Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts

Sunday, August 11, 2019

United States Stock Market Capitalization of the 50 Largest American Companies - iWeblists

Index     Dec 31, 2018  July 31, 2019    %
SP500          2506                 2980         +19%
DJIA           23,327              26,864        +15%
United States Stock Market Capitalization of the 50 Largest American Companies - iWeblists
Closing Market Capitalization as of July31,2019
with Percentage increase since Dec 31, 2018

Closing Market Cap on December 31, 2018





Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Ophir Gottlieb, CEO, Capital Market Laboratories is A Genius



 A month or two ago I came across an online financial website called
Capital Market Labs and I have been hooked on using the tools ever since.
I was so excited that I placed a call to the company and spoke directly
with the CEO, Ophir Gottlieb and praised him for creating such
outstanding research tools.

He was a great guy on the phone and
was kind enough to spend quite a bit of time with me and then floored me
when he told me that soon the site would be exponentially more powerful in
a couple weeks. Well now its a month or so later and sure enough the site is even bigger and better!


Anyone who invests in the markets should be using Capital Market Labs!

If anyone needs any help or would like to connect with me and go over the
site, I would be happy to surf the site with you. (it has a free version
and a premium version).. I don't work for the company i just enjoy using the tools.

Below is an interview on BNN with Ophir


BNN - Watch TV Online | Off the Charts: Twitter, Apple and Amazon


Everyone in the Market Place should be following Ophir




Sunday, September 1, 2013

Dow Jones Index Needs a Shuffle to take Average to 20,000

Dow Jones Index Needs a Shuffle to take Average to 20,000

A year ago United Health Group, Inc. (NYSE: UNH) was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJIA) to replace Kraft Food, Inc, after Kraft’s plans to spin off its American grocery business. Although UNH only accounted for approximately 3% of the index‘s weighted average, the stock’s 29.6% return was the 4th best stock performer of the 30 stocks in the index contributing to the average’s gain of 9.06% since being added through to yesterday’s close. Below is the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the 30 components since UNH was added on September 24, 2012. (Clicking on the Corporations’ names are links to Stockdiagnostics.com Charts of each stock through the date of the change on September 2012).


Ticker Company 9/21/12 8/30/13 % return
BAC Bank of America $9.09 $14.12 55.34%
BA Boeing Co. $68.43 $103.92 51.86%
HPQ Hewlett-Packard $17.21 $22.34 29.81%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc. $55.50 $71.74 29.26%
JNJ Johnson & Johnson $66.90 $86.41 29.16%
HD Home Depot Inc. $58.54 $74.49 27.25%
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc. $18.34 $23.31 27.10%
JPM JPMorgan Chase $39.76 $50.53 27.09%
UTX United Technologies Corp. $78.87 $100.10 26.92%
AXP American Express Co. $57.11 $71.91 25.91%
MMM 3M Co. $91.00 $113.58 24.81%
PFE Pfizer Inc. $23.70 $28.21 19.03%
TRV Travelers Cos. $67.39 $79.90 18.56%
DIS Walt Disney Co. $51.94 $60.83 17.12%
PG Procter & Gamble Co. $67.30 $77.89 15.74%
DD E.I. DuPont de Nemours $50.03 $56.62 13.17%
MSFT Microsoft Corp. $30.25 $33.40 10.41%
DJIA Dow Jones Indust Ave 13,579.47 14,810.31 9.06%
VZ Verizon Communications $43.72 $47.38 8.37%
MRK Merck & Co. Inc. $43.66 $47.29 8.31%
CVX Chevron $114.02 $120.43 5.62%
GE General Electric Co. $21.97 $23.14 5.33%
MCD McDonald's Corp. $91.42 $94.36 3.22%
KO Coca-Cola Co. $37.24 $38.18 2.52%
WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc. $72.68 $72.98 0.41%
INTC Intel Corp. $22.22 $21.98 -1.08%
XOM Exxon Mobil $89.53 $87.16 -2.65%
T AT&T $36.26 $33.83 -6.70%
CAT Caterpillar Inc. $89.45 $82.54 -7.72%
IBM Internat'l Bus Machines  $202.26 $182.27 -9.88%
AA Alcoa Inc. $9.00 $7.70 -14.40%
KFT Kraft Foods $51.93


Since Being added to DJIA, Bank of America is Down 63% 

Although Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was the top performing stock in the chart above with a 55% return, shares are still 63.54% lower since being added to the Dow Jones Industrial Index on February 19,2008.  Chevron was also added to the index on the same day as Bank of America and CVX shares are 73.38% higher. Since the stocks were added to the DJIA the index has gained 19.94%.

