Archive for May, 2008
Gigamedia keeps rocking
As one of my favorite growth stocks it is nice to see Gigamedia (GIGM: 4.27 -0.30 -6.56%) hitting on all cylinders. The company released 1st quarter of 2008 results yesterday and the growth continues at a great rate. GIGM is managing to rapidly grow its existing platforms and at the same time enter new markets [...]
New Energy Finance - NEX - Week in Review
If this is Tuesday, I must be writing about renewable energy. Time for my weekly update on last week’s results for the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index of renewable energy companies-NEX. For investors, the NEX is tracked by the ETF: PowerShares Global Clean Energy Fund (PBD: 10.59 -0.19 -1.76%). The NEX offers a broad, [...]
VeraSun Energy beats the odds
VeraSun Energy (VSE: 0.28 0.00 0.00%) has reported 1st quarter earnings and the results could be considered very good, given the current sentiment for ethanol producers. VSE increased quarterly revenue by 257%, primarily by increasing the volume of ethanol sold by 223%. VeraSun sold 191.7 million gallons of ethanol, including 49.5 million gallons they purchased [...]
Stock Review: Aircastle Ltd.
Aircastle Ltd. (AYR: 4.59 -0.78 -14.53%) caught my eye in March when the company slashed it’s quarterly dividend from 70¢ per share to 25¢. This was after 6 straight dividend increases from 16¢ to the earlier mentioned 70¢. The stock had peaked at about $40 last summer and had been declining steadily, with the downward [...]
Beer for Fuel?
Osage Bio Energy bringing barley ethanol to the U.S. | Cleantech.com
I am pretty OK with using corn for ethanol production. The U.S. produces the vast majority of the world’s corn, and if other countries want our corn, they can pay for it and make American farmers rich or U.S. ethanol companies will make it into [...]
