What You Need to Know: Earnings From 4 Top Tech Stocks

By Tamara Rutter | More Articles
January 20, 2012 | Comments (1)

At The Motley Fool, we know our readers like to be informed. Here's a quick look at today's most relevant financial news, boiled down to what you need to know. In today's video, we cover four of the leading tech companies, which released earnings yesterday after the market closed:

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC ) stood out on revenue of $13.9 billion for the quarter.
Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG ) earnings failed to wow, coming in below analysts' estimates in a rare miss for the search giant.
IBM (NYSE: IBM ) showed a profit of $5.49 billion for its fourth quarter, while Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT ) revenue of $20.9 billion was in line with expectations for its second quarter.
Beyond tech, it was a mixed bag for General Electric (NYSE: GE ) as earnings dipped 18%, despite GE's industrial businesses showing growth in emerging markets.

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Report this Comment On January 20, 2012, at 8:38 PM, jdwelch62 wrote:

Don't get worked up over Intel increasing capex from $10.7B in 2011 to $12.5B in 2012, Tamara. If you look at 2010 revenues of $43.6B, capex in 2011 of $10.7B was 24.54% of 2010's revenues, while in 2012 the capex of $12.5B will be just (just!) 23.15% of 2011's revenues. Semiconductor manufacturing is a very capital-intensive business; fabs nowadays cost somewhere aroung $5B+ to build, and Intel is currently under construction with 2 new ones, 1 in Oregon and 1 in Arizona. So, projected 2012 capex is in line with recent amounts, actually down about 1.4%. (BTW, considering the number of American construction jobs, and then high-tech jobs when the construction is finished that part of this capex is generating, that's a pretty good thing for our economy, don't you think?...)
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