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HP Brings Curtain Down on Annus Horribilis Fiscal 2012
Last week, Hewlett-Packard stock traded below $13 a share. Closing Friday at $12.85, the shares finished the week at their lowest level since the fall of 2002. On Monday, the stock recovered by more...
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Can the Hedge Fund Dudes Save Groupon's Stock?
Here’s something you haven’t seen in a while — Groupon shares rose more than 36 percent last week after Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management disclosed Monday that it had bought 65 million shares....
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A Look at Two Dell Buyout Scenarios
If the reported talks to take Dell private are indeed serious, it would amount to one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals since before the financial crisis of 2008. It would also be risky for those...
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IBM Has Challenges, but Still Looks Solid Going Into Q4 Earnings Report
Computing giant IBM will report earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 and the full year today, after the close of markets in New York. Analysts expect Big Blue to report per-share earnings of $5.25...
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HP Earnings Better Than Feared, but Still Not Great
Shares of Hewlett-Packard are rising by more than 5 percent in premarket trading this morning, following Thursday’s quarterly earnings report that blew right past the consensus. But HP is by no means...
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Eyes on IBM Results Amid Slowing in Enterprise Tech Spending
Computing and IT services giant IBM will report earnings today after markets close for trading in New York. As usual, its results and guidance will be seen as a key indicator of the state of tech...
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IBM's First Earnings Miss in Eight Years Is Red Flag for the Rest of the IT...
It’s a rare thing for the computing and tech services giant IBM to miss the consensus expectation when it reports quarterly earnings. If Big Blue can’t hit its numbers, the thinking goes, it’s probably...
View ArticleApple's Record Plunge Into Debt Pool
Apple Inc. sold the largest corporate-bond deal in history Tuesday, a $17 billion offering investors hungrily gobbled up. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG sold the debt for Apple to...
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How Far Will Dell Shares Fall if the Buyout Proposal Fails?
If all goes as expected, shareholders of struggling computer company Dell will on Wednesday finally have a chance to vote on the $24.4 billion leveraged buyout proposed by CEO Michael Dell and private...
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HP Is Swimming Upstream as Turnaround Efforts Falter
Shares of the computing giant Hewlett-Packard opened lower by more than nine percent this morning after the company reported third-quarter earnings that fell short of consensus expectations, and as CEO...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable's Suitors Lining Up Funds for Bid
Charter Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with banks to borrow money for a bid for Time Warner Cable Inc., according to people familiar with the situation — a sign that the scrappy cable...
View ArticleTwitter Shares Draw Lukewarm Ratings From Underwriters
The underwriters for Twitter Inc.’s initial public offering aren’t chirping about prospects for gains in the stock. As the five lead underwriters for the social-media company’s IPO rolled out their...
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