HPQ stock has had quite the turnaround. Ever since its capitulation low in November, the stock has more than doubled, and is up more than 75% so far in 2013. The stock’s bottom and subsequent …
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Event: HPQ reports their fiscal Q2 earnings tonight after the close. The options market is implying about an 8% move vs the 4 qtr avg move of about 9%. Sentiment: Wall Street analysts remain on …
Continue readingMorningWord 4/5/13: Since the depths of the financial crisis, long prior to QE 1,2 2.5 & 3, there has been a fun little parlor game taking place on almost every trading floor on the first …
Continue readingMorningWord 4/4/13: This morning Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded their rating on MSFT from Buy to Hold, their first rating change on the shares since September 2008. The re-rating appears to be largely …
Continue readingMorningWord 4/3/13: At this stage of the bull market, as the Dow and the SPX make new all time highs on a daily basis, it is gonna take a bit more than dart throwing on …
Continue readingHPQ is another of the many left-for-dead stocks (NFLX and BBY among those that we’ve most discussed) that has quickly doubled over the past 6 months. But HPQ stands out because it is by far …
Continue readingMorningWord 4/2/13: Yesterday I read an interesting post on Barron’s Tech Trader Daily Blog detailing a research note from a MS hardware analyst Huberty titled, “HPQ: New Exec Incentives Could Boost Cash, Says Morgan Stanley”. …
Continue readingEvent: HPQ reports fiscal 2013 Q1 earnings tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 6.5% move on earnings, which is shy of the 7.5% average over the last 4 qtrs. Sentiment: …
Continue readingLast week the SPX had a rough three and half days of trading where Monday’s opening tick was practically the high and Friday’s shortened 1pm close was the the dead low. World debt and equity …
Continue readingThis is a preview of what I will be discussing on Options Action tonight: HPQ reports their fiscal Q4 on Monday Nov 21st after the close. The options market is implying about a 7% move …
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