Microsoft Stock
Steve Ballmer’s run as the head of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ/MSFT) is winding down after his somewhat surprising decision to exit the company within a year. Yet the move may make the difference between Microsoft being a mediocre technology company or a technology company blazing ahead of its competitors,…
Everyone, myself included, is anxiously waiting for the new “iPhone” by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL), slated to be introduced to the market in September. However, I don’t think I would be counting BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ/BBRY) in this group, as the former high-flyer and king of smartphones could soon be…
BlackBerry (NASDAQ/BBRY;TSX/BB), formerly known as Research In Motion, surged 12% on Monday after an upgrade from Bernstein Research to an “Outperform” and a $22.00 price target. Market optimism toward the company’s newly launched “BlackBerry 10” (BB10) operating system and line of devices is driving some speculative money into…
When people think about blue-chips, they imagine a big, slow firm generating stable corporate earnings and a good dividend yield. Blue-chips, to most people’s minds, are not capable of new innovations or substantially increasing their corporate earnings and dividend yield. But Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ/MSFT) might be the exception…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ/MSFT) presented muted results after its fiscal first-quarter revenues were only marginally above estimates, while its earnings were in-line. The stock has been a disappointment over the past decade, becoming viewed as a boring technology play with limited growth and a lack of vision. While the…