January 25, 2022 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, MSFT |
Last night after the close of trading, IBM (IBM) reported earnings (excluding one-time items) of $3.35 a share for the December quarter. Analysts were looking for $3.23. Gross margin was 56.9%, beating the 56.1% analysts expected. Which leads to the important question of whether BIG TECH earnings and revenue reports, due in the next week, will stabilize stock prices/
January 17, 2021 | Daily JAM |
…earnings season to heat up after the big banks kicked off reporting on Friday. Tuesday brings more bank earnings from Bank of America (BAC) on Tuesday and Morgan Stanley (MS) on Wednesday before we move to big players in other sectors including Procter & Gamble (PG), Intel (INTC), and Netflix (NFLX).
October 18, 2020 | Daily JAM |
...earnings season to move into full swing. Monday brings earnings reports from IBM (IBM), from PetsMed Express (PETS) in the red-hot pet sector, and Logitech International (LOGI), a key player in the computer peripherals market. Tuesday includes consumer powerhouse...
May 22, 2020 | Daily JAM, HBI, Special Reports |
It'a gotten so that I shudder whenever a stock in my Dividend Portfolio gets near the day for the company to announce the dividend payout for the upcoming quarter. Too often, lately, the news has been grim: General Motors (GM) suspended its dividend for the second...
April 18, 2020 | Daily JAM |
... earnings season to shift into second gear with reports from IBM, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Delta, and Netflix. IBM (IBM) kicks off the week with its report on Monday after the market close. IMB isn't the market mover that it once was but it is the first major...
November 12, 2019 | CMI, CMWAY, Daily JAM, DLR, IEF, ITW, KMI, MRK, MSFT, OKE, PAC, PFXF, Special Reports, VZ, WBK |
Just to put all the changes in my Dividend Portfolio in one list after my Special Report 3 Ways to Higher Income in a Low Yield Desert Here are the sells: Bank of America (BAC) as of November 1 ING Group (ING) as of November 1 Tapestry (TPR) as of November 1 Westpac...
July 18, 2019 | Daily JAM |
IBM? I can hear you saying. Yes, IBM (IBM) and I will even add the stock to my Dividend Portfolio tomorrow, July 19. IBM reported second quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday, Wednesday July 18. And in many ways it looked like typical disappointing IBM...
June 18, 2019 | CTVA, Daily JAM, Special Reports, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
This isn't  time for investing as usual. As whacky as the first half of 2019 has been--the Federal Reserve embraces interest rate cuts, the U.S. and China descend further into a trade war, the U.S. economy turns in better than 3% growth but fears for a slowdown in...
July 19, 2018 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need |
In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don't justify a full post. I've decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I'm calling Notes...
May 4, 2018 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need |
In my daily trawling through the market I come upon lots of tidbits of knowledge that I think are important to investors but that don’t justify a full post. I’ve decided to start compiling these notes here each day in a kind of running mini blog that I’m calling Notes You Need. A representative item resembles this from today: “11:40 a.m.: Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway has completely sold all its shares of IBM. At the end of the fourth quarter, Berkshire Hathaway held 2.05 million shares of IBM.”
October 18, 2017 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Who says “Almost” only counts in horseshoes? IBM (IBM) announced a 0.4% year over year decline in third-quarter revenue –making it 22 straight quarters of declining revenue–but the 0.4% drop is the closest that IBM has come to revenue growth in more than five years. And the company projected that revenue would actually grow year over year in the fourth quarter
June 7, 2017 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need |
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