استفهام
18-04-2008, Fri 6:01 AM
اي بي ام وجوجل من أكبر شركات التقنية الأمريكية وقد اظهرت نتائجها تحسن غير متوقع.
كانت التوقعات تأثراً سلبياً نتيجة لتباطئ الأقتصاد الأمريكي ولكن سياسة دولار ضعيف أثمرت واضافت .
الشركتين عزت التحسن الى نمو المبيعات الخارجية بل واضافت جوجل ان سعر الصرف وفر اكثر من 200 مليون دولار.!!!
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Google Profit Advances on Overseas Sales; Shares Jump (Update4)
By Ari Levy
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS), owner of the most popular search engine, reported a 30 percent increase in first- quarter profit after international expansion countered a slowdown in U.S. advertising spending. The shares jumped 18 percent.
Profit beat Wall Street estimates by more than 30 cents a share, excluding costs from stock options. Analysts had used industry data that showed slowing growth in the number of clicks on Web advertisements to predict a slump in revenue in the U.S. Instead, the growth in clicks ``remains healthy,'' finance chief George Reyes (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=George+Reyes&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1) said, and international sales jumped 55 percent.
``I was expecting them to fall short,'' said Jerome Dodson (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jerome+Dodson&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), a portfolio manager at Parnassus Investments in San Francisco. ``People said, `Google can't keep defying the laws of gravity,' but it looks like Google is flying high again.''
Google (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS), down 35 percent this year amid concern that slower spending by U.S. financial and consumer companies would stifle growth, climbed $79.21 to $528.75 in extended trading after closing at $449.54 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Net income (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS) rose to $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, from $1 billion, or $3.18, a year earlier, the Mountain View, California-based company said today in a statement. Sales, excluding revenue passed on to partner sites, climbed 46 percent to $3.7 billion, beating the average estimate of $3.59 billion in a Bloomberg survey of analysts.
Analysts (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS) had predicted net income of $3.96 a share, according to the Bloomberg survey. Excluding costs from stock options, profit was $4.84, topping analysts' average estimate of $4.52.
Currency Boost
A rise in the value of overseas currencies helped boost international sales. Without the change in currency rates, revenue would have been $202 million lower, Google said.
``I don't think that kind of foreign currency benefit was expected,'' said Jane Snorek (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jane+Snorek&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), who helps manage more than $70 billion in assets at First American Funds in Minneapolis.
Google captured 63 percent of Internet queries worldwide in February, up from 62 percent in December, according to Reston, Virginia-based ComScore Inc. Google accounted for 60 percent of U.S. searches in March.
Turning Point
For the first time, Google got most of its sales (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS) from outside the U.S.
``This is the quarter where we're now 51 percent international, and I don't think that number is going to go down,'' Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Eric+Schmidt&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1) said on a conference call. Google is seeing ``market share growth and good revenue growth in China,'' he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJFqMuSwXDII&refer=news
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هذه الاي بي ام
IBM's services, software lead earnings rise
By Rex Crum (http://www.marketwatch.com/news/mailto.asp?x=114+99+114+117+109&y=Rex+Crum&z=marketwatch.com&guid=%7B6d45c254-6007-4711-bc78-553eadb80387%7D&siteid=mktw), MarketWatch
Last update: 4:05 p.m. EDT April 17, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- IBM Corp. shares rose more than 2% Thursday after the technology giant reported a 26% rise in its first-quarter earnings and raised its profit forecast for the rest of the year.
IBM (IBM (http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes//ibm): International Business Machines
News (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/news.asp?symb=IBM), chart (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=IBM), profile (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/profile.asp?symb=IBM), more (http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes//ibm)
Last: 123.08+2.61+2.17%
border=0>IBM (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/quotes.asp?symb=IBM) 123.08, +2.61, +2.2%) got a lift after the company late Wednesday reported a profit of $2.32 billion, or $1.65 a share, on $24.5 billion in revenue. That compared with profit of $1.84 billion, or $1.21 a share, on revenue of $22 billion in the same period a year ago.
The results beat the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet Research, who forecast IBM to earn $1.50 a share on $23.8 billion in revenue.
Investors responded positively to IBM's report, sending its shares up $2.61 to close at $123.08. The stock has been a standout in the tech sector this year, rising almost 14% since January.
Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek raised his rating on IBM's stock to buy from hold, and lifted his price target on Big Blue to $150 a share from $110. Misek said IBM showed "solid execution in the services division," as well as strong contributions from emerging markets and growth in the Americas region despite weakness in the broader U.S. market.
Global services remained IBM's top revenue generator, with total sales of $14.6 billion, up 17% from the year-ago quarter. New services contract bookings in the quarter totaled $10.8 billion.
