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1) Technically Speaking, Earnings Roll On + Vic Wisemann’s Thoughts on: INTC, AMD, CSCO, QCOM, NVDA, DRIV and SYMC
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As earnings season continues to roll on, you may be thinking there are no more companies worth looking at. However, a leader in the stock market's lengthy climb, technology, still has some interesting figures to report. The tech sector has already strongly outperformed the rest of the markets this year and is the reason the Nasdaq has performed so well. Technology in widely expected to continue to perform well in these tough economic conditions and this should be reflected in the upcoming earnings releases.
Last month investors heard third-quarter financial results from Intel (INTC), the world's largest semiconductor company, which kicked off the technology earnings season, with rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) reporting just two days later. Both companies were expected to benefit from an improving consumer PC market, and an anticipated increase in corporate demand.
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Intel's report was blockbuster and the key takeaway was that the news is finally good rather than "not as bad as it could be." The company reported net income of $1.9 billion, or 33 cents per share, beating analysts’ expectations of 28 cents per share. Last year, however, profit was $2.0 billion, or 35 cents a share; so as good as thing are, they are not quite back. Sales were also above expectations coming in at $9.4 billion compared to Wall Street's forecast of $9.0 billion.
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As if the good news wasn't good enough, the company also offered guidance for the fourth quarter that was stellar. INTC set a fourth quarter number of $10.1 billion versus the expected $9.9 billion, and a 62 percent gross margin. The company says a better-than-expected back-to-school shopping season gives it much better visibility into the seasonally strong fourth quarter. And it looks good, thanks to a stronger consumer and new strength from China.
Read on to see how you can still profit from technology companies this earnings season.
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