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  • SINA Is Worth Your Attention

    By Terry Chrisomalis - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: FB, RENN, SINA

    There is one Chinese company which I believe is worth buying as the market continues to edge to higher levels. The Chinese company that I believe will do well long term is SINA (NASDAQ: SINA). This company still has a long way to go to monetize its assets, so short term the trade is very risky. Although if you are a long term investor then this is a good position more »

  • New Ecosystem With Synergy? How About Alibaba and Sina's Weibo

    By Nick Chiu - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: EBAY, NTES, SINA, SOHU

    Alibaba, known as China's eBay, is buying 18% stake in SINA's (NASDAQ: SINA) Weibo, known as China's Twitter, for $586 million. Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma, has acquired preferred and ordinary shares and has the option to increase its stake to 30%. The new contract will value SINA Weibo at around $3.3 billion, whereas Alibaba is currently valued at around $55 billion as estimated by analysts more »

  • These Chinese Internet Companies Can Move Higher

    By Jayson Derrick - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, QIHU, SINA

    China-based Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) offers many services to its users which include search engine for websites, audio files, and pictures. The website is ranked as the fifth busiest in the world, and has a market share above 70% in the Chinese market.

    Mobile revenue will be driving growth

    The company’s first-quarter 2013 results were below consensus and it announced that it will be making significant investments this year to more »

  • Is it The Right Time to Buy This Search Giant?

    By Ranu D - May 8, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, QIHU, SINA

    Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU) fourth quarter earnings for 2012 were in line with the street’s expectations. The transition from PC to mobile led to a 42% increase in sales year over year -- leading to total sales of $1 billion. Online customers accelerated 31% year over year, up from 28% last quarter and 13% a year ago. Though Baidu’s dominance in PC search is expected to decline over time more »

  • Are These Two Chinese Cyberspace Giants About to Crush the Industry?

    By Leo Sun - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: ALBCF.PK, BIDU, SINA, TCEHY.PK, YHOO

    Sina Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA), a major Chinese portal site and creator of Weibo (“China’s Twitter”), recently rallied after the company announced that Internet giant Alibaba (NASDAQOTH: ALBCF.PK) had purchased an 18% stake in Weibo.

    In addition to the initial investment, Sina is giving Alibaba the option to increase its stake in Weibo to 30% within a limited time on a mutually agreed valuation. Sina is also expanding its e-commerce more »

  • The Good Problems WeChat is Causing Tencent

    By Peter Pham - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: CMGE, CHU, SOCL, FXI, MSFT, SINA

    The Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings (TCEHY.PK) introduced a blockbuster mobile chat application that is being perceived as a significant threat to the revenues of social networking firms, such as Sina (NASDAQ: SINA) Weibo as well as Chinese telcos such as China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) and China Unicom (NYSE: CHU). WeChat is doing now what Tencent’s QQ did about a year ago by eating massive amounts of the more »

  • The Good Problems WeChat is Causing Tencent

    By Peter Pham - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: CMGE, CHU, SOCL, FXI, MSFT, SINA

    The Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings (TCEHY.PK) introduced a blockbuster mobile chat application that is being perceived as a significant threat to the revenues of social networking firms, such as Sina (NASDAQ: SINA) Weibo as well as Chinese telcos such as China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) and China Unicom (NYSE: CHU). WeChat is doing now what Tencent’s QQ did about a year ago by eating massive amounts of the more »

  • Billionaire Kerr Neilson’s Small Cap Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 7, 2013 | Tickers: CIEN, FWLT, SINA, SOHU, SWC

    We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors as part of our work researching investment strategies, and one of our findings has been that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year. We think that this is because small cap stocks receive less attention, and are therefore more likely to be undervalued more »

  • Baidu: After the Fall

    By Leo Sun - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, QIHU, SINA

    There’s no question that Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), often known as the ‘Google of China,' has been a broken stock over the past twelve months. Shares of the Chinese search leader have plunged 40%, hit by bad news on the macro and micro levels at every leg down. But after the fall, Baidu’s fundamentals are looking very attractive, despite the difficult headwinds it faces.

    Should investors buy this broken more »

  • Is Baidu a Good Stock to Buy?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 21, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, GOOG, SINA, SOHU, YNDX

    Concerns over the Chinese economy and a pattern of accounting irregularities at Chinese companies have caused declines in a number of Chinese stocks in the last year. Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), a leading search engine and Web portal in the country, has fallen 38%. This has occurred despite strong growth at the company: Baidu reported that in the fourth quarter of 2012 its revenues increased 42% versus a year earlier, and more »

  • SINA Tempting Yet Dangerous!

