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  • A Resilient Tech Company With a Huge Cash Pile

    By Marshall Hargrave - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, JNPR

    At one point in the late 90's, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) was the biggest company in the world by market cap. However, when the dot-com bubble burst, so did Cisco's, and the company's valuation dropped 85% during the course of a year.

    Even today, the stock trades almost 75% below its all-time high. Having said that, the company has recently started to grow again. Indeed, the company more »

  • A Modest Industry Leader: Cisco

    By MihirMehta - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, ERIC

    Born to address the need of a husband and wife located in different office buildings to communicate with each other, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has, since inception, catered to the needs of small and big enterprises with viable and innovative networking products and services. Cisco’s growth has slowed down slightly in the recent past owing to a challenging macroeconomic environment but nonetheless, it has been successful in beating street more »

  • This Telecom Giant Faces Tough Challenges Ahead

    By Nur Tarkak - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, ERIC

    Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) is going through a rough period. The company faces tough challenges ahead. Its cash flows and income are declining. The last fiscal year was a very bad one for the company. Its net income tremendously dropped from net positive earnings to net losses. Its debt is rising whereas cash flow from operations turned negative.

    On top of that, it is also facing tough challenges in the market more »

  • This Little Known Stock Continues to Surprise

    By Nick Chiu - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, JIVE, YUM

    By improving employee productivity by 15% and helping customers improve revenue by 2%-4%, Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE) is more than a social business platform. It is a leader in social business, unleashing productivity and creativity by combining the power of cloud, mobile, big data, and proprietary collaboration technologies via its integrated platform, Social Business Software. The Jive platform gives customers comprehensive tools for communication, collaboration, content creation, and sharing more »

  • Is Gigabit Fiber Here?

    By Rhett Holechek - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, T, CTL, CSCO, EXTR, GOOG, JNPR, VZ, WIN

    The US has been behind countries like South Korea, Japan, and Sweden, for too long when it comes to very high speed Internet - the kind of speeds that only fiber can bring.  The current holy grail of Internet speed is gigabit (1,024 megabits per second).  Imagine streaming everything to your house without buffering, choppiness, and all-around unpleasantness.  That is what gigabit promises and delivers.  However, most cannot get it more »

  • 3 Communication Equipment Companies to Buy

    By Shweta Dubey - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, BRCM, TXN

    The communication equipment industry, after seeing a decline in revenue over the past few years, is due to recover this year and is expected to rise in revenue by 13.83%. More than 50% of the companies in the industry showed their outlook of increased earnings expectations for this fiscal year. I will discuss three such companies below, to see if their strategic moves will be enough to achieve industry more »

  • Lagging Networking Companies Providing Opportunities

    By Nihar Patel - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, JNPR

    I have been all over the Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) site looking at routers, because I had heard an offhand comment that Juniper had a router that was at the same level regarding some physical specs as Alcatel-Lucent's (NYSE: ALU). I could not find anything that really matched the things I was impressed by, though the PTX line is pretty fantastic for offering a lot of power and capacity more »

  • Is Cisco in Transition Mode?

    By Hemant Singhi - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, VMW

    With global mobile-data traffic expected to increase 13-fold by 2017, there will be an increasing pressure on carriers’ existing network infrastructure and limited spectrum resources. So mobile carriers are increasingly looking to make their networks more spectrum-sufficient and put their limited network resources to best use without having to increase costs.

    Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is looking to cater to this demand by adding valuable network-management solutions to its product more »

  • Take a Look at This Fast Growing Semiconductor Products Provider

    By Nick Chiu - May 5, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CAVM, CSCO

    Cavium (NASDAQ: CAVM), with a market cap of $1.71 billion, is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and the digital home and office applications.

    Better-than-expected Earnings

    On April 30, 2013, Cavium reported Q1, 2013 non-GAAP net income of $10.2 million or $0.19 per diluted share, beating analysts’ estimate of $0.18 per share. Revenue for Q1, 2013 was more »

  • The One Stock You Should Buy This Month

    By Adetokunbo Abiola - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, JNPR

    Investing in Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is like betting on a tennis player. The competition keeps putting him on the defense. However, the player smashes a powerful return. This becomes the trend. Two sets later, the coach is commending Cisco for its performance. In this article, I will explain how Cisco’s performance will enable it continue its upward movement and make good return for investors.

    Positive developments
    In early 2013 more »

  • Is Nokia Siemens Attractive Enough Yet to Sell?

