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• Are These Three Soaring Stocks Worth Buying?

  By Matthew DiLallo - May 15, 2012 | Tickers: DDD, CHSI, LNKD, SSYS, SXCI

  I’ve written a lot lately about companies that just got crushed after earnings season to see if their demise was unjustified. On the flip side, there were quite a few companies that saw their shares rocket higher post earnings.  Were these moves justified and if so should new buyers move in at these elevated prices?

  The first company that caught my eye is SXC Heath Solutions (NASDAQ: SXCI) which more »

• Is LinkedIn a Smoke and Mirrors Illusion?

  By Erin McBride - May 8, 2012 | Tickers: LNKD

  LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) may be one of the most overrated and dangerous website investments, and investors are cautioned to take a deeper look, before being enticed by the exciting numbers posted recently. While others are championing the increased revenue of the company, I question the value of the company, and fear it as an investment.

  LinkedIn is a professional networking site - Facebook without the games, pictures, and friends, and it more »

• Profit on Facebook’s IPO By Shorting LinkedIn

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 7, 2012 | Tickers: LNKD, ZNGA

  As two of the most popular social networking sites in the world, Facebook and LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) allow users to be a part of an immersive community of their peers, though each is unique in its own way. LNKD is geared toward professionals and aspiring jobseekers through its innovative ‘degrees of separation’ system, and even allows employers to post jobs on its platform.  Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild, on the other more »

• LinkedIn: Heed the Woes of Netflix

  By Tim Brugger - May 4, 2012 | Tickers: GOOG, LNKD, MWW, NFLX

  If you happened to catch previous articles on LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) it’s likely you were one of the many that lined up to lament the outlandish notion that LinkedIn was woefully overvalued. At a bazillion times both past and future earnings, not to mention a market cap of over $12 billion for a company that will generate a total of $880 to $900 million in revenues in 2012 - it more »

• Is it Shorts Season Yet?

  By Matthew DiLallo - May 4, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, LNKD, MWW, RIMM, SNE

  For the most part I spend my free time looking at really great companies that can produce great long term returns.  I get really interested when I find a great company that is selling for a great price which of course rarely happens.  Usually what happens is that the great company is selling for a fair price.  As I dig deeper into great companies I always take a look at more »

• A MySpace Caliber Disappointment Could be in Store Here

  By Patrick Facey - May 4, 2012 | Tickers: GRPN, LNKD, NFLX, P

  The unnerving volatility of the technology industry has been known to ruthlessly slash the stock prices of seemingly well established companies, as someone like say Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) could surely attest to, after they got slapped around by the market and scattered back to the drawing boards. They were positioned perfectly to become a staple in home entertainment, but went up in flames as the result of confidence turned arrogance more »

• Distribution Hits the Market; LNKD Jumps After the Market Close

  By Joshua Hayes - May 3, 2012 | Tickers: LNKD

  A better than expected jobless-claims figure was overshadowed by an overwhelmingly disappointing ISM non-manufacturing reading. Sellers dominated the day pushing stocks lower all day as volume rose on the day. The NASDAQ now with two days of distribution and the S&P 500 with four it certainly appears this market is going to play games with both bulls and bears. The late day rally was even lame as it appeared more »

• What if They Are Right About LinkedIn?

  By Matthew DiLallo - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: GCI, GOOG, LNKD, MWW, MNI

  Facebook gets a lot of hype with its IPO rumored to give it a market cap of over $100 billion and its hundreds of millions of account holders but in the business world I hear more about LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) than any other social media tool or website out there today.  Not everything I hear is good, as on one side of the argument you have those that will say more »

• LinkedIn is slaying the Monster

  By Andrés Cardenal - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: LNKD, MWW

  Shares of Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) rallied more than 17% on Thursday as the company reported earnings that were above analyst´s expectation.  The online recruiter, however, is facing very tough competition from LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) which offers a better service on a bigger scale. It looks like LinkedIn has what it takes to inflict some serious damage to Monster; investors should avoid this stock regardless of the positive report more »

• IPOs: Facebook No Bellwether

  By Jane Genova - April 10, 2012 | Tickers: GOOG, GRPN, LNKD, ZNGA

  Investors are paying plenty of attention to IPOs in general and internet IPOs more specifically. And there is plenty of action to pay attention to. The Dow Jones Venture Source documents that Q1 2012 has been the most active for IPO activity since Q4 2007.  In addition, excitement escalates now that FACEBOOK had filed its IPO S1 with the SEC. 

