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• Did Facebook Just Threaten to Take Over the Internet?

  By Mohamed Mounir - October 16, 2012 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, MSFT

  Last September the 14th, on the second floor of Building 17 where the team who is in charge of tracking Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) growth works, there's a giant screen showing Facebook active users around the world that registered a 10 digit number for the first time ever, signaling Facebook's one billionth user. This historic milestone means that Facebook is currently used by 1/7th of the world more »

• Wally World World Wide

  By Mohamed Mounir - October 15, 2012 | Tickers: BBY, HD, MCD, WMT

  In a 2004 episode of South Park The show's four famous boys are  shown being ushered into the office of Wal-Mart’s (NYSE: WMT) president and one of the store’s original creators, who has been drinking heavily and chain-smoking.

  “We … invented the Wal-Mart Supercenter in 1987,” he says laconically. “The idea was simple: build a store for one-stop shopping where bulk purchases could keep prices incredibly low. We more »

• Export USA

  By Mohamed Mounir - October 8, 2012 | Tickers: F, ISRG, SI, BA, TM

  How many times have you heard that "Nothing is made in America anymore." I'm guessing a bunch of times. Considering that US manufacturing is $1.8 trillion per annum, we can confidently label the above statement as a myth. In fact the US is number two in the world in terms of manufacturing output value right behind China, but not by much, with 19.4% of worldwide manufacturing output more »

• Long-Term BioTech Play

  By Mohamed Mounir - October 2, 2012 | Tickers: CPHD, KERX, NSPH

  Ahh, the excitement of Biotech Investing! Buy a company that is currently in clinical trials, wait for the data to be released, and then watch your investment go through the roof, right?

  Guess again!

  Biotech will break your heart more often than not

  I learned that the hard way with Keryx (NASDAQ: KERX) and Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ: AEZS). The two companies were set to release the results of Phase III more »

• CAN SLIM Winner!!!

  By Mohamed Mounir - October 2, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, DELL, EBAY, GOOG, MSFT, RAX, CRM

  One of my favorite investment books that really taught me the basics of how the stock market operates when I was just starting to invest is "How to make money in Stocks" by William J. O Neal.

  William J. O' Neal's method of investing focuses on finding the highest quality game-changing companies in the stock market, usually trading at very lofty valuations and investing in them at the right more »

• RIM's Dilemma

  By Mohamed Mounir - September 28, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, GOOG, NOK

  Research in Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY) has been a roller coaster ride as of late, one day news comes out of BlackBerry service outages and the stock tanks, another day new comes out of growth in BlackBerry's subscriber base and the stock pops ignoring the direction of the overall market. RIM despite the optimism and positive news coming out lately faces a serious dilemma.

  One of the things that have more »

• Soros and Texas Gold

  By Mohamed Mounir - September 27, 2012 | Tickers: BP, CVX, TSO

  One good way to manage your portfolio in general is by combining stable, dividend paying, blue chip stocks with smaller, higher volatility, more growth oriented stocks. Legendary hedge fund manager George Soros, also known as the" man who broke the bank of England," made a sizable investment in the first quarter of this year in two such companies in the oil industry.   

  Stability

  Soros Fund management acquired 682,000 shares more »

• How I Strangled 120% Out of HP

  By Mohamed Mounir - September 25, 2012 | Tickers: DELL, HPQ

  Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) have been two stocks that I had my eye on these past few months. The two tech giants are struggling to find their place in a post PC world.  They have been trading at depressed valuations and have witnessed quite a bit of volatility on their earning releases, usually to the downside. 

  Last August the 22nd, the day HP was reporting earnings more »

• Got Competency?

  By Mohamed Mounir - September 22, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, KO, GOOG, GRPN, WMT

  When deciding on an investment, Warren Buffet, considered to be the greatest investor of all time, would always look for what he described as “economic castles protected by unbreachable moats."  These "business moats" he was referring to protect a business from competition by creating barriers that rivals find impossible to overcome allowing the company to withstand any external pressures and helping it to achieve growth year after year. So how more »

• Will RIM be the New Apple?

  By Mohamed Mounir - September 21, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, GOOG

  "the BB10 connect users not just to each other, but to the embedded systems that run constantly in the background of everyday life - from parking meters and car computers to credit card machines and ticket counters."

  Those were the words of Thorsten Heins, Research in Motion's (NASDAQ: BBRY) CEO. 