    By Peter Pham - May 1, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, MSFT, NOK, SI

    The Finnish smartphone manufacturer Nokia (NYSE: NOK) recently released its quarterly results that surprised the market as the company reported an unexpected drop in revenues by 20% year-over-year and 27% from the previous quarter to $7.6 billion. The sales of its flagship Lumia handsets that underpin its turnaround strategy showed solid strength what was a bright spot for most of 2012, its joint-venture with Siemens (NYSE: SI) put in more »

  • Software-Defined Networking Grows More Crowded

    By Nihar Patel - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, VMW

    There has been some news in software-defined networking (SDN), though there is nothing that will immediately impact the share prices of the companies in the space. However, there are large implications for software-defined networking, from lowering operating expenditures, lowering capital expenditures, and offering features immediately rather than through the next update cycle. Software-defined networking will be lucrative for whomever leads the market. The bulk of the rewards remain a few more »

  • A Health Check on the Global Financial System: Can Europe Get Out of Its Jam?

    By Fani Kelesidou - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, SAN, DB

    After completing its latest health check on the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund revealed some encouraging results. Apparently, the system is in better shape than it was six months ago, showing greater resilience against macroeconomic headwinds. In the U.S., the housing market is on the comeback trail, consumer spending is picking up, and banks seem poised to increase lending.

    But, don't get your hopes up. The more »

  • Cisco, Ubiquisys, and the Small Cell Industry

    By Ron Chatterjee - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, QCOM

    Small cell technology is already the next big thing in the IT & telecom industry.

    While French research firm Idate recently predicted femtocell (or small cells) shipments will reach 23 million units worldwide within 2017, generating revenues of €931 million (a growth rate of 159% per year), another research firm, Dell'oro Group, claimed that the femtocell market will reach shipments of 62 million units by 2014, for $4 billion in more »

  • Is This Stock the Tech Play of the Year?

    By Alex Bastardas - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, HPQ, JNPR

    Tech stocks have been one of the worst performing groups this year. In fact, these stocks have underperformed other stock sectors by 11% over the past year, and, for the first time in 17 years, the sector's forward P/E ratio is lower than the market's average. Some analysts are suggesting that it will be the tech sector that will lead the rally in Q2 2013. Investors looking more »

  • Is This Stock the Tech Play of the Year?

    By Alex Bastardas - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, HPQ, JNPR

    Tech stocks have been one of the worst performing groups this year. In fact, these stocks have underperformed other stock sectors by 11% over the past year, and, for the first time in 17 years, the sector's forward P/E ratio is lower than the market's average. Some analysts are suggesting that it will be the tech sector that will lead the rally in Q2 2013. Investors looking more »

  • Is This Stock The Tech Play of the Year?

    By Alex Bastardas - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, HPQ, JNPR

    Tech stocks have been one of the worst performing groups this year. In fact, these stocks have underperformed the other stock sectors by 11% over the past year, and, for the first time in 17 years, the sector's forward P/E ratio is lower than the market's average. Some analysts are suggesting that it will be precisely the tech sector that will lead the rally in Q2 2013 more »

  • Cisco, Ubiquisys And Small Cell Industry

    By Ron Chatterjee - April 13, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, T, CSCO, INTC, QCOM, TXN, UMC

    Small cell technology is already the next big thing in the IT & telecom industry.

    While French research firm Idate recently predicted femtocell (or small cells) shipments will reach 23 million units worldwide within 2017, generating revenues of €931 million (a growth rate of 159% per year), another research firm Dell'oro Group claimed femtocell market will reach shipments of 62 million units by 2014, for $4 billion in revenue worldwide more »

  • Cisco Transforms Networking to Cash

    By Roberto Bañaga - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, HPQ, JNPR

    Net income increase over three quarters has made majority of analysts to rate Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) a buy. In the most recent quarter, Cisco’s profit rose 17.7% year-over-year. Two quarters ago, profit increased 55.6% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year and 19.8% in the third quarter. Over 65% of analysts urge investors to buy Cisco, but the average analyst ratings of the company more »

  • Alcatel-Lucent’s SDN Strategy: A Positive Catalyst?

    By Anindya Batabyal - April 5, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, JNPR, VMW

    Deutsche Bank’s Kai Korschelt recently raised his rating on the shares of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) to Buy from Hold, and set a price target of €1.80 on the ordinary shares traded in Paris, after concluding that the company “has the key ingredients for a potentially successful turnaround: A new CEO with a solid cost-cutting track record, a likely positive revenue and margin inflection in 2013/14, and a more »

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