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by | January 28, 2015 · 12:33 pm

Tech Rally today

Nasdaq had a bad day yesterday and slid -1,89%, but the major index is the only one that is in positive territory for the year. One of the biggest losers on Nasdaq yesterday was Microsoft. Down -9,25%.

Microsoft reported earnings of 72 cents per share on $26,47 billion in revenue for the second fiscal quarter, but the revenue was better than analysts estimations. The negative is the weaker than expected Windows non-Pro revenues which is down -13% YoY, and the commercial license declined 2%.

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(Picture: Microsoft down -9,25%)

CEO Satya Nadella said it doesn`t take much longer time to successfully transition from a licensing sales focused firm into a software as a service firm. Microsoft`s cloud business doubled and came in on $5,5 billion i sales. Xbox sales fell to 6,6 million units (from 7,4 million) in sales.

Caterpillar was another big company that slid yesterday. Down -7,18%. The company delivered a shockingly weak outlook for this year and investors got scared. It seems like Caterpillar is in big trouble.

Analysts expected earnings of $1,55 a share but it fell about 20%, landing on $1,23 a share. Its Q4 operating profit slumped 27% YoY. Lower oil prices is negative for their construction business. Caterpillar lowered its 2015 sales expectations for mining and construction equipment, and that was not music in investors ears.

Good news is coming later today. First of all; Alibaba is coming out with the second report as a public company. The Chinese e-commerce giant is expected to post a quarter of tremendous growth. EPS is expected to grow 39% YoY! It`s also expected a massive 48% improvement in YoY revenue!

It is expected to see Tmall and Taobao to deliver strong revenue momentum on the back of higher e-commerce penetration in China. Alibaba has an ongoing international expansion and the stock is up 3,3% in three months.

ATH is 119,15 which is from 10 November last year. The stock was down -1,01% yesterday, and there are some short interest in the stock right now. The opening trade is now $102,94. 52-week low is registered as $82,81. Outstanding shares are 2,465,006,000. The stock is priced richly with Alibaba`s market cap now over $250 billion, but the market is looking for huge surging numbers which could validate the company`S valuation.

Yahoo! Is set for a rally today, trading up about 8% AHT. The company is spinning off Yahoo`s $39 billion stake in Alibaba Group Holding. The anticipated decision announced yesterday will enable Yahoo to avoid paying billions of dollars in future taxes.

A newly formed entity called SpinCo will inherit ownership of the company`s 384 million shares in China`s Alibaba Group Holding when the tax-free spinoff is completed toward the end 2015. Owner of Yahoo shares will receive stocks in SpinCo, which is designed as an investment company.

The old giant is struggling to grow and the firm earned $166 million, or 17 cents per share. Down -52% from the same periode last year. Yahoo`s revenue dipped 1% to $1,25 billion, and investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan is the main reason Yahoo`s stock has more than trippled last years.

They have a 36 stake in Yahoo Japan, worth about $7 billion. The Alibaba investment is worth far more than their own online services, and their competitors like Facebook and Google have grabbed a big piece of the digital marketing budget.

Have a closer look at Apple today. The stock is also set for a rally. Up about 7% ATH. Revenue rose to $74,6 billion from $57,6 billion a year earlier. Profit of $18 billion is the biggest ever! Apple reported net profit of $18,02 billion, or $3,06 per diluted share, compared to $13,07 billion, or $2,07 per share a year earlier. Apple faced a clear headwind from a strong dollar.

 

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by | October 24, 2014 · 5:32 pm

Transportation Stocks are Outperforming the DOW

Timing can improve your investment results and Charles Dow knew that better than anyone else 100 years ago. Some say that timing is everything, but it isn`t. Timing is interpretation. To watch the swings of the stock market are more important than ever for protecting your hard-earned investments.

Some investors are negative and some are positive. Positive investors say that the economy is good, but how do we know that? The strong rally lately is being led higher by economically sensitive groups like transports. I like to watch the Dow Jones Transportation Average Index (DJTA), which is closely watched to confirm the state of the U.S economy.

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As you can see from the chart above, the transports take what the industrials make, and that simply confirm the trend of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). DJIA will follow DJTA. In other words; if the DJTA is declining while the DOW is climbing, it may signal economic weakness ahead.

What you see in the transportation industry affects almost all other industries covered in the DJI. Wal-Mart and Home Depot (on the DJI) rely on transportation shipments to stock their stores. Also Coca-Cola, IBM and Caterpillar use transportation. Transportation providers can bid for higher contract prices, making their own outlook more positive and causing the DJT to rally. At the same time, the anticipated outlook of the transportation industry`s customers is reflected in its stock prices and the performance of the DJI follows DJT.

It may be a divergence in the two indices and if you see that signal, you know that the demand for transport is falling, which means the nationwide demand for goods is declining too. A bad sign. It didn`t look good at the beginning of September this year, but it turned up again 15 days later.

Airlines and railroads outperform the broader market and continue to expand revenue. In the last five days, the transportation stocks are up 6,24%, while S&P 500 is up only the half. Transportation stocks will continue to move higher as the energy price remain low. Dow Jones Transportation Average is up +15,18% YTD.

The best performer on the list so far in 2014 is Delta Air lines (DAL), which is up +41,57% YTD, followd by Alaska Air Group (ALK), up 37,14%. Avis Budget Group (CAR) is up +31,10% YTD, while FedEx Corp (FDX) is up only +13,40% YTD.

The economy continue to improve and a good indicator is, among others, the strong third-quarter earnings from Caterpillar yesterday. Caterpillar reported better than expected results in the third quarter and lifted its profits outlook for the year to $6,50 a share, up 5,5%.

Some popular ETF funds is iShares Dow Jones Transportation Average Fund (IYT), which represents the most popular way to track the transport sector. The fund manager have invested in a small basket of 21 securities, and this fund is heavily exposed to the railroad industry.

SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN) is another one, with 39 securities in the basket. This fund is heavily exposed to trucking and airlines. The fund has been a good performer since they started the rally in November 2012.

Guggenheim Shipping ETF (SEA) is the worst performing ETF on the list. The fund tracks 27 shipping company stocks with high degree of risk.

If you want to check where the economy and the DJI stands, make sure to check the DJT as well. If the DJI is up while the DJT is down, you know that something is wrong, but right now, DJT is up about 16% YTD, while DJI is up about 1% YTD.

 

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