Monthly Archives: February 2016

Qualys Beats Q4 Earnings, Misses On Revenue

Qualys Inc. (QLYS – Snapshot Report) just released their fourth quarter fiscal 2015 earnings results, posting earnings of $0.14 and revenue of $44.4 million. Currently, QLYS has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), but it is subject to change following the release of the company’s latest earnings report. Here are 5 key statistics from this just announced report below….

Why The Dow Jones Industrial Average Fell 177 Points Today

How Did the Stock Market Do Today? Dow Jones: 16,027.05; -177.92; -1.10% S&P 500: 1,853.45; -26.61; -1.42% Nasdaq: 4,283.75; -79.39; -1.82% The Dow Jones Industrial Average today (Monday) fell 177 points as tech stocks continued to slump and oil prices cratered again on concerns of a global economic downturn. Financial stocks slumped on concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates in…

Even Managed Markets Can Have Accidents

It’s not just another day in investing-land as bad news rocks around the planet. Monday’s featured players were in Europe as banks were clobbered. The center of the problems was in Germany featuring Deutsche Bank (DB). The strange thing about it today was a problem already known—leverage. But most experts knew all about this stuff…

Alpha & Omega Semiconductor – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day belongs to Alpha & Omega Semiconductor (Nasdaq: AOSL). I found the semiconductor stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for the highest technical buy signals, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 1/29 the stock gained 16.13%. Alpha and Omega…

Here’s Why SolarCity Is Poised For Poor Q4 Earnings

Photo Credit: Kevin Krejci SolarCity Corp. (SCTY) Industrials – Electrical Equipment | Reports February 9, After Market Closes SolarCity (SCTY) faces tremendous bearish sentiment heading into its fourth quarter earnings February 9, after the market closes. Over the past 8 quarters SolarCity has consistently missed the bottom line with fourth quarter earnings expected to be no different….

Twitter Stock Has A Make Or Break Week Ahead

Twitter Stock (NYSE:TWTR) has fallen over 30 percent year to date and investors are beginning to panic. Rightfully so, considering the company has been the focus of negative media attention over the past two weeks due to the exit of four key executives, an impending earnings report, and rumors that it will change its homepage algorithm….

Round Trip For Emerging Markets

With all the sturm and drang about emerging markets these days, you would think they might be at all time lows. You would be close to being right. The largest emerging market ETF (EEM) started trading in 2003. Not coincidentally, that was the beginning of a major bull for EM. It’s all been reversed: So…