Prior to United Health Group being added to the Dow Jones Index, the last change to the index was made on the opening of June 8, 2009 with the addition of Cisco System (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Traveler Cos. (NYSE: TRV). Since the 2009 change Cisco has gained 23.66% and Travelers is up 105.03%, while the DJIA is 69.01% higher.

Today’s Dow Jones Industrial index has changed significantly since its inception to adapt to the changing landscape of America. Alcoa (NYSE: AA), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are no longer considered leaders in today’s market place and although HPQ stock has performed well of late, the stock performance is not indicative of the underlying business’s future growth. Its time for companies, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Wells Fargo (WFC), that dominate the marketplace and the world economy to be added to the index to help get the index to 20,000 and beyond.





Friday, February 1, 2013

October 2007 Peak Stock Pick (Acquired by Home Depot)

With the Markets Reaching 5 year highs I circled back today to find out what I said in October 2007.

In October 2007 I was able to find an undervalued stock at the market highs that I picked in my weekly newsletter. US HOMES Systems would get acquired in less than 4 years by Home Depot for an 80% return while the S&P 500 index declined 7.8% over  the same period.

October 23,2007 Pick :U.S.Home Systems $6.93
October 12,2012 USHS Acquired by Home Depot for $12.50 cash

Equities Research Archives USHS



click to Equities Research favorite stock YAHOO (NASDAQ:YHOO)




top 2012 Warnings:


Chipotle Mexican Grill decline 47%


Under Armour decline 14%

July 11,2012 low $45.27

APPLE 24% decline 3 months

January 25,2013 low $440





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Thursday, September 13, 2012

29 Stockdiagnostics Upgrades Acquired in 9 months


companytickerdate$ Upgrade$ CloseTime% Return
Mediware information MEDW9/12/2012$8.18 $21.86 5y 4m167%
KSW, Inc.KSW9/11/2012$2.78 $4.97 2 years79%
Kenexa Corp.KNXA8/27/2012$22.19 $46.00 1 year109%
Dollar Thrifty Auto GrpDTG8/28/2012$54.06 $87.08 17 months61%
Micronetics Inc.NOIZ6/11/2012$7.02 $14.80 8 months 111%
U.S. Home SystemsUSHS8/7/2012$4.91 $12.50 1year155%
Authen Tec, Inc.AUTH7/28/2012$3.02 $8.42 8 months179%
Rail AmericaRA7/23/2012$10.37 $27.25 22 months163%
Amerigroup Corp.AGP7/9/2012$38.96 $92.00 23 months136%
Amylin PharmaceuticaAMLN6/29/2012$12.51 $31.00 13 months145%
Integramed AmericaINMD6/11/2012$10.30 $13.68 15 months32%
Edgar Online, Inc.EDGR5/23/2011$0.76 $1.08 9 months42%
Aribe Inc.ARBA5/22/2011$7.34 $45.00 6 years513%
Golfsmith It'l Hold,IncGOLF5/14/2012$4.15 $6.10 14 months47%
GTSI CorporationGTSI5/14/2012$5.00 $7.71 1 year54%
Cost Plus, Inc.CPWM5/10/2012$4.58 $22.00 2 years380%
Easy Link Service IntESIC5/3/2012$1.80 $7.16 29 months302%
Charming ShoppesCHRS5/2/2012$4.18 $7.35 13 months75%
Ardea Biosciences IncRDEA4/24/2012$3.35 $32.00 6 years855%
Knology Inc.KNOL4/18/2012$9.91 $19.75 6 years99%
X-Rite, IncorporatedXRIT4/11/2012$1.97 $5.54 3 years181%
Transcend ServicesTRCR3/8/2012$14.64 $29.18 5 years100%
CH Energy Group,IncCHG3/6/2012$50.67 $66.60 9 months31%
Sera Care Life ScienceSRLS3/6/2012$0.90 $3.97 3 years342%
Taleo CorporationTLEO2/10/2012$8.00 $45.00 3 years469%
Pep Boys-Many,Moe,JPBY1/31/2012$9.58 $15.00 5 months56%
Novellus Systems IncNVLS12/15/2011$26.00 $44.00 16 months70%
Demand Tec, Inc.DMAN12/9/2012$5.45 $13.20 5 months70%
Success Factors, Inc.SFSF12/4/2011$7.75 $40.00 3 years416%

