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3 Oil Companies You Should Buy This Year
By Madhu Dube - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: DO, HP, NE
Over the last five years, the Oil & Gas Drilling and Exploration industry has experienced growth in spite of the recession. According to IBISWorld’s data, the industry has experienced an annual growth rate of 2.8% from 2008. Oil companies, on the other side, are spending hoards of cash to keep pace with this growth and maintain their market share. According to the Guggenheim Securities Data, the average amount spent more »
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Market Share Isn't Everything
By Adam Levy - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, HP, P, SSNLF
Market share isn’t everything. While it’s often used to indicate the strength of a company in a market, it can often be misleading as it doesn’t tell the whole story.
That’s where margins come into play, and why it’s often one of the first things I look at in financial reports. Margins help translate market share into profit share, another important and often overlooked statistic more »
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High EBITDA Growth, Consistent Dividend, and Cheaply Valued Companies (Part II)
By Anh HOANG - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: HP, IAG, RIG
In a previous article, I talked about two businesses, VSE and HollyFrontier, which had high EBITDA growth, paid uninterrupted dividends, and were valued cheaply. In this article, I will uncover more such stocks which possess the same criteria including: (1) annualized EBITDA growth in the past 10 years was at least 20%, (2) minimum 10 years of consistent dividend payments, (3) EV/EBITDA is in between 1 and 5, and more »
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AMD: Evolving With a New Game Plan
By Nur Tarkak - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: AMD, ARMH, DELL, HP, INTC, NVDA, QCOM, TSM
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) has distinguished itself over years as Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) sole rival in the PC microprocessor market. Despite never overtaking the chip giant, AMD has managed to keep its own share of desktop and server sales. Over the last decade, it has gone through massive transformations and continues to expand its businesses to remain competitive. The company now faces a more volatile future as mobile more »
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2013 Is Do or Die for Microsoft
By Jayson Derrick - April 18, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, BBRY, FB, GOOG, HP, HPQ, IBM, MSFT, VMW, YHOO
The downgrades for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) keep on accumulating. Normally this would be seen as bad news, but given the company’s performance over the past 10+ years, it is par for the course for investors. Microsoft has underperformed the S&P500 in 4 of the past 5 years, showing a positive return in only 2 of those years. This performance is a result of the company's profits being more »
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AMD: Evolving with a New Game Plan
By Nur Tarkak - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: AMD, ARMH, DELL, HP, INTC, NVDA, QCOM, TSM
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) has distinguished itself over years as Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) sole rival in the PC microprocessor market. Despite never overtaking the chip giant, AMD has managed to keep its own share of desktop and server sales. Over the last decade, it has gone through massive transformations and continues to expand its businesses to remain competitive. The company now faces a more volatile future as mobile more »
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Will This PC Giant Survive
By Mohsin Saeed - April 4, 2013 | Tickers: DELL, HP, MSFT
The PC industry has gone through a radical paradigm shift in the last couple of years. It all started with the revolutionary product, the iPhone, launched by the late Apple CEO. This device has not only totally transformed the smartphone/mobile industry but has also redefined the meanings of the word 'computer'. Companies such as Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and HP (NYSE: HP) which once dominated the technology sector have been more »
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HP: Can the Dead Cat Keep Bouncing?
By Wes Patoka - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: HP, IBM, ORCL
That might be a little dramatic, but HP (NYSE: HP) does seem to be in some sort of identity crisis. CEO Meg Whitman has been trying to steer this technology company back into the good graces of investors. HP has been losing market share of business to business hardware and software to competitors to like IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), while Lenovo eats the consumer division’s lunch more »
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The "Black Gold" Rush
By Victor K. - March 22, 2013 | Tickers: XLE, HP, IEZ, NOV, TSO
The American gold rush is back, but this time prospectors are digging for "black gold." Of course the quest for oil never really went away, but interest in domestic production does seem to be rising. According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. is expected to produce more crude oil than it imports in 2013 -- the first time that's happened since 1995. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency projects more »
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Buy H&P, not H-P
By Jake Pompeo - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: HP, HPQ
Wait, what? That's right, HP is a fantastic investment as long as you don't accidentally put your money into H-P. I am talking about oil and gas drilling & exploration company Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) and computer systems giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you've undoubtedly heard of the troubles plaguing Hewlett-Packard, but what does this have to more »
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Billion Dollar Hedge Fund’s Top Picks for 2013
By Meena Krishnamsetty - February 21, 2013 | Tickers: FEIC, GNRC, HP, SKT, VRSK
At Insider Monkey, we track the smart money’s best and brightest managers—about 450 give or take a few. Based on our research, it’s important to monitor this group of hedge funds, and we’ve shown that historically, retail investors that pay attention to this world have beaten the market handily. We also recently teamed up with MarketWatch to create the Billionaire Hedge Fund Index. In 2012, this more »
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An Undervalued and Underestimated Tech Giant
By Timothy Green - February 19, 2013 | Tickers: ALU, CSCO, HP, JNPR
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the networking giant, reported its Q2 earnings last week. Revenue grew by 5% on a year-on-year basis while net income grew 44% on the same basis. During the quarter Cisco returned a total of $1.2 billion to shareholders through a combination of share buybacks, totaling $500 million, and dividends, totaling $743 million. Free cash flow for the first two quarters has grown from $4.89 billion more »
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Which Oil Rig Stock Should You Buy?
