GameStop (NYSE: GME ) is trading at its 52-week highs, but GameStop stock may be in for a cruel surprise when it reports quarterly results on Thursday.
Analysts see revenue and earnings declining, and the near-term outlook doesn't appear too rosy. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) and Sony (NYSE: SNE ) will hit the market in a few months with new gaming consoles that feast on connectivity to deliver games and other forms of entertainment. Why is a physical retailer of a fading medium trading so high?
In this video, longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz explains why GameStop stock may be a bad investment this week as it heads into what could be a problematic report.�
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Hot Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: Nortel Inversora SA ADR(NTL)
Nortel Inversora S.A., through its subsidiary, Telecom Argentina S.A., provides telecommunication services in Argentina and Paraguay. It offers voice, data, and Internet services that include local area, national long-distance, and international communications; supplementary services comprising call waiting, itemized invoicing, and voicemail; interconnection with other operators; data transmission consisting of private networks, point-to-point traffic, radio, and TV signal transmission; outsourcing of IT solutions; and Internet services. The company also provides wireless services, including high-speed wireless, videoconferencing, full track download, multimedia messaging, online streaming, corporate mailing, and BlackBerry solutions over various networks; and involves in the sale of wireless communication devices, such as cellular phones, 3G modems, 3G hotspots, wireless Internet, and netbooks. Nortel Inversora S.A. was founded in 1990 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argent ina.
Hot Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: Knology Inc.(KNOL)
Knology, Inc. provides video, voice, data, and communications services to residential and business customers in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Its video services comprise analog cable services consisting of local broadcast television and local community programming, including approximately 65 public, educational, and government access channels of satellite-delivered or non-broadcast channels; digital cable services and high-definition channels comprising approximately 275 channels of digital programming and approximately 46 music channels; and premium channels that provide commercial-free movies, sports, and other special event entertainment programming. The company?s voice services include local and long-distance telephone services, such as local area calling plans, flat-rate local and long-distance plans, calling features, and measured and fixed rate toll packages based on usage. Its data services comprise high-speed Internet connections for residential customers; and business voice and data services consisting of fiber services, office-to-office VLAN services, and session initiated protocol trunking services for small, medium, and large enterprises, as well as Matrix product that offer IP Centrex voice and data service. The company?s broadband carrier services include wholesale services to other local and long distance telephone companies, Internet service providers, and other integrated services providers. Knology, Inc. provides its services over its wholly-owned 750 MHz interactive broadband network to customers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee. The company also offers colocation and data center services by operating two data centers in Florida. As of December 31, 2011, its network consisted of approximately 15,725 miles of network, passed 1,087,341 residential and business units and served 795,349 connections. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in West Point, Georgia.
Top 5 Construction Companies To Own For 2014: RadiSys Corporation(RSYS)
Radisys Corporation provides embedded wireless infrastructure solutions for telecom, aerospace, defense, and public safety applications. The company offers next generation communication networks products, including Trillium software that enables the communication between core network products and wireless communications devices; and Internet protocol (IP) media server products, which provide multimedia processing platforms for audio conferencing, voice over IP, video over IP, and IP multimedia subsystem telecommunication service providers, as well as solution developers and enterprise customers. It also provides advanced telecommunications computing architecture product family that includes an integrated application-ready platform and a set of modular solutions for various applications, such as computing/switching, deep packet inspection, and digital signal processing. In addition, the company offers Computer-on-Module Express compute solutions, which are designed for appl ications that require a standard processor and memory subsystem, and modular flexibility to retain key design level IP on a separate carrier board; and rackmount servers for applications in medical imaging systems, high performance test and measurement instruments, telecommunications appliances, and military imaging and signal processing systems. The company sells its products through direct sales, distributors and sales representatives, and system integrators in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Radisys Corporation was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Hot Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: American Superconductor Corporation(AMSC)
American Superconductor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides wind and power grid products and services primarily in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The company?s Wind segment designs, develops, and licenses engineered wind turbine designs to wind turbine manufactures; provides engineering and customer support services; supplies power electronics and software-based control systems to wind turbine manufactures to regulate voltage, control power flows, and maximize wind turbine efficiency; offers consulting services to the wind industry; and provides products that enhance power quality for industrial operations. This segment serves the transmission and distribution, wind power, and manufacturing industries. Its Grid segment manufactures high-temperature superconductor wire and coils; designs and develops superconductor products, such as power cables, fault current limiters, electric motors, generators, and synchronous condensers; manages large-s cale superconductor projects; and provides transmission planning services that identify power grid congestion, poor power quality, and other risks. This segment?s products enable electric utilities and renewable energy project developers to connect, transmit, and distribute power. Its products include D-VAR systems that provide the reactive power needed to stabilize voltage on the grid, and are used to connect wind farms and solar power plants to the power grid; SolarTie Grid Interconnection Systems, which provide the inversion and reactive compensation necessary to connect megawatt-scale solar photovoltaic power plants to the power grid; superconductor wires for various applications, including motors, generators, fault current limiters, and power cables; and power cable systems that are manufactured by third parties, as well as turnkey project management services to electric utilities. American Superconductor Corporation was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Devens, Massachusetts.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Stephen]
American Superconductor (AMSC) is a leading provider of the electronics that power wind power systems, where it presents substantial barriers to entry and growth potential is enormous. The company has grown revenues every year of the past decade, its profit margins top 10% and it’s still relatively undiscovered.
Hot Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: Power-One Inc.(PWER)
Power-One, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and service of power supply products for the renewable energy (RE), servers, storage and networking, telecommunications, industrials, and network power systems industries worldwide. Its products convert, regulate, purify, store, manage, or distribute electrical power for electronic equipment. The company provides RE inverters, which convert solar or wind energy into useable grid connected power for use in residential and commercial, and utility-grade solar panels, as well as wind turbine farms; and alternate current (AC)/direct current (DC) power supplies that convert AC into DC voltage used primarily in networking systems, network servers and storage, and industrial equipment. It also offers DC/DC converters, including high-density and low-density brick converters that are mounted on printed circuit board within the equipment, as well as point-of-load converters that power devices within an intermediate bus archite cture and in other applications primarily to power communications infrastructure equipment; DC power systems for providing additional power capacity in the event of an AC input disturbance or power outage primarily to power communications networks and cellular communications systems; and smart motor control and other products that are used primarily in clothes washers and dryers, and air conditioners. Power-One, Inc. sells its products through its sales force, manufacturers? representatives, and distributors to original equipment manufacturers; distributors/installers; engineering, procurement, and construction firms; and service providers. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Camarillo, California.
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