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Why Crude Oil Price Drop Makes McDonald's, Netflix and Dollar General Buys
By Michael Mistaleski - May 16, 2012 | Tickers: DG, MCD, NFLX
Oil futures are finally coming down instead of going up. The International Energy Agency said that the global oil supply rose 600,000 barrels per day in April even with the tightening of Iran's exports by sanctions! Yet on such wonderful news, the market is going lower with the price of crude.
My opinion is that nothing is better for the global economy than for oil prices to come more »
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Facebook Could Learn From Comcast, Netflix Fumbles
By Maxwell Fisher - May 16, 2012 | Tickers: CMCSA, NFLX
Remember last month when Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) Chief Executive Officer, Reed Hastings, posted a Facebook (FB) rant against Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA). It was, at the time, a humorous example of the ‘pot calling the kettle black.’ It was also yet another reminder to the public of how both companies were utterly failing at supplying customer need.
As the long awaited Initial Public Offering of Facebook stock speedily approaches, there are more »
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Subscription Economy: So?
By Jane Genova - May 15, 2012 | Tickers: AOL, T, NFLX, VZ
Subscription-economy player Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) broke the cardinal rule in how to deal with customers who are in a long-term relationship with an enterprise. The terms and conditions of the contract were changed, abruptly. Unlike the transactional economy, in which a product is bought and that’s the end of that story, the subscription economy demands ongoing attention to customers. The stock, once at over 300, crashed. Yet, as Motley more »
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Will the Real Netflix Competitors Please Stand Up?
By Demitri Kalogeropoulos - May 14, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, CSTR, CMCSA, NFLX, DIS
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) competitors, where are you? The world's largest subscription Internet video provider has spent the last year hobbled by self-inflicted wounds which sent its customers' satisfaction levels plummeting and forced the company to pause international expansion plans. With millions of angered streamers eager to shop around, and with choice international markets now open for the taking, its never been a better time to pick on Reed Hastings more »
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RedBox- The Dinosaur will be Washed Away by Streaming
By Richard Birecki - May 14, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, CSTR, DISH, MSFT, NFLX
"Ain't giving up my vinyl records, for the new dangfangled CD's. Besides, CD Players cost too much, I like my records just fine."
"MP3's??"
"The idea that my grandfather will ever have a DVD player is a joke. He's still using Betamax."
"I'll always shoot on film, the image quality is superior, and will always be so."
Throughout human history, new technology has been met more »
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Netflix Making Moves to Boost Profits
By Maxwell Fisher - May 11, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, CSTR, NFLX, WMT
Simplicity is a major aspect of innovation today, being favored well over anything timely or difficult to understand. People do not want to take time out of their lives to do things if other options to accomplish the same thing faster and easier are available. For example, why would anyone prefer driving to a store to rent a movie that has to be brought back a few days later when more »
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Microsoft Makes a Smart Move
By Andrés Cardenal - May 10, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, NFLX
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has recently launched a subsidized $99 Xbox 360 package with a Kinect motion, the plan requires a two year subscription for Xbox Live, which costs $15 per month and customers are subject to an early termination fee. Microsoft could be making a very smart move with this last initiative, generating both a convenient deal for customers and, perhaps more importantly, generating a strong entry point into customer more »
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Microsoft Declares DVD Dead - Coinstar and Hollywood Mourn
By Richard Birecki - May 8, 2012 | Tickers: CSTR, MSFT, NFLX
The DVD is going the way of the dodo, much like floppy discs and CD's did before them. Today, the high end laptops like the Macbook Air, or the HP Fusion don't even offer DVD drives, being deemed unnecessary, an extra weight and expense.
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Coinstar Gets No Respect – Part 2
By Chad Henage - May 7, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, CSTR, NFLX
I've said it before, I'll say it again, Coinstar gets no respect. Here's the thing, ignore what you've heard, the DVD is far from dead. If you want proof, look at Coinstar's (NASDAQ: CSTR) recent quarterly report. I can't even count how many articles I've read saying that Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) should kill off its DVD division because everyone is going to be streaming videos anyway. Someone failed to tell that to the millions of people using their local Redbox machine. Oh, and that whole streaming threat, yeah Coinstar has something up its sleeve for that too.
