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Stocks: Eastman Kodak, Dell, Apple, Google. Where Are They Now?

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February 4, 2007

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The stock market, as always, continues to be an intriguing puzzle on how to make money and not lose it. So long as the averages move upward, it is more likely that a stock purchase will appreciate, rather than doing something far less desirable, because a rising average means most stocks are appreciating. Remember this is a national economy and most companies sink or rise with the federal economic tide. In essence, that is the nature of a buyer’s market, when stocks rise and, conversely, a seller’s market, when stocks fall.

Eastman Kodak, EK, has just eked out a small profit as it continues to struggle with the shift in the photography business from silver acetate based film to digital photography. As long as it struggles, it is going to be hard to make money meaning the stock is not likely to consistently rise, although as every experienced investors know all stocks have annual highs as well as lows and a really sophisticated investor can probably make money if he really knows what he is doing.

Hewlett-Packard, HPQ, Apple, AAPL, and other computer makers are now making money resulting in higher stock prices for them so it is Dell, the former bull in the marketplace that is now struggling to make more money meaning the stock has not been as good as an investment as it previously was. If Michael Dell can correct the current problems, of course, the stock will once again rise like a blue chip.

Then there is Google, GOOG, which just reported robust sales and record profits. One explanation is that it sells advertising to other media giants web sites such as tmyspace.com and simplyhired.com, both owned by Fox owners News Corp. It also sells advertising on the New York Times web site. Get the picture?

This has put pressure on competing internet companies Yahoo, YHOO, and Microsoft’s, MSFT, msn. Google advertising is automated and easily fits in. Ironically, as of right now, there is no Google advertising on its Youtube site.

Stay tuned!