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Micron Technology - Earnings Report and Investing Thesis (MU)

This post is a follow up on my earlier promise to provide a thesis for adding a small Micron position to the Secular Trends Portfolio. With Fiscal Q3 earnings out today as well, I’ll also prep for that and give a modest report after hearing the conference call.
Many readers have been wondering, quite bluntly, “Why [...]

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Trims & Trades for Secular Trends Portfolio

The Secular Trends Portfolio has enjoyed a quiet (0% turnover) first quarter, and now sits with about 20% of outperformance over our benchmark S&P 500. Internally, the portfolio has seen widely divergent returns within the individual holdings, causing the weightings to “get off the rails” from where I’d like them to be.
As such, I am [...]

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Read more on S&P 500 (SPX), Petrobras, NVIDIA at Wikinvest

Reading the Tea Leaves at China Mobile (CHL)

There has been a lot of confusion around China Mobile’s (CHL) future prospects in the wireless market. China Mobile is currently building out a 3G network standard known as TD-SCDMA, created in China and rife with protectionistic tones and technical snafus. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has mandated that China Mobile build [...]

NVIDIA Beats Expectations, Cautiously Optimistic for 2009

Graphics chip producer NVIDIA reported earnings after the bell Thursday, and the company exceeded reduced estimates thanks to a recent design win from Apple (AAPL) and cost-cutting efforts. NVDA shares responded well in the after-hours session (up 7%) after giving up 10% in the regular trading session. Because the quarter included most of October (through [...]

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The Alpha Male of Tech Stocks Reports Earnings - Thoughts on Cisco

Cisco has long been one of the best barometers for corporate spending levels, small business growth, bandwidth growth, and the technology sector as a whole. They also have about a 50/50 split between domestic and international revenues, so their quarterly reports and guidance also ping the international markets quite well.
Boilerplate Numbers
The headline figures for the [...]

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Asian Markets Up; China Mobile to Report Today (CHL)

The Shanghai Index has been essentially flat today, but other Asian markets are markedly higher on the news of a $150 billion “backstop” plan by South Korea for loans and bank capital; The Hang Seng was up over 4% in mid-day trading, while the Nikkei was up about 3%.
The other big news today was China’s [...]

China Mobile Looks Like Value Stock, Smells Like Growth (CHL)

I’ve been intrigued at just the concept of “China Mobile” for many years. It stands to reason that some company is going to lead the way in providing mobile phone services to the Chinese economy, and that company would make truckloads of money in the process. China Mobile (CHL) is the definite #1 at more [...]