    By Terry Chrisomalis - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, RENN, SINA

    Sina (NASDAQ: SINA) has been stagnant for over a year now, and the stock remains trading in a range between $50 and $70 a share. In my opinion, I think investors should avoid it as a long-term play. Don't get me wrong -- if you live in China, Sina's Twitter-like Weibo is a good service. But major problems lie behind this so-called "treasure platform."


    Management Is Kicking The Can more »

  • SINA Should Be Avoided

    By Terry Chrisomalis - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, RENN, SINA

    Sina (NASDAQ: SINA) has been stagnant for over a year now, and the stock remains trading in a range between $50 and $70 a share. In my opinion, I think investors should avoid it as a long-term play. Don't get me wrong -- if you live in China, Sina's Twitter-like Weibo is a good service. But major problems lie behind this so-called "treasure platform."

    There is an Earnings Beat more »

  • Hedge Fund Manager Robert Karr’s Top Stock Picks From Q4

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - February 24, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, MJN, SINA, EL, YUM

    Thousands of hedge funds file quarterly 13F holdings with the SEC, though some are inherently better for retail investors to track. Historically, it has been possible to outperform Mr. Market by mimicking the best funds, and our small-cap strategy has already beaten the S&P 500 index by 22.5 percentage points since we introduced it to the public last fall (capitalize on market-dominating strategy).

    With that in mind, let more »

  • Can Sina's Business of Censored Free Speech Survive?

    By Leo Sun - February 24, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, SINA, SOHU | Editor's Choice

    The very existence of Sina Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA), the Chinese Internet portal site that created microblogging site Weibo, is a paradox.

    Weibo, which is widely regarded as “China’s Twitter,” depends on the rapid exchange of freely expressed ideas. Yet the company is based in authoritarian China, in one of its most highly oppressed growth industries -- Internet technology. For every two steps Sina takes forward, it must take one back more »

  • Earnings Make this Company a Strong Buy

    By Mohsin Saeed - February 21, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, FB, SINA

    Sina (NASDAQ: SINA) has comprehensively beaten earnings estimates with its recent quarterly results. The company continues to do well in a weak economy and an increasingly competitive market. It faces competition for advertisement revenues from companies such as Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter. I believe the stock is still a buy despite recent rallies and is an ideal investment to benefit from growth in online advertisement.

    Company more »

  • Why This Online Gaming Stock Looks Good

    By usha patodia - February 21, 2013 | Tickers: ATVI, NTES, SINA

    In the global video game industry, the United States dominates in terms of sales. The video game industry generated approximately $50 billion worldwide in 2012, and $18 billion of that came from the United States. The US dominance, however, won’t last forever, as more and more countries begin to spend more time and money on video games.

    China is growing at an exponential pace. The entire Chinese gaming industry more »

  • Two Big Movers that Traded the Wrong Direction

    By Brian Nichols - February 20, 2013 | Tickers: SINA, SODA

    Earnings and earning-related news is the number one catalyst for stock movement. A strong quarter can dictate the direction of a stock for the following three months as can a bad quarter; in the past I have written in detail about such subjects, a domino effect following a strong or bad quarter. However, sometimes the market gets it wrong, and stocks trend incorrectly. Therefore, I am looking at two companies more »

  • Is Facebook the Top Technology Pick Now?

    By Mohsin Saeed - February 4, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, FB, SINA

    The last few months have not been good for technology companies that rely on advertisement revenues. The recent economic uncertainty due to the fiscal cliff has been one of the main reasons advertisers have been cautious and advertisement budgets have shrunk. This has adversely affected companies such as Google, Pandora, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Zynga, etc., which rely on Internet and mobile advertisements for their revenues.

    Facebook is one of the more »

  • Multi-Billion Dollar Hedge Fund’s Most Promising Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, EDU, SINA, VECO, YELP

    Hedge funds generate a significant fraction of their alpha from small-cap stocks, primarily because the information surrounding this space is less efficient. At Insider Monkey, we've empirically tested this phenomenon, and according to our analysis, hedge funds’ top small-cap picks generate an alpha of about 120 basis points per month.

    We started publishing a quarterly newsletter at the end of August, and since then, until the end of December more »

  • 1 Internet Stock That Won't Fall, 1 That Will

    By David Gould - January 20, 2013 | Tickers: BIDU, GOOG, QIHU, SINA, YHOO

    If you are interested in buying search companies, you need to consider just how dynamic it is. While it looks like companies like Google and Baidu are destined to remain market leaders into the foreseeable future, the emergence of social networking and music engines in China may upset the status quo more than what the myopic market recognized. Are companies taking the right steps to address this dynamic market? Below more »

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