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Acme Packet: A Great Cloud Computing Stock

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, Earnings, Economy, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, Technology

But I’d rather not invest in the automotive industry (which I discussed yesterday), where high debt levels remain a problem and profit margins seldom top 5%.
I’d rather invest in an industry that’s booming, an industry where the profit margins are high and the stocks are strong.
Today, the industry that best fills the bill is “cloud [...]

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Forbes Releases Foggy View of Cloud Computing
Acme Packet (APKT) Punishes Investors
Bookkeeping: Buying Back Some Acme Packet (APKT)
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The Truth About Tesla Motors

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economy, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stocks, Technology

While Thomas Edison is arguably the best-known American inventor, a cult following has grown up around Nikola Tesla, the Serbian engineer whose skills as an inventor, perhaps superior to Edison’s, were undermined by his inferior business sense.
And this cult MAY have reached its peak on June 29, when the electric car company named Tesla Motors [...]

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Finisar: Worth a Little Nibble

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, Earnings, Economy, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, Technology

As always, during this difficult market period I am working hard at building my Watch List and keeping it up to date.  That last part—keeping it up to date—is difficult right now because earnings season is again upon us.  And that means a daily dose of big gaps up and down among growth stocks, depending [...]

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Study: Growth Stocks Don’t Grow
Growth Investing: What Is Growth Investing?
Why We Are Dividend Growth Investors
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A Stock for the Smart Phone Revolution

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, Earnings, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Stocks, Technology

I’d been planning to write something about Apple’s new iPhone 4 for some time, but I wanted to wait until I actually got mine, which finally happened last Thursday.
So far, so (mostly) good with the iPhone. I was previously a Verizon (VZ) customer with a non-smart phone, which served me well over the years. But [...]

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NetApp: The Newest Stock on my Watch List

July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Cabot, Earnings, Education, Growth Investing, Investing, Momentum, Stock Market, Stocks, Technology

Moving on to the market, I’m optimistic that the bottom of the May-June correction has passed, and that the market is now gathering strength in preparation for a new leg up.
I’m optimistic in part because so many people are pessimistic!  I think the unrelenting media focus on the BP oil leak has really skewed people’s [...]

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