Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) on May 18, 2012. This was seen as one of the biggest IPOs in technology and Internet history.

Jabil Circuit Inc. (NYSE: JBL) is in the unloved field of contract manufacturing, also known as electronic manufacturing services. This sector is not exactly exciting to investors, or at least that was ...

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To many investors, online retailing behemoth Amazon (AMZN) is a riddle contained in a mystery, wrapped inside an enigma (with apologies to Mr. Churchill). That’s not the highest Amazon’s multiple has been; You can grumble that Jeff Bezos’s decision to starve Amazon’s bottom line in order to finance its ongoing expansion mean that it’s not shareholder friendly, but even before the publicity around those planned delivery drones, enough investors were willing to buy into the company’s future promise to drive its price up 55 percent in 2013. But, as a team of analysts from Wedbush wrote in a note recently published in Barron's, “Amazon is unlikely to provide investors with a strategy road map.” Moreover, they noted, “it could be a long time before (earnings per share) grows sufficiently to justify its share price.”

The Federal Reserve had been trying for years to persuade investors to take on more risk, and a renewed affection for growth was one of the dominant market characteristics of the year. That may have been because growth stock pricing reached appealing levels as the economy appeared poised to speed up, or, more likely, because absolute growth became more alluring than the razor-thin yields on bonds and the prices for dividend stocks. Either way, growth stocks got hot. Even for a growth stock, that’s rich – but it didn’t stop the company’s stock from rallying 300 percent.

There seems to be a growing consensus on Wall Street that more and more names that once dominated the growth arena, but have been mired in sideways price moves for years, are indeed value names now.

On Tuesday, Netflix fell more than 5% because Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock. In a note to investors, Morgan Stanley analysts cited a more competitive market for online video. They listed Hulu, HBO ...

January 7, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday led by healthcare and tech stocks. The S&P 500 closed with a gain for the first time this year. The DJIA closed up 0.64%, the S&P 500 closed up 0.61%, ...

There is no question that 2013 was a very good year for airline stocks. The icing on the cake was the merger between American Airlines and U.S. Airways. The new year is shaping up to be another good one ...

2013 was a considerable year for stocks, yet AT&T was among the five worst Dow stocks. 24/7 Wall St. has generated a bullish and bearish scenario for 2014 in each stock of the Dow, including AT&T.

Now that a stellar 2013 has come to an end, 24/7 Wall St. has generated a bullish and bearish scenario for 2014 in each stock of the Dow. This leaves up for grabs what to make of Caterpillar this year....

These are the top analyst downgrades and cautious research notes from Wall Street for Monday, January 6.

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms for Friday January 3.

With entertainment exploding, cell phone usage increasing at a breakneck pace and the demand for spectrum growing with each quarter, the top stocks to buy for 2014 merit a very close look by investors. ...

The Macau gambling authority said on Thursday that the island's gambling revenue rose 19% year-over-year in 2013 to $45.2 billion, about seven times the revenue expected from gambling on the Las Vegas ...

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? Has hype inflated market prices beyond intrinsic values?

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? Find out why we think Twitter is a bad deal.

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In a new research report, the equity strategy team at J.P. Morgan has come up with outside-the-box ideas for investors that we have not seen from other big Wall Street houses. They think that value stocks ...

Investment funds affiliated with Blackstone Group are taking a $200 million stake in Crocs in newly issued series A convertible preferred stock, and CEO John McCarvel also has announced his retirement....