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Facebook Surges To New All-Time High But Closes Below Buy Range

Loading the player… After Facebook ’s ( FB ) stellar quarterly report Wednesday evening, the social networking giant’s stock hit a new all-time high in the stock market today . For most of the day, the stock was trading in buy range, but Facebook closed the regular session just below that level. The attempted breakout comes as other big names have recently neared buying opportunities but crumbled on their quarterly results, including Google owner Alphabet ( GOOGL ), Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Starbucks ( SBUX ). Facebook’s earnings jumped 83%, while sales grew 52%. Both topped views and marked a third straight quarter of accelerating growth for the top and bottom lines. Shares jumped 7.2% in huge volume, hitting a new all-time high  and breaking out of a cup-with-handle base with a 117.09 buy point in intraday trade. But the stock faded as the market sold off and closed the day at 116.73. After hours, the stock rose a fraction to reclaim the buy point. Facebook earns an IBD Composite Rating of 95 out of 99, meaning its shares outperform 95% of all stocks in the market, based on fundamental and technical factors. IBD’s Take: How healthy are the shares of Facebook and its rivals? Find out at IBD Stock Checkup Alphabet gapped below its 50-day line after its report last week. Shares tested support at the 200-day line in Wednesday’s session and are breaching that level today. Alphabet is now trading 12% below its February high, down 2.3% in intraday trade. Microsoft also gapped below its 50-day line in the wake of its results last week. Shares are breaking below their 200-day line in intraday trade Thursday, falling 2%, and are about 12% below their December peak. Starbucks is now trading below its 50-day and 200-day lines, and hit a new two-month low in intraday trade as it fell 0.8%. Shares are 11% below their October high. And while Apple ( AAPL ) wasn’t near buy range ahead of its report Tuesday night, shares gapped down to a two-month low on disappointing results. Apple is 28% below its high, reached exactly one year ago today, with shares down 3.1%. Meanwhile, Amazon ( AMZN ) was flirting with trading in buy range ahead of its quarterly report after the close. Shares jumped late on view-topping results.

Google’s Pichai Sees ‘Move From Mobile-First To An AI-First World’

Apple ( AAPL ), Microsoft ( MSFT ) and other rivals of Alphabet ( GOOGL )-owned Google had better raise their game in artificial intelligence. While Apple, Facebook ( FB ) and Amazon.com ( AMZN ) have AI research projects underway, the field is one where Google aims to set itself apart from rivals. So said Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, Thursday in an open letter. Google founders  Larry Page and Sergey Brin normally write the founder’s letter , in the tradition of Berkshire Hathaway ’s ( BRKA ) Warren Buffett. But Pichai wrote this year’s note. Pichai says that AI is key not only to its core search business and mobile computing, but also to Google’s push into the enterprise (corporate) market and cloud computing. “A key driver behind all of this work has been our long-term investment in machine learning and AI,” Pichai wrote. Google has pushed Android software-based mobile phones into a global power vs. Apple’s iPhone. (The Oracle ( ORCL ) vs. Google copyright battle over the Android OS is slated to resume with a second trial on May 9.) Pichai says that Google’s AI will be a difference maker. “Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the ‘device’ to fade away. Over time, the computer itself — whatever its form factor — will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile-first to an AI-first world,” he said. While Apple and Google have dominated in the world of mobile apps, there could be competition down the road. Facebook recently introduced “chatbots,” while Microsoft ( MSFT ) launched its “Bot Framework” software tools for developers. Both rely on AI. Google also aims to capitalize on AI in the enterprise market vs. Microsoft and others. “Google started in the cloud and has been investing in infrastructure, data management, analytics and AI from the very beginning. We now have a broad and growing set of enterprise offerings: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Apps, Chromebooks, Android, image recognition, speech translation, maps, machine learning for customers’ proprietary data sets and more,” Pichai said. “As we look to our long-term investments in our productivity tools supported by our machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts, we see huge opportunities to dramatically improve how people work. Your phone should proactively bring up the right documents, schedule and map your meetings, let people know if you are late, suggest responses to messages, handle your payments and expenses, etc.”

Why Right Now Is The Perfect Time To Buy Facebook Stock

Loading the player… After Facebook ’s ( FB ) stellar quarterly report Wednesday evening, the social networking giant’s stock is trading in buy range in the stock market today . The breakout comes as other big names have recently neared buying opportunities but crumbled on their quarterly results, including Google owner Alphabet ( GOOGL ), Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Starbucks ( SBUX ). Facebook’s earnings jumped 83%, while sales grew 52%. Both topped views and marked a third straight quarter of accelerating growth for the top and bottom lines. Shares jumped 8% in huge volume, hitting a new all-time high in intraday trade and breaking out of a cup-with-handle base with a 117.09 buy point. Shares are in buy range to 122.94. But the stock is now trading at the lower end of the day’s range, about 50 cents above the buy point. Facebook earns an IBD Composite Rating of 95 out of 99, meaning its shares outperform 95% of all stocks in the market, based on fundamental and technical factors. IBD’s Take: How healthy are the shares of Facebook and its rivals? Find out at IBD Stock Checkup Alphabet gapped below its 50-day line after its report last week. Shares tested support at the 200-day line in Wednesday’s session and are breaching that level today. Alphabet is now trading 12% below its February high, down 1.4% in intraday trade. Microsoft also gapped below its 50-day line in the wake of its results last week. Shares are breaking below their 200-day line in intraday trade Thursday, falling 1.6%, and are about 11% below their December peak. Starbucks is now trading below its 50-day and 200-day lines, and hit a new two-month low in intraday trade as it fell a fraction. Shares are 11% below their October high. And while Apple ( AAPL ) wasn’t near buy range ahead of its report Tuesday night, shares gapped down to a two-month low on disappointing results. Apple is 27% below its high, reached exactly one year ago today, with shares down 1.8%. Meanwhile, Amazon ( AMZN ) is trading in buy range ahead of its quarterly report after the close. Amazon risked dropping back below the buy zone in Wednesday’s session, but shares are trading up 1% today in anticipation of the report.