Buying IBM,YHOO,ERTS

[rds91]

Hey guys...Booya to you all! What do u guys think about buying IBM YHOO and ERTS? I want opinions..thanks!:D

[Lou]

why so heavy in tech with a cooling economy?

[rds91]

why so heavy in tech with a cooling economy?
But look at the charts and opinions of MSN and other people...don't u think they are perfect...just take a look

[who8me2k7]

I'd personally buy microsoft at this point...they seem to be on a strong uptrend.

[2 Worldz]

I currently own yahoo and ERTS. ERTS will sell Playstation 3 games like candy. I will like to see sixty bucks from ERTS. I am pissed at YHOO but am on HOLD. No dividend either? I also own INTC(bought at 52 week low), DELL and would like to get in MSFT. If you are wonder how i own all these stocks in my with my $16,200 scottrade account(getting closer to the 20K). I also control my parents Scottrde account with about 40.

[Lou]

http://personalmro.fidelity.com/products/funds/content/sector/cycle.shtml

[BuyOnDips]

Great link Lou.

[Lou]

Id buy IBM. Thats they only tech company Ive ever owned. Its a value play right now. ERTS. They are linked to video games. Thats a crap shoot. Their product line isnt all that good. YAHOO just blows. Thats a dying company. Why waste your money.

[sam14]

Does anyone own MSPD? I bought some back in may @ 3.56 the stocks been going down ever since. should i buy more @ 1.73? Any advice welcomed.:cry:

[BuyOnDips]

I just looked at the MSPD chart. That is one ugly chart. I feel for you Sam. I know nothing about the company. People on the yahoo board are saying CNXT had a bad earnings reports and that might indicate the MSPD could also have a bad earnings report.

Their charts are very similar:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=CNXT&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=mspd

They didn't warn when they announced their earnings report date which can be a good thing. But the outlook is what usually sends the stock higher or lower. I don't know what to tell you. I guess if you believe in the company and really understand what it does and believe in it's ability to grow in the future, you could average down.

You could always wait until after earnings to decide what to do. Then at least you'll have more information to base a buy or sell decision. Good luck.

[Seamus]

I think that you need to take your buying convictions to the next level. Tell us why you think that YHOO, IBM, and ERTS are good at this point.

For me I am in long with YHOO, besides them blowing this last quarter, here is what I was looking at.
1) P/E ratio compared to comparable companies. The only company that is really close (in my opinion is Google) Google’s P/E is approximately 57 while YHOO is about 20.6. IACI (Ask Jeves) is at 10.
2) Is the P/E higher for Google because they are taking more market share and growing more than YHOO? I didn’t think so, I thought that YHOO made better moves into china, without the search controversy that Google was getting. I also read an article a couple months ago where new services YHOO started providing besides their search engine was giving them more share.
3) In the end it comes down to sales, Google is taking YHOO to the wood shed. The current hope is the revamped YHOO comes out stronger and they improve their sales. YHOO also seems to be in favor with MSFT, ebay, paypal, just about anybody in taking down Google. Little things like reworking the messenger may help.
4) I also didn’t buy all at once, so I am not down too bad, never be arrogant enough to think that you can call the bottom on a stock. The chart guru can also see trends in the stocks, right now you have missed opportunity when using the RSI, at $25 we were almost down to 20! Now we are approaching the 40’s. Take into account the general economy, there might not be much upside coming.

Lets hear your thoughts on IBM, and ERTS, what separates them from the competition?

[BuyOnDips]

Hey Sam,
MSPD reported. The outlook for the next qtr doesn't seem to good. It's down after hours on the news. It might be dead money for awhile. I'd listen to the conference call before buying, holding or selling the stock. But it doesn't look to good in the near future.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060731/20060731005830.html?.v=1

It's always hard to sell losers when you're down a big percentage. You always think they will come back. Sometimes they do, many times they don't. But if you see a better stock out there, you might want to cut your losses and move on. I've been a stuckholder before and it sucks. You wait, and wait, and wait and the loser stock does nothing or it even goes lower.

People should probably have a mental stop loss when they buy a stock. If the stock you buy drops 8% or 10% or 15% or whatever your loss % that you set is, then sell it. Accept the loss and move on to something better. That way you don't wind up slowly having a position in a stock with a huge % loss.

[metalheadrr3]

YHOO seems like it would be a good thing to get into for the long term. Didn't it take huges hits for earnings and the delay of some new search features? Well those are things that will be both corrected in time. Buy it now while it's cheap. Plus is has 2 big gaps it can fill which will mean plenty of $.

[osbb]

I think YHOO still has a lot of upside. It's been taken down hard by the analysts, but it has been quick to adopt alot of the new web technologies, still leads the 'net in traffic, (including the #1 finance site), and will eventually get their act together for their Publish Network (adsense competitor). I think actually now would be a good time to buy (and I have!)