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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 »
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3 Diversified Stocks for Your Speculative Portfolio
By Edgar Ambart - May 4, 2012 | Tickers: BAC, BP, FSLR, NFLX, RIMM
Recently the market has been more than generous, discounting great names like Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) to their 52 week lows. My last article “Sell In May And Go Away” came off a bit pessimistic, therefore I wanted to zoom in on a few stocks that offer bullish opportunities now, if one doesn't believe in the month of May. There are always pockets more »
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For Sale: Netflix?
By David Danna - May 4, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, NFLX, WMT
Over the past few years Cord-cutting has become a much talked about phenomena, when households that had been paying an arm and a leg for Cable or Satellite TV service switch to cheaper online alternatives or over the air free broadcast TV (Over the air can actually get you a higher quality HD picture because there is no compression as there is with Cable and Satellite). There is much debate more »
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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 »
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Apple: What New iTV Rumors Mean for Investors
By Maxwell Fisher - May 3, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, NFLX
Sure, Amazon had a great quarter, and Microsoft and Barnes & Noble just announced a sexy Nook partnership, but at the end of the day, we all just want more Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) television set rumors.
There are more and more hints coming in from supply chain vendors that a new TV from Apple is surely coming soon. Several up beat Q2 outlooks from display-related companies appear to be partially linked more »
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Past Success Not an Indicator of Future Earnings
By Kyle Metivier - May 3, 2012 | Tickers: GMCR, NFLX, RIMM, SBUX, YUM
Progress Report: Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), mentioned 12/22/11 with a closing price around $45 per share, YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM), mentioned 2/6/12 with a closing price around $63 per share, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), mentioned as a cautionary tale 2/6/12 with a closing price around $129 per share. Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), mentioned as a smoldering dumpster fire 1/23/12 with a closing price more »
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Facing the Asian Future
By Peter Pham - May 1, 2012 | Tickers: GOOG, NFLX, ZNGA
With the long-awaited Facebook IPO imminent a lot of the discussion has been centered on what feels like an obscene valuation. There has been so much focus on the capitalization numbers, i.e. the size of the IPO, that little attention has been paid to the potential. As with so many large American brands now the opportunity for them is not continued growth in America or, in Facebook’s case more »
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Netflix: Could 4 Million More Subscribers Push This Stock Higher?
By Maxwell Fisher - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: CSTR, GRPN, NFLX, ZNGA
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) had a share price of $106 per share at the close last Friday. Its quarterly earnings came out Tuesday and the company reported the addition of 3 million streaming subscribers in the first quarter and a return to profitability sooner than it had forecast. Why then, is the stock down 20% and trading at $83 per share Wednesday? It's a good question that has no reasonable more »
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Will Apple TV Obliterate Cable Companies in 2013?
By Edgar Ambart - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, LGF, NFLX, VIAB
When Eddy Cue, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) senior vice president of Internet software services, pitched the company’s revolutionary TV idea to cable companies, his unspoken message was simple – “either do as we say or we go to war!” Of course the language used by a representative of the largest tech company that holds over $100 billion in cash was not as direct, but the implied message was clear.
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Should Investors Play or Pause Netflix?
By Jihong Wei - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, NFLX
Can anyone imagine today's home movie watching without Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)? Another Blockbuster like the one for the old days. Netflix unarguably has the largest content library among all competitors. For a movie or TV show that you can't find from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) or the iTunes at Apple, it's likely that someone else has streamed it down from Netflix. But content is only one piece of more »
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Netflix Earnings – Behind the Headlines
By Chad Henage - April 30, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, NFLX
One thing you can say for Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is the story is never boring. In just the last five days the stock has traded down nearly 19%. Of course everyone knows that most of this was due to the huge selloff right after the company reported earnings. In case you read the headlines, and ran for the hills without digging into the numbers, let me walk you through what I see is going on with the company. Since I would rather draw my own conclusions, I use the company's quarterly report as a reference. Chances are if you see me quoting a number, it can be found in the report here.
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