Old Glory UNISYS CP (UIS) may be my May stock pick April 30, 2009
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ERTS Electronic Arts videogame company investsted heavily on research and sits on cash equal to more than one-third of its stock market value April 30, 2009
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Our friends at Smartmoney brought up a very interesting index:
It looks like this index is just 5 for electronic ERTS. The price of this stock has gone so far down that the entire company is worth just fiver times the amount they spent last year on research.
Also… by looking at stats:
We notice ERTS sits on cash equivalent to one third of its Market Price.
The company is not doing very well lately. Probably because they didn’t expect Nintendo Wii success and didn’t make enough games for this brand new platform.
What is P/R&D (Price/Research and Development) Ratio for stocks? April 30, 2009
Posted by deminvest in Internet stocks, growth stock, investment, investment strategies, nasdaq, stock faq, stock ratios.Tags: development, index, price, ratio, research, stock
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Price/R&D Ratio equals to current market capitalization divided by last year R&D expenditure.
This ratio is very important to evaluate research based business. For instance a pharmaceutical company has to invest heavily in research to replace its product as they lose patent protection or become obsolete.
Of course not all research can succeed in delivering good results, so there is no guarantee that a company with low P/R&D ratio will produce great earnings in the future.
Research and development are booked as expenses. Money which is gone like what if it was spent on electricity or heating.
This is not entirely correct, specially for Internet companies.
A transportation company that buys a new truck books it as an asset that will make money for them over its lifetime. Only the depreciation of the truck will be booked every year as expense.
An Internet Company adding a new function to its website has to book the investment as expense.
A functional website looks more like an asset than an expense. It can be a money making engine like google.com or Ebay.com . In my opinion money used to buid a new google.com feature should be booked as an asset improvement .
Will Cloudonimics (Cluod Economics) be the next “big thing”? April 27, 2009
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Cloud computing. One more battlegroung for Google and Microsoft
Google, Amazon, IBM and Ebay will probably have advantages in a “Cloud Economics” scenario.
Microsoft and maybe Apple could be damaged.
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Solution to “no sound problem”
Open
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Add the following line to the end of the file
options options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable_msi=1
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
Today I will buy a 7% yielding high risk Municipal Bonds ETF: HYD Market Vectors High-Yield Municipal Index ETF April 27, 2009
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municipal bonds are bonds by local administrations
US government bailed out automakers and banks. Will Obama let local administrations fail?
Since my opinion is that US government will bail out local administrations, I am buying a 7% yielding municipal bond ETF.
Market Vectors High-Yield Municipal Index ETF [HYD] is high risk, it buys bods that are even below investment grade. Here is some data:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AHYD
here is the prospect:
http://www.vaneck.com/sld/vaneck/offerings/prospectuses/HYD_Prospectus.Pdf
