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  • Is This Company's Much Awaited Turnaround Finally Here?

    By Alexander Cho - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, SNE

    Sony (NYSE: SNE), for the first time in ten years, reported a profit. The company is no longer the technology company it once was. It also helps that the USD/JPY has been on an uptrend, which resulted in the company reporting inflated Japanese Yen-based figures.

    Earnings highlights

    The company’s growth in financial services, along with mobile, was the primary reason for its earnings success. Sony’s financial services more »

  • Apple's Competition Is Getting Tougher

    By Damian Illia - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, NOK, SSNLF, SNE

    Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) recently posted its second quarter results, and they came in below analysts’ estimates. However, this did not affect its share price as the company announced a massive cash return of $100 billion through 2015, including share buybacks and increased dividends. Let's take a look at the company's most recent results and its future from a competitive standpoint.

    How was Apple’s performance behind that juicy more »

  • What The Next Ten Years Of Technology Will Look Like

    By Alexander Cho - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, SNE

    In this article, I want to highlight 3 very important trends that are going on in the technology space and how they will alter the technology landscape.

    Faster internet

    Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been rolling out a fiber optic network. The company advertises that its internet speeds are 100 times faster than the average broadband internet speeds, and that its Gigabit internet will allow users to browse the internet at more »

  • Electronic Arts' Gross Margin Improves at the Expense of GameStop

    By Alexander Cho - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: EA, GME, SNE

    Is the video game console dead? Perhaps Electronics Arts may no longer have the long-term potential with its hard-core video game franchising. Despite the weak performance, I’m a little more optimistic than the rest of the street. Let’s uncover this opportunity?

    Earnings highlights

    In the first quarter of 2013 Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) reported a decline in revenue. The company’s revenue declined from $1.368 billion in more »

  • Sony Is Relatively Cheap, and Opportunistic

    By Anh HOANG - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: PCRFY, SHCAY.PK, SNE

    Famous hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has come to Japan, targeting one of the biggest Japanese corporations, Sony (NYSE: SNE). Dan Loeb revealed that his firm, Third Point LLC, with 64 million shares, including both direct share ownership and cash-settled swaps, was the largest owner of Sony. Dan Loeb has laid out several steps to unlock the hidden shareholder value, believing that the company has as much as a 60 more »

  • Activision Blizzard Hurt by Console Refresh

    By Alexander Cho - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: ATVI, SNE, ZNGA

    Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) reported a fairly strong quarter driven by the release of some blockbuster video gaming titles like StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Diablo 3, and Call of Duty Black Ops 2. The company’s release schedule in the first quarter led to the strong surge in revenue and net income.

    Earnings highlights

    The company reported earnings per share of $0.40 for the first quarter beating more »

  • Dan Loeb Wants to Make Sony Into Apple

    By Salvatore "Sam" Mattera - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, SNE, YHOO

    For a long time, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) critics have warned that the iPhone-maker could one day become Sony (NYSE: SNE) -- a once innovative company turned into a lumbering, has-been maker of personal electronics.

    If Dan Loeb gets his way, that comparison could go in the opposite direction. Loeb’s plan for the Japanese conglomerate would reorient Sony’s business -- making it much more akin to Apple.

    What Loeb wants more »

  • Sony: Will Unlocking Entertainment Business Create Value?

    By Jordan Wathen - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: EWJ, SNE, DXJ

    Sony's in a world of trouble.It's electronics division is in a world of hurt, losing share to up and coming product lines from Samsung, which commands leadership in smartphones and flat panel TVs.

    Sony (NYSE: SNE) has outperformed a general rising trend in Japanese equities over the last six months, as investors consider the valuable hidden assets which include Sony Entertainment's vast library. Here's Sony more »

  • Highly Predictable Profits Set to Continue

    By James Catlin - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: HMC, EWJ, SNE, TM

    On March 7 this year, I penned an article entitled "How Currency Exchange Rates Will Impact These Stocks." This outlined how currency exchange fluctuations impact economies, the new Japanese monetary policy, and the highly predictable results. For beginners, I highly encourage you to review that article. I advised readers to purchase major Japanese exporters based on my thesis.

    That theses was and remains: Deliberate inflation policy (now at 2% annually more »

  • Weak Yen Drives Sony’s First Profit in Years

    By Daniel James - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, SSNLF, SNE

    One of the main news stories over the last few months has been the devaluation of the yen, which contributed greatly to the 40% surge in Japanese equities so far this year. This week, the dollar popped over 100 yen. A weak yen benefits Japanese exporters, as their products become cheaper abroad. Japanese electronics giant Sony (NYSE: SNE) has been struggling over the last few years, posting losses since 2009 more »

  • Difficulties for Next-Generation Gaming

    By David Henry - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: ATVI, MSFT, NTDOY.PK, SNE

    Over the last seven years, the video game industry has grown over 289%. Gaming consoles entered into mainstream consciousness with technology advances such as Nintendo’s (NASDAQOTH: NTDOY.PK) release of motion controls for the Wii console in 2006 and such blockbuster games such as Activision Blizzard’s (NASDAQ: ATVI) Call of Duty series that pulls in over $1 billion in revenue with each new reiteration.

