CNBC.com has a fun little tool they call the Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio Tracker, and based on the latest SEC filings, it does exactly what the title suggests. Of the list, the top 10 holdings range …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Oct 19th to Oct 23rd:
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Last week it was Intel (INTC) and Seagate (STX), yesterday it was IBM, and today it’s VmWare (VMW), all reporting results and issuing guidance that speak to weak demand from businesses for hardware and services. …
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Activist investing has been one of the pillars of the six year bull market. And no target has been too big. Apple felt the pressure from Carl Icahn and returned more cash, Nelson Peltz pressured …
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Last Monday we took a look at IBM following the announcement of DELL and EMC’s intention to merge. While IBM could be a candidate to split some its faster growing cloud based businesses from their slower …
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Earlier today we had some thoughts on the EMC / DELL link up (A Shell Game of Declining Levered Assets), Spoiler Alert: we were not complimentary. The proposed deal, if consummated in the coming year, would …
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In case you missed it, there’s a hip new acronym FANG, grouping four U.S. tech stocks that make up $1 trillion in market capitalization: Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and the newly renamed Alphabet (GOOGL). These …
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This past Thursday I tool a look at Dupont (DD) and had the following to say regarding the potential for further activist investor interest (Activist Foxcatcher): I suspect we will see activist involvement soon enough, but …
Continue readingYesterday, cloud computing vendor Workday (WDAY) held an analyst meeting, and the stock’s 5% decline today reflects investors disappointment. Let’s first get a sense for where the stock is and where it has been and …
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The financial media highlights quarterly changes in large institutional investor holdings from their from 13F filings, which are submitted four times a year. It’s important to note that these filings are due 45 days after …
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