All Entries Tagged With: "$IBM"
Dell and HP Chess Game Continues
When Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) announced on August 16th that it would acquire storage provider 3Par Inc. (NYSE:PAR) for $18/share in cash, the deal didn’t attract a lot of scrutiny because it made sense given Dell’s success in building its large enterprise business. When Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) made a counter-offer of $24/share a few days later, [...]
Big Tech Stuck In “Cheap” Limbo?
In last week’s issue of Barron’s, Michael Santoli’s column “Not-So-Happy Talk at Happy Hour” says that professional investors “seem to be in persistent state of reverse sticker shock regarding Big Tech stocks.” The marquee names of the go-go tech market of the ’90s look “too cheap” by most measures, and have for a couple of [...]
IBM Issues Bonds – Pays Just 1%
According to the WSJ MarketBeat, deflation worries sent the yield on 2-year US Treasury notes to an all-time record low yield on August 3 of just 0.53%. But what’s really interesting is that the same day IBM raised $1.5 billion selling 3-year bonds. The yield? Just 1%. Bloomberg says that’s the lowest coupon rate of [...]
Going Deep In The Money (DITM)
As an alternative to buying a stock or ETF, sometimes traders buy “deep-in-the-money” (DITM) call options instead. What makes this strategy attractive is that you can take advantage of the price movement of 100 shares of a stock or ETF while risking less money. But like all strategies, there’s no free lunch because there are [...]
