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Posted
Jun 23 2008, 05:41 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Filed under: Citigroup, Sprint, Wal-Mart, Intel, AMD, AT&T, Starbucks, Target, Sears, IBM, Costco, Sun Microsystems
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With the trading year almost half over and results from the first quarter out, 24/7 Wall Street has created the latest installment of its Ten Worst Managed Companies In America list. This is a companion piece to the "CEO of the Year" list and "Large Companies that May Disappear" series.
This analysis is based on: 1) one-year and five-year stock performance relative to the major indexes and other companies in the industry, 2) the company's position in its industry both now and over the last five years, 3) whether management made identifiable and critical decisions which hurt the company, 4) a change in the company's relative market strength compared to its competition, and 5) whether the company could have identified mistakes and changed course quickly enough to avoid a catastrophe.
Some readers will think it is not fair to include companies which have had a recent
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Jan 30 2009, 07:00 AM
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Charley Blaine
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Don't look now, but the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) have just suffered their worst Januarys ever.
The S&P 500 fell more than 19 points to 826 on Friday and was off 8.6% for the month. That decline makes it the worst January, eclipsing a 7.65% decline in January 1970.
The Dow fell 148 points to 8,000. The Dow's January loss was its worst since the index was established in 1896.
The Nasdaq Composite Index, down 31 points, or 2.1% to 1,476, was off 6.4% for the month, its third worst January ever.
The losses came after a difficult day on Thursday when the Dow fell 226 points, and the S&P 500 dropped nearly 29 points.
Investors should be concerned for three reasons
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Oct 27 2008, 03:26 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Some investors have been so rattled by this market that they have taken their money and run. Even Treasuries are not safe enough. What if the U.S. government defaults?
Of course, Treasuries are a safe investment which is why their prices are going up. A lot of investors are also putting money into corporate bonds, particularly those issued by rock solid firms such as IBM.
The intrepid are going to keep some money in equities, so the question becomes "where do they go?"
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Jan 21 2009, 10:30 AM
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Andrew Horowitz
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 This is the first blemished earnings release from Apple (AAPL). At least that is the word on the Street. It has been a wild ride for shareholders who have stuck with the company through thick and thin. Apple has been navigating down a long road of numerous problems such as poor economic conditions, concern over Steve Jobs’ health and increased competition from various electronics manufacturers. The major concern with Apple’s current stock price is whether they will be able to properly transition when/if Jobs steps down.
Communication by the company has been lousy of late. After the .mac mishaps you would have thought they would have learned that people hang on every word. As the stock had been pummeled several times after rumors surfaced about Jobs' health, we would have liked to have seen the PR department been a touch more forthright and open about what was going on
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Jan 07 2009, 08:18 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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It would be hard to miss the headline that Alcoa (AA) is firing 15,000 people. The actions of big companies are probably a much better indicator for what is ahead for the economy than forecasts from business professors.
The fascinating and troubling aspect of the Alcoa cuts is that the company made $470 million in the last reported quarter and Wall Street estimates have it making a very modest amount of money this year. Dow Chemical (DOW), which recently let thousands of people go, also is a money maker. One of the most successful corporations in the U.S., IBM (IBM) is rumored to be a week away from cutting more than 10,000 people. IBM may have as good a balance sheet and earnings stream as any American public company.
Challenger, Gray reports that big companies had 166,348 layoffs in December, up 275% from a year earlier. A look at their reports for the first 11 months of the year shows
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Apr 22 2008, 04:43 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Once a year, the firm Millard Brown puts out its BrandZ 100 Most Valuable Brands. The data used for the list come from consumer research and financial data on the companies. The research house gives its methodology here.
For those who think Google is the top brand, give yourself a pat on the back. It has a brand valuation of $86 billion, up 30%. For those research mavens in the crowd, the figure makes absolutely no sense. Google has a market cap of $168 billion. Most of that would go away -- no matter how good the technology is -- if it changed it name to Dawdle.
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Mar 26 2009, 03:44 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Looking at statistics from India, it's clear that the cost of outsourcing technology work to firms there is dropping as unemployment in the country rises.
For a number of years, unions and members of Congress spent a great deal of time complaining about the number of U.S. jobs being sent abroad. The bitterness about the issue has receded recently, especially as the recession has deepened and large American companies have been inclined to cut jobs as much or more than they have been able to export them. Perhaps with the economy losing about 600,000 jobs a month, the need for efficiency through outsourcing has become less immediate.
But, outsourcing may be making a big comeback, with word that IBM (IBM) would cut about 5,000 jobs in the U.S. and move the work to India. This may be the beginning of a new wave of exporting of American jobs to developing countries which have large pools of well-educated workers.
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Jan 20 2009, 03:07 AM
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Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans
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This post comes from partner site The Big Money.
A potential white knight has emerged for the precarious Chrysler: Italy's Fiat, business pages across the U.S. and Europe are proclaiming this morning. According to the Wall Street Journal, the two automakers could announce a no-money-down deal in which Fiat takes control of Chrysler as soon as today. "Fiat, the stronger of the two, wouldn't immediately put cash into Chrysler," the newspaper writes. "Instead it would obtain its stake mainly in exchange for covering the cost of retooling a Chrysler plant to produce one or more Fiat models to be sold in the U.S., these people said." Chrysler gave the New York Times an everybody-is-talking-to-everybody-these-days type "no comment," fueling speculation that a Fiat-Chrysler tie-up is imminent. According to the Financial Times' source, U.S. lawmakers have already been informally briefed on the potential merger.
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May 07 2009, 12:17 PM
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Minyanville
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Battle lines are being drawn. Sides chosen. Allegiances cemented.
But this war won't be waged with bullets; instead, it will be fought with words and ideas. The dollar wars are heating up.
Just a few weeks ago, the governor of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, made unambiguous comments about his country's desire for a single, international currency. Gone, he said, were the days when the money of choice for global trade was that of a single sovereign nation. Russia, along with a host of other nations only moderately friendly to the U.S., expressed similar sentiments.
Today, firing back against the single-global-currency crew, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar reaffirmed their support of the dollar. Bloomberg reports the three Gulf nations have no plans to abandon their U.S. dollar pegs, applauding its resilience in the face of crisis.
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Posted
Sep 09 2008, 06:24 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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In community college Economics 101 students learn that there can be dips in bull markets. Usually these are caused by a single event like a change in the party that runs Congress. The same holds true for bear markets. Suckers jump in on one piece of news or another. The market spikes up. A week later, it's gone.
The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rescue pushed the market higher and may do so for a few days. In Asia, they know better. The rally never made it beyond the first 24 hours. Markets turned down in Day Two.
The overwhelming evidence is that almost no one benefited from the government taking over the agencies. The rest of the economy is in the toilet. A lot of data has come out in the last day underscoring that point.
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