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

PRICELINE (PCLN) up 3000% since Stockdiagnostics' Upgrade

March 28.2012
Priceline.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) traded at an all time (13 year) high yesterday before closing @ $728.85. Stockdiagnostics upgraded PCLN @ $23.48 on May 13,2004 after the company reported 1st quarter financials for the period ending March 31,2004.
In less than 8 years the shares have a cumulative return of 3004% vs 29% for the S&P500 index during this same time frame.

click to PCLN Stockdiagnostics OPS chart
click to PCLN GFNN news story


Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) traded at an all time high yesterday before closing @ $421.37. Stockdiagnostics upgraded CMG @ $50.78 on April 27,2006 after the company reported 1st quarter financials for the period ending March 31,2006.
Since the upgrade shares have had a cumulative return of 730% vs. 8% for the Standard & Poor 500 Index over that same period.

click to CMG GFNN news story
click to CMG Stockdiagnostics OPS Chart

CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) traded at a  4 year high yesterday before closing @ $32.50. Stockdiagnostics upgraded CBS @ $14.93 (dividend adjusted) on May 10,2010 after the company reported 1st quarter financials for the period ending March 31,2010. Since the upgrade shares have gained 117% vs 22% for the S&P 500 over the same 2 year period.
click to CBS Stockdiagnostics OPS chart
click to CBS GFNN news story


Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) traded at an all time (22 year) high yesterday before closing @ $48.90. Stockdiagnostics upgraded RGR @ $10.64 (dividend adjusted) on August 5,2009 after the company reported 2nd quarter financials for the period ending June 30,2009.
Since the upgrade the stock, has a 360% cumulative return vs. 41% for the S&P 500 index in the same time frame.

click to RGR Stockdiagnostics OPS chart
click to RGR GFNN news story
click to RGR GFNN news story 2

Targacept, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRGT) closed yesterday @ $5.28.
Stockdiagnostics suspended the ranking on TRGT, November 23,2010 after the company reported 3rd quarter financials for the period ending September 30,2010. TRGT was diagnosed with the EPS SYNDROME, which is a red flag and warns extreme caution should be exercised before owning shares of companies with a Suspended ranking. Since the EPS Syndrome was detected 16 months ago, shares have declined from $22.43, down over $16 or 76%. During this same period the S&P500 index is up 20%.
click to TRGT Stockdiagnostics OPS chart
click to TRGT GFNN news story


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) traded at an all time (28 year) high yesterday before closing @ $614.48.  Stockdiagnostics upgraded AAPL @ $110.00 on May 14,2007, after the company reported  2nd quarter 2007 financials  for the period ending March 31,2007. AAPL has been ranked a "1" for 20 consecutive quarters.

Since the upgrade less than 5 years ago, shares are up 458% vs the Standard & Poor 500 Index is down 6% over the same period.

Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P. Co (NYSE: TNH) reached an all time (20 year) high yesterday before closing @ $249.79. Stockdiagnostics upgraded TNH @ $58.06 (adjusted for 18 dividends) on August 3,2007 after the company reported 2nd quarter 2007 financials for the period ending June 30,2007.
Shares are up 330%, while the S&P 500 has declined 1% in the same time frame. This income stock has 36.71% annual total return since August 2007.

Equities Research stock picker, Tom Renna, recommended Terra and other Agrochemicals stocks in his 2007 newsletter. (note: Terra Industries (NYSE:TRA) has since been acquired and PotashCorp (NYSE:POT) has split 3 for 1 over this period.)
click to TNH Stockdiagnostics OPS chart
click to TNH GFNN news story
click to TNH 2007 Recommendation (RENNA)
click to 6 month Performance 10/2007-4/2008 (Renna)
Terra Industries Acquisition Release
PotashCorp split release