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Posted
Oct 07 2009, 01:59 PM
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CAPS Editor
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 This post comes from Matt Koppenheffer at partner site The Motley Fool.
"I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out." -- Warren Buffett.
In an effort to track down some of the companies that may fall into that "fish in a barrel" category, I've turned to the MSN CAPS investment community. Using CAPS' stock screener tool, I searched for companies with price-to-earnings ratios below 15, long-term debt-to-equity ratios below 50%, returns on equity of at least 10% and favorable ratings from the CAPS community.
Find on Bing: Why the price-to-earnings ratio matters
Below are three of the names that came through the screen. Each is a sector-leading name that nonetheless might be flying below many investors' radar screens.
These aren't offered as formal recommendations, but as starting points for additional digging. Each stock's CAPS page is a good place to launch your research; you can find a company's financial reports, scrutinize key data and charts, and examine the comments your fellow investors have made.
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Sep 11 2009, 08:36 AM
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Minyanville
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This story was taken from Todd Harrison's, "Memoirs of a Minyan." “Crippled but free. I was blind by the time I was learning to see.” --Grateful Dead It was a beautiful, crisp September morning as I looked up from my Wall Street Journal to watch the sunrise over the East River. It was a peaceful moment, a pause to reflect on the beauty of the landscape and my place in life. That was the first thing I remember about 9/11, how sharp the horizon was as dawn illuminated lower Manhattan. I was president of a $400 million hedge fund and while bearish on the macro landscape, we were positioned for a counter-trend rally heading into that fateful day. As my driver navigated the FDR and I soaked in the scene, none of it mattered for a few, short seconds. As we settled into our turrets and downed our second cup of coffee, Nokia (NOK) pre-announced a negative quarter and the stock shot 5% higher. The first boom shook our office walls. I scanned my trading desk and asked my team, “What the hell was that?”
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Posted
Aug 31 2009, 04:04 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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 There are two ways to look at the economic relationship between Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T), and both may be accurate. AT&T says it has signed up 10 million iPhone owners for its long-term calling and data plans. Many of those customers have come from other cellular providers. AT&T is thus adding new, and perhaps profitable, business.
On the other hand, AT&T pays Apple an estimated $400 a phone. AT&T probably has to hold onto its iPhone customers for the full two years of their subscription plan to make a lot of money.
The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out that AT&T has other smartphones that it does not have to pay handset companies like Samsung and Nokia (NOK) as much as $400 to acquire.
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Posted
Aug 05 2009, 07:32 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 Research In Motion (RIMM) has come up with a way to take market share from Apple (AAPL) and Palm (PALM) in the smartphone market. It is launching the BlackBerry 8520 (pictured), a handset that will be available for $48 at Wal-Mart (WMT) and $129 from T-Mobile.
Investors have been very concerned that lower prices on some iPhones and the new Palm Pre will lure away BlackBerry users. The device is widely used among businesses, but competitors have new features making their latest products more “enterprise friendly”. A number of iPhone applications, for example, are aimed at professionals.
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Posted
Jul 21 2009, 03:52 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Wall Street analysts expect Apple’s earnings to do better than estimates. This is not surprising. Apple (AAPL) has a history of setting low expectations about its figures and then beating them handily. It has become a game of chess between the company and experts who follow it.
Some analysts tracking the company go so far as to send people to Apple stores and other retailers to count how products are selling. Others check with companies that supply components to Apple for its products like the iPhone and Mac to gauge demand.
Apple’s results should be pulled down by the same gravity that has hurt the consumer electronics and PC markets. The relentless slowing of the economy has made both individual and business purchasers of computers slow to upgrade their hardware. The Apple iPhone is more expensive than most other handsets. A recession is hardly a good time to overpay for a phone.
