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Oct 21 2009, 04:25 PM
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CAPS Editor
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This post comes from The Motley Fool's Rich Smith.
It's every investor's worst nightmare -- buying a rocket stock just before it takes a nose dive.
MSN Money maintains a list of companies whose shares hit 52-week highs, and investors read this list and tremble -- some with greed, others in terror. These and other stocks with momentum usually enjoy favorable ratings at our MSN CAPS investing community; everyone loves a winner.
Listed below are five of the companies hitting 52-week highs in the past week. Which among them does the CAPS community consider most likely to continue to outperform? If your guess is Google, which has been setting 2009 highs since reporting last week that third-quarter profit was the largest in the company's 11-year history, well, thanks for playing along, but you're wrong.
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Turns out, the 140,000-plus investors comprising CAPS are far less bullish on the glitzy Internet pacesetter than they are toward an operator in the more prosaic world of oil and natural gas refining, transportation and storage.
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Oct 02 2009, 08:19 AM
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InvestorPlace
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This article was written by InvestorPlace.
Disney (DIS) wants to get children and their parents interested in reading online. Disney Digital Books is the latest in what is becoming a long line of hardware and content companies, including Amazon (AMZN), Barnes and Noble (BKS) and Sony (SNE), that hope to get readers to throw away newspapers, magazines, and hard and soft cover books. Bing: Disney Stock
In the place of traditional media will be “print” products that can be read on the web or on news readers like the Amazon Kindle, Sony’s new e-reader and products from Barnes & Noble and several other content distribution firms.
Disney’s approach is slightly different from Amazon’s. Disney assumes that children will read from a PC screen. The company bills Disney Digital Books as a "cutting-edge way for children to experience the joy of reading in a robust and safe interactive environment."
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Sep 23 2009, 04:37 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Rich Smith.
The idea of buying a stock right after it establishes a 52-week high sends dread through most investors, who worry about the whole "gravity" thing.
That's the thesis of my weekly column on Nasdaq ($COMPX) stocks trading around their one-year highs. I run the names through the wisdom-of-the-crowds meter we call MSN CAPS, and out comes a list of stocks that could be poised to plunge.
On Bing: Tapping the wisdom of the crowd
But while many of the stocks will indeed fall back to Earth, some seem immune to gravity, steadily riding a megatrend to ever-greater heights.
Today, we'll move beyond stocks hitting 52-week highs to identify companies surpassing five solid years of outperformance. Each of these stocks recently appeared on a MSN Money list of stocks trading at new five-year highs. What we want to know is which of these will thrash the market averages for another half-decade. Read More...
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Sep 02 2009, 11:46 AM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This article is written by Minyanville's Mike Schuster
In a move so ominous it should have been preceded by a visit from the Silver Surfer, Disney (DIS) has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment (MVL) for a cool $4 billion. As part of the deal, Marvel's massive 5,000-character menagerie will be under Disney control. While Marvel's film licensing deals with Fox (NWS) and Sony (SNE) will remain for now, the future may not be so bright. Disney Chief Robert Iger assured fans that it acquired Marvel simply to bring their creative force on board and not to revamp its library. However, the company's press release -- as well as Disney's history with its partners -- tell a different story. Bing: Robert Iger
In the statement, Iger stated, "This transaction combines Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories."
In other words, tighter management is likely to come into play.
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Aug 31 2009, 08:06 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment (MVL) for $4 billion in a surprising deal that values Marvel at about $50 a share.
But don't think that Disney is after comic books. The comic book industry went south years ago, to the point today that a book is considered a hit if it can sell a mere 50,000 copies. Profits in that kind of environment are few and far between. No, what Disney wanted is far more lucrative. Marvel put out its first comic 70 years ago (wouldn't you like to have a mint condition one of those?) and has been steadily offering thousands of exciting and fascinating characters to the public ever since. Bing: More about Marvel
And now, Disney will have its pick of superheroes in that library -- uh, OK, maybe not Marrow, whose ability to grow bones out of her skin is just gross -- to turn into a movie franchise.
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Jul 10 2009, 01:48 PM
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Minyanville
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Since we hit the credit crunch, Wall Street has seen a number of busted deals -- ranging from the aborted Harman (HAR) merger to Microsoft's (MSFT) attempted acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO). But as an avid follower of the video-game industry, the failure of Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) to achieve wedded bliss was the one that caught my attention.
