[update::02013.12.04] AMZN hit $399.00 on 02013.12.02.
This blog covers the stocks that are part of the GDT::Portfolio.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Amazon.com (AMZN) Nearing $400
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
NASDAQ Hits 4,000
"It's taken 13 years to get back. It just shows the magnitude of that bubble we expanded back in 1999 and 2000." -- Jack Ablin of BMO Private Bank
Friday, November 22, 2013
Illumina (ILMN) Nearing 1-Hecto-Dollar ($100)
[update::02013.11.23] ILMN's intra-day high yesterday was exactly 1-hecto-dollar ($100.00).
Spire (SPIR) Remains Open For Business
Spire issued a press release yesterday having the following headline: Spire Installs Turn-key PV Module Line in Partnership with an Eastern European Company. According to Spire's CEO Roger Little: There is a great deal of demand for solar in this region... I hoping Roger isn't bullshitting us.
SPIR closed yesterday (02013.11.21) at $0.56. Volume was only 1,901 (vs. 12,588). 52-week range: $0.11 - $0.99.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Yahoo! (YHOO) Increases Share Buyback Program
YHOO closed yesterday (02013.11.19) at $34.63. 52-week range: $18.20 - $36.19. In early morning trading today YHOO spiked to $35.82.
[update::02013.11.21] YHOO hit a new 52-week high yesterday (02013.11.20) of $36.22 before closing at $35.62. After the close Yahoo! announced "Pricing of Upsized Offering of $1.25 Billion Convertible Senior Notes Due 2018."
Thursday, November 14, 2013
NeuroMetrix (NURO) Spikes Up Again on Heavy Volume--Why?
Here is a summary of NURO's November prices. 02013.11.01 NURO closed at $1.53. 02013.11.06 NURO closed at $1.91. 02013.11.07 NURO close at $2.41 after hitting an intra-day high of $3.09 (volume was 9.55 million). 02013.11.08 NURO closed at $1.98. 02013.11.11 NURO closed at $1.83. 02013.11.12 NURO closed at $2.24.
Yesterday, 02013.11.13, NURO closed at $2.79. Volume was 4.42 million versus 0.33 million.
Today, 02013.11.14, pre-market (which means nothing to me), NURO is at $3.45 (up 16+%). 52-week range: $1.47 - $3.66.
[02013.11.14] NURO opened this morning at $3.04, spiked to an intra-day high of $3.09, and closed at $2.61 (down ~6.5%). Volume was 5.34 million vs. 0.33 million.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Red Hat (RHT) Gets Upgraded
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Cray (CRAY) Reports 3Q'13 Results
Actual results for any future period are subject to large fluctuations given the nature of Cray's business.
Generally, I don't like it when the CEO starts off press release with sentences like the following.
"We didn't achieve the financial results we were anticipating for the third quarter as a couple of large acceptances shifted out of the quarter, and we now expect to have both of them completed during the fourth quarter," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray.
CRAY closed yesterday at $22.21. 52-week range: $12.40 - $28.59.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Bought Some Twitter (TWTR)
I didn't want to chase, but TWTR needed to be a GDT::Porfolio stock for numerous reasons.
Geeknet (GKNT) Reports 3Q'13 Results
GKNT hit a new 52-week high of $19.97 on 02013.10.29 (just 8 trading days ago). Yesterday (02013.11.07) GKNT closed at $17.69. In otherwords, GKNT is down ~11.4% is eight days. Yuck! Especially for a stock that is an important stock in the GDT::Portfolio.
GKNT was at $18.89 (up 6.78% on minimal volume) at 11:07AM EST on 8 November 02013.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
NeuroMetrix (NURO) Spikes Up on Heavy Volume--Why?
[update::02013.11.07] I'm somewhat confused. It's 12:39pm EST and trading NURO volume is at 6,181,619. According to Yahoo! Finance there are approximately 3 million NURO shares. Note: NURO is at $2.76, up 45%.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Nanosphere (NSPH) Reports 3Q'13 Results
Nanosphere is re-affirming its 2013 revenue guidance of $10-11 million.Nanosphere re-affirms its 2013 new customer placement guidance of 150-200.
Nanosphere ended 3Q'13 with ~$49.3 million in "cash", which is ~$0.82 per NSPH share.
NSPH closed yesterday (02013.11.05) at $1.87. 52-week range: $1.72 - $4.49.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Twitter (TWTR) IPO is Nearing
Twitter raised its price range to $23 to $25 per share on Monday, but kept the offering size at 70 million shares. That means it will raise up to $2 billion if an overallotment option of 10.5 million shares is exercised.
Twitter's expected market value is $13.6 billion. Right now Facebook and LinkedIn have market values of $117.17 billion and $26.71 billion, respectively.
I'd be okay buying some TWTR at $25, but I won't chase it.
[update::02013.11.07] TWTR starts trading today (02013.11.07). Twitter went public at $26. I tried to placed an order to buy some TWTR at 8 $Pi ($25.13), but Scottrade.com didn't allow me to place the order. My Facebook status update today: "To buy or not to buy?" is not the question. The question is: "At what price to buy?" If TWTR is like GOOG, we might never buy; but, if TWTR is like FB, we'll buy.