MercadoLibre’s Price Target

I haven’t written about MercadoLibre in a while … yesterday, Eric Savitz reported over at Barron’s that Mercado’s CEO Marcos Galperin terminated an over 1.7 million shares stock sale plan, which sent the stock up $4.44, or 16.6%, to $31.23. >>>

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Energy Recovery Shakes Up Dead IPO Market

Energy Recovery Inc, the clean-tech shining star, went public last week nearly 15 years after setting up shop in 1993. It will trade under the ticker ERII. >>>

Amkor Worth a Look

Amkor Technology (AMKR) provides semiconductor packaging and test services. Their products range from the traditional, “off-the-shelf” leadframe configurations to leading-edge chip scale, flip chip and system-in-package (SiP) solutions incorporating highly customized designs. The company is of interest because of the surge in SiP, Multi-chip Modules (MCM) and 3D designs in general that are bringing about the revolution in electronics miniaturization. >>>

Paychex Looks Cheap

Paychex (NASDAQ: PAYX) reported its Q4 and fiscal year 2008 results on June 26. Net income in 2008 grew 12% to $576 million or $1.56 EPS, and revenue grew 10% to cross the $2 billion milestone. It took Paychex over 30 years to get to the first billion and only five years to reach the second. >>>

Micron on Shaky Ground

Micron Technology Inc (NYSE: MU) reported its third quarter results on June 26. Revenue was up 10% to $1.5 billion, driven by higher sales of DRAM and NAND flash products and beating analyst estimates of $1.47 billion. Net loss was $236 million, or $0.30 per diluted share. This compares with net loss of $777 million, or $1.01 per diluted share, last quarter and $225 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, last year. Analysts had estimated loss of $0.28 per share. Gross margin was 3.2%, down from 8.2% last year but was a marked improvement over negative margins in the earlier quarter. >>>

RIM Misses Estimates; Palm’s Revenue Also Down

The market was stunned last week as RIM missed analyst estimates by a slight margin. Its stock has plummeted to $117 from a 52-week high of $148.13 on June 19, providing a great opportunity to buy. In this post we look at RIM’s and Palm’s recent earnings reports.
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Alibaba Enters India

Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688), China’s leading B2B e-commerce company, announced its first quarter results early last month. Revenue for the quarter increased 53.2% to RMB680 million (~ $99 million) and EPS rose 118.6% to HK$6.47 (~ $0.93) for the year. >>>

Accenture Beats Expectations, Adjusts Strategy

Accenture (ACN) reported their Q3 earnings yesterday, and they don’t seem to be finding current economic conditions a challenge. >>>

Teradyne: Strong Results, But No Design-Test Bridge

Continuing my coverage of the ATE industry, in this post I discuss Teradyne, the leading supplier of Automatic Test Equipment. Teradyne (TER) is a global leader in electronics testing and inspection solutions and is the world’s largest supplier of semiconductor test equipment for logic, RF, analog, power, mixed-signal, and memory technologies. >>>

Verigy Recognizes Design-Test Integration Needs

Yesterday I talked about the trend of the design and test sides of the semiconductor industry coming together. The industry is moving towards inserting “testers” into chips, thereby eliminating/reducing the need for high-end testers in most cases. In the next few years, we will see tighter integration between design and testing, and potentially more conversations between the EDA and the ATE industries. >>>