, Mac... -12/20/09 at 1:49 PM CSTby Reggie Abaca

Unique visitor estimates at Compete.com show that internet traffic in the month of November rose dramatically at several popular websites.  Of the largest United States online retail portals, the biggest winners in the month of November were Apple.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) which rose 39.9% and the Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE:M) website, which rose 38.6%.&n...

Can Apple Inc. Grow its Earnings by 37% Annually for the Next 10 Years? -11/16/09 at 9:22 AM CSTby Dhananjayan J

ANALYSIS: In using reverse valuation by a discounted cash flow model with a price level of $185 as the base with Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), at the current price, Apple should grow its earnings by 37% annually for the next 10 years with terminal growth of 3%. Now, the question of course is, can Apple grow by 37% annually? With high probability, we feel it is...

Retail Investors Outperforming Professionals With Citigroup, Ford, an... -08/21/09 at 11:14 AM CDTby Peter York

In today's market, it's not the professionals who are celebrating as much as the retail investors.  Consider three stocks that seem to show up in retail portfolios everywhere: Citigroup Inc. (C), Ford Motor Company (F), and Sirius XM Radio Inc (SIRI).  Institutional ownership in these stocks are well under 50% which suggests a significant retail...

Collins Stewart Analyst Downgrades Apple and Western Digital -04/24/09 at 11:26 AM CDTby Perry Rod

Ashok Kumar, a little known analyst from Collins Stewart, has been making many negative calls as of late.  This morning he downgraded Western Digital (WDC) and Apple Inc. (AAPL), which may have caused those stocks to fall in the early morning hours on Wall Street. This week, Kumar also had negative things to say about AMD after its report, and last w...