As of January 15, short interest in several semiconductor stocks increased as investors continued to bet against PC processors and memory chips in favor of mobile devices. With only a couple of exceptions, ...

We continue to track the short interest changes in the primary 3D printer and services companies. The following information is based on data reported for the period ended January 15, 2014. Short interest ...

The equity research team at Jefferies has come out with a list of their stocks to buy that have been ambushed hard, not only the past two trading days, but since the beginning of the year.

The so-called underwriter quiet period for AMC Entertainment Holdings has come to an end, so now the analysts in the underwriting syndicate firms can issue coverage on the company. Shares were down in ...

Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) on May 18, 2012. This was seen as one of the biggest IPOs in technology and Internet history.

Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL) is in the unloved field of contract manufacturing, also known as electronic manufacturing services. This sector is not exactly exciting to investors, or at least that was ...

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To many investors, online retailing behemoth Amazon (AMZN) is a riddle contained in a mystery, wrapped inside an enigma (with apologies to Mr. Churchill). That’s not the highest Amazon’s multiple has been; You can grumble that Jeff Bezos’s decision to starve Amazon’s bottom line in order to finance its ongoing expansion mean that it’s not shareholder friendly, but even before the publicity around those planned delivery drones, enough investors were willing to buy into the company’s future promise to drive its price up 55 percent in 2013. But, as a team of analysts from Wedbush wrote in a note recently published in Barron's, “Amazon is unlikely to provide investors with a strategy road map.” Moreover, they noted, “it could be a long time before (earnings per share) grows sufficiently to justify its share price.”

The Federal Reserve had been trying for years to persuade investors to take on more risk, and a renewed affection for growth was one of the dominant market characteristics of the year. That may have been because growth stock pricing reached appealing levels as the economy appeared poised to speed up, or, more likely, because absolute growth became more alluring than the razor-thin yields on bonds and the prices for dividend stocks. Either way, growth stocks got hot. Even for a growth stock, that’s rich – but it didn’t stop the company’s stock from rallying 300 percent.

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? Has hype inflated market prices beyond intrinsic values?

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? Find out why we think Twitter is a bad deal.

In a new research report, the equity strategy team at J.P. Morgan has come up with outside-the-box ideas for investors that we have not seen from other big Wall Street houses. They think that value stocks ...

Investment funds affiliated with Blackstone Group are taking a $200 million stake in Crocs in newly issued series A convertible preferred stock, and CEO John McCarvel also has announced his retirement....

Buying a retail stock is often a pretty risky venture and it won’t get any less risky in 2014. The stocks can bounce around a lot, especially for those stores that report monthly same-store sales numbers. ...

In a new research report, the Merrill Lynch team points out that the sector is trading at the steepest discount to the market in its history. It seems that 2014 might be a banner year for technology.

The energy team at Credit Suisse is positive on the year ahead and has eight top stock picks for 2014.

With the end of the year two weeks away, 10 stocks have already had gains of more than 400%. Investors in these stocks have been, if they held them for the year, wildly successful. 1. American Airlines ...

December 19, 2013: Markets opened lower on Thursday, probably a result of profit taking after all the buying that followed Wednesday’s FOMC announcement. The three major indexes closed mixed. The DJIA ...