Demitri Kalogeropoulos

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• A Potential Netflix Foe Bows Out

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - October 10, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, CSTR, DISH, NFLX, VZ |

  For a company that's about to be crushed by competitors at any minute, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is looking safer by the day. After a week where the company's shares jumped 22% on a surge in bullish sentiment, Netflix saw a major potential threat, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), give up its competitive challenge. 

  The pay-TV provider had planned to use the Blockbuster brand it purchased out of bankruptcy last more »

• Can Best Buy Hire its Way out of this Mess?

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - October 8, 2012 | Tickers: BBY, EXPE, SBUX |

  Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is having an easier time attracting talent to its boardroom than bringing customers to its stores.

  The company -- which has seen comparable sales fall in nine of the last 10 quarters -- was able to bring another star executive onto its already impressive tech team last week. Best Buy hired Scott Durchslag, who had been president at the uber-successful online travel company, Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE).

  The talent more »

• eBay Moves to Boost International Selling

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - October 4, 2012 | Tickers: EBAY, FDX, PBI, UPS |

  eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) thinks your aging baseball card collection is finally ready for the world stage. In a bid to juice international sales, eBay has been testing a service in conjunction with logistics provider Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) that gives sellers an easier way to sell their wares overseas. The service has been unofficial and under wraps, but the Wall Street Journal reported on it earlier this week. While we more »

• Zipcar is Driving on Borrowed Time

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - September 27, 2012 | Tickers: F, GM, HTZ, ZIP |

  Car sharing pioneer Zipcar (NASDAQ: ZIP) is running late. By the company's own estimates, it should have had a higher member count and more profit at this point. But that hasn't happened. The company’s members know that they face stiff penalties when they're late returning a car. In the same way, Zipcar should know that time is working against the company. Debts are piling up and more »

• 3 Cheap Dividends in an Expensive Market

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - September 13, 2012 | Tickers: AMD, INTC, SDRL, SI |

  This is not the best time to be a value investor. By most measures the stock market is in "expensive" territory. The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq indexes each hit multi-year highs over the last few trading sessions. The market's P/E ratio, meanwhile, has jumped from a reasonable 14 times earnings a year ago, to a much richer 17 now. And a less discussed -- but equally important -- ratio more »

• 3 Popular Ways to Fail at the Mobile Ad Business

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - September 6, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, FB, GOOG, P, TRIP |

  In The Simpsons Movie, there’s a scene where an advisor to the Schwarzenegger-like U.S. president is asked to give his boss advice as certain doom approaches the fictional town of Springfield. The advisor’s suggestion was classic Simpsons: “Sir, I've narrowed your choices down to 5 unthinkable options.”

  That’s exactly the way I see the rush to find an ad-based business model that can survive the more »

• Should You Buy this Security Stock?

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - August 23, 2012 | Tickers: ASEI, ALOG, LLL, OSIS, SAI |

  Sometimes you find the best stocks hiding in plain sight. Security tech producer OSI Systems (NASDAQ: OSIS) isn’t a household name but with a $1.5 billion market cap, it’s not tiny either. And with shares up over 100 percent in the last year, it is clear that OSIS has made it on to at least a few investors' radars. Reflecting that market love, the company’s P more »

• Buffett's Next Move: His Biggest Yet?

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - August 21, 2012 | Tickers: BRK-B, BRK-A, DG, SWK, HSY |

  Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) shocked more than a few investors last week when the company disclosed what amounted to a stock selling spree by CEO Warren Buffett. Financial filings for the quarter showed that Berkshire sliced its stake in pharma giant Johnson & Johnson by almost two thirds. Berkshire also took the hatchet to positions in long-time Buffett favorites Kraft and Proctor & Gamble, too, while liquidating the company's more »

• 3 Reasons to Expect Bigger Dividends

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - August 13, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, XOM, F, GOOG, TSN |

  Dividends are finally getting some respect. The S&P 500 now counts 402 of its members as regular dividend payers. That marks the highest number of companies tossing cash at their shareholders since December 1999. New stocks on the list include longtime holdouts Dell and GameStop, who both waded into the dividend pool for the first time this summer. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) cannonballs onto the list this week, as its more »

• 1 Terrible Reason to Lock in Your Gains

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - July 31, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, PCLN, UA |