  At face value it seems that Heins is implying that the BB10 will include NFC capabilities. However there may be more »

• The Bankers' Bull

  By Mohamed Mounir - September 16, 2012 | Tickers: F, TLT, MCD, TBF

  The S&P 500 closed at 1432 points one week ago, that's a 4 year high, it's now at 1465.  The S&P has risen by 16% this year and if it continues this upward momentum it could easily have its third best year in terms of performance since  2000. That would only be  after 2009 and 2003, the rebound years of the last decade.  In fact, Tobias more »

• RIM Do or Die

  By Mohamed Mounir - August 25, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, GOOG

  If you were anyone who’s anyone there is a good chance that you have used a BlackBerry in the past.  A few years ago, a BlackBerry and a smartphone were pretty much synonymous. The Canadian Research In Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY) came up with a device that featured a QWERTY keyboard, that notified you immediately of when an email was received, that could connect people to their work anywhere and more »

• Facebook Bulls and Bears

  By Mohamed Mounir - July 25, 2012 | Tickers: FB, GOOG, LNKD, ZNGA

  On May 17 one of the most hyped and anticipated IPOs in history took place only then to become one of the worst IPOs of the decade. The Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO was portrayed as a defining moment in financial history. A week before the IPO all you could hear on Bloomberg, CNBC, and the rest of the financial media was Facebook; how it was created in a dorm room more »

• What Now for Mako?

  By Mohamed Mounir - July 25, 2012 | Tickers: ISRG, MAKO

  It must hurt to be a MAKO Surgical (NASDAQ: MAKO) shareholder right now. The stock just got hit with a double dip whammy losing over 40% of it's value each time. The first haircut came in May when the company released Q1 results showing that less RIO Systems were sold compared to Q1 2011, the second came just 2 weeks ago when it lowered its full year guidance for more »

• Reinventing Dell

  By Mohamed Mounir - July 23, 2012 | Tickers: DELL, HPQ, IBM, MSFT, QSFT

  Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) was a company that was once synonymous with the PC. The company was founded by Michael Dell when he was a grad student in the University of Texas in 1984, it then grew to be the largest PC maker in the world before forking over that title to Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) in 2005. From 1990 to its 2000 high the stock was a shareholder’s best more »

• Cook is No Jobs

  By Mohamed Mounir - June 21, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, DELL, GOOG, MSFT

  About 2 weeks ago I published an article about Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its potential to be the first trillion dollar company in history. Whether that becomes a reality or not rests on the shoulders of Apple’s 60,000 employees led by their new CEO Tim Cook. When Steve Jobs died, he left very large shoes to fill, but from how things are looking, Tim Cook has done a more »

• Project Buffy

  By Mohamed Mounir - June 14, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG, MSFT

  Did Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stunning iPhone sales and profits raise an eyebrow and made someone in Menlo Park say why can’t we do that ourselves?

  There has been a lot of speculation going around regarding Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) project Buffy claimed to be for developing a Facebook smartphone. So far there is nothing certain about how this will look, but alot of predictions have been made from more »

• What made Shaving Worth more than $50 Billion

  By Mohamed Mounir - June 8, 2012 | Tickers: DDD, AMZN, AAPL, ISRG, MAKO

  In the early 1890s a salesman by the name of King Gillette Camp had a Brilliant idea . At the time he was working for the Crown Cork and Seal Company (NYSE: CCK)  which invented the crown cork. Bottles sealed with crown corks could not be resealed and were thrown away, therefore generating more revenues for the company he worked for. At the time Razors were considered a durable good which more »

• Will Apple be the New US Steel?

  By Mohamed Mounir - June 7, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, CSCO, INTC, MSFT, X

  In 1901 Carnegie steel was bought by J.P. Morgan and Elbert H. Gary for $492 million. It was combined with several other steel companies to form US Steel (NYSE: X) capitalized at $1.4 billion making it the first company ever to be worth more than a billion dollars.

  111 years later we still haven’t crossed the trillion dollar threshold, however when one thinks of the corporation most more »

• Why IPGP will Slice the Competition

  By Mohamed Mounir - June 1, 2012 | Tickers: COHR, IPGP, RSTI |

  What do you get when you combine high profit margins, disruptive innovation, YoY revenue and earnings growth, and a small cap valuation (almost under $2 Billion)? The answer is a potential multibagger. 

  All these qualities are displayed by a company called IPG Photonics (NASDAQ: IPGP) . IPG Photonics is the leading maker of fiber lasers

  The Product

  A Fiber Laser is in layman terms a laser which is made to travel more »

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