What did EA have to gain with Take-Two? It's simple: mature-rated content in the form of Grand Theft Auto, and increased market share in sports. But there's another potential target that would give EA what it wanted with Take-Two, and that's THQ Inc. (THQI).
THQ is best known for its World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) games and other licensed fare from the likes of Nickelodeon (VIA) and Walt Disney's (DIS) Pixar. The company also has some solid fully owned properties including Company of Heroes and Red Faction.
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Jul 06 2009, 03:59 PM
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Tobin Smith
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Back in the '70s and '80s, baby boomers were at the forefront of a new wave of consumer demand. They were also the early adopters of new media technologies. Their TV viewing habits, purchasing habits, likes and dislikes were tracked intensely by the corporate world to help them determine which products, services and technologies were wanted most.
But fast forward a few decades to the 21st century -- are baby boomers still at the forefront of today's media technology?
Given the radical changes in media, particularly over the last decade, including the ubiquitous use of the Internet, social networking services and now even video content delivery over the Web, you wouldn't think baby boomers would be leading the charge forward.
Well, think again. A recent ChangeWave Alliance survey points to a powerful shift occurring among baby boomers from traditional TV to new types of online entertainment.
But what, if anything, are media companies doing to keep up with changing demand? As it turns out, they're doing plenty. And it could mean a boom for the biggest media firms out there.
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May 06 2009, 08:06 AM
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James Dlugosch
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
It is a small world after all. Walt Disney, the founder of the giant entertainment company bearing his name, had it right.
The economic slowdown in the United States cascaded into a global recession that still has its grip on much of the world. The so-called decoupling has proven to be more of a myth than fact.
Indeed, we are tied together deeply in ways Walt Disney could never imagined. Unfortunately, the benefits of such global interconnectedness do not come without a price. The recession we are now experiencing has been long, deep and far-reaching. As a result, companies like Disney (DIS) have floundered. What was once a business that delivered steady profits is now a company with significantly lower revenues. It is never easy for a large company to react to such a state and do so nimbly.
In the case of Disney, it was like the Titanic hitting the iceberg. Management may have seen the slowdown coming, but there was not much they could do to turn the ship in such short of time
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Apr 03 2009, 11:04 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Sprint Nextel (S) shares took a hit Friday after Standard & Poor's cut its outlook on the stock to negative from stable. Sprint customers are fleeing to the warm embrace of AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ), analysts said.
Even smaller guys like Leap Wireless (LEAP) and MetroPCS (PCS) are picking up subscribers, possibly from Sprint as well. And Sprint has higher customer turnover than many of its rivals. Can't say I'm surprised. I was on the phone with Sprint for a long time this week after getting a $160 bill in the mail. That new plan Sprint said was supposed to take $10 off my monthly bill? It ended up adding $70 instead.
Disney (DIS) also got hit with a downgrade, this one from JPMorgan. Analysts there downgraded the stock to neutral from outperform, Barron's writes. It's the fifth time in six months that an analyst has downgraded Disney on worries that
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Posted
Apr 01 2009, 10:25 AM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
It started out with flimsy-framed glasses, one lens in blue, the other in red. And just like that, the Creature from the Black Lagoon looked like he was coming right off the screen.
3-D technology, which had its heyday in the 1950s, has intermittently reappeared, with varying degrees of success -- 1983’s "Jaws 3-D" arguably being the nadir. But one of 2009’s biggest weekend openings may have us poised for a 3-D renaissance.
In anticipation of the Dreamworks film "Monsters vs. Aliens," theaters around the country rushed to upgrade projectors to provide 3-D functionality, at a cost of roughly $100,000 per theater. Theaters expected the film’s box-office receipts would help recoup their upgrade costs, and the film didn’t disappoint, generating $59.3 million in box office over its opening weekend.
But the real box-office record of note was the movie's place as the largest digital 3-D opening in history. With more than 2,000 screens outfitted for 3-D, the 3-D theaters accounted for $32.6 million of the $59.3 million opening weekend. Despite the big weekend, the number of screens compatible with 3-D was below initial estimates from Dreamworks Animation (DWA) chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has been championing the new format.
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