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Inside the iPad: A Look at Apple's Suppliers

Posted Apr 6th 2010 10:00AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Texas Instruments (TXN), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM)

"It was interesting to watch the pundits react to the iPad recently; even though none of them had used or even really understood the product, it seemed as though no one liked it following its first introduction," notes tech expert Paul McWilliams in his just-released review of the new tech device from Apple (AAPL).

In his Next Inning newsletter, he explains, "Of course, this was similar to how the pundits first reacted to the iPod when it was released. As the pundits trashed the iPad following its release, I reminded readers about the iPod story and predicted we would see the pundits about face and the stock price run up ahead of the product release."

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Broadcom: Well-Positioned for Digital Age Growth

Posted Mar 2nd 2010 6:00PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Stocks to Buy

Semiconductor provider Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), first discussed here on June 8, 2009 at a price of $25.82, remains a favorite, and it's likely that there's more upside ahead. Here's why:

First, there's little to suggest that the secular trend of broadband and mobile connectivity in the globalization era is fading.

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Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades and Initiations: CME, AZO, XOM, DNB, GENZ ...

Posted Feb 8th 2010 12:50PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Exxon Mobil (XOM), AutoZone Inc (AZO), Analyst Initiations, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Genzyme (GENZ)

Analyst upgrades:

  • Jefferies upgraded CME Group (CME) to Buy from Hold and has a $330 target on the stock. The firm believes increased regulatory concerns have created a buying opportunity and notes that CME Group's fundamentals are stable-to-improving.
  • Susquehanna upgraded Priceline.com (PCLN) to Positive from Neutral and has a $230 target on the stock. The firm believes Priceline.com likely outperformed expectations in Q4.
  • Citigroup upgraded AutoZone (AZO) to Buy from Hold citing an attractive valuation, favorable industry trends, and the potential for margin expansion. The firm raised its target price on shares to $188 from $176.
  • Genzyme (GENZ) was raised to Sell from Conviction Sell at Goldman.
  • Disney (DIS) was upgraded to Neutral from Underweight at JP Morgan.
  • Exxon Mobil (XOM) was upgraded at Collins Stewart to Buy from Hold.

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Stocks That Could Benefit from the 2010 4G Revolution

Posted Jan 21st 2010 1:00PM by james buffington (RSS feed)
Filed under: QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), SanDisk Corp (SNDK), Stocks to Buy

The transmission of data wirelessly is the new big movement in tech. Kindles, 4G phones, tablets and more will soon be flooding marketplaces worldwide. The wireless and new telecom revolution will be sweeping the market place for years to come. This leads the investor to the obvious question: "How do I make a buck off all this?"

Here, for your consideration, are some stocks likely to thrive in the wireless tech revolution. As new devices and functionalities come onto the market, each of these stocks could perform strongly. Share prices are as of Wednesday's close.

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Broadcom Settles Stock-Option Dispute

Posted Dec 30th 2009 12:40PM by Mark Fightmaster (RSS feed)
Filed under: Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM)

Tech firm Broadcom (BRCM) announced that it has agreed in principle to settle a pending class action litigation against the company and some of its current and former officers. The litigation surrounded the company's historical stock-option accounting practices, and was settled for $160.5 million in cash.

The legal action was on behalf of persons and entities that bought or acquired shares of BRCM between July 21, 2005 and July 13, 2006. The $160.5 million cash payment will result in the release and dismissal (with prejudice) of the claims against both the company and its officers and directors. In December 2006, BRCM was singled out as a company participating in backdating of stock options, an illegal practice.

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Broadcom: Super digital, media, wireless semiconductor play

Posted Dec 11th 2009 2:00PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Stocks to Buy

There's little to suggest that the secular trend of broadband and mobile connectivity in the globalization era is fading, hence that's a very good reason to reiterate my buy rating for semiconductor provider Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), first recommended on June 8, 2009 at a price of $25.82.

Institutional investors have shrugged off BRCM's 2009 revenue decline and are looking to 2010, during which recent design improvements in digital t.v., Bluetooth, Wireless LAN, and other mobile handsets products should drive market share gains as consumer demand recovers, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Look for 2010 revenue to rise an impressive 20-25%.

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Bernie's bets: A trio of trades from Schaeffer

Posted Oct 26th 2009 2:00PM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Stocks to Buy

Options expert and stock trader Bernie Schaeffer combines fundamental, technical and sentiment-based metrics to select his specific trades.

In his latest The Options Advisor, he looks at a trio of diverse trades: wireless semiconductor play, Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM); homebuilder, Ryland Group (NYSE: RYL); and miner, Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU).

"Broadcom has rocketed up the charts in 2009, racking up a year-to-date gain of about 74%. The stock has stair-stepped consistently higher since January, capitalizing on support at its 10-week and 20-week moving averages.

"BRCM's relentless upward momentum has forced many short sellers out of their bearish positions, as short interest on the equity dropped by nearly 20% during the past month.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Marvell could be a boon for the semis

Posted Oct 26th 2009 9:30AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Market Matters, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks

The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that after a tough week, the semiconductor industry finally gets some good news.

Will Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL) (Cramer's Take) give what TriQuint (NASDAQ: TQNT) (Cramer's Take) and Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) (Cramer's Take) took away?

