Investopedia: Plenty Left To Do, But Signs Of Progress At Best Buy

I know that the skeptics on Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) are going to look at Tuesday's results and ask “What recovery?” After all, comps are...

Investopedia: Consumer Spending Looking Bleaker For Wal-Mart

It seems like hopes for a strong back-to-school season (not to mention a more general spending recovery overall) are fading away for Wal-Ma...

Investopedia: BlackBerry Finally Looking For A Bidder, But Will A Real Buyer Bite?

It looks like an outbreak of rationality has hit BlackBerry (Nasdaq: BBRY ), as the company announced on Monday that it had formed a speci...

Investopedia: Groupon Takes Another Step Forward

The once beaten-up Internet 2.0 stocks are coming back with a vengeance. Groupon (Nasdaq: GRPN ) still has a long way to go to match Facebo...

Investopedia: At A Minimum, Amazon Is Consistent

Although Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN ) is not close to being my favorite internet stock, it's hard for me not to admire the company on multipl...

Investopedia: EMC May Be Stronger Than It Looks

So far, this is looking like a quarter where the IT hardware space is still in rough shape, but not quite as bad as feared. That's good...

Investopedia: Netflix Results Are Always About Tomorrow

Subscription video service Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ) posted good results relative to Wall Street expectations, but once again it's the ...

Investopedia: Another Bad Quarter Highlight's Microsoft's Growth-Vs-Value Problem

Just when you think you've found a fool-proof business, a better fool evolves to mess things up. I've long thought that Microsoft (...

Investopedia: eBay Seems Undervalued, But Wall Street Will Need Convincing

It has to be a source of frustration to some investors that Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN ) can basically ignore margins and cash flow and get awa...

Seeking Alpha: Weak Metalworking Corroding MSC Industrial's Growth

When I last wrote on MSC Industrial ( MSM ) about a month ago, I suggested that the solid average daily sales growth being reported by Gra...

Investopedia: Fastenal Still Growing, But Still Highly Valued

Even when sluggish manufacturing activity weighs down growth in the industrial distribution/MRO space, Fastenal (Nasdaq: FAST ) still manag...

Seeking Alpha: If MSC Industrial Doesn't Beat, What Does It Say About The Business?

Successful investing often requires a fair bit of diligence and ongoing data collection, but there is always a risk of drawing lines betwe...

Investopedia: IBM Spends $2 Billion To Improve Its Offense ... And Defense

There aren't any full-time two-way players in football anymore (players that can play both offense and defense), but the concept still ...

Investopedia: F5 Networks On Its Heels, But Hasn't Fallen Down Yet

There are only a handful of tech companies that aren't seeing significant pressure on their revenue growth these days, so in that resp...

Investopedia: EMC Opening Its Wallet And Bracing For The Next Evolution Of The Market

These are busy times for EMC (NYSE: EMC ). It may not look like it, given the sleepy state of the IT hardware market, but like a duck mov...

Investopedia: Pandora Goes Up To 11

Seeing the performance of internet stocks like Facebook (NYSE: FB ) and Pandora (NYSE: P ), I really need to remember to eat my own cooki...

Investopedia: After A Big Rally, It's Up To Renew Blue For Best Buy

It wasn't so long again when the buy/avoid decision on Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ) came down to the relatively simple discussion of whether ...

Investopedia: Overheated Expectations Send Rackspace Investors To The Torture Chamber

Successful investing demands a careful balance between confidence in your own subjective analysis and a willingness to acknowledge that you...

Investopedia: Is Microsoft Hitting Up Barnes & Noble For Some Nook(ie)?

Even though Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS ) still sports a billion-dollar enterprise value , investors and analysts have hardly been bullis...

Investopedia: Slower Growth And Better Margins Probably Won't Help Amazon

If you ask most of the sell-side analysts and investors who follow Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN ) if they want high growth or stronger margins...