Bonds update

It seems the 10yr yield is peaked around 3.5% in short term (at least there seems to be strong resistance at that level, technically) and the correlation between bonds and equity are getting better. 

Quarterly earning release stats

Over 100 companies have reported earnings for the most recent quarter. Here are some stats which might be interesting.

Apple's latest quarter earnings

A busy week. Heavy weight tech firms had their leadership shakeup and investors are also busy valuating which banks are better. Apple has a great earning release but Jobs is on sick leave again. Google wants to get the star-up feel back as Eric moves aside to deals, government, and customers duties. HP changes some of board members as the discontent of shareholders towards the handling of Mark Hurd mounts. These board/executive changes can be good or bad but I definitely think loss of Jobs will be a changing point for Apple. Business week has a good article talking about the issue: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_05/b4213006664366.htm

“Only Steve Jobs could have had the visionary spirit—and risk tolerance—to turn Apple into a mobile phone company” I totally agree. World’s second large company’s leader bears great pressure and I would be surprised to see Apple without Jobs keeps up with continuous meaningful innovations. Tim Cook is an operations genius which only guarantees profitable operations but probably not the long term super high growth some investors were imagining while holding the company’s stock.

Whatever happens next Apple’s staggering performance should be able to hold for a while I think. Here are some stats on this latest quarter’s earning. 

You might think I'm going too academic here.:) but after I read some journal articles about SUE (standardized unexpected earnings) I think it's useful somehow. Google it if you're interested.

an awesome quarter.

Next week

It should be exciting as Apple, Google, IBM, Ebay, F5 and bunch of banks report their earnings.

BTW, the financial sectors is still leading the way as JP Morgan reported positive development on banking sectors.

As the markets keeps going higher, the possibility of a pull back is increasing in my view. Here is SP500 chart with MACD indicators.

Intel's Earning Release 1-13-2011

New quarterly/annual reports start as Alcoa kicked off another round of earning releases on 1/10/2011.Intel reported on Thursday with great quarterly and annual results. However, the market reactions was not as great: 1% drop on the share price on Friday (Price is at 21.08).

Intel share price rose ~7.6% since last earning report while S&P500 gained ~10% and Nasdaq gained ~11%. It's sort of funny while investors all look at Intel for the signal of tech sector but just waiting to decide what else they should invest. People could still say it's still good to have INTC as part of portfolio to minimize risk and get dividend. So see if you belong to that group.

I like Intel's thoughts on security issues, plans for cloud computing and mobile computing but I would like to see those things payoff before I start to put it into my growth stock list:).

Now, let's take a look at the financials after Intel's latest report.

Sales growth and margins are all very good.

I guess it's pretty safe to say recession is really over by looking at Intel's EPS trend:). Again, great earnings (some upside surprise as well) but market didn't react well. I would say Intel won't beat the S&P500 by next quarter.

Previous quarterly report analysis on Intel:

http://mzexcel.blogspot.com/2010/10/intels-er.html

Monthly return by sectors

Notice how financials underperformed for the past few months and started to catch up since November. Also Energy sector has been strong since September, 2010. As economy shows good sign of recovery the energy sector might still lead but as for financials there are still some mortgage related headwinds.

(the monthly return I calculate here is arithmetic sum of daily return not exactly the real return but the difference is  negligible)

CGA: another accounting fraud?

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10963797/1/china-green-drops-on-research-note.html

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of China Green Agriculture(CGA_) closed 10% lower Tuesday after a small equities research firm issued a report accusing the company of fraud.

The firm, Beijing-based J Capital, said in its report that it had found "compelling evidence that China Green Agriculture ... has vastly inflated the sales and profit figures it reports to investors."

Just out of curiosity I took a look at the key annual ratios and M-scores for CGA. It does seems likely they manipulated their accounting from M-score. (if M is greater than -2.2 the probability of fraud is high)

you can google M score to know more about it or come here for a quick look: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beneishmodel.asp

it's a shame if this is true. Rio, one I mentioned before, has been delisted. 

old post about Chinese ADRs: http://mzexcel.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-thoughts-on-chinese-adrs.html