  Actually, though, in my opinion, that overall focus might be more »

• Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update And Top Holdings

  By Joshua Hayes - April 7, 2012 | Tickers: AVD, AAPL, BVSN, CMG, EPAM, LNKD, LQDT, KORS, PRXI, PCLN, RF, SWHC

  The Big Wave Trading market model went through a serious of changes this week turning from a full BUY signal to a cautious BUY signal to a NEUTRAL signal by Thursday. This NEUTRAL signal means that there is no statistical edge one way or the other as measured by all of our internal indicators. While under a NEUTRAL signal, BWT will only go long the highest quality leading stocks with more »

• Google: The Best Social Media Play?

  By Helen Hagan - April 4, 2012 | Tickers: GOOG, GRPN, JIVE, LNKD, ZNGA

  Social media and the rise of web 2.0 is a megatrend that is growing the US economy.  In The next wave of digital growth is here, Todd Harrison wrote that web portal usage is down 24%, while social has grown 52%. These changes demonstrate how the economy of the net is fundamentally changing. New developments in the “hypernet” threaten to undercut television and web search. Though these changes and more »

• Employment Agencies, Business Social Networks, and the Job Market

  By Eric Novinson - April 4, 2012 | Tickers: KELYA, LNKD, MAN, RHI

  With recent payroll data reporting job growth, employment agencies could benefit. Robert Half International (NYSE: RHI), ManPowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), and Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA) operate traditional employment agency offices and market their placement services to job searchers via the Internet. Economic trends seem like they favor employment agencies. Although social networks which help workers find jobs without signing up with employment agencies, they seem like they're helping, not hurting more »

• Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update And Top Current Holdings

  By Joshua Hayes - March 31, 2012 | Tickers: AVD, BVSN, CIS, CERS, CCU, EPAM, LHCG, LNKD, KORS, RF, SWHC, SUNH

  The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell

  It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin

  The Big Wave Trading portfolio remains under a BUY signal.

  There are concerns with the current condition more »

• Time to Buy Zynga?

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 28, 2012 | Tickers: EA, GRPN, LNKD, OPEN, ZNGA

  With continued speculation over a social media bubble, we are taking a look at the creator of Farmville and acquirer of OMGPOP (developer of Draw Something) for $200 million. Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), held by Chase Coleman, has been growing like a weed and has plans to launch its own gaming platform and enter the online gambling market. ZNGA publishes games on social media networks, notably Facebook. While in the past more »

• Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update And Top Current Holdings

  By Joshua Hayes - March 24, 2012 | Tickers: CRMT, AVD, CERS, CPWM, LHCG, LNKD, KORS, RF, SWHC, ULTA

  The Big Wave Trading Portfolio’s Market Model remains under a BUY signal. However, during the week, evidence started to mount that turned the model from leaning BUY bullish to BUY neutral. This means that less capital is being deployed in new long positions and the requirements for actually becoming a new long position in the portfolios is raised. There are various internal indicators we use to confirm price action more »

• So How Are Those Offline IPOs Doing? Part 2

  By Eric Volkman - March 20, 2012 | Tickers: LNKD, P, RPXC, SAVE, TRNX

  Following up on our previous post, we continue to take a look at recent IPOs in the offline space. After all, much of the investing world is familiar with recent market arrivals such as business networking site LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) and online radio purveyor Pandora (NYSE: P) both of which are essentially internet companies. But familiarity breeds, if not contempt, fewer opportunities to find an under-appreciated stock that could grow more »

• LinkedIn: A Strong 'Buy' Candidate in 2012

  By Bobby Fisher - March 14, 2012 | Tickers: LNKD, MWW

  As human beings we have a built-in need to socialize. We form networks in order to exchange information with other like-minded people. The internet is a perfect tool for this. We no longer are limited to associating with those in our more immediate communities; now we can find others with similar interests all over the world. Similarly, online job board websites carry huge amounts of web traffic that bring together more »

• Facebook's $100 Billion Valuation IS Justified

  By Arthur Pinkasovitch - March 14, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, XOM, LNKD, MCD

  A $100 billion market cap would give Facebook the same valuation as McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD). McDonald’s has a well established business model, generating annual sales over $27 billion and income of $5.5 billion. Facebook, on the other hand, generated 2011 sales of $3.7 billion which translated to a bottom line gain of $1 billion. Not only does Facebook generate 7 times less revenue than the fast more »

• Investing in the Power of Networks

  By Andrés Cardenal - March 13, 2012 | Tickers: EBAY, GOOG, LNKD, MSFT, V

  Competitive strengths are not easy to create or sustain. When a company is obtaining juicy profit margins competitive pressures usually increase and the business needs to have sufficient competitive advantages to sustain earnings and growth rates. In some particular cases, however, the network effect can be a powerful tool that keeps competition at bay and benefits shareholders in the long term.

  The network effect occurs when the value of a more »

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