CSCO - BEARISH SCENARIOCisco revised its yearly projections despite exceeding expectations in its fiscal first quarter, with a 9% stock decline afterward. The company reported adjusted EPS of $1.11 on $14.7 billion revenue, beating analyst predictions. Q2 projections are $0.82 to $0.84 EPS on $12.6B to $12.8B revenue, differing from estimates. Cisco adjusted its 2024 guidance to $3.87 to $3.93 EPS on $53.8B to $55.0B revenue, down from prior estimates. It anticipates a demand uptick in the latter half of the year after customers deploy recent products. Cisco remains committed to efficiency and shareholder returns.
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AKAM - AKAMAI Technologies Cloud and Blockchain needing CloudAKAM
The Akamai network has an inherent advantage running a distributed ledger in blockchain per JPMorgan 11.9.18 article.
Currently has shown trend of large spike investment last 3 quarters and in 1w chart shows near CCI entry, while day chart is not indicating same. Watching.
IBM is the largest patent filer in blockchain technologies, however has never been a good stock to own. It likely is best when it splits itself up.
Blockchain as an operating system would be more cybersecure than IOS and MS Windows and future tech worth watching for and will be 10x what MS growth was.
Food-tracking, financial transactions, faster payments, all part of blockchain value streams, however currently uses more energy to process/handle than spent on
mining energy globally as a bit of sad news with blockchain / crypto.
Infinera Stock Oversold and Ready To Continue UptrendInfinera stock is at an excellent oversold level on the RSI. The stock has been in an uptrend (purple) going all the way back to October 2014.
Revenue growth has been good over the last 4 years. In 2011, revenue was $405 million. In 2014, revenue grew to $668 million. The annual revenue growth rate for the last 5 years is an excellent +16.7%. Revenue growth has been speeding up. Quarterly revenue growth (yoy) is an excellent +30.9%.
Infinera Corporation stock has had lots of EPS forecast hikes. About 30 days ago, the EPS forecast was $0.12. Just last week, the EPS forecast was raised to $0.16. That’s an over 30% increase that has not yet been priced into the stock.
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