    The video game industry, according more »

  • Apple's 4K Television Opportunity

    By Mark Hibben - May 10, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, SNE | Editor's Choice

    This month Sony (NYSE: SNE) will begin shipping its first 4K televisions that have screens with a massive 3840 x 2160 pixels, exactly 4 times the pixels of 1080p HD.  What can you watch in the 4K or Ultra HD (UHD) format?  Not much.  The race is now on to develop and deliver 4K content, and this will challenge traditional content distribution approaches as well as provide Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPLmore »)

  • This Should Be a Great Year for Video Games!

    By Matthew Frankel - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: MSFT, SNE, TTWO

    A producer of some of the most popular video games on the market, Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) has more than doubled since reaching its 52-week low of $7.37 last summer. Although the overall video game industry has been on a decline lately, with new hardware due from the major console manufacturers, plus several huge new games set to be released this year, I figure that this software developer is more »

  • Three Companies Threatening Apple's Dominance

    By Delian Naydenov - May 5, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, SNE

    Steve Jobs was the man behind Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) success and it appears that Apple is losing ground since his death on October 5, 2011. In fact, Apple's common stock is up about 19%, underperforming the S&P 500 return of over 41%. This is despite Apple paying the first dividend of $2.65 per share in Aug. 2012, raising it to $3.05 in April 2013, announcing more »

  • To Capitalize on the Next Xbox, Don't Buy Microsoft

    By Robert Ciura - May 5, 2013 | Tickers: GME, MSFT, SNE

    Investors have likely noticed the pronounced outperformance of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) shares over the past several weeks. Indeed, shares have rallied more than 20% just since mid-January. Long derided as being ‘dead money’ and a boring technology giant starved for innovation, Microsoft’s share price performance in only a few months’ time is more indicative of a start-up in high growth.

    Beneath the excitement, however, is a disturbing lack of more »

  • 3 Popular Perennial Losers of the Past 5 Years Explained

    By Michael Carter - May 3, 2013 | Tickers: APOL, NAT, SNE

    In pro sports, there are some teams that every fan knows have no chance of winning a championship or even making the playoffs until something changes dramatically. They are considered perennial losers due to poor ownership, bad business decisions, and just really bad luck. In the stock market, perennial losers also exist in similar fashion. I will discuss three popular perennial losers of the past five years in this article more »

  • Invest in Companies, Not Products

    By Jon Quast - May 1, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, BBRY, NVDA, QCOM, SNE

    Philadelphia Phillies pitcher George McQuillan took the mound on a day that I doubt he knew would be historic.  The date was Sept. 6, 1909.  It was the bottom of the 4th when Brooklyn Superbas catcher Bill Bergen stepped up to the plate.  As the pitch sped towards him, Bergen took a mighty swing.  There was a crack at the bat as the ball soared up, up, and over the more »

  • Hedge Fund Blue Mountain Capital Buys up 5.6% of Tech Company

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: CAJ, HPQ, INTC, LXK, SNE

    Blue Mountain Capital Management, a hedge fund managed by Andrew Feldstein and Stephen Siderow with $5 billion in assets under management, has reported a position of 3.6 million shares in Lexmark (NYSE: LXK), a $1.8 billion market cap company that provides printing equipment and develops enterprise software.

    We at Insider Monkey track quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds such as Blue Mountain as part of our work researching more »

  • 3 Quotes That Explain Apple’s Demise

    By Salvatore "Sam" Mattera - April 25, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, SNE

    Despite the fact that Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings exceeded expectations on Tuesday, shares of the Cupertino tech giant slid early Wednesday.

    Barring the introduction of a revolutionary new product, Apple’s best days seem behind it: profitability is falling, margins are declining, and growth is slowing. On a year-over-year basis, earnings per share dropped 18%.

    Despite pledging to return $100 billion of capital to shareholders, Apple’s stock is more »

  • Apple: The Big Winner

    By Damian Illia - April 25, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, SNE

    Today, April 23 2013, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) posted second quarter results for the year which were below analysts’ estimates. However, this did not affect its share price (gained 1.84% intraday) as the company announced a massive cash return of $100 billion (approximately one third of Denmark’s nominal GDP in 2012) through 2015 including share buybacks and increasing dividends. That incredible cash return hides some results that can set more »

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