Last week, we had the one-two punch of TriQuint and Broadcom really making the whole Internet tsunami look more like a tropical storm. They both talked about withering demand, and Broadcom verified the bears' double-order thesis, but this morning Marvell says that things are on target, there's no wavering and demand is strong. Bears can take their pick.

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Earnings highlights: Amazon, Apple, Caterpillar, Hershey, McDonald's, UPS ...

Posted Oct 24th 2009 2:20PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), McDonald's (MCD), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), New York Times'A' (NYT), Bank of New York (BK), Hershey Co (HSY), Gannett Co (GCI), Morgan Stanley (MS), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), SLM Corp (SLM)

Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

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Closing Bell: Losing the DJIA 10K (AMZN, BIIB, BRCM, COF, DOLE, MSFT, SPWRA)

Posted Oct 23rd 2009 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM)

This was the day that could have been. Earnings were coming out favorably, yet the data just couldn't support the stocks. There were also trader comments that BofA/Merrill had large sell orders or sell programs throughout the day. It looks like the DJIA even closed out under the 10,000 mark on an unofficial basis.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 9,974.75 -106.56 (-1.06%)
S&P 500 1,079.73 -13.18 (-1.21%)
Nasdaq 2,154.47 -10.82 (-0.50%)

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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: ADBE, AZO, EBAY, GS, NOC, WFC ...

Posted Oct 8th 2009 12:20PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, eBay (EBAY), Adobe Systems (ADBE), AutoZone Inc (AZO), Clorox Co (CLX), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Monster Worldwide (MNST), Analyst Initiations, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Wells Fargo (WFC), Northrop Grumman (NOC)

Analyst upgrades:

  • Deutsche Bank upgraded Clorox (NYSE: CLX) to Buy from Hold on valuation and believes upside to earnings forecasts is likely. The firm raised its target on shares to $66 from $65.
  • Kaufman Bros. upgraded eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) to Buy from Hold on expectations improved Marketplace fundamentals will serve as a positive catalyst for shares. The firm raised its price target on the stock to $29 from $22.
  • Roth Capital believes Zumiez (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) is well positioned for improved results and margins. The firm, which upgraded shares to Buy from Hold and raised its target to $22 from $16, said September back-to-school results bode well for the holiday season and demonstrate that Zumiez can drive conversion during peak shopping periods.
  • Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was upgraded to Sell from Conviction Sell at Goldman.
  • Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) was upgraded to Outperform from Neutral at Baird.
  • Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) was upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.

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Broadcom is in an uptrend

Posted Oct 1st 2009 3:40PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Stocks to Buy

It goes without saying that one secular trend of the globalization era is broadband and mobile connectivity.

Moreover, don't let the world's current economic doldrums fool you: the U.S. and global recessions have merely slowed, not eliminated, the expansion of mobile technology use, which is why I'm Reiterating my Buy rating for Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM), first recommended on June 8, 2009 at a price of $25.82.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Fundamental distortion

Posted Sep 9th 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), PepsiCo (PEP), Intel (INTC), Market Matters, 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Costco Wholesale (COST), FedEx Corp (FDX), Research in Motion (RIMM), Procter and Gamble (PG), Lennar Corp'A' (LEN), Toll Brothers (TOL), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Palm Inc (PALM), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), United Technologies (UTX), Wells Fargo (WFC), salesforce.com inc (CRM), Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), Cramer on BloggingStocks,

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the action that is linked to the futures markets, such as oil, is distorting rational analysis.

Maybe one day we can escape the commodity linkage and begin to trade on the fundamentals again, something that seems more distant now than any time I can recall. We are totally marching to gold, to oil, to copper, and not the fundamentals.

Throughout the era in which China has become a superpower and hedge funds have become the super arbiters or what goes up or down, we have been stuck with this fairly bogus linkage that corrupts trading and makes a mockery out of some of the most important financial analysis out there, the actual attempts to discover what's really happening at companies.

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Closing Bell: The great day that could have been... (APOL, BRCM, ELX, GE, GERN, VICL)

Posted Jun 30th 2009 4:00PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: After the Bell, General Electric (GE), Market Matters, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM)

This morning's trading was looking solid enough and had enough overseas support with gains in Europe that it seemed as though we were going to have a rock solid end to one of the best performing quarters in years.

The Russell trade and the quarter-end failed to help. A quiet ISM-prelude from Chicago Purchasing Managers was one thing, but a weak consumer confidence took the wind out of the sails of the bulls. The good news is that shares managed to close off their lows, but it still wasn't an up day. Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 8,448.06 -81.32 (-0.95%)
S&P 500 919.47 -7.76 (-0.84%)
Nasdaq 1,835.04 -9.02 (-0.49%)

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Broadcom is involved in all things broadband

Posted Jun 8th 2009 3:40PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Stocks to Buy

The U.S. and global recessions have merely slowed, not eliminated, the expansion of mobile technology use, and that means it's a good time to scoop up some shares of Broadcom (NYSE: BRCM).

In general, analysts see a difficult F2009 for integrated circuit / communications semiconductor provider Broadcom, with revenue falling 10-15 percent, after an impressive 23% gain in F2008.

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