The Lizard Bear

After crushing expectations in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, expectations are high. Coffee giant  Starbucks   ( NASDAQ:SBUX )  is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter results on Jan. 24. Following a strong 2018 in which  the stock crushed the market , expectations are high. In its fourth quarter, the company's momentum was evident across multiple key metrics, including comparable-store sales, revenue, earnings per share, and active rewards members. When Starbucks reports its fiscal first-quarter results, investors will get to see if the company's recent reacceleration will prove to be short-lived or rather a preview of strong results in fiscal 2019. Can Starbucks impress investors for a second quarter in a row? Here are three areas worth watching when the coffee company reports its first-quarter results next week. Revenue On the surface, Starbucks' revenue growth in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 suggests there wasn't an acceleration ...

AAPL should use its $120 billion net cash balance to put these companies under its umbrella One of the world’s largest companies —  Apple  (NASDAQ: AAPL ) — with one of the biggest net cash balances ever — $122 billion — continues to promise that it will be “net cash neutral” over time. That means AAPL still has $122 billion to deploy to buybacks, dividends, acquisitions, investments, so on and so forth. At this point in time, it seems the smartest path forward would be for Apple to use that $122 billion on a big-time acquisition. Recent quarterly numbers underscore that peak iPhone is here. While the company has nice growth initiatives through new hardware like the Apple Watch and services businesses like Apple Pay and the App Store, none of those new initiatives are groundbreaking enough to fully replace what will soon be a flat iPhone business. Thus, Apple can either be a tepid growth business forever going forward, or the company can recharge growth by using its ...

What Are Stocks? a stock is a share of the ownership of a  company as the owner of a stock the  stockholder you have a claim on the  company's assets and earnings suppose  Steve is starting a company PI's are us  he needs $100,000 but doesn't want to  borrow from a bank instead Steve invests  $10,000 of his own money and finds nine  other investors who are willing to  invest $10,000 each  in return he gives each investor a  certificate that represents 10% of his  company each certificate represents 10%  of the company's assets the building the  pie pans and the baking materials and  10% of any future earnings after one  year the company is doing well and the  company's total value increases to  $200,000 this means each share of the  company is now worth $20,000 $200,000  divided by 10 shares that's twice the  original $10,000 the original investors  can sell their sto...