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Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) 吉联雅科技
公司为世界第5大生物制药企业,美国前防长拉姆斯菲尔德是公司股东之一,公司主要从事抗病毒药物研发,禽流感唯一特效药’达菲‘的专利持有人,股价在历史新高附近徘徊。
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何时推出美股十大熊股...
thanks
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好贴,做个记号。
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成长股探讨之六:Dolby Laboratories Inc. (DLB)
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. engages in the development and delivery of products and technologies for the entertainment industry.
专利许可费是公司收入的核心构成部分。公司总体毛利率高达89%。净现金7.8亿美金,并以每年2亿的速度递增。
多重增长推动力量。在DVD接近饱和之际,数字电视、移动终端、数字水印防伪等领域将成为公司持续成长的推动力。尤其是移动多媒体终端市场,在3g、4g引领下可能持续超预期。
当前股价35.56.管理层预期09财年(090930止)的EPS区间为1.66---1.91$。
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空中网:3G概念,手机网络游戏概念,社区概念
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亚信科技,52周新高价格附近
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网易,最近也是52周新高,历史最高价格
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中国概念股票创52周新高的:
盛大:游戏平台概念
空中:3G概念,手机网络游戏概念,社区概念
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TNDM出现急跌,难道是GOOGLE VOICE引发的?
HGG再次调高业绩预期。
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Corning Inc. (GLW)
把GLW贴在这里,多少牵强。但说不定它也成为一个成长股,如果全球LCD TV的增长势头继续个5年的话。呵呵。
我就不多说了。让BARRON'S的文章来注解吧。
短线涨幅太大。回撤整理后似乎值得一试。
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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009
FEATURE
Corning Goes Prime Time
By SANDRA WARD | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR
Corning, which supplies the glass for more than half of the LCD market, is riding the sharp run-up in the worldwide demand for flat-panel TVs.
THIS DOWNTURN WILL MOST CERTAINLY CONTINUE TO BE TELEVISED.
To the surprise of just about everyone, sales of LCD flat-panel televisions have stayed healthy around the world amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. February unit sales of LCD, or liquid-crystal-display, TVs rose 39% in the U.S. from the year-earlier period, according to the consumer research outfit NPD Group. Sales in Japan rose 30% year over year. Europe posted a 49% gain, and China a 109% leap -- both based on January data, the latest available, from BCN Ranking, a consumer electronics research group in Japan.
Scott Pollack for Barron's
That demand, coupled with sharply curtailed inventories of glass and glass panels used to make LCD TVs and monitors, is creating a nice reversal of fortune at the world's premier maker of specialty glass: Corning (ticker: GLW). The nearly 160-year-old company, which has a market value of about $24 billion, now expects to report a profit in the first quarter, excluding special items, compared with a previous break-even forecast for the quarter.
Corning, which supplies the glass for more than half the LCD market and derives about 90% of its net income from those sales, now expects its total glass volume for the first quarter to be flat to down 5% -- a sharp contrast to its earlier forecast of a decline of 20% to 25%. The company cites an increase in glass orders at both its wholly owned business as well as its Samsung Corning Precision Glass joint venture, based in Seoul.
Though worldwide sales of televisions are expected to fall this year by about 4% -- the first significant decline since the energy crisis in 1975 -- Corning sees LCD TV sales rising by about 9%, as these sets, increasingly more affordable, take market share from the bulky cathode-ray-tube televisions that suddenly seem so old-fashioned.
With business trends firmly on the upswing, expect a rapid acceleration in orders and profits at Corning in the second and third quarters, says Jeff Evenson, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. Last week he raised his 2009 earnings estimate for Corning sharply higher, to 94 cents a share from 65 cents, versus $1.53 in 2008. His estimate for 2010 remains unchanged at $1.11 a share.
Longer term, and as economic recovery takes hold, Thornburg Investment Management portfolio manager Connor Browne sees Corning's earnings reaching a run rate of $1.50 a share annually. Attaching a normalized multiple of 15 to those earnings would value the stock at $22.50 a share, or 50% up from the current level of about $15.
At recent levels, Corning trades at a multiple of about 16 times Evenson's estimated earnings for 2009 and 13.7 times 2010 projections.
Be forewarned: Corning is up about 60% from the start of the year and has risen more than 100% from its Nov. 21 low of $7.36, so the shares likely will be susceptible to some profit-taking.
Bolstering the company's outlook are improving utilization trends at the set-assembly and panel-making companies in Asia. Taiwan's average factory utilization rates jumped to 40% in February, from a low of 20% in December. Rates in Korea came close to hitting 80% in February, from under 50% in December.
A report last week in Digitimes, which tracks developments in Taiwan's information-technology industry, noted that AU Optronics and Chi Mei Optoelectronics -- two important Corning customers -- are expanding their LCD panel capacity to meet demand driven by China's new subsidy program for consumer electronics in rural areas.
IN ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TIMES, the giant U.S.-based electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY), in reporting better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results, noted that it underestimated demand for flat-panel televisions and was caught off guard with low inventory levels. Promotional pricing by retailers and America's conversion to digital broadcast signals spurred sales to unexpected levels.
Corning does face challenges: The slowdown in consumer spending is still an issue, and price wars are always a threat. The company's other businesses, providing optic fiber to the telecommunications industry and emissions control systems to the automotive industry, remain under intense pressure amid this severe economic slowdown.
Nonetheless, Corning is well positioned to ride out the slump. Management, led by Chief Executive Wendell Weeks, wasted no time in implementing a "ring of defense" plan last fall to protect the company's financial health, reducing production, adjusting compensation, lowering capital expenditures, eliminating positions and offering early retirement to workers. Corning has $2.8 billion in cash on hand, compared with debt of about $1.6 billion, and expects to end the year with positive cash flow.
The Bottom Line
The shares, already up more than 100% from their low this past November, could eventually climb another 50%. Management is making smart moves to combat the recession.The company has proved especially strong at managing its inventory, paring it by some 40% and idling plant capacity to avoid buildups.
Not for a minute is Corning retrenching. Instead, it is hoping to use its financial strength to make strategic acquisitions in areas that would add to its revenue and income and provide some diversification from the LCD glass business. One possible approach: buying the half of its Dow Corning joint venture that it doesn't already own from Dow Chemical. The venture owns 63% of Hemlock Semiconductor, the world leader in polysilicon production for the semiconductor industry and the fast-growing solar market.
Clearly, this is a company investors should stay tuned to.