Showing posts with label Stock Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stock Review. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Stock Review: Inverness Medical Innovations IMA

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of in vitro diagnostic products for the over the counter pregnancy and fertility/ovulation, and the professional diagnostic test markets worldwide.




It operates in three segments:
  • Consumer Diagnostic Products, Vitamins
  • Nutritional Supplements, and
  • Professional Diagnostic Products.
The Consumer Diagnostic Products segment provides Clearblue home pregnancy and fertility/ovulation prediction tests; Clearblue Easy Digital pregnancy and fertility/ovulation prediction tests; the Clearblue Easy Digital brand, the digital pregnancy test; Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor, the hormone-based reusable monitoring devices; pregnancy and fertility/ovulation prediction products; and Persona, a diagnostic monitoring device. The Vitamins and Nutritional Supplements segment markets various vitamins and nutritional supplements. This segments products include Stresstabs, a B-complex vitamin with added antioxidants; Ferro-Sequels, a time-release iron supplement; Protegra, an antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplement; Posture-D, a calcium supplement; SoyCare, a soy supplement for menopause; ALLBEE, a line of B-complex vitamins; and Z-BEC, a zinc supplement with B-complex vitamins and added antioxidants. The Professional Diagnostic Products segment offers membrane test products for pregnancy, drugs of abuse, RSV, Influenza A/B, strep throat, HIV, C.difficile, Lyme disease, chlamydia, H.pylori, fecal occult blood, D-dimer, mononucleosis, and rubella; enzyme linked immunosorbent assay tests for various infectious and autoimmune diseases, as well as a automated instrumentation for processing ELISA assays, as well as AtheNA Multi-Lyte test systems, IFA/Serology products, and Ischemia tests. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.


Top Stocks: Money Flow

Here are the top individual stocks in terms of money flow. A negative number means that as the stock rises, there is increased selling of shares. A positive number means that as shares sink, buyers come rushing in.


Inflows (buying on weakness):

  • Google (GOOG)= +$70 million
  • Citigroup (C) = +$66 million
  • CVS (CVS)= +$51 million
  • Ciena (CIEN) = +$35 million

Outflows (selling on strength):

  • Kraft (KFT) = -$137 million
  • Apple (AAPL) = -$119 million
  • AT&T (T) = -$99 million
  • Microsoft (MSFT) = -70 million
(Source: ValuePlays)

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Stock Review: GSI Commerce GSIC

GSI Commerce, Inc. provides e-commerce solutions that enable retailers, branded manufacturers, entertainment companies, and professional sports companies to operate e-commerce businesses in the United States and internationally. It offers services through its integrated e-commerce platform, which is comprised of three components: technology, logistics and customer care, and marketing services. The company's services include e-commerce engine, Web store management tools, Web infrastructure and hosting, order management and processing, reporting and analytics, fulfillment and drop shipping, customer care, buying, user experience and design, content creation, online marketing, and e-mail marketing. GSI Commerce was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Key Stats

Market Cap: 1.03B
Trailing P/E: 19.55
Forward P/E: 32.57
PEG Ratio: 0.95
Price/Sales: 1.59
Price/Book: 4.43
Profit Margin: 8.69%
Operating Margin: 1.36%
Return on Assets: 2.82%
Return on Equity: 29.03%
Revenue: 641.59M
Qtrly Revenue Growth: 28.00%
Gross Profit: 278.30M
Diluted EPS: 1.13
Total Cash: 134.01M
Total Debt: 78.66M
Total Debt/Equity: 0.343
Operating Cash Flow (ttm): 42.55M

(Note: Green color represents positive indicator, red color represents negative indicator)


Stock Review: GameStop Corp GME

GameStop Corp. operates as a retailer of video game products and personal computer (PC) entertainment software. It sells new and used video game hardware and software, and related accessories and other merchandise. The company also offers video game accessories that include controllers, memory cards, and other add-ons; PC entertainment accessories, such as joysticks and mice; and strategy guides and magazines, as well as trading cards. In addition, it operates electronic commerce websites under the names gamestop.com and ebgames.com, as well as publishes Game Informer, a multi-platform video game magazine. GameStop operates 4,778 stores in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe, primarily under the names of GameStop and EB Games. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas.