David Grossman, of Thomas Weisel
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibms-services-software-lead-earnings/story.aspx?guid=%7B6D45C254-6007-4711-BC78-553EADB80387%7D&dist=msr_3
كانت التوقعات تأثراً سلبياً نتيجة لتباطئ الأقتصاد الأمريكي ولكن سياسة دولار ضعيف أثمرت واضافت .
الشركتين عزت التحسن الى نمو المبيعات الخارجية بل واضافت جوجل ان سعر الصرف وفر اكثر من 200 مليون دولار.!!!
,,,
Google Profit Advances on Overseas Sales; Shares Jump (Update4)
By Ari Levy
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS), owner of the most popular search engine, reported a 30 percent increase in first- quarter profit after international expansion countered a slowdown in U.S. advertising spending. The shares jumped 18 percent.
Profit beat Wall Street estimates by more than 30 cents a share, excluding costs from stock options. Analysts had used industry data that showed slowing growth in the number of clicks on Web advertisements to predict a slump in revenue in the U.S. Instead, the growth in clicks ``remains healthy,'' finance chief George Reyes (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=George+Reyes&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1) said, and international sales jumped 55 percent.
``I was expecting them to fall short,'' said Jerome Dodson (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jerome+Dodson&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), a portfolio manager at Parnassus Investments in San Francisco. ``People said, `Google can't keep defying the laws of gravity,' but it looks like Google is flying high again.''
Google (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS), down 35 percent this year amid concern that slower spending by U.S. financial and consumer companies would stifle growth, climbed $79.21 to $528.75 in extended trading after closing at $449.54 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Net income (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS) rose to $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, from $1 billion, or $3.18, a year earlier, the Mountain View, California-based company said today in a statement. Sales, excluding revenue passed on to partner sites, climbed 46 percent to $3.7 billion, beating the average estimate of $3.59 billion in a Bloomberg survey of analysts.
Analysts (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS) had predicted net income of $3.96 a share, according to the Bloomberg survey. Excluding costs from stock options, profit was $4.84, topping analysts' average estimate of $4.52.
Currency Boost
A rise in the value of overseas currencies helped boost international sales. Without the change in currency rates, revenue would have been $202 million lower, Google said.
``I don't think that kind of foreign currency benefit was expected,'' said Jane Snorek (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jane+Snorek&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), who helps manage more than $70 billion in assets at First American Funds in Minneapolis.
Google captured 63 percent of Internet queries worldwide in February, up from 62 percent in December, according to Reston, Virginia-based ComScore Inc. Google accounted for 60 percent of U.S. searches in March.
Turning Point
For the first time, Google got most of its sales (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GOOG%3AUS) from outside the U.S.
``This is the quarter where we're now 51 percent international, and I don't think that number is going to go down,'' Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Eric+Schmidt&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1) said on a conference call. Google is seeing ``market share growth and good revenue growth in China,'' he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJFqMuSwXDII&refer=news
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هذه الاي بي ام
IBM's services, software lead earnings rise
By Rex Crum (http://www.marketwatch.com/news/mailto.asp?x=114+99+114+117+109&y=Rex+Crum&z=marketwatch.com&guid=%7B6d45c254-6007-4711-bc78-553eadb80387%7D&siteid=mktw), MarketWatch
Last update: 4:05 p.m. EDT April 17, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- IBM Corp. shares rose more than 2% Thursday after the technology giant reported a 26% rise in its first-quarter earnings and raised its profit forecast for the rest of the year.
IBM (IBM (http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes//ibm): International Business Machines
News (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/news.asp?symb=IBM), chart (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=IBM), profile (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/profile.asp?symb=IBM), more (http://www.marketwatch.com/quotes//ibm)
Last: 123.08+2.61+2.17%
border=0>IBM (http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/quotes.asp?symb=IBM) 123.08, +2.61, +2.2%) got a lift after the company late Wednesday reported a profit of $2.32 billion, or $1.65 a share, on $24.5 billion in revenue. That compared with profit of $1.84 billion, or $1.21 a share, on revenue of $22 billion in the same period a year ago.
The results beat the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet Research, who forecast IBM to earn $1.50 a share on $23.8 billion in revenue.
Investors responded positively to IBM's report, sending its shares up $2.61 to close at $123.08. The stock has been a standout in the tech sector this year, rising almost 14% since January.
Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek raised his rating on IBM's stock to buy from hold, and lifted his price target on Big Blue to $150 a share from $110. Misek said IBM showed "solid execution in the services division," as well as strong contributions from emerging markets and growth in the Americas region despite weakness in the broader U.S. market.
Global services remained IBM's top revenue generator, with total sales of $14.6 billion, up 17% from the year-ago quarter. New services contract bookings in the quarter totaled $10.8 billion.
David Grossman, of Thomas Weisel
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibms-services-software-lead-earnings/story.aspx?guid=%7B6D45C254-6007-4711-BC78-553EADB80387%7D&dist=msr_3