By Rupert Hargreaves - January 30, 2013 | Tickers: HP, NBR, RDC, RIG
The world will always need more oil, and as the oil fields that are easy to access run dry, the world will have to go to more extreme places to find it. Oil companies are now dependent upon the expertise of professional oil rig companies to run the drilling and extraction operations that they are no longer able to conduct themselves.
But where to invest to play this long term more »
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A Top Investor's Idea of a Dividend Fund - Really??
By Karin Hernandez - December 21, 2012 | Tickers: HP, KMT, SEIC
OK, I love dividend stocks, and I’ve spent the last six months exploring all kinds of them, from all different angles.
I’m building my own dividend portfolio, one company at a time, and introducing them to The Motley Fool community. You can see what I had to say about my first two picks, Abbott Labs and PartnerRe Limited. I will also be introducing another company this week.
I more »
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Inside the Mind of a Top Value Manager
By Federico Zaldua - December 11, 2012 | Tickers: BP, HP, MSFT, NWSA, ORCL, ROVI
In this article I analyze Baupost Group's current holdings. In my blog, we explain the importance of tracking institutional holdings. Baupost is a hedge fund founded and run by Seth Klarman. From its founding the firm's three private partnerships have generated an average annual return of 19%. In the article I analyze what Baupost currently holds, bought and sold.
Top positions
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The Bigfoot Portfolio: Let Sleeping Yetis Lie
By Jon Quast - November 26, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, HP, MNTX, NFLX, THO
No one has ever offered irrevocable proof that Bigfoot exists. Therefore, a thorough and accurate taxonomy is impossible. We hear reports that he may be between 7-10 feet tall and weigh 200-600 lbs. He also could possibly be strong enough to push over trees and hurl large boulders at Boy Scouts and lumberjacks who wander too far into his domain. We can't be exactly sure what this beast is more »
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The Leading Land Drilling Company Offers a Huge Upside
By Piyush Arora - October 31, 2012 | Tickers: ATW, HP, PES, PDS
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Watch Out For Nationalization!
By Callum Turcan - September 14, 2012 | Tickers: COP, XOM, HP, YPF
Watch out?
In this day and age, you need to be wary of getting your investment nationalized, not just at home but also around the world.
A perfect example
The best example of how this can ruin your day is with YPF (NYSE: YPF) and Repsol Argentina decided to seize control of 51% of YPF, which came entirely from Repsol's 57% stake. This caused both YPF and Repsol shares more »
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Oil Service Operators Speak on the North American Onshore
By Eric Fox - August 15, 2012 | Tickers: BAS, CJES, HP, KEG, PTEN
The North American drilling cycle is an important determinant to earnings in the energy sector and the level and trend of this cycle should be monitored by investors that are active in this sector. One method of keeping current is through a review of earnings releases and conference calls as oil service operators typically make extensive commentary on business trends in their respective service areas.
Soft Demand
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Generac has the Power
By 2012-07-09 00:00:10 - July 9, 2012 | Tickers: BGG, GNRC, HP, BWC
When you need power -- and when you want electricity again – I've learned no price is too steep to pay. It's why I'm seriously considering a generator ... and investing in companies that make them, like Generac Holdings (NYSE: GNRC).
A week after a powerful derecho spanked a swath of land stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast, there are still those without power. Ours was recently restored more »
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