Key Stats
  • Market Cap: 5.72B
  • Trailing P/E: 33.82
  • Forward P/E: 19.65
  • PEG Ratio: 1.00
  • Price/Sales: 1.05
  • Price/Book: 3.92
  • Profit Margin: 3.08%
  • Operating Margin: 6.51%
  • Return on Assets: 7.88%
  • Return on Equity: 12.86%
  • Revenue: 5.56B
  • Qtrly Revenue Growth: 23.00%
  • Gross Profit: 1.47B
  • Diluted EPS: 1.08
  • Qtrly Earnings Growth: 111.30%
  • Total Cash: 307.33M
  • Total Debt: 749.55M
  • Total Debt/Equity: 0.506
(Note: Green color represents positive indicator, red color represents negative indicator)

Friday, June 8, 2007

21 Top Stocks With Healthy Returns

The table above shows stocks with Earnings Per Share and Relative Price Strength Ratings of 80 or better, trading at 10 or higher, with at least 200,000 shares traded daily. The 21 listed stocks all surged at least twofold in price over the past year. They are ranked by Return on Equity ROE, with a minimum value of 20%.

(Source: Yahoo Finance)

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

7 Top Insider-Owned Stocks

In general higher insider owned stocks are safer. This trading levels are not as intense as others leading to less volatility. When the insiders hold a bigger chunk of the pie, investors can trust them to perform well since their own money is at stake. However there are still plenty of risks involved with heavy insider ownership like the relative inability of outside and dissident shareholders to spur changes.

Listed below are top 7 insider-owned stocks, along with their key holders, and ratings.

Company

% Owned by Insiders

Key Shareholder

CAPS Rating

Garmin (Nasdaq: GRMN)

45%

Chairman/CEO

*****

Telefonos de Mexico (NYSE: TMX)

43%

Chairman

*****

American Financial Group (NYSE: AFG)

41%

Chairman

****

Kinetic Concepts (NYSE: KCI)

38%

Founder/Chairman

****

Rohm and Haas (NYSE: ROH)

35%

Director

****

Global Industries (Nasdaq: GLBL)

23%

Founder/Chairman/ COO

*****

Perini (NYSE: PCR)

23%

Chairman/CEO

*****



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Stock Review: Blackboard Inc (BBBB)

Blackboard Inc. is a provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Blackboard Inc.'s clients primarily include colleges, universities, schools and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants who serve these education providers and their students. The Company's software applications can be installed locally at a client site or hosted centrally in its data centers. Approximately 87% of Blackboard Inc.'s installations were installed locally and approximately 13% were hosted by it. Blackboard Inc had over 3,400 clients in approximately 70 countries holding more than 4,700 licenses of its software.

Blackboard Inc. clients were primarily U.S. post-secondary education institutes, which accounted for approximately 62% of its total revenues last year. Blackboard Inc. also sometimes serves as an application service provider, offering hosting for its clients that prefer to outsource the management of the hardware, bandwidth and servers necessary to run its applications. In addition to its products, it offers a variety of professional services, including project management, custom application development and training.

Key Stats
  • Current Price = $41.81
  • Market capital = $1.20B
  • EPS = -0.32
  • Trailing P/E = N/A
  • Forward P/E = 58.07
  • PEG Ratio (5 yr expected) = 4.08
  • Profit Margin = -4.46%
  • Operating Margin = -2.34%
  • Return on Assets = 0.90%
  • Return on Equity = -6.31%
  • Revenue = $200.63M
  • Gross Profit = $127.47M
  • Qtrly Earnings Growth = 1213.50%
  • Total Cash = $25.88M
  • Total Debt = $18.83M
  • Shares Short = $3.92M
  • Short Ratio = 14.2
(Note: Green color represents positive indicator, red color represents negative indicator)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Stock Review: Baidu

Baidu.com, Inc. (Baidu) is a Chinese-language Internet search provider. Baidu offers a Chinese-language search platform to both users and customers. Its platform consists of the Websites and Baidu Union, which is its network of third-party Websites and software applications. The Company's services are designed to enable Internet search users to find relevant information online, including Chinese-language Web pages, news, images and multimedia files, through links provided on its Websites. In February 2005, the Company acquired the distribution business of Shanghai Qilang Science and Technology Co. Ltd.



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