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Estimates tend to be fudged. There was some criticism as to their missing on revenues in certain segments. The hardware stocks in semiconductors and networking equipment tend to track China's stock market pretty closely.
If you like charts, the chart for the SOX semiconductor index sports a three-peaks and domed house pattern on the monthly time scale. It's completed the domed house top which portends a trip back to where the whole rally started. the industry group could lose nearly two-thirds of its price.
That said, the end of the buyback blackout period is coming to an end for about 95% of the companies in the S&P 500 by the first week of February. They're free to bid up their own share prices.
Estimates tend to be fudged. There was some criticism as to their missing on revenues in certain segments. The hardware stocks in semiconductors and networking equipment tend to track China's stock market pretty closely.
If you like charts, the chart for the SOX semiconductor index sports a three-peaks and domed house pattern on the monthly time scale. It's completed the domed house top which portends a trip back to where the whole rally started. the industry group could lose nearly two-thirds of its price.
That said, the end of the buyback blackout period is coming to an end for about 95% of the companies in the S&P 500 by the first week of February. They're free to bid up their own share prices.
Are they planning a move towards smartphones or ARM processors??
PC sales and data center investments are lagging and it's not gonna improve apparently.
Kowtowing to Microsoft couldn't have helped their stock price. It indicates a company where that one customer has become so dominant as to determine corporate policy. That is never a good thing.
Everyone knows (or should know) that a significant part of the market is based on nothing more than feelings. If people are 'feeling' good then they'll buy. If people are 'feeling' scared, they'll sell. Logic doesn't necessarily have anything to do with some of the movement.
Semiconductor stocks are cyclical companies whose stocks used to go up and down in regular two-year cycles. Investors tracked the book-to-bill ratio to get a grasp on turns and trends in the cycles, and many still do. Sometimes, there are protracted cycles when there are bubbles from too much liquidity or when they turn into busts. Right now, it looks like the stocks are on the right side of the boom-bust sine wave. Another indicator people look at is KLIC's stock price which tends to hit $5 at major cycle lows.
Intel and Microsoft were late to the mobile takeoff and thus have an uphill battle to regain any market share. Frankly I don't think microsoft ever will.. android and IOS dominate the mobile market and that's the way it is.
I would not buy either INTC or MSFT frankly.
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