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Jul 09 2009, 10:12 AM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Nokia (NOK) -- the world's leading cellphone manufacturer -- is in peril. According to analysts at Generator Research, the company could wind up a distant second to a competitor's wildly popular, hysterically coveted touchscreen phone, which appeared just 4 years ago. Care to guess which competitor that might be? Right -- it's Apple (AAPL). Generator Research posits that Nokia's already downward-trending market share -- 40% in 2008 -- could drop to 20% by 2013. Apple, by contrast, is well positioned to go from a roughly 8% market share to 33% overall, effectively surpassing Nokia as the top-selling cellphone brand worldwide. Click here for chart.
Judging by the figures, the turning point might occur sometime in 2011 -- that is, if Apple is able to ship 77 million iPhones to its rabid fan base.
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Posted
Jul 06 2009, 01:21 PM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
It's not likely that Michael Jackson's estate will be settled any time soon. Given conflicts among his family, his lawyers, and children of unclear parentage, Jackson's property should finally be divvied up around the time "Off the Wall" enters the public domain.
But as those closest to Jackson attempt to sift through red tape almost as lasting as his fame, the pop star's death has sent ripples through Hollywood's ailing economy and has given it a much needed boost -- no matter how morbid or undignified.
Rather than a time of mourning and reverence, event planners are pushing for happiness and celebration: They're organizing events at which consumers might not mind dishing out $9 for a bottle of water emblazoned with a glittery glove, and where $50 to have your picture taken next to a cardboard cutout of MJ will seem like a good deal. You know -- the sort of magical moments when a huge crowd remembers a person's life by wanting to buy a part of it.
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Posted
Jun 23 2009, 10:50 AM
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Minyanville
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Intel Deal with Nokia Intel Corp (INTC) is making another big push into the mobile phone industry. According to Bloomberg, the world’s largest chipmaker will host a conference call today announcing its plans to provide processors to Nokia (NOK) for its production of mobile devices. Details are still unavailable, but some analysts are still excited over the news because Nokia is the world’s largest maker of mobile phones. Just last February, Intel said it landed a contract with LG Electronics, the third largest phone-maker in the world. CEO Paul Otellini scrapped his predecessor’s $5 billion investment into the field in 2006 after he felt the company was late to the market. Now, he’s attempting to make the push back into phones to lessen Intel’s dependence on computers, which account for approximately 90% of sales.
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Posted
Jun 05 2009, 03:41 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Analysts have said that Apple (AAPL) does not need Steve Jobs. Apple shares are up 60% since he took a break to work on his health with his doctors. Because the form of cancer he has can be particularly deadly, a large number of investors believed that he would never be back. The Apple board would be forced to replace an icon.
But, The Wall Street Journal says Jobs will be returning soon, at just about the time the company will release a new version of the iPhone, one with more multimedia functions. Apple may also release a less expensive version of the handset to bring in consumers who have stayed away because of the device’s high price.
Everything is not OK at Apple. The iPhone faces threats from new versions of the Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry, the Palm (PALM) Pre, and new smartphones from global handset leader Nokia (NOK).
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Posted
Apr 23 2009, 03:46 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
As the executives at Apple (AAPL) were passing around the Dom Perignon, their counterparts at other companies that design and manufacture smartphones were putting all sharp objects out of reach. In a recession, there is only so much air in any room. Smartphone sales are suffering like all consumer electronics. If the iPhone is doing extraordinarily well, others are doing badly.
What almost no one saw coming in Apple’s results for the March quarter was that the company would sell nearly 3.8 million iPhones. Most educated guesses were around 3.1 million to 3.3 million. In a world where securities analysts send spies to Apple stores and bribe hardware component suppliers for data on iPhone parts shipments, experts are not supposed to be off that much. It makes them look bad, but it makes Apple look good, both for its ability to keep things secret and for building a handset that is expensive, making the iPhone an aspirational product for many people who buy it. Some consumers walking into AT&T (T) stores don’t have $299 for the iPhone and the money for the exorbitant calling plan that goes with it. They go anyway, like junkies to a dealer.
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