  Just before Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported earnings last week, the Wall Street Journal gave play to an astounding bit of short-term thinking on the wisdom of holding the company's stock. It was based in part on an analysis, conducted by investment bank PiperJaffray, that keyed in to the daily movement in Apple’s share price over the past 25 quarters. The article pointed out that Apple’s stock has more »

• 2 Companies that Know how to Adapt

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - July 26, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, ADSK, BRK-B, HAS, IBM |

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) used to have a thriving hardware business that was the envy of the tech industry. But no more. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) had a once profitable textile business, from which the conglomerate gets its unusual name. It’s gone. And at one point Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) had a pretty nifty music player business with revenue that could have powered a Fortune 200 company on its own. Now more »

• 3 Reasons Crocs Still Looks Flimsy

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - July 19, 2012 | Tickers: CROX, DECK, NKE, WWW |

  Given recent growth, Crocs may look cheap. But while sales and profitability have been expanding, there are good reasons to stay skeptical that this turnaround has legs. 

• It's Time for a New Game Console

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - July 11, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, GME, MSFT, NTDOY.PK, SNE |

  Flash memory drives, LCD screens, instant streaming video, and capacitive touch screen displays. These are just a few of the tech innovations that were not widely available when the current generation of gaming consoles launched. The seven years that have past since then have been an eternity for technology. To name just one example: in half that time, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad was launched, refreshed twice, and now packs more »

• 3 Surprises from the Tablet Wars

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - July 2, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, MSFT |

  Now that all the tech whales have shown their tablet cards, who has the best hand?

• 4 Safe Picks in a Shaky Market

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - June 28, 2012 | Tickers: BRK-B, BRK-A, KO, COST, MCD |

  It has become a familiar headline over the last few years: Yields on treasury bonds hit new record lows again last week. This time investors were willing to give their capital to Uncle Sam for a decade for the low, low price of just 1.59% a year.

  Incredibly, this price was being fetched the same week that the Fed released new estimates on inflation, pegging it at between 1 more »

• Inequality Scrambles the Snack Foods Market

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - June 25, 2012 | Tickers: GIS, K, KRFT, PEP |

  There's a mini class war raging on aisle three. According to a recent New York Times article, PepsiCo's (NYSE: PEP) Frito-Lay has taken to pursuing both the high and low ends of the U.S. snack foods market, leaving the middle to drift along its salty path of no growth.

  The article quotes Ann Mukherjee, an executive at Frito-Lay's North American branch, pointing out that "the rich more »

• The 'Post-PC' Carnage Continues

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - June 6, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, DELL, DLB, HPQ, LOGI |

  The quick rise of tablets has given a range of tech companies a bogeyman to blame while announcing soft sales numbers lately. At times this earnings season it seemed that everyone, from PC manufacturers like Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to peripheral providers like Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI) and even sound expert Dolby (NYSE: DLB), were nodding in the direction of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad when investors asked what's behind the more »

• Is Trip Advisor's Growth Story Just Getting Started?

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - May 4, 2012 | Tickers: EXPE, GOOG, OWW, PCLN, TRIP |

  Trip Advisor (NASDAQ: TRIP) spent little time celebrating its first few months as an independent public company. Instead, the travel research site was busy crafting an impressive ecosystem in the online travel space.

  Investors responded to the positive results of that effort by bidding shares up by nearly 20 percent on Wednesday. In the short time since the company's spin-off from Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), TRIP's stock has surged more »

• Ross Stores: The Price is Right for this Off-price Retailer

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: COST, JCP, JWN, ROST, TJX |

  Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) is firing on all cylinders, setting 5-year highs on key metrics including sales, earnings, return on assets, and sales per square foot.

  The stock just reached an all-time high, too, catching a price/earnings multiple of about 21 - which can seem rich when compared to other large clothing retailers like The Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) that are selling at closer to 18 times more »

• 3 Reasons Google's Dominance Over Search Won't Last

  By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - April 3, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, NUAN, YHOO |

  With its page-rank algorithm, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) brought order to the Internet, which is an achievement that would be hard to overstate. Google's success in ranking the usefulness of the vast number of websites on the Internet also made it the single most useful destination on the Internet - and one of the more profitable companies in the world. In return for weaving organization